Person:Caroline Sedgwick (3)

MILITARY: Civil War Pension Index May 4, 2005 1:06 PM Name: William W. Knight State Filed: Connecticut Widow: Caroline S. Knight

BIOGRAPHY: A Sedgwick Genealogy Descendants of Deacon Benjamin Sedgwick Compiled by Hubert M. Sedgwick New Haven Colony Historical Society New Haven, Connecticut 1961 Page 62 Caroline Swan Sedgwick, 6th child of General Charles F. Sedgwick (B21,1) and Betsey (Swan) Sedgwick, was born January 22,1839, at Sharon, Conn., and married September 5, 1861, Dr. William W. Knight of that place. He was born at Granby, Mass., July 11, 1833, attended the Berkshire Medical Institute and Lyceum of Medical History (this from its seal), from which he received a diploma in 1855. He was First Lieutenant and Assistant Surgeon of the 3d New York Volunteer Artillery. After the Civil War they resided at Sharon where he practiced medicine and kept the village drugstore. He was a member of a family which produced several distinguished doctors of medicine, was a surgeon in the United States Army during the Civil War and a brother of Dr. Henry Knight, who founded the pioneer school for feeble-minded at Lakeville, Conn., a nationally known institution. He was an uncle of Dr. George Knight who carried on the school until his death while campaigning for Congress. A nephew, Robert, was also a physician. Dr. Knight died at Sharon February 18, 1912. Mrs. Knight died at Sharon May 1, 1917.

The Brewster Genealogy (1566 - 1907) A Record of the Descendants of William Brewster Compiled and Edited by Emma C. Brewster Jones Cincinnati, Ohio - Volume II - The Grafton Press 1908 - Page 849

MARRAIGE: Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) Name: William W Knight Birth Location: Massachusetts Residence Location: Sharon Marriage Date: 5 Sep 1861 Marriage Location: Sharon Spouse: Callie Sedgwick Spouse Residence Location: Sharon Source Information: Ancestry.com. Connecticut Town Marriage Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006. Original data: White, Lorraine Cook, ed. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records. Vol. 1-55. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1994-2002.