Albert Knight Jr (1833 - 1887)

Born 22 May 1833 in Jones County, Mississippi, USA

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 26 Feb 1887 at age 53 in Jones County, Mississippi, USA

Biography

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]

• there is a story that his mother's real name is Rebecca Griffith or Griffin the story is that she got her current name because she was found by a group of Masons on a rainy night^[4]. As far as we know this is only myth no real proof also this story has her coming from Tennessee and according to a former slave of the Knights as well as information from census she came North Carolina. ^[5]
• I believe he was in Clayton's Company (Jasper Defenders) during Civil War the name and dates are right but Albert Knight common name so not 100%^[6]

Sources

^[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

also

^[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