Barbara Knight

Brief Life History of Barbara

Barbara Knight was born on 25 December 1873, in Cocke, Tennessee, United States. She had at least 2 sons and 1 daughter with John Wesley McMahan. She lived in Civil District 13, Sevier, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years and Civil District 3, Knox, Tennessee, United States in 1940. She died on 24 November 1949, in Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 75, and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, Knoxville, Knox, Tennessee, United States.

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Family Time Line

John Wesley McMahan
1873–1940
Barbara Knight
1873–1949
Georgia Mae McMahon
1897–1983
Roy Blaine Mcmahan
1900–1964
Luther M McMahan
1906–1991

Sources (7)

  • Night B Mcmahan in household of John Mcmahan, "United States Census, 1930"
  • Find a Grave memorial for Barbara Knight McMahan
  • Barbara Knight in entry for Roy Blaine McMahan, "Tennessee Deaths, 1914-1966"

World Events (8)

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.

1878 · Yellow Fever Epidemic

When a man that had escaped a quarantined steamboat with yellow fever went to a restaurant he infected Kate Bionda the owner. This was the start of the yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee. By the end of the epidemic 5,200 of the residence would die.

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

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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