[3] He converted to Mormonism;[3] was baptized on 11 November 1849; emigrated from Wales to the United States in 1854; and emigrated to Utah Territory in July-October 1855 as a Mormon pioneer to join the gathering of the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).

[2] In 1857, Davies became disillusioned with the leadership of the LDS Church after the Mountain Meadows Massacre, and he became a follower of the schismatic leader Joseph Morris.

Davies and forty of his followers moved there in 1866 and established a communal society on 80 acres.

[4] After the announcement, the size of Davies's followers doubled;[3] most of the new converts came from San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon.

[2][3] The Kingdom of Heaven began to collapse in 1880, when both Davies children died of diphtheria.