Person:Henry Knight (159)

CENSUS: 1850 United States Federal Census Name: Henry Knight Age: 53 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1797 Birth Place: Rhode Island Gender: Male Home in 1850 (City,County,State): Redford, Wayne, Michigan Household Members: Name Age Henry Knight 53 Eleanor Knight 48 Thomas Knight 22 Daniel Knight 18 Henry Knight 16 James Knight 14 Eleanor Starkweather 17 William Healy 40 Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: Redford, Wayne, Michigan; Roll: M432_366; Page: 255; Image: 9.

Schuyler co., NY census--1855--Town of DIX Many thanks to Helena Howard of Schuyler co., NY ! KNIGHT,Henry head 60 b. Rhode Island

      Elanor  Wife   54  b. Washington Co. 
      James   Child  19  b. Orleans Co. 

1870 United States Federal Census Name: Henry Knight Estimated Birth Year: abt 1795 Age in 1870: 75 Birthplace: Rhode Island Home in 1870: Starkey, Yates, New York Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Penn Yan Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Starkey, Yates, New York; Roll: M593_1120; Page: 607; Image: 452.

BIOGRAPHY: From: "Sharon Mason" <[email protected]> Add to Address Book To: "William Knight" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Knight Research Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 11:59:24 -0700

I waiting for an answer to my request for Henry's death certificate. You know how that goes--sometimes they have it some times they don't. If I get it, I'll let you know--and hopefully it will provide more information. What I have now is:

Affadavit of Elner/Ellenor Knight: ...deposes and says she is a resident of Tirone Schuyler Co N. Y.. That she well knows Nancy Knight and knew Charles Knight her husband in his lifetime that she first became acquainted with them in the month of January 1815 that they were then married and had with them one child then several weeks old from which fact and other circumstances in connection with her own marraige to the brother of said Knight..." This is what led me to the Henry and Eleanor in Schuyler County although I don't yet have proof it is the right couple.

1870 US Census; Starkey, Yates, New York; Page No. 32: D. E. Morrison household; Catharine V., ae 39 b. N.Y.; James A., ae 18, b. N. Y.; Dora, ae 8, b. N. Y.; Henry Knight, ae 75, b. Rhode Island; Eleanor, ae 68, b. N. Y.

1880 US Census; Tyrone, Schuyler, New York; Page No. 11; Enumeration District No. 9; Sueprvisors District No. 153: D. E. Morrison, ae 54, b. N. Y.; Catharine D., ae 51, wife, b. N. Y.; Eleanor Knight, ae 78, mother, b. Vermont.

Schuyler County New York GenWeb site, Tyrone Union Cemetery: Eleanor Knight, b. January 10, 1802, d. April 12, 1900, w/o Henry Knight. Henry Knight, b. April 15, 1795, d. Mar 22, 1872. Catharine V. Morrison, d. Jul 11, 1892, b. June 4, 1830, w/o Daniel Morrison

Other Knights and Morrisons buried here, some I've idenfied as children and the others may be too based on dates.

As far as the Census records, the 1870 is not as clear as the 1880, so if it looks different to you, let me know.

Do you have anything that would solidify the relationship between Job and Charles?

My family is having a family reunion in Chautauqua County in September and I hope to find more information then. I don't know how many people will attend as most live on the West Coast. I live in Southern California and my Knight line is from my mother, Hattie Modelle Knight. My grandfather, Nelson Thurman Knight, was a well-known and well-traveled Church of God (Anderson, Indiana) evangelist. Very dynamic person. He was a lumber jack in his younger days and won awards for "sawing and bucking". My grandmother Knight's family came West on a covered wagon to the Olympic Pennisula where many of them still live. My mom and grandma were both born on the Pennisula. I was born in Phoenix where the family moved when my grandfather was "called" to pastor the Phoenix Church of God. We moved to Southern California when I was a small girl in 1946.

More than you wanted to know!