_____ Carwile

M, ID# 19101
  • Last Edited: 30 Jan 2005

Family: _____ _____

_____ _____

F, ID# 19102
  • Last Edited: 30 Jan 2005

Family: _____ Carwile

Mary Ann Knight

F, ID# 19110, b. 11 August 1838, d. 23 March 1888

Mary Ann Knight Burford.
  • Note*: She is described in her husband's obituary as "a large-hearted Christian woman."11

Additional Resources

• Her Find A Grave memorial, which includes pictures of her grave marker,is here.
  • Last Edited: 18 Aug 2021

Family: Judge Nathaniel Macon ('Nat') Burford b. 24 Jun 1824, d. 10 May 1898

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Martha Ann Knight as her mother).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Obadiah Woodson Knight as her father).
  3. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on parents' believed residence at the time.
  4. [S961] Find A Grave, online at http://www.findagrave.com, memorial for Mary Knight Burford, memorial no. 65046864, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (giving the date but no other information).
  5. [S143] The New Handbook of Texas (Austin, Tex.: Tex. State Hist. Ass'n, 1996), vol. 1, pp. 829-30, s.v. "Nathaniel Macon Burford."
  6. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Nat Macon Burford, memorial no. 13283414, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (not giving the date).
  7. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Mary Knight Burford, memorial no. 65046864, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (not giving the date).
  8. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 24 Mar 1888, p. 5, col. 1 (giving the date but not the place and stating that she died at 5:40 p.m.).
  9. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on her believed residence at the time.
  10. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Mary Knight Burford, memorial no. 65046864, viewed on 17 Mar 2012.
  11. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 12 May 1898, p. 8, col. 5 (obituary of Judge Nat M. Burford).
  12. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Laura Francis "Fannie" Burford, memorial no. 65047750, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Mary Knight Burford as her mother).
  13. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Mattie Elizabeth Burford Freeman, memorial no. 65033724, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Mary Knight Burford as her mother).
  14. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Nat M. Burford, memorial no. 65047063, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Mary Knight Burford as his mother).
  15. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Robert L. Burford, memorial no. 63561969, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Mary Knight Burford as his mother).
  16. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for William Garland Burford, memorial no. 63561969, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Mary Knight Burford as his mother).
  17. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Jeff Burford, memorial no. 63561424, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Mary Knight Burford as his mother).
  18. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for J. C. McCoy "Mack" Burford, memorial no. 65047625, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Mary Knight Burford as his mother).

Judge Nathaniel Macon ('Nat') Burford

M, ID# 19111, b. 24 June 1824, d. 10 May 1898

Judge Nat M. Burford.
  • Obituary*: "AN OLD SETTLER GONE.
       "Something of the Life of Judge Nat M. Burford, Who Died Tuesday.
       "On Tuesday afternoon at 5:30 o'clock, Judge Nat M. Burford died in this city, at the home of his son-in-law, W. M. Freeman, after a long and distressing illness. Judge Burford was a pioneer in northern Texas, and to him and such as he, Dallas owes a great debt of gratitude. He was for many years one of the most useful and distinguished citizens of this section and of the state. He was born in the state of Tennessee on the 24th of June, 1824; was educated at Irvine college, Tennessee, and removed to Jefferson, Tex., in 1847. He was admitted to the bar in Tennessee in 1845. On the 8th of October, 1848, he came to Dallas and from that time until his death he was a resident here.
       "In 1850, he was elected district attorney of this district, comprising a territory extending from Houston county to Grayson county on Red river, and in 1852 was re-elected. Judge John H. Reagan was judge of the district. In 1856, he succeeded Judge Reagan on the bench by election and was re-elected in 1860, and in 1861 resigned and joined the first Texas battery as a private under Capt. J. J. Good.
       "He was made colonel of the nineteenth Texas cavalry and attached to Gen. W. H. Parsons' cavalry brigade and remained with it until 1864, when on account of illness, incapacitating him from active service, he resigned.
       "In 1866, he was elected a member of the eleventh legislature from Dallas county and upon the assembling of the legislature he was elected speaker of that body, a position which he filled with singular ability until, with almost all other public officials, he was removed as an impediment to reconstruction by Gen. Phil Sheridan.
       "In 1876, he was again elected judge of this judicial district and held the position until forced to resign by ill health at the expiration of two years. Almost ever since his health has been such as to make his life an inexpressibly sad one. He was preceded to the grave by his wife, who, before her marriage, was Miss Mary M. Knight, a daughter of an old pioneer of Dallas county [Obadiah Knight]. She was a large-hearted Christian woman, whose death is still mourned by the many survivors who knew her. All the children of this marriage except two crossed the dark river before the father. The two surviving are Mrs. W. M. Freeman and Miss May Burford, a young lady just completing her education near Cincinnati, O. Judge Burford's knowledge of the law and of current affairs was profound. In the days of his mental vigor it was said of him that he never forgot anything once read by him. He was a charter member of Tannehill lodge No. 52, and its first master. He was a member of the Episcopal church and for years one of its vestrymen. He will be buried by the Masonic fraternity Friday from the residence of W. M. Freeman, South Akard street."8
  • Note*: After graduating from Irving College and law school in Tennessee, he moved to Jefferson, Texas in January 1847 and became deputy clerk of the district court. He soon moved on and arrived in Dallas, Texas in October 1848, where he formed a law partnership with John H. Reagan. He was elected district attorney in 1850 and 1852, drafted the charter for the City of Dallas when it incorporated in 1856, and served as district judge from 1856 until 1861, when he resigned and joined the 1st Texas Artillery of the Confederate Army as a private. He later was commissioned a colonel and raised a regiment from around Dallas that served as the 19th Texas Cavalry. After the Civil War he served in the Texas House of Representatives (from which he was removed as an "impediment to Reconstruction"), as district judge, and as U.S. commissioner. He was a mason, a Democrat, and an Episcopalian.3

Additional Resources

• His biography in The Handbook of Texas Online is here.
• His Wikipedia biography is here.
• His obituary in The Dallas Morning News is here.
• His Find A Grave memorial, which includes pictures of his grave marker, is here.
  • Last Edited: 18 Aug 2021

Family: Mary Ann Knight b. 11 Aug 1838, d. 23 Mar 1888

Citations

  1. [S143] The New Handbook of Texas (Austin, Tex.: Tex. State Hist. Ass'n, 1996), vol. 1, pp. 829-30, s.v. "Nathaniel Macon Burford" (naming John Hawkins Burford as his father).
  2. [S143] The New Handbook of Texas, above, vol. 1, pp. 829-30, s.v. "Nathaniel Macon Burford" (naming Nancy McAlister as his mother).
  3. [S143] The New Handbook of Texas, above, vol. 1, pp. 829-30, s.v. "Nathaniel Macon Burford."
  4. [S961] Find A Grave, online at http://www.findagrave.com, memorial for Nat Macon Burford, memorial no. 13283414, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (giving the date and state but not the county).
  5. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Nat Macon Burford, memorial no. 13283414, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (not giving the date).
  6. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Mary Knight Burford, memorial no. 65046864, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (not giving the date).
  7. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Nat Macon Burford, memorial no. 13283414, viewed on 17 Mar 2012.
  8. [S1299] Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., online archive at http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/newspapers/, 12 May 1898.
  9. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Laura Francis "Fannie" Burford, memorial no. 65047750, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Nathaniel Macon Burford as her father).
  10. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Mattie Elizabeth Burford Freeman, memorial no. 65033724, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Nathaniel Macon Burford as her father).
  11. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Nat M. Burford, memorial no. 65047063, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Nathaniel Macon Burford as his father).
  12. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Robert L. Burford, memorial no. 63561969, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Nathaniel Macon Burford as his father).
  13. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for William Garland Burford, memorial no. 65047485, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Nathaniel Macon Burford as his father).
  14. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Jeff Burford, memorial no. 63561424, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Nathaniel Macon Burford as his father).
  15. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for J. C. McCoy "Mack" Burford, memorial no. 65047625, viewed on 17 Mar 2012 (naming Nathaniel Macon Burford as his father).

William Hughes Knight

M, ID# 19112, b. November 1854, d. 22 March 1923
  • Note*: He moved to Hillsboro, Texas from Dallas County in late 1880 or early 1881, where he raised cattle in the Ash Creek area. In Hill County he was elected county treasurer for two terms, county tax collector for two years, and mayor of Hillsboro for many years. Gov. William P. Hobby appointed him to the Board of Pardon Advisors, on which he served until Gov. Pat Neff abolished it. He was a member of Southern Methodist Church in Hillsboro for many years and was a thirty-second degree Mason.3,6
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: Tabitha Elizabeth ('Bessie') Turner

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Obadiah Knight as his father).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Serena Caroline Hughes as his mother).
  3. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 23 Mar 1923, sec. 1, p. 4 (obituary of Judge W. H. Knight).
  4. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 23 Mar 1923, sec. 1, p. 4 (obituary of Judge W. H. Knight) (not giving the date but stating that he was twenty-five years old when they married).
  5. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (giving her name as Bessie Turner and not giving the date).
  6. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other").
  7. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other") (stating that Robert E. Knight was a brother of Dr. H. O. Knight and Turner T. Knight).

Tabitha Elizabeth ('Bessie') Turner

F, ID# 19113
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: William Hughes Knight b. Nov 1854, d. 22 Mar 1923

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 23 Mar 1923, sec. 1, p. 4 (obituary of Judge W. H. Knight) (not giving the date but stating that he was twenty-five years old when they married).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (giving her name as Bessie Turner and not giving the date).
  3. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other") (stating that Robert E. Knight was a brother of Dr. H. O. Knight and Turner T. Knight).

Harry Obadiah Knight

M, ID# 19114, b. 17 November 1880, d. 5 October 1939
  • Note*: He received a B.A. degree from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas and in 1907 his M.D. degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch, with highest honors, at Galveston, Texas. After a two-year internship at Philadelphia General Hospital, he began teaching at U.T.M.B. in 1909, teaching bacteriology and pathology and later becoming associate professor of anatomy. He once was called the world's greatest anatomist. He killed himself a day after his brother, Turner, died, shooting himself in the head at the medical school, where he was still on the faculty. His survivors included his wife and a brother.4

Additional Resources

• His Find A Grave memorial, which includes images of his gravestone and his death certificate, is here.
  • Last Edited: 4 Jun 2020

Family: Bertha Helen Beissner b. 22 Aug 1882, d. 25 Oct 1967

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other") (stating that his father moved from Dallas, Texas to Hillsboro, Texas "soon after the birth of Dr. Knight on Nov. 17, 1880").
  2. [S961] Find A Grave, online at http://www.findagrave.com, memorial for Harry Obediah [sic] Knight, memorial no. 126143533, viewed on 4 Jun 2020 (giving the date but not the place).
  3. [S961] Find A Grave, online, above, memorial for Harry Obediah [sic] Knight, memorial no. 126143533, viewed on 4 Jun 2020.
  4. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other").

Bertha Helen Beissner

F, ID# 19115, b. 22 August 1882, d. 25 October 1967

Additional Resources

• Her Find A Grave memorial, which includes images of her gravestone and her death certificate, is here.
  • Last Edited: 4 Jun 2020

Family: Harry Obadiah Knight b. 17 Nov 1880, d. 5 Oct 1939

Citations

  1. [S961] Find A Grave, online at http://www.findagrave.com, memorial for Bertha Beissner Knight, memorial no. 126143470, viewed on 4 Jun 2020.

Turner T. Knight

M, ID# 19116, b. circa 1887, d. 4 October 1939
  • Note*: He was a fire insurance agent in Hillsboro, Texas for thirty years. His survivors included his wife, a daughter, a son, and a brother.2
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: _____ _____

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other") (not giving the date but stating that he was fifty-two years old when he died on 4 Oct 1939).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other").

_____ _____

F, ID# 19117
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: Turner T. Knight b. c 1887, d. 4 Oct 1939

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other").

Robert E. L. Knight

M, ID# 19120
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 6 Oct 1939, sec. 1, p. 3 ("Dr. H. O. Knight, T. T. Knight, Sons of Pioneer Dallas Family, Die in Few Hours of Each Other") (stating that Robert E. Knight was a brother of Dr. H. O. Knight and Turner T. Knight).

W. E. Knight

M, ID# 19121
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Archelaus J. Knight

M, ID# 19122
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: Jessie Newton

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Obadiah Knight as his father).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Serena Caroline Hughes as his mother).
  3. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above.

Leslie Vincent DeWitt

M, ID# 19123
  • Last Edited: 25 Jun 2011

Family: Alice McAtee b. c 1866, d. 10 Oct 1934

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 17 Jun 1923, part 1, p. 8 ("W. Hughes Knight Weds Miss De Witt") (naming Leslie Vincent DeWitt as her father).

Alice McAtee

F, ID# 19124, b. circa 1866, d. 10 October 1934
  • Note*: Survivors included her husband, a daughter, a son, and a sister.2
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: Leslie Vincent DeWitt

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 11 Oct 1934, sec. 2, p. 8 (funeral notice for Mrs. Alice McAtee DeWitt) (not giving the date but stating that she was sixty-eight years old when she died on 10 Oct 1934).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 11 Oct 1934, sec. 2, p. 8 (funeral notice for Mrs. Alice McAtee DeWitt).

William A. Knight

M, ID# 19125, b. 15 October 1834, d. 30 November 1863
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Obadiah Woodson Knight as his father).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Martha Ann Knight as his mother).
  3. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (giving the date but not the place).
  4. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on parents' believed residence at the time.
  5. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above.
  6. [S755] Anna Baker & Anne Cochran, Cochran Chapel Cemetery (1976). Tom Ellis provided an electronic copy to Roger Bartlett on 5 Jul 2002.

Dr. John W. Knight

M, ID# 19126, b. 1836
  • Last Edited: 17 Mar 2012

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Obadiah Woodson Knight as his father).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Martha Ann Knight as his mother).
  3. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (giving the date but not the place).
  4. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on parents' believed residence at the time.

Elizabeth Knight

F, ID# 19127
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Obadiah Woodson Knight as her father).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Martha Ann Knight as her mother).
  3. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on parents' believed residence at the time.

Capt. J. J. Mallard

M, ID# 19128
  • Last Edited: 17 Mar 2012

Henry Knight

M, ID# 19129, b. 1845, d. 1846
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Serena Caroline Hughes as his mother).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Obadiah Woodson Knight as his father).
  3. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (giving the date but not the place).
  4. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on parents' believed residence at the time.

Monroe D. Knight

M, ID# 19130, b. 1850, d. 1862
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Obadiah Knight as his father).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Serena Caroline Hughes as his mother).
  3. [S755] Anna Baker & Anne Cochran, Cochran Chapel Cemetery (1976) (giving the date but not the place). Tom Ellis provided an electronic copy to Roger Bartlett on 5 Jul 2002.
  4. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on parents' residence at the time.
  5. [S755] Anna Baker & Anne Cochran, Cochran Chapel Cemetery (1976), above.

Sophronia Knight

F, ID# 19131
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Obadiah Knight as her father).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Serena Caroline Hughes as her mother).

Mattie A. Knight

F, ID# 19132
  • Last Edited: 13 Feb 2005

Family: Capt. William Hughes Lemmon b. 25 Feb 1840, d. 4 Sep 1893

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Obadiah Knight as her father).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Serena Caroline Hughes as her mother).
  3. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above.
  4. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Mattie A. Knight as her mother).
  5. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Mattie A. Knight as his mother).

Capt. William Hughes Lemmon

M, ID# 19133, b. 25 February 1840, d. 4 September 1893
  • Obituary*: "Death of Capt. Lemmon.
       "Capt. W. H. Lemmon died at 8:30 last evening at his residence, 341 Cole avenue, after a lingering illness, aged 53 years and 6 months. He was born in Polk county, Missouri, in 1840 and served through the war in Price's division, with the rank of captain. At the close of the war he came to Dallas, and having had the advantage of a good education, he started life here by building and conducting an academy, to which his father-in-law, Mr. O. W. Knight, contributed $400 and donated the necessary land. The academy, situated then where North Dallas is now, was the finest school in Dallas county, and here were educated by Capt. Lemmon Judge Thomas F. Nash, Judge West and a number of people who are now engaged in the professions or other active walks of life. It is said that there are about 200 persons in Dallas with a liberal education whose alma mater was Capt. Lemmon's academy, but for which, owing to the adverse conditions to education immediately following the war, most of them would probably have never been fitted for the avocations they are following.
       "In 1870 Capt. Lemmon relinquished the pursuit of a teacher to accept an engagement with D. M. Osborne & Co., as traveling agent in the sale of machinery, and in 1875 he went into partnership with Mr. O. P. Bowser, not senator Bowser, in the machinery and agricultural implement business, in which he continued until 1885 when he engaged in the real estate business.
       "He was a devout attendant of and hard worker in the Christian church, and during the years of Dallas' greatest prosperity he was ever active in projecting and aiding enterprises for the upbuilding of the city. He leaves five children."6
  • Note*: He was a captain in the Civil War, after which he moved to Dallas, Texas and operated an academy until 1870. From his obituary in the Dallas Morning News: "This academy, situated then where North Dallas is now, was the finest school in Dallas county . . . . It is said that there are about 200 persons in Dallas with a liberal education whose alma mater was Capt. Lemmon's academy, but for which, owing to the adverse conditions to education immediately following the war, most of them would probably have never been fitted for the avocations they are following." He then was engaged in the sale of machinery and agricultural implements until 1885, when he entered the real estate business. His home was near the present-day intersection of Lemmon Avenue and Cole Avenue in Dallas, and Lemmon Avenue was named for him. His survivors included his wife, a daughter, a grandson, and three sisters.4,7
  • Last Edited: 13 Aug 2022

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Nancy Amanda Hughes as his mother).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above.
  3. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 5 Sep 1893, p. 8 (obituary of Capt. W. H. Lemmon) (stating that he was born in 1840 in Polk County, Missouri).
  4. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 5 Sep 1893, p. 8 (obituary of Capt. W. H. Lemmon).
  5. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 30 Oct 1936, sec. 1, p. 15 (obituary of William Hughes Lemmon) (stating that he died in 1893 without giving the month and date or the place).
  6. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 5 Sep 1893, p. 8.
  7. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 16 Aug 1951, pt. I, p. 11 (obituary of Mrs. Nannie Laura Lemmon) (stating that Lemmon Avenue was named for him).
  8. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming William Hughes Lemmon as her father).
  9. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 16 Aug 1951, pt. I, p. 11 (obituary of Mrs. Nannie Laura Lemmon) (naming Capt. W. H. Lemmon as her father).
  10. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (giving his name as William C. Lemmon and naming William Hughes Lemmon as his father).
  11. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 30 Oct 1936, sec. 1, p. 15 (obituary of William Hughes Lemmon) (naming W. H. Lemmon as his father).

Nancy Amanda Hughes

F, ID# 19135
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family:

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Nancy Amanda Hughes as his mother).

Benjamin Bartlett Cannon

M, ID# 19136
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: Eliza Tunnell

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Benjamin Bartlett Cannon I as his father).

Eliza Tunnell

F, ID# 19137
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: Benjamin Bartlett Cannon

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Eliza Tunnell as his mother).

Loula Knight

F, ID# 19138
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Serena Caroline Hughes as her mother).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Obadiah Knight as her father).

Amanda ('Annie') Armstrong

F, ID# 19139, b. 19 August 1867, d. 20 August 1938
  • Note*: She was educated at Hamilton Female College in Lexington, Kentucky and at Vassar. She lived all her married life and widowhood in Dallas, Texas, where she was a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors included a daughter, four sons, and eight grandchildren.2
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: Robert E. Lee Knight b. 7 Apr 1865, d. 6 Mar 1936

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Col. T. E. Armstrong as her father).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 21 Aug 1938, sec. 1, p. 4 ("Death Claims Widely Known Dallas Woman").
  3. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 29 May 1890, p. 8 (stating that they married in Bryan, Texas the day before; 21 Aug 1938, sec. 1, p. 4 ("Death Claims Widely Known Dallas Woman") (giving the date as 29 May 1890 and not giving the place).
  4. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Annie Armstrong as his mother).
  5. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Annie Armstrong as her mother).

Jessie Newton

F, ID# 19140
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org

Josie Knight

F, ID# 19141
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, message posted to Dallas History Message Board, 16 Aug 2004, online http://www.dallashistory.org (naming Serena Caroline Hughes as her mother).
  2. [S1020] Sam March, Descendants of Obadiah Knight, above (naming Obadiah Knight as her father).

Thomas Armstrong Knight

M, ID# 19142, b. 11 June 1891, d. 18 July 1969
  • Note*: He was a lifelong resident of Dallas, Texas, where he practiced oil and gas law after graduating from the University of Texas and from Harvard Law School and after service as a captain in the U.S. Army in World War I. Survivors include his wife, three daughters, a sister, a brother, ten grandchildren, and a great-grandchild. His photograph was published with his obituary in the Dallas Morning News on 19 Jul 1969.6
  • Last Edited: 7 May 2006

Family: _____ _____

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Robert E. Lee Knight as his father).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Annie Armstrong as his mother).
  3. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 19 Jul 1969, sec. D, p. 4 (Obituary of Thomas Armstrong Knight) (not giving the date or place but stating that he was seventy-eight years old when he died on 18 Jul 1969).
  4. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on parents' residence at the time.
  5. [S312] Social Security Death Index, online at http://tinyurl.com/AncestrySSDI, viewed on 7 May 2006 (giving the date but not the place).
  6. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 19 Jul 1969, sec. D, p. 4 (Obituary of Thomas Armstrong Knight).
  7. [S312] Social Security Death Index, online at http://tinyurl.com/AncestrySSDI, viewed on 7 May 2006 (stating that he died in Jul 1969; not naming the place of death but stating that he lived in Dallas, Texas when he died).

Col. T. E. Armstrong

M, ID# 19143
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: _____ _____

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Col. T. E. Armstrong as her father).

_____ _____

F, ID# 19144
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2005

Family: Col. T. E. Armstrong

Robert E. Lee Knight Knight Jr.

M, ID# 19145, b. circa 1895, d. 1 April 1926
  • Note*: He lived all his life in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from the University of Texas, where in his senior year he managed the University football team, and took a postgraduate course in business administration at Harvard University. He served as a captain in the U.S. Army in World War I, in which he was wounded in France and awarded the croix de guerre for bravery in action. He was employed by National Bank of Commerce and later American Exchange National Bank in Dallas and was active in the Dallas Little Theater movement. He died of a gunshot to the head in his parents' home. His survivors included his wife, his parents, a sister, and four brothers. His picture accompanies his obituary in the 2 Apr 1926 issue of the Dallas Morning News.5
  • Last Edited: 8 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Robert E. Lee Knight as his father).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 2 Apr 1926, part 2, p. 13 ("R. E. L. Knight Jr. Dies from Pistol Wound") (naming R. E. L. Knight Sr. as his father).
  3. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Annie Armstrong as his mother).
  4. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 2 Apr 1926, part 2, p. 13 ("R. E. L. Knight Jr. Dies from Pistol Wound") (not giving the date but stating that he was thirty-one years old when he died on 1 Apr 1926 at his parents' home in Dallas, Texas).
  5. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 2 Apr 1926, part 2, p. 13 ("R. E. L. Knight Jr. Dies from Pistol Wound").
  6. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 3 Apr 1926, part 2, p. 13 ("Knight Funeral Will Be Simple").

Henry Coke Knight

M, ID# 19146, b. circa 1896, d. 1 June 1966
  • Note*: He graduated from the University of Texas and the Harvard School of Architecture and was an architect in Dallas, Texas, where he designed the Dallas Woman's Club, the Dallas Little Theater, and the Museum of Fine Arts. Survivors included a sister and two brothers.6
  • Last Edited: 8 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Robert E. Lee Knight as his father).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 2 Jun 1966, sec. A, p. 11 (obituary of Henry Coke Knight) (naming Col. R. E. L. Knight as his father).
  3. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Annie Armstrong as his mother).
  4. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 2 Jun 1966, sec. A, p. 11 (obituary of Henry Coke Knight) (not giving the date or place but stating that he was seventy years old when he died on 1 Jun 1966).
  5. [S248] Supposition as to place, based on parents' residence at the time.
  6. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 2 Jun 1966, sec. A, p. 11 (obituary of Henry Coke Knight).

Marion Armstrong Knight

M, ID# 19147
  • Last Edited: 8 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Robert E. Lee Knight as his father).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Annie Armstrong as his mother).

Richard Allen Knight

M, ID# 19148
  • Last Edited: 8 Feb 2005

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Robert E. Lee Knight as his father).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Annie Armstrong as his mother).

Mary Knight

F, ID# 19149
  • Last Edited: 4 Feb 2007

Family: Dr. Charles Watts Flynn b. 1884, d. 13 Aug 1943

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Robert E. Lee Knight as her father).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 7 Mar 1936, sec. 1, p. 1 ("'Colonel Bob' Knight, Beloved and Brilliant Texas Personage, Dies") (naming Annie Armstrong as her mother).

Dr. Charles Watts Flynn

M, ID# 19150, b. 1884, d. 13 August 1943
  • Note*: He moved to Dallas, Texas in 1912, where he was a surgeon and taught at Baylor University School of Medicine.1
  • Last Edited: 4 Feb 2007

Family: Mary Knight

Citations

  1. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 14 Aug 1943, sec. I, p. 3 (obituary of Dr. C. W. Flynn Jr.).
  2. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 14 Aug 1943, sec. II, p. 6 (funeral notice for Dr. Charles Watts Flynn).
  3. [S67] The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Tex., 14 Aug 1943, sec. II, p. 6 (funeral notice for Dr. Charles Watts Flynn) (naming Dr. Charles Watts Flynn as his father).