Person:Alfred Knight (40)

BIOGRAPHY: E-Mail received from S.M. Green great-grand-daughter of Alfred Walter Knight 13 May 2003

Hi, Fanny Sayles and uncle Obed, and it is just Obed, never lived together, even though they had to get married. She would not leave her mother and he wouldn't live with her mother! I do have a lot of Knight material, since I have those lines.

  My father was born in Sept 1904 and Obed and Fanny's son, Harold , was born in March 1904. 
  
    Did you know that our Richard-1 Knight, who came over on the ship "James" first came to New Hampton, NH? He was a carpenter and was hired to build a new Congregational church for the town. Instead, he ran off with the money, went to Newburyport, MA then eventually to Newport, RI He then got a job as "keeper" of the jail. The history book states that,  "after that he led a good and decorous life". It is little things like that that keep me doing genealogy. My 5th g-grandmother , on my mother's side, slept in a log cabin in Iowa, keeping an axe beside her bed to chase bears. Her husband was in the Civil War. They later returned to N.E.
  I don't know where you live, but if you ever go out Broadway towards Olneyville , in Providence, look carefully at the wrought iron along the steps and fences. Grampa Knight was a blacksmith and he lived on Broadway for awhile and did a lot of work along there. His father also a blacksmith, had a shop in Scituate, RI and when the state took the land for the reservoir, he lost his shop. He came to Burrillville and Grampa Knight Alfred Walter, worked in Hopkins machine shop running a trip-hammar machine.
  Sorry, I get carried away.My husband  and I used to own and run a railroad in Cranston, RI If you type in "Fallen Flags" and Warwick, Railway, that is us!!

I am, (was) a qualified locomotive engineer. Both my boys worked there and you can see one of them, Robert, in one of the pictures.

 Did you know that the firm of B.B. and R. Knight held the patent for Fruit of the loom underwear?  My grandmother and her brothers and sisters each received $500 from one of them when they died. I have it upstairs somewhere.
 I will stop. Honest.   S.M. Greene

CENSUS: 1860 United States Federal Census Name: Alfred A Knight Age in 1860: 6 Birth Year: abt 1854 Birthplace: Rhode Island Home in 1860: Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island Gender: Male Post Office: Greene Household Members: Name Age J J Knight 31 Eunice A Knight 33 Alfred A Knight 6 Willie J Knight 6.12 Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island; Roll: M653_1203; Page: 9; Image: 18.

1870 United States Federal Census Name: Walter Knight Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854 Age in 1870: 16 Birthplace: Rhode Island Home in 1870: Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Summit Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island; Roll: M593_1471; Page: 176; Image: 353.

1875 Rhode Island State Census. Page 33. Foster, RI, dwelling 227 wooden house, family 269. S. Tyler, age 44, male, white, head, married, born Foster, soap manufacture. Mary J. Tyler, age 28, female, white, wife, married, born CT, housekeeper. Alfred W. Knight, age 21, male, white, son-in-law, married, born Coventry, blacksmith. Emma J. Knight, age 20, female, white, daughter, married, born Foster, spool tender.

1900 United States Federal Census Name: Alfred W Knight Home in 1900: Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island Age: 48 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1852 Birthplace: Rhode Island Relationship to head-of-house: Head Spouse's Name: Emma J Race: White Occupation: Blacksmith Household Members: Name Age Alfred W Knight 48 Emma J Knight 45 Summer G Knight 20 Obed G Knight 17 Edna L Knight 14 Edna P Knight 11 Hanna S Knight 7 Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: T623 1509; Page: 15B; Enumeration District: 104.

1910 United States Federal Census Name: Walter Knight Age in 1910: 56 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854 Birthplace: Rhode Island Relation to Head of House: Head Father's Birth Place: Rhode Island Mother's Birth Place: Connecticut Spouse's Name: Emma J Home in 1910: Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island Marital Status: Married Race: White Gender: Male Household Members: Name Age Walter Knight 56 Emma J Knight 54 Sumner G Knight 30 Obed G Knight 27 Herman S Knight 17 Source Citation: Year: 1910; Census Place: Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: T624_1437; Page: 19A; Enumeration District: 63; Image: 1067.

1920 United States Federal Census Name: Walter Knight Home in 1920: Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island Age: 65 years Estimated Birth Year: abt 1855 Birthplace: Rhode Island Relation to Head of House: Head Spouse's Name: Emma Father's Birth Place: Rhode Island Mother's Birth Place: Connecticut Marital Status: Married Race: White Sex: Male Home owned: Rent Able to read: Yes Able to Write: Yes Image: 149 Household Members: Name Age Walter Knight 65 Emma Knight 64 Sumner Knight 40 Obed Knight 37 Cyrus Knight 27 Source Citation: Year: 1920;Census Place: Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: T625_1672; Page: 2A; Enumeration District: 71; Image: 149.

1930 United States Federal Census Name: Walter A Knight Home in 1930: Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island Age: 76 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1854 Birthplace: Rhode Island Relation to Head of House: Brother Race: White Occupation: Retired Blacksmith Household Members: Name Age James A Hull 44 Edna Hull 43 Walter A Knight 76 Sumner G Knight 50 Phebe Knight 61 Source Citation: Year: 1930; Census Place: Burrillville, Providence, Rhode Island; Roll: 2170; Page: 3A; Enumeration District: 155; Image: 418.0.

MEDIA: "With permission of Eunice May Sayles http://www.escoffery.com/users/eunice/" J0031 - Alfred Walter Knight J0085 - Alfred Walter Knight on left in Trip Hammer Shop on the ridge - Hopkins Mill J0086 - Alfred Walter Knight and wife Emma Jane Tyler Knight J0087 - 1st Row Sarah Warren - Emma Jane Tyler Knight holding Eunice May Sayles - Jennie Paine

       2nd Row Vernon Warren - Alfred Walter Knight

J0088 - This picture of Alfred Walter Knight was taken at Nausocket Beach the day he died, it is one of the pictures from a roll of film found in a camera by Shirley Patterson Greene years