 In 1941 a granddaughter of Martha's swore in an affidavit that, while Martha was alive, her parents, Gilbert and Adaline Belnap, received from the LDS Church $20.00 per month for an extensive period to purchase clothes and food for Martha, and that the LDS Church, upon Martha's death, sent a casket and burial clothes for Martha to Hooper to Bishop Childs, Bishop of the Hooper Ward.Martha McBride Knight gave birth to 8 children, seven through her husband Vinson Knight and one through Heber C. Kimball.The last four of her children, including the son through Kimball, died young.