Person:Almira Knight (39)

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Almira Knight
b.21 Jun 1827 Perrysburg, Cattaraugus, New York
d.23 Jan 1912 Akron, Summit, Ohio
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m. 6 Jul 1826
  1. Almira Knight1827 - 1912
  2. Rizpah Jane Knight1829 - 1895
  3. Adaline Knight1831 - 1919
  4. James Vincent Knight1833 - 1912
  5. Nathaniel Knight1835 - 1836
  6. Martha Abigail Knight1839 - 1844
  7. Rodolphus Elderkin Knight1841 - 1842
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m. 10 Nov 1844
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m. 22 Sep 1870
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Name Almira Knight
Gender Female
Birth? 21 Jun 1827 Perrysburg, Cattaraugus, New York
Divorce Y
from George Hanscom
Marriage 10 Nov 1844 Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinoisto Sylvester B. Stoddard
Marriage 22 Sep 1870 Lake, Wood, Ohioto George Hanscom
Death? 23 Jan 1912 Akron, Summit, Ohio
Burial? 24 Jan 1912 North Kirtland Cemetery, Kirtland, Lake, Ohio
Reference Number? 256+21121

OBITUARIES AND LIFE SKETCHES OF THE EARLY SAINTS WHO LIVED AND DIED IN THE KIRTLAND, OHIO AREA --by Janet Lisonbee Page 15

STODDARD, ALMIRA KNIGHT June 21, 1827 – Jan. 23, 1912

Daughter of Vinson and Martha McBride Knight. When Almira was seven years of age, her family joined the church in New York. She moved with her family to Kirtland in 1834. She attended school the next year in the Kirtland Temple. She traveled with her family to Missouri and then onto Nauvoo. Her father died at the young age of 38 in July of 1842 in Nauvoo. Joseph Smith said of him, “There lies a man that has done more for me than my own brother would do.” Joseph Smith approached Martha McBride Knight and asked her to ask her daughter Almira, to marry his brother Hyrum Smith. Almira refused and subsequently left the LDS Church [Hyrum Belnap Autobiography, p. 109]. According to Adaline Belnap, “The eldest daughter (Almira), unto whom the mother looked for so much comfort, left the church. She was sewing wherever she could get work to support herself and help others, when her employment brought her to the home of a widower Stoddard. He was an apostate, whose heart was full of bitterness toward the church. He deceived Almira with a smooth tongue and told all manner of untrue stories about her people, and the first that the mother knew she had married this man was when she came to bid them all good-bye.” [Coolbear, Lola, Adalaine Belnap Biography, pg. 1] She married Sylvester B. Stoddard on Nov. 10, 1844 in Nauvoo, Illinois.

DEATH: Lake County Genealogical Society (Ohio) Kirtland Township North Kirtland Cemetery Sec. B. Row: 10 Stone: 3 Almira Knight Stoddard Hanscom Almiria Knight Stoddard Hanscom Daughter of Vinson & Martha McBride Knight Born June 21, 1827 Died Jan. 23, 1912 at Akron O.

Sylvester B. Stoddard Born Feb. 7, 1801 Died Aug. 18, 1867 Lg. Granite, facing south.

MARRAIGE: Excerpt from the Life Story of Martha McBride Knight Smith Kimbal Written by Brent J. Belnap. Submitted on behalf of the Belnap Family Organization to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers in 1995.) Later that same year Martha's oldest daughter Almira left the LDS Church over the issue of polygamy, marrying on 10 November 1844 a disaffected Latter-day Saint widower, Sylvester B. Stoddard, who owned a tin shop on Main Street in Nauvoo just one block away from the Knight home. On 27 April 1845 Martha leased from Mr. Stoddard his home on Water Street for 6 months.

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