Elizabeth Knight (1787 - 1872)

Born 16 Jun 1787 in Surry, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Wife of Daniel Knight — married about 1801 in Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina, United States

Wife of William Harrison Knight Sr. — married Mar 1806 in Laurens, Laurens, South Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 2 Mar 1872 at age 84 in Gray Court, Laurens, South Carolina, United States

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Biography

Elizabeth was born in 1787. She passed away in 1872. ^[1]

Died at her residence near Highland Home, in this District, on the 2d inst. Mrs. Elizabeth, wife of Wm Knight, in her eighty-sixth year leaving a bereaved husband with whom she had lived sixty-six years. Few live to the age of "Aunt Betty" as she was better known, and fewer leave as spotless a record behind them. A singular fact connected with the life of this lady is that she lived to the advanced age of eighty-six years, and was twice married. She yet never changed her maiden name---that was Knight, and she both times married a Knight, living with her last husband sixty-six years. ^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 21 July 2020), memorial page for Elizabeth Knight (16 Jun 1787–2 Mar 1872), Find A Grave: Memorial #130046710, citing Highland Home Baptist Church Cemetery, Gray Court, Laurens County, South Carolina, USA; maintained by gerald (contributor 46623097), headstone photo .
2. ↑ Unsourced family tree handed down to Linda (Johnson) Leslie.

• "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M8QJ-L8W : 4 April 2020), Elizabeth Knight in household of Wm Knight, Laurens county, Laurens, South Carolina, United States; citing family 2069, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).