Brief Life History of Adaline
When Adaline Knight was born on 4 May 1831, in Perrysburg, Perrysburg, Cattaraugus, New York, United States, her father, Vinson Knight, was 27 and her mother, Martha McBride, was 26. She married Gilbert Belnap on 21 December 1845, in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States. They were the parents of at least 9 sons and 4 daughters. She lived in Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States in 1839 and Weber, Utah, United States in 1860. She died on 10 June 1919, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States, at the age of 88, and was buried in Ogden City Cemetery, Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States.
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- Adaline Belnap in household of Gilbert Belnap, "United States Census, 1860"
- Legacy NFS Source: Adaline Knight - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Adaline Knight
- ADALINE Knight Belnap, "BillionGraves Index"
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1832 · Black Hawk War
The Black Hawk War was a brief conflict between the United States and Native Americans led by Black Hawk, a Sauk leader. The war erupted soon after Black Hawk and a group of other tribes, known as the "British Band", crossed the Mississippi River, into Illinois, from Iowa Indian Territory in April 1832. Black Hawk's motives were ambiguous, but records show that he was hoping to avoid bloodshed while resettling on tribal land that had been given to the United States in the 1804 Treaty of St. Louis.
1839 · Nauvoo is Settled
After the Saints had been chased out of Missouri they moved to a swampy area located next to the Mississippi River. Here they settled and named the place Nauvoo which translates into the city beautiful.
1856 · The Largest Map Company in the World
William Rand opened a small printing shop in Chicago. Doing most of the work himself for the first two years he decided to hire some help. Rand Hired Andrew McNally, an Irish Immigrant, to work in his shop. After doing business with the Chicago Tribune, Rand and McNally were hired to run the Tribune's entire printing operation. Years later, Rand and McNally established Rand McNally & Co after purchasing the Tribune's printing business. They focused mainly on printing tickets, complete railroad guides and timetables for the booming railroad industry around the city. What made the company successful was the detailed maps of roadways, along with directions to certain places. Rand McNally was the first major map publisher to embrace a system of numbered highways and erected many of the roadside highway signs that have been adopted by state and federal highway authorities. The company is still making and updating the world maps that are looked at every day.
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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Knight/Gibbons/Belknap info by Gilbert Belknap
Written by Gilbert Belknap: During the month of December, 1848, My brother-in-law and I again, left our home in Winter quarters, a city of 700 log cabins, with its fond associations, and wended ou …
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