Brief Life History of Rufus Tinsley
When Rev Rufus Tinsley Knight was born on 24 July 1855, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States, his father, Joshua J Knight, was 28 and his mother, Caroline Aslesa Parker, was 19. He married Amanda Catherine Cotham on 4 November 1875, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 3 daughters. He lived in Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and Civil District 1, Humphreys, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died on 3 December 1905, in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 50, and was buried in Humphreys, Tennessee, United States.
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- Rufus Knight in household of W H Knight, "United States Census, 1860"
- Rev Rufus Tinsley Knight, "Find A Grave Index"
- Rufus Knight in entry for Richard H Knight, "Tennessee, Death Records, 1914-1955"
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World Events (8)
1862 · Battle of Shiloh
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
Name Meaning
English: status or occupational name from Middle English knight ‘retainer, attendant’ (Old English cniht ‘boy, youth, lad)’. The specialized feudal sense ‘a high-ranking tenant bound to serve his lord as a mounted soldier’ is not known to have ever given rise to the surname, although it is not out of the question that it may occasionally have been used as a nickname, perhaps for someone who played the part of an armed knight in a local pageant.
Irish: sometimes adopted for Gaelic Mac an Ridire ‘son of the knight’. See also McKnight .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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