OF TfE KNIGHT FAI.lLY


West, Florida, and became the father of three children, George,
Floy (who married Daniel Kennedy) and Mary Ellen.
 (c) Bruce, who is still unmarried.
 (d) Samuel, who married Mary V. Taylor, and is the
father of five children--Annie W., Thomas E., Frank, Mary V.
and Joyce.
 (e) Victor Hugo, who married Bllie Louise, daughter of
Congressman Stephen M. Sparkman and Mary Ellen (Hooker) Spark-
man (see Sparkman family), his wife, of Tampa. Victor H.
Knight is a prominent member of the bar of Tampa, has a large
and lucrative practice. He is respected for his ability as a
lawyer and highly esteemed as a man and as a citizen. He was
born in Manatee County in 1875; received his education first
in the common schools of DeSoto County and afterwards attend-
ed the Florida Conference College at Leesburg, Florida. He
graduated from the law department of the University of Vir-
ginia in 1897; he was admitted to the bar in Tampa in 1901.
His home and office are in this city, though he practices
throughout this section of the state. He is a director of
the Amsrican National Bank of Tampa.
 (f) Mary 3., who married Gordon Keller, formerly of
Georgia, of which state he was a native. He came to Tampa
in 1892, and engaged in the retail clothing business at the
corner of Franklin and Lafayette streets. He was treasurer
of the city of Tampa for seventeen years, and if he had lived;
would probably have held the same position still, so highly
was he esteemed for his integrity and stainless honor. There,
probably never has been a citizen of Tampa more widely popular
and personally more generally beloved. He was a prominent
member of the Knights of Pythias and the Elks. The city hos-i
pital was named the "Gordon Keller Memorial" in honor of -himi
He died July 10, 1909. There were two children born to Gor-
don and 'Mary E. (Knight) Keller-Susie E. and Sarah L.
 (g) Joel Lee, who married Rose Pexa, of Charlotte
Harbor. They have one child, Albert Lee.
 (h) Helen C., who married Hooks Burkhalter, of Columbia,
 South Carolina. They have one child, Helen E.
 (i) Betty Mitchell, who married Neil Storter.
 (j) William Wilder, who is still unmarried.
 (2) George W., the second son of JoeX and Virginia
 (Mitchell) Knight, married Sarah Jane ,Coll$ns, a daughter of
 John and Sarah (Grantham) Collinsj he died in Plant City in .
 March, 1900, aged sixty-e) t years; his wife is still living
 and well preserved at thige of seventy-nine years (1915),
 -and a granddaughter of iooh and fatima (Knight) Collin.
 Fatima Knight was a daughter of Samel and Mary (Roberts)

 George W1 fKight was a-large orange-grower, being one


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