 All his children, their spouses, his sister, and three of his wife's siblings along with their spouses joined the church.The Knight family constituted the Colesville Branch, the first branch in the church, and they later sold their homes and properties and migrated as a group to Thompson, Ohio, where they settled on the farm of Leman Copley, a former Shaker who had converted to the LDS Church.Shortly after this Copley left the Church, and forced the Colesville Saints to leave his farm so they then migrated en masse to Jackson County, Missouri.