GENEALOGICAL RECORDS

 TI KNIGHT FAMILY


 Samuel Knight was the Florida ancestor of the family
 which is the subject of this sketch. He was born in Georgia
 and lived there until he had grown to manhood and married.
 His wife was Mary Roberts. They became the parents of eight
 children, all of whom were born after the removal of their
 parents to Florida.-
 Samuel Knight was a farmer in Georgia, and continued
 the same pursuit after taking up his residence in Florida,
 with the addition of cattle raising on a large scale. On first
 coming to this state Samuel Knight settled in the northern part
 of the state. After a few years he came to the place which,
 vhen the railroads came, after many years, was called Knight's
 Station in honor of this original settler. This is in the
 eastern portion of the present county of Hillsborough-, four
 miles north of Plant City. He owned a large tract of land
 there, upon which he lived for many years, until his children
 were all married and had established their own homes,, when he
 ana his wife went to live with one of their grandsons in what
 was then Manatee County, but is now included in DeSoto. At a
 later date they all removed to Charlotte Harbor, where a por-
 tion of the family still resides.
 Samuel Knight died at Charlotte Harbor, aged eighty-
 four years. His wife passed away at the age of eighty-six
 years. ,
 The eight children of Samuel and Mary (Roberts) Knight
 were the following:
 Fatima,, who married Enoch Collins. They had ten chil-
 dren, who bore the following names: Eliza, William, John,
 Hardy, Samuel, Mary, Enoch, Jesse, Daniel, and of these John,
 :noch, James, Samuel, Jesse and Daniel all served through the
 Civil War in tho Confederate army.
 Fannie, married (1)Gi'deon Zipperer; one child, Gideon,
 Jr., She later became the wife of Jacob Summerlin, who gave
 the land for Summerlin Institute at Bartow, and the mother of
 the following children: Jasper, Mary Ann, George, Robert,
 Samuel, Alice,
 Aaron, who married Jane Vaughn. To this couple there
 were born the following named children:' Martha Ann, who mar-
 ried Aaron Bl unt.
 Jesse, who married Caroline Vaughn, and who became the
 father of fifteen children, bearing the following names, but,
. not in regular, order of their births:.
 S.() Sarah.,Jane, who married J. S, Hancook.
 ,X (2) Ann who wa.s married twice, the first time to Mil-
 *ton Johnson, and the second' time to William Brown.