Knight Bible Records

Title Page

EK & GK

The Holy Bible

The Text conformable to the Original Edition of the Year of our Lord 1610 and the American Bible Society's Standard Edition of 1816.

Philadelphia

William W. Harding
No. 326 Chestnut St.

1869

[EK and GT married in 1870. Above is a representation of the title page of their Bible. There is a lock of hair at the Apocrypha. A dried green plant clipping at Lamentations. This is the Knight Bible in the possession of Mary Knight at Jefferson, LA. The following details abstracted by Webster T. Knight in August 2001. Omitted are baptisms.]

Marriages

Edward Knight and Georgia Thurston
St. Paul's Church, January 13th 1870
New Orleans, La.

Births

Edward Knight
first son of Henry Knight and Zelmire (Theriot) Robinet
born Tuesday 8 AM Aug 26th 1841
St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Georgia Thurston
third daughter of George Newell Thurston and Mary Ann Campbell
born Tuesday 1 PM May 14th 1850
Rampart and Terpsichore Sts
New Orleans, Louisiana

Webster Thurston Knight
first son of Edward Knight and Georgia Thurston
born Wednesday 6 PM - Oct 31st 1871
St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
[in pencil] Cloverdale Plantation

Ivan Knight
second son of Edward Knight and Georgia Thurston
born Friday 11 AM June 27th 1873
St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana
[in pencil] "Clover Dale Plantation"
[died same day]

Joseph Alvan Knight
rhird son of Edward Knight and Georgia Thurston
born Friday 9 PM Oct 29th 1875
Pattersonville, Louisiana

Henry Knight
fourth son of Edward & Georgia Knight
born Thursday July 5th 8 AM
*Pelican Plantation *[Relica? Retreat], one mile above Centerville
St. Mary's Parish, Louisiana

George Newell Knight
fifth son of Edward & Georgia Knight
born Wednesday, July 28th 1880 2 O'clock PM
Hayes [Noyes?] Plantation near Centerville
St. Mary's Parish Louisiana

Octavia Ernestine Flavia Knight
first daughter of Edward and Georgia Knight
born Monday August 28 1882, 3 AM
Retriat [Retreat] Plantation, near Centreville
St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Grover Cleveland Knight
son of Edward and Georgia Knight
born Sunday 7 AM Nov 23rd 1884
Retreat Plantation near Centreville
St. Mary Parish, Louisiana

Mary Zelmire Knight
2nd daughter of Edward and Georgia Knight
born Aug 4th 1886
Moss Place near Franklin
St Mary Parish Louisiana

Deaths

Ivan Knight, June 27th 1873, St Mary Parish, Louisiana
Octavia Ernestine Flavia Knight, died June 27th 1883 at 9 PM, "Retrëat" St. Mary's, La.
Georgia Thurston, died Feb 20th 1905, New Orleans, La., in Odd Fellows vault L.
Edward Knight, died Dec 28th 1917, New Orleans, La., Greenwood Cemetery
Thurston Knight, died Mar. 1941
Newell Knight, died Dec 1945
G .C. Knight, died Aug 23, 1950
J. Alvan Knight, died Sept 6, 1955
E. Henry Knight, died Aug 3rd 1961, Greenwood Cemetery
 

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Contributed 2001 Aug by Webster Thurston Knight

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