When Lonie Isebelle Sanders was born on 27 September 1867, in Kelsey, Upshur, Texas, United States, her father, William Jefferson Sanders, was 33 and her mother, Lucinda Agnes Busby, was 37. She married James Henry Knight in 1903. They were the parents of at least 1 son. She lived in Justice Precinct 2, Wichita, Texas, United States in 1920 and Wichita Falls, Wichita, Texas, United States in 1930. She died on 22 July 1954, in Longview, Gregg, Texas, United States, at the age of 86, and was buried in Hopewell Cemetery, Gilmer, Upshur, Texas, United States.