Albert Jr was the Son of Albert Knight and Mary Mason Rainy [1]. He married Patsy Amanda Corley Knight (1835 - 1895). Albert and Patsy had children Seaborn R Knight (abt1855), Mariah V. (abt1858), Ann E. (abt 1859), Mary Mason Knight Valentine (abt1861), and Ora Azlene Knight Duckworth (1863 - 1919).[2]Albert Knight died in 1887 and is buried at the Knights Mill Cemetery in Jones County, Mississippi [3]
[1]United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4L8-Y9Q : accessed 11 August 2015), Albert Knight, Jones county, Jones, Mississippi, United States; citing family 85, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.) see also http://www.datasync.com/~jtaylor/msclayt.htm
[2]"United States Census, 1870," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MF3D-SZQ : accessed 12 August 2015), Albert Night, Mississippi, United States; citing p. 2, family 11, NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 552,232.
[3]and find a grave by Clem W. Akins Jr http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=31968470
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[4]also paper on Knights of Jones County of Mississippi and the family who left collected and compiled by Marie Whitelock Sanders, which list sources (rousters, family papers, family bible, etc) http://eldonknight.us/histories/KnightsOfJones%20CountyAndThoseWhoLeft.pdf and University of North Carolina Press http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/245
[6]"United States Civil War Soldiers Index, 1861-1865," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FSCF-HPD : accessed 12 August 2015), Albert Knight, Private, Company , Clayton's Company, Mississippi (Jasper Defenders), Confederate; citing NARA microfilm publication M232 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 22; FHL microfilm 821,859.
[5]from book Free State of Jones by Victoria Bynum http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/245
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