"OF THE KNIGHT FAMILY


 of the pioneers of the citrus fruit industry of Florida. He
 lived at Knight's Station for many years, where he was very
 successful in his chosen pursuit. He was a prominent member
 of the Masonic order and one of its pastmasters. There were
 born to George W. and Sarah Jane (Collins) Knight three chil-
 dren: Mamie, who is unmarried; Bessie, who married, first,
 Wall Hendry (see Hendry family), by whom she had two children,
 Friebele and Lady Sarah. After the death of her first hus-
 band Mrs. Hendry married Benjamin Freer. The third child of
 George W. and Sarah Jane (Collins) Knight is Daisy L., who
 married Henry Clyde Rinaldi. They have one child, Clyde L.
 (3) The third child of Joel and Virginia (Mitchell)
 Knight is Mary Elizabeth, who married Matthew Franklin Giddens
 (now deceased). Mr. Giddens was born in Georgia and came to
 Florida at the age of twenty-five years, settling in that por-
 tion of Manatee County which is now DeScto. He engaged at
 first in mercantile business and later in the cattle business.
 HO was-county superintendent of public instruction of DeSoto
 County and-also a member of the board of public instruction
 of the same county for several years. He removed to Tampa in
 1905, and continued to reside there till his death, in 1908, at
 the age of sixty-two years.
 Matthew Franklin Giddens served in the Confederate army,
 enlisting in the Twenty-ninth Georgia infantry, Company G, at!
 the age of sixteen years. He saw two years of active service,
 and spent another year in prison in Camp Chase, in Ohio,. fro~
 which he was released at the close of the war.
 Matthew Franklin and Mary Elizabeth (Knight) Giddens be"
 came the parents of seven children, as follows:
 (a) Sumner E., who married Marion McLeod, a niece of i
 the 'wife of Governor-Henry L. Mitchell.
 (b) Larue B., who married Elizabeth Wallace. They have
 one child, Francis.
 (c) Marcus J., who resides at the old Knight homestead
 at Knight's Station. He married oosephine Hill.
 (d) Virginia, who is still unmarried.
 (e) Eva, who married Dr. James E. Smoak. They have two
 children James Edward, who died young, and Philip Lawrence.
 (f Paul Knight, who naey 4 Kary Malon,
 (g) Grady Mitchell, unmarried.
 (4) Frances Jan'e, dA in childhood..
 (5 The fifth o ild of Toel and Virginia (mitchell)
 Knight is Andre# w., whole d Flossie the only child of
 J-dwartA- and Sarah L (WIll) Clarice. (See Wall and Clarke
 ta.l ies.) Andrew J. Knight is a. prominent capitalist of thel
" cit- of, Tapa, being perha.sthe, .e.l real esate ower in
 ei^ 'i~tyT7f has eIrbite-great- s tnresr ssagcity and far--


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