Upon their arrival in the Salt Lake Valley, Brigham Young met the group of Latter-day Saints with whom the Daynes family had traveled.

Young heard the eleven-year-old Joseph playing the melodeon and declared: "There is our organist for the great Tabernacle organ.

"[2] This declaration came true in 1867, when Joseph H. Ridges completed the building of the organ in the Salt Lake Tabernacle.

Joseph Daynes married Mary Jane Sharp on November 18, 1872, in Salt Lake City.

[6] Daynes Jr. was also the president of the Western States Mission of the church, based in Colorado, and was married to one of Wilford Woodruff's daughters.