Person:Margaret McKnight (10)

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Miss Margaret McKnight, farmer and stock raiser, was born at the old homestead, where she now resides, May 9, 1808. Her, father, Robert McKnight, was a brother of William McKnight, whose biography appears in this work, and her mother, Elizabeth (Fulton) McKnight, was a sister to the wife of William McKnight, all of whom immigrated to this state in the fall of 1807. This union resulted in the birth of three children : Margaret, already mentioned, James, and Mary. James was married to Anna McKay ay in November, 1838, and became the father of four children. He died July 8, 1844, aid was interred in the old McKnight burying-ground, whose first interment bears date of May 1, 1809. His widow was afterward married again to Elijah Spark. In April, 1839, Mary was married to James Lyon, by whom she had two children, one of whom, Martha, is married to W. H. Hopping, and Elizabeth, the other child, is yet unmarried, and is living with her aunt Margaret. Mrs. Lyon died November 19, 1844, in her thirty-fourth year, and her husband followed August 16, 1849. At the marriage of James and Mary, Mr. McKnight gave deeds to each of them for one hundred and fifty and one hundred and forty-five acres of land respectively, but to Margaret, who never married, he gave, at his death, the old homestead and the remainder of his laud, one hundred and forty-five acres. Although the original tract purchased by the brothers was one thousand acres, as per Gibbon's survey, an actual and careful survey made it one thousand three hundred and twenty acres; in consequence, Robert's share was four hundred and forty acres. Margaret did not have an opportunity to attend school until she was nine years old, as the distance to school was over two miles, and she was thought too young to walk that distance prior to that time. She improved her time, however, when the opportunity offered. She is a consistent member of the First Presbyterian Church of Xenia, and has been for more than a score of years.