Lucy Jane ("Jennie") Brimhall Knight (December 13, 1875 – ) was a leader in

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(LDS Church). She was also one of the first two single female

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of the LDS Church.Diane L. Mangum
"The First Sister Missionaries"
''

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'', July 1980.

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Jennie Brimhall was born in Spanish Fork,

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, to George H. Brimhall and Alsina Elizabeth Wilkins. Jennie was educated as a teacher at

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(BYU) and taught school in

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. On April 1, 1898, Jennie was set apart as one of the first two single women in the LDS Church to be formally selected as full-time church missionaries. The other was her childhood friend

Inez Knight Amanda Inez Knight Allen (September 8, 1876 – June 5, 1937) was a Mormon missionary and a Utah politician. In 1898, she became one of the first two single women to be missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) ...

. Jennie Brimhall and Inez Knight were missionary companions in England in 1898; Jennie returned to Utah in November 1898 due to poor health. After she returned from her mission, Jennie Brimhall married J. William Knight in January 1899. (William Knight was the brother of Inez Knight, her friend and missionary companion.) Shortly thereafter, she accompanied her husband to

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, where his father

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had established the

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settlement of

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in present-day

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. While living in Raymond, Jennie Knight was the president of the Taylor

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's Young Ladies Mutual Improvement Association from 1903 to 1906. William Knight and Jennie Knight later returned to live in

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. In 1921, Jennie Knight was selected as the first counselor to Clarissa S. Williams in the General Presidency of the

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. Along with Louise Y. Robison, Knight was a counselor to Williams until 1928, when the presidency was released from their duties. Knight was the mother of two sons. The Knight Mangum Building on the BYU campus in Provo, Utah, is named after Knight and her sister-in-law Jennie Knight Mangum. Jennie died on March 31, 1957 of heart disease. Knight is buried in the Provo City Cemetery.

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