Brief Life History of Hardy S.
When Hardy S. Knight was born in 1828, in North Carolina, United States, his father, Allen Noel Knight, was 52 and his mother, Rachel Paradise, was 51. He married Nancy Ann Raymer on 6 September 1846, in Davidson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 8 daughters. He lived in Moore, North Carolina, United States for about 10 years and Township 4 Ritters, Moore, North Carolina, United States in 1880. He was buried in Old Shady Grove Cemetery, New Hope, Cheatham, Tennessee, United States.
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- Hardey Night, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Hardy Knight - birth: 1815; United States
- Hardy Knight, "Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950"
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1830 · Trail of Tears
In the 1830's, President Jackson called for all the Native Americans to be forced off their own land. As the Cherokee were forced out of North Carolina many of them hid in the mountains of North Carolina.
1835 · The Hermitage is Built
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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.
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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