Brief Life History of Elizabeth Ann
When Elizabeth Ann Knight was born about 1850, in Liberty, Liberty, Texas, United States, her father, James Knight, was 46 and her mother, Eliza Green, was 42. She married Pelique Berry Jolley on 15 February 1857, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. She immigrated to Utah, United States in 1854 and lived in Boomer Township, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States for about 20 years and Scott Township, Taney, Missouri, United States in 1930. She died on 27 July 1931, in Branson, Taney, Missouri, United States, at the age of 82, and was buried in Grange Cemetery, Honey Creek, Pottawattamie, Iowa, United States.
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- Elizabeth Drury in household of Peter Drury, "Iowa State Census, 1895"
- Eliza Knight, "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957"
- Eliza Knight Drury, "Find A Grave Index"
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1861
Arkansas supplied an estimated 50,000 men to the Confederate Army andabout 15,000 to the Union Army.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1872 · The First National Park
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
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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