Brief Life History of William Freeman
When William Freeman Knight was born on 18 April 1907, in Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States, his father, Robert E Lee Knight, was 33 and his mother, Martha Victoria Copeland, was 36. He married Edrie Jeanette Stroope on 29 April 1933. He lived in Boulder City, Clark, Nevada, United States in 1935 and North Little Rock, Pulaski, Arkansas, United States in 1940. He died on 10 May 1988, in Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States, at the age of 81, and was buried in Point Cedar, Hot Spring, Arkansas, United States.
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- Freeman C Knight, "United States Census, 1940"
- Legacy NFS Source: William F. Knight - Government record: Census record: birth-name: William F. Knight
- William F Knight, "Arkansas Marriage Index, 1933-1939"
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1908 · The Bureau of Investigation is formed
Known as the National Bureau of Criminal Identification, The Bureau of Investigation helped agencies across the country identify different criminals. President Roosevelt instructed that there be an autonomous investigative service that would report only to the Attorney General.
1909
Historical Boundaries: 1909: Clark, Nevada, United States
1929
13 million people become unemployed after the Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 triggers what becomes known as the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover rejects direct federal relief.
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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