Person:Laben Knight (8)

BIOGRAPHY: Laben Knight Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Outline Descendant Tree: Descendants of Richard Knight

   Number of children: 10 .......... 5 Laben Knight b: 1758 in Coventry, RI 

DEATH: Coventry, Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries By Dr. Bill Eddleman and John E. Sterling 1998

Knight-Rathburn Lot
  This lot is located 20 feet west of Maple Valley Road at telephone pole #18. The cemetery is 40 ft x 80 ft, in fair condition, and partially enclosed with granite posts. There are 19 inscribed stones.
  James N. Arnold recorded this lot 2 Nov. 1904. He considered this lot as two separate lots and commented "At the Elder Stone meeting house corner, there are a number of lots for burial purposes. Commencing on the West side of the road, the following yard [Rathburn Lot] is fenced, which fence is in poor order, lot covered with brush." [The Knight Lot] "has picket fence and granite posts; in good order, lot overgrown with shrub oak" (Vol. 6, Book H, page 1351, 1354). Charles and Martha Benns transcribed this lot in 1931. their #26. Amelia K. Whitford transcribed this cemetery in 1986.

0011 Knight,Mary 1737c - 1 Apr 1822

         w/o Ezra; 'Aged about 85 years'

0012 Knight,Laban 1768c - 23 Oct 1810 0013 Knight,Hannah 1774c - 23 Jan 1829

         w/o Laban

0014 Knight,Isabella 20 Jun 1802 - 26 Mar 1857

         d/o Laban & Hannah

0015 Knight,Lucy 1805c - 12 Oct 1841

         d/o Laban & Hannah

0016 Knight,Sally 1797c - 21 Jan 1837

         d/o Laban & Hannah

0018 Knight,Alice 1793c - 18 Sep 1814

         d/o Laban & Hannah

0019 Knight,Martha 1803c - 30 Jan 1808

         d/o Laban & Hannah

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