We are looking forward to the biggest and best-ever family reunion in beautiful St. George, Utah. Plan now for you, your family, and extended Knight descendants of all ages!

Proposed Schedule of events for the Joseph Sr. and Polly Knight Family Reunion 2012 in St. George, Utah, June 8 and 9, 2012:

FRIDAY, JUNE 8TH
10am -12noon
Registration and "Find Yourself" activity, LDS chapel located at 445 South 300 East

12pm-1pm
Reunion Lunch

1pm-4pm
Service projects and classes about our ancestors, indexing, writing your history, etc.
Babysitting and games offered for children under eight years old.

5pm-6pm
Reunion Dinner

7pm-8:30pm
Fireside to be held in the St. George Tabernacle located at 18 South Main.

We will be hearing from President Bruce Hafen and Sister Marie Hafen, President and Matron of the St. George LDS Temple. Both are descendents of Joseph Sr. and Polly Knight. We are excited to hear from them!

9pm-11pm
Activities for family members 16 to 30 to be held at Dixie College LDS Institute, 943 East 400 South

SATURDAY, JUNE 9TH
9am-10am
Re-dedication of the Lydia Knight (Newel Knight's wife) headstone. Program held in the St. George Cemetery. The date is Lydia's 200th birthday!

10am-12noon
Reunion brunch, readers theater, family meeting at LDS chapel, 445 South 300 East

12noon-5pm
Dedication of plaque for Samuel Knight in Santa Clara; or Mountain Meadows tour offered by Ron Briggs; or self-guided tours of the cemeteries in the area; or take the opportunity to have your own family meeting or activity.

THE FOLLOWING ARE HELPFUL LINKS:
Places to stay:
http://www.stgeorgechamber.com/Lodging.htm

Places to golf:
http://www.stgeorgechamber.com/Golf%20One.htm

Entertainment:
http://www.tuacahn.org/

Take a hike with a local Knight relative:
kristendknight@hotmail.com

Historic LDS sites and Sunday LDS services at Pine Valley historic church:
http://www.stgeorgetemplevisitorscenter.info/
http://www.stgeorgetemplevisitorscenter.info/pinevalley.html

Please Note: Watch for Reunion Registration PDF Forms on the website and emails.

For more information, contact Carolyn Lyman, Reunion Chairperson: chlyman@appliedtechnet.com

Joseph Knight Sr. descendants gathered from all parts of the country in Salt Lake City July 30-31, 2010 for a full agenda of meetings, a fireside, and special activities.

Friday morning Knights met at the special collections library in the L. Tom Perry library on the Brigham Young University campus. John Murphy, curator of special collections, welcomed Knights to a special showing of Jesse Knight memorabilia including a recent donation of original newspaper clippings chronicling some of the key events in Jesse Knight’s political, business and spiritual life. KBYU-TV covered the event for its news program.

Later on Friday, Knights were treated to an exhibit, at the Church History Museum in downtown Salt Lake, of Joseph Knight Sr.’s cane given to him by the Prophet Joseph Smith on the streets of Nauvoo, Illinois.

The day concluded with a banquet dinner and fireside featuring guest speakers Dr. Larry Porter and William Hartley, BYU emeritus professors. Dr. Porter shared valuable insights about the early Colesville Branch, for which brother Porter is the Church’s recognized authority, and brother Hartley introduced his new research for his new book and review of Newel Knight’s journal. This has been long anticipated as a monumental publication for the Knight family. The fireside was professionally videotaped and a DVD will be available at the 2012 reunion.

Saturday morning featured a business meeting and breakfast with several important presentations on projects completed and in progress. Dean Collinwood, third great-grandson of Newel Knight, shared the details in planning and erecting a new marker honoring Newel Knight’s flouring mill in Nauvoo, Illinois.

It is located across from the entrance to the Community of Christ History Museum, close to the bank of the Mississippi River where Newel built the mill at the request of Joseph Smith to provide the Saints with needful bread. A slide presentation from James Knight showed the progress in restoring the original Joseph Knight Sr. farmhouse for visitors near Coleville, New York. The Knight family is grateful to the owners of the property for sharing their recent discoveries and working with the Knight family to honor the memory of early Knight believers in the Restoration. Contact Grant Palmer for more information: palmergrant@hotmail.com.

The Joseph Knight Family Organization Reunion was chaired by James N. Knight with committee members Edi Ulloa, Carolyn Lyman, Darrell Knight and Gordon Knight. The committee thanks all who helped make the reunion one of the most memorable and who donated funds to the family organization to be used for our next reunion. A considerable donation was made to the refurbishing of the Lydia Knight graveside monument from the sale of Lydia Knight materials at the reunion. Many thanks go to Harold Redd, Scott Bonham, and Mavon Herring.

1. Meet every two years (even years).

2. Each branch (children of Joseph & Polly Knight) take turns acting as chairpersons of the reunion.

3. Hold each meeting near the home of the chairpersons for efficiency.

4. Establish no formal dues, by-laws, constitution, elected officers to avoid being required reporting as a "non-profit" organization to the State. Funds will come from voluntary donations for souvenirs, artifacts, histories, etc. offered at the reunions. A steering committee comprised of representatives of the branches of the original family will assist the chairpersons in staging each reunion. These committee members should have Email address so they can communicate with each other.

5. Accept the mission of educating relatives of our heritage, buidling testimonies in the youth, and fullfil the stated desire of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jr., when he wrote on 22 Jan 1842; "Behold he (Joseph Knight Sr.) is a righteous man...and it shall be said of him, by the sons of Zion, while there is one of them remaining, that this was a faithful man in Israel; therefore his name shall never be forgotten." For those planning well ahead, reunions should be staged in the years of 2008, 2010 etc., with the help of volunteers from descendents of Newel, Anna, Joseph Jr., Esther, Elizabeth and Polly, and others.