Dora married James William Knight (1851-1924) in 1874. Dora and J.W. had eleven children and raised them in Noxubee County, Mississippi.
Dora died in 1921. She is buried in Eaves Cemetery, Noxubee, Mississippi.
Research Notes
Find A Grave shows birth and death dates on headstone.
The 1870 U.S. Census record for this family has a lot of errors. This researcher believes that the child named "Zora" with an 1858 birth year was probably meant to be Izora Evaline (Eaves) Thornell (1854-1937) and the child name "Adora" with the birth year of 1861 was meant to be Idora Fredonia (Eaves) Knight (1858-1921).[1] "Adora" never appears again and the family is short a child in 1870 if she was another offspring.
"Mississippi, U.S., Index to Deaths, 1912-1943," Ancestry.com, Idora F. Knight, Race: White, Death Date: 1921, Death Place: Noxubee, Mississippi, USA, Certificate Number: 2594; Mississippi State Department of Health. Statewide Index to Mississippi Death Records. Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi State Department of Health., Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2020, Lehi, UT, USA
Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39724698/idora-fredonia-knight: accessed 31 May 2023), memorial page for Idora Fredonia “Dora” Eaves Knight (27 Feb 1858–17 Feb 1921), Find a Grave Memorial ID 39724698, citing Eaves Cemetery, Noxubee County, Mississippi, USA; Maintained by Whishtree (contributor 47156286).Find A Grave: Memorial #39724698
"United States Census, 1880," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4GY-DPJ : 14 January 2022), J. D. Knight, Beat 4, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district , sheet , NARA microfilm publication T9 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), FHL microfilm .
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M9XG-DQW : accessed 31 May 2023), Idora F Knight in household of James W Knight, Beat 4 Shuqualak town, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 68, sheet 1A, family 1, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,822.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MPD6-MX9 : accessed 31 May 2023), Idora Knight in household of James W Knight Sr., Beat 4, Noxubee, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 88, sheet 19A, family 274, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 754; FHL microfilm 1,374,767.
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Idora by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA.
However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line.
It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Idora: