OF THE KNIGHT FAMILY


Sleft four children-- Pearl, Ruby, John and Valley.
 (12) Alice, who has been married twice, the first time
 to Theodore Sawyer, by whom she had one child, Samuel, who
 married Grace Whitaker, daughter of F. C. Whitaker. The latter
 couple -have three children, Theodore, Alice Louise and Ferman
 Charles. Alice (Knigt) Sawyer was married the second time to
 Darwin 0. Curry. They have three children, whose names are
 Vida Clare, who married Esli Knight, the son of Andrew J. and
 Flossie (Clarke) Knight, Francis and Jesse J.
 (13) Milton, who died unmarried.
 (14) Dock, who married Mollie Reed. They have seven
 children; namely, Samuel, Larue, Zesse, Lillie, Daisy, Eva and
 Curr.
 (15) Louise.
 Jesse Knight lived the greater part of his long life in
 Manatee County, here he followed the pursuits of his father;
 namely, farming and stock raising. He attained the good old
 age of about ninety-five years. His descendants are still nu-
 merous in the region of his former residence.
 Joel Knight, was born in Georgia, but spent the most of
 his life, and died; in Florida. He lived for many years in
 Hillsborough County, where his father first settled, and where
 he was married to his wife, who was Virginia Mitchell, daughter
 of Thomas and Elizabeth (Starns) Mitchell. (See Mitchell fam-
 ily). iooel Knight was also a farmer and cattle dealer. He
 served throughout the Civil War in the Confederate army; was a
 lieutenant. He died at Charlotte Harbor, aged fifty-eight
 years.
 Joel and Virginia (Mitchell) Knight had nine children,
 as follows:
 (1) Thomas Samuel, who married Ellen Wilder and became
 the father of ten children. He was born in 1849, and died
 April 22, 1912. His home up to the time of his death was at
 Charlotte Harbor, in DeSoto County. He was a stock farmer and
 later in life dealt largely in real estate. He was & man d '
 great wealth, being the holder of large amount of stock in the
 American National Bank, of. Tampa, and one of the directors of
 the institution for many years.
 The children of Thomas Samuel and. llen (Wilder) Knight
-are named below: .
 S (a) Irene, who married Charles L. -i es, of Valdosta,
 Georgia, and who bore seven children, who married
 J. 0. Bessent, of Jacksonville, FldridF; Mary lizabeth, Thomes
 Benjamin, Marian1 Carl Lee,. Gordon Albert, Virginia 3ane and
 ,Irene. .
 (b.) GeorgeW married Nellie (Pyfrcn) Stegall, of Key


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