... Dr. Absalom Knox, eldest son of John Knox and Mary Knox, was born December 30, 1807, near Statesville, Wilson county, Tenn.; was educated in Statesville, Tenn.; taught school; read medicine under Dr. Winn, of Lebanon, Tenn. In 1832 he located in what was then known as the "Western District," Gibson county. Tradition says lie was the first physician in that part of the State. In 1833 he married Miss Sarah Higgins, of the same county, a woman of strong mind, fair to look upon, and worthy of such a man. She died in 1881.
Dr. Knox was a man of learning and intelligence and of strict probity of character. He was an elder in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church; was a delegate to the General Assembly of that church which met in Ohio in 1847. While there he met descendants of William Knox, his mother's brother, who had gone from Tennessee to Ohio. He was a man above the average in point of ability, was a genial high-toned gentleman, charitable to a fault, always ready to help the needy and those in distress. In 1848 he, with his family and a few slaves, moved to Panola county, Miss., where he died in 1854, leaving a wife and seven children. Five of the six sons served in C. S. A. throughout the war, and all still living except the eldest, who died in 1899. In the Confederate Veteran of June, 1897, page 250, we find a group portrait of the six sons, with short sketches of each.
The children of Dr. Absalom Knox and wife, Sarah Higgins Knox, were : ...
