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Wunluck, Internet GEDCOM
_(Unknown) KNECHT _
_John Conrad KNECHT(KNIGHT) _|
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_Richard KNIGHT _|
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| |_Maria CROIX(KARST) _________|
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|_Sarah BOYER ____|
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[437]
DEATH OF ABNER KNIGHT, SR. -- Abner Knight was born in Adams
county, Pa., May 20th, 1797, and died in Liverpool township,
Perry county, Pa, Oct 18, 1884, aged 87 years, 4 months and
28 days. Deceased was married to Hannah Nagle of Dauphin
county, and who still survives him, in the 85th year of her
age. By the marriage there were eight children, five sons
and three daughters, all of whom are living except the two
oldest sons -- Hiram, the eldest, who died in 1838, aged
twelve years, and Cyrus in 1872, aged about 44 years. The
survivors are Melinda, who still resides at the old
homestead; Erastus L. Knight, Esq. of Newport; Abner Knight
of Columbus, Ohio; Mrs. Ellen M. Tho??ton, of Landisburg;
Nelson Knight of East Salem, Juniata county, and Mrs. Hannah
Yeager, wife of Rev. Amos Yeager, of Juniata township, Perry
county. The grandfather of the deceased came to this
country from Europe before the revolutionary war and took
part in the struggle for freedom, and fought at the battle
of Brandywine. The original name was Knecht (not Knight)
low dutch, but in this country the old stock intermarried
with the English -- (McIlvains) -- and the name was changed
to Knight, as that is an English name. The deceased father
was a captain in the war of 1812, and marched his company
from Harrisburg to Baltimore.
Abner Knight lived at a period when the country was quite
a wilderness. He was an admirer of nature and enjoyed the
wilderness state of the country, its forests and its rivers
and streams, then quite as well as when the country has
since been cleared and settled up. This farm is so located
that he had the advantage of one of the finest natural
sceneries in the State. He lived long before the canal,
railroad, telegraph or steam boat had an existence. In his
young days he boated on the Mississippi river, when as yet
the steam boat had not made its appearance on the rivers of
the United States. He also followed the sea for a few
years; boated with flat boats on the Juniata and Susquehanna
rivers; helped to open the raft channel in the Susquehanna.
After his marriage he built the stone house that stood where
the Owen's house now stands in Liverpool, and where he kept
hotel a few years, and from whence he moved to the farm,
where he lived for more than fifty years, until his death.
During his lifetime he became acquainted with a number of
prominent men, among whom were Thad. Stevens, Francis R.
Shunk, Simon Cameron and others. Mr. Knight taught school
during the winter months for many years, and some of the
pupils who went to school to him more than sixty years ago
are still living, among whom are James Patterson, of
Millerstown and John Patterson or Renovo, Clinton county,
Pa. and among those of more recent years who were his pupils
are Samuel Barner, at present one of the county
commissioners, the Klines and others of Liverpool township,
all well up in the sixties. Besides teaching school Mr.
Knight did a considerable amount of surveying of lands in
his neighborhood, he was fond of Mathematics, Trigonometry,
Geometry, &c. He enjoyed good health and a sound mind up to
within a few months of his death, when he began to
experience trouble in breathing and shortness of breath,
until death relieved him of his sufferings. He was a member
of the United Brethren church for upwards of fifty years,
and would walk to town to church every Sabbath to services,
either in his own or some other church, a distance of nearly
two miles. This he did until a short time before his death.
His was an exemplary, christian life. He was a kind
husband, an effectionate father and a good, kind neighbor,
esteemed and loved by all, and died in the peace of God and
at good will with all. ===== Transcribed from original
photocopy by Stephen Knight, 1/2/1998 Newspaper source
unknown
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Residing with Abner and Hannah is 19 year old Lucinda Knight
whose lineage I have not identified. Also residing under
the same roof is the family of Amos Yeager (age 38),
including wife Hannah (age 27, daughter of Abner and Hannah
Knight), Philip and John Yeager (aged 16 and 14
respectively), Abmer M. (age 2) and Amos C. (age 6/12).
Based on the ages of Philip and John, I suspect they are by
a previous marriage.
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[S192]
1880 Census - PA, Knight, Abner
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[S18]
Knight, Harry S., History (Creveling copy)
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[S574]
1870 Census - PA, Knight, Abner
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Knight, Abner, Obit
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Knight, Abner, Obit