When Solomon Levi Knight was born on 9 January 1854, in Warsaw, Hancock, Illinois, United States, his father, Zelotus Knight, was 23 and his mother, Mary Ann Babb, was 17. He married Mary Catherine Shields on 1 March 1874, in Mount Sterling, Brown, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Oneida Township, Kearney, Nebraska, United States in 1900 and Salem Township, Franklin, Nebraska, United States in 1910. He died on 15 April 1918, in Hildreth, Franklin, Nebraska, United States, at the age of 64, and was buried in Hildreth, Franklin, Nebraska, United States.
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Historical Boundaries: 1860: Kearney, Nebraska Territory, United States 1867: Kearney, Nebraska, United States
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Historical Boundaries 1871: Clark, Illinois, United States
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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