Callie Mae Knight

Brief Life History of Callie Mae

When Callie Mae Knight was born on 5 February 1886, in Boone, Boone, Iowa, United States, her father, Zephaniah Franklin Knight, was 23 and her mother, Mary Amanda Pratt, was 24. She married Maximallian Weigel on 18 January 1905, in Gilbert, Story, Iowa, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Rural, Waupaca, Wisconsin, United States in 1935 and Harrison Township, Boone, Iowa, United States in 1940. She died on 2 October 1974, at the age of 88, and was buried in Saints Peter And Paul Cemetery, Boone, Iowa, United States.

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Family Time Line

Maximallian Weigel
1874–1953
Callie Mae Knight
1886–1974
Marriage: 18 January 1905
Beatrice Cecelia Weigel
1906–1995
Marie Agnes Weigel
1907–1999
Joseph Leonard Weigel
1909–1940
Theresa Amanda Weigel
1911–2001
Verna Irene WEIGEL
1914–1999
Raymond Max Weigel
1917–1979
Lester Leroy Weigel
1921–2006
Simon Weigel
1922–
Ardyce Madonna Weigel
1923–2012

Sources (43)

  • Callie May Weigel, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Callie May Knight, "Iowa, Delayed Birth Records, 1850-1939"
  • Callie May Knight, "Iowa, County Marriages, 1838-1934"

World Events (8)

1890 · The Sherman Antitrust Act

This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.

1907 · Law Passed for Child Employment

The maximum hours for children to work were set to 55 per week.

1909 · The NAACP is formed

Organized as a civil rights organization, The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a bi-racial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans. It is one of the oldest civil rights organizations in the nation.

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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