Margaret (Knox) Eoff (abt. 1763 - 1848)

Born about 1763 in Ulster, Ireland

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Died 26 Sep 1848 at about age 85 in Carroll, Arkansas, United States

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Biography

Margaret was born about 1763. Margaret was the child of James Knox and Elizabeth Craig.

Portions of Margaret's life are described in "Knox, James Knox, Sr. and Elizabeth Craig Knox and their Descendants" by Lorene K. Petersen and Jennie Bell Lyle:^[1]

… Margaret's sojourn in Kentucky was productive in another way; six children were born to her — Joseph, Jane, John, Samuel, William and Alexander. She also saw three of her daughters married — Margaret, Catherine, and Jane.

With the British back trying to retake the United States in 1812, maybe the Knox and Eoff families wanted to do their patriotic part and plant more U.S. settlements in the west. Anyhow, the spring of 1812 found the Samuel Morrow, Samuel Knox, Isaac Eoff and Jacob Sutton families headed for Tennessee. For Margaret, however, there was heartache in this move; she had to leave the families of two daughters behind — Catherine and Jane. Isaac, too, had a sad parting; he left his seventy-eight year old mother to the care of John and Elizabeth.

Upon their arrival in Bedford Co. some of the families split up and settled in nearby counties: Margaret and Isaac chose to settle in nearby Rutherford County. Margaret Eoff Kanady chose to go Southwest into Franklin County. Between the years of 1814-1816 both John and Joseph were married; shortly thereafter Joseph departed with his bride and settled in Hardin County. In 1822, word came from Bedford County that her mother Elizabeth Craig Knox had passed away at one hundred and three years. Margaret little suspected that when she left her mother in Kentucky at ninety-three, ten more years would crown her mother's life. Samuel, Alexander and William were the last of her children to marry. By 1828, Isaac and Margaret were home alone after forty-five years of marriage had gone by; the only grandchildren that were close by were those of their four youngest sons.

With the death of Isaac in 1841, in Coffee Co., Tenn., the desire to move farther west manifested itself again in the Eoff family. For Margaret, the journey meant leaving the families of both Margaret and Joseph behind. It also meant leaving her closest friend since childhood — Catherine Jones Knox. After leaving Rutherford County the train comprising the families of John, Samuel, William. William was already in Carroll County, Arkansas, at this time, according to the 1840 census and Alexander Eoff made their way through Tennessee …

When they arrived in Izard County [Arkansas], Margaret's John dropped from the train while the rest kept together and settled in Carrol County.

Birth Alt

Balleymoney County Antrim Ireland

Sources

1. ↑ Knox, James Knox, Sr. and Elizabeth Craig Knox and their Descendants. Compiled by Lorene K. Petersen and Jennie Bell Lyle. Published 1984. Page 450.

• Image "US and International Marriages", Marriage Notice 1783 North Carolina, USA Margaret M. Knox
• "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2R1-VGR5 : 3 February 2017), Margaret M. Knox and MM9.1.1/Q2R1-VGRY:, 1783; citing North Carolina, United States, p. , Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds; FHL microfilm 422,158.
• Find-a-grave #114660582

Acknowledgments

First-hand information as remembered by Patrick Garcia, Saturday, August 23, 2014.