James
Zemiriah
(Zemiri)
"Zermiah, Zemri, Zimri, Limy"
Knight
Born in South Carolina, United States
Ancestors 
Brother of
Manima (Knight) Lindley, Isaac Elbert Knight, Baxter Hendley Knight, David Thomas Knight, Delinda H (Knight) Summerall, Verlinchia Forella (Knight) Lindley, John Gambrell Knight and Susan Adeline (Knight) Lindley
Husband of
Ruth Lucinda (Vaughan) Knight
— married
1830 in Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina, United States
Descendants 
Father of
Andrew Jackson Knight, John Washington Knight Sr., Elizabeth Knight, Douglas Downs Knight, Susan Knight, Robert Lewis Knight, Mary Jane (Knight) Wheeler and Sarah Catherine Knight
Died
at about age 55
in Franklin, Heard, Georgia, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Nov 2014
This page has been accessed 479 times.
Biography
Zemiri was born in 1815. He passed away in 1870. [1]
Sources
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 03 August 2021), memorial page for James Zimiri Knight (1815–1870), Find A Grave: Memorial #175799754; maintained by James Larson (contributor 47281603), Burial Details Unknown.
- “Zermiah Night in the 1840 United States Federal Census.” Laurens County, South Carolina. https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=try&h=3388052&dbid=8057. Accessed 12 Nov. 2019.
- "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8QN-VYW : 23 December 2020), Limy Night, Greenville, Greenville, South Carolina, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MZMB-9CM : 18 February 2021), Zimri Night, 1860.
Acknowledgements
First-hand information as remembered by JoRaye Lytle, Wednesday, November 5, 2014.
Is Zemiri your ancestor? Please don't go away!
Login to collaborate or comment, or
contact
the profile manager, or
ask our community of genealogists a question.
Login to collaborate or comment, or contact
the profile manager, or ask our community of genealogists a question.
Sponsored Search by Ancestry.com
DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Zemiri by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Zemiri by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Wendyl Knight
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 12 markers, haplogroup R-M269, FTDNA kit #294289 - Robert Knight :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 838 markers, haplogroup R-FT420076, FTDNA kit #920130
- Rob Knight :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test, FTDNA kit #924555
- Chip Knight :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-FT420076, FTDNA kit #916667
- Wilbur Knight :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup R-FT420076, FTDNA kit #646648
- Thomas Knight :
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 700 markers, haplogroup I-BY64230, FTDNA kit #1006016
-
~3.12%
Wendyl Knight :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A598368 [compare], Ancestry member jorayek
+
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A598368 [compare], FTDNA kit #294289
-
~1.56%
JoRaye Knight :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A493249 [compare], Ancestry member jorayek
-
~1.56%
Samuel Knight :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member Swknig1
-
~0.78%
Susan Henderson :
AncestryDNA
-
~0.78%
Terry Solomon :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ter_solomon
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
Comments
Leave a message for others who see this profile.
There are no comments yet.
Login to post a comment.
Featured National Park champion connections: Zemiri is 15 degrees from Theodore Roosevelt, 21 degrees from Stephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger, 14 degrees from George Catlin, 11 degrees from Marjory Douglas, 19 degrees from Sueko Embrey, 13 degrees from George Grinnell, 25 degrees from Anton Kröller, 13 degrees from Stephen Mather, 23 degrees from Kara McKean, 9 degrees from John Muir, 17 degrees from Victoria Hanover and 23 degrees from Charles Young on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.