Ida Lou Knight

Brief Life History of Ida Lou

Ida Lou Knight was born on 15 February 1898, in Alabama, United States. She married Virgil Grady Knight on 25 November 1915. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. She lived in Election Precinct 15 Cottondale, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States in 1940 and Buyck, Elmore, Alabama, United States in 1950. She died on 3 June 1985, at the age of 87, and was buried in Prattville Memorial Gardens, Prattville, Autauga, Alabama, United States.

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Family Time Line

Virgil Grady Knight
1891–1978
Ida Lou Knight
1898–1985
Marriage: 25 November 1915
Matilda Knight
1917–
Maitland Levell Knight
1920–2008
Gwendolyn Knight
1925–2010
Earline Knight
1926–
Jimmy Ray Knight
1936–

Sources (11)

  • Ida K Knight, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Ida Lou Knight, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Ida Knight in entry for Gwendolyn K Barze, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"

World Events (8)

1900 · Gold for Cash!

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1900 · Giving Puerto Rico an American Welcome

A law that established government on the island of Puerto Rico and gave all Puerto Ricans citizenship. This law was replaced by the Jones–Shafroth Act in 1917.

1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack

Warrant G. Harding died of a heart attack in the Palace hotel in San Francisco.

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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