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Ancestors of Jeffrey Paul Knight

Generation No. 5

      16. James Russell Knight, born May 13, 1839 in Norwalk, Huron Co, Ohio; died July 26, 1865 in Columbia, SC. He was the son of 32. Albert Taylor Knight and 33. Sarah Cordelia Fuller. He married 17. Lucy Ann Clark July 3, 1860 in Ira Clark's House.

      17. Lucy Ann Clark, born December 16, 1836 in Norwalk, Huron Co, Ohio; died March 1, 1903 in Manchester, Delaware County, Iowa. She was the daughter of 34. Ira or Erie Clark and 35. Harriett Burch.

Notes for James Russell Knight:
Marriage of Knight, James Russel (b. 13 MAY 1839, d. 26 JUL 1865) and Clark, Lucy Ann (b. 16 DEC 1836, d. MAR 1903)
Source: (Marriage field)
Title: Marriage Records of Huron County (OH) New Series v1

Page: 258

Source: (Death field)
Title: War Dept., Adjutant General's Office, letter 3/1/1916

Note: mustered Union Army Sandusky, OH 3/31/1864.
Private, Co. B, 25th Ohio Infantry for 3 yrs.

Died hospital Columbia, SC during service 7/26/1865, victim of the Civil War

Notes for Lucy Ann Clark:
Marriage of Knight, James Russel (b. 13 MAY 1839, d. 26 JUL 1865) and Clark, Lucy Ann (b. 16 DEC 1836, d. MAR 1903)
Source: (Marriage field)
Title: Marriage Records of Huron County (OH) New Series v1

Page: 258

Here is the 1870 census from Honey Creek twp., Delaware Co., IA, :
Benson, Wm., age 39
Benson, Lucy, age 33
Knight, Willis, age 7
Benson, Edith, age 2
Benson, Melvin, age 1 (died later that year, 1870, buried next to Lucy and William, Oakland Cem., Manchester, IA)
[Source: AGLL Microfilm #M599-387, 1870 U.S. Census, IA, Delaware County, Honey Creek Twp., pg. 131, enumerated 01 Jul. 1870, LNs 5-9, DN 59, FN 58; copied 16 Jan. 2001 at the IA Genealogical Library, Des Moines, IA]


Child of James Knight and Lucy Clark is:

Willis Russell Knight, born August 12, 1862 in Norwalk, Huron Co, Ohio; died March 16, 1894 in Manchester, Delaware County, Iowa; married Viola Adel Holmes (Allen) December 18, 1884.

      18. Theodore Lilac Holmes, born April 24, 1828 in Seneca Co., Ohio; died February 16, 1900 in Manchester, Delaware County, Iowa. He was the son of 36. Hiram Holmes and 37. Mercy Sherman. He married 19. Cynthia Melinda Hutson October 9, 1862 in Honey Creek Township, IA.

      19. Cynthia Melinda Hutson, born March 25, 1842 in Delaware County, IA; died May 30, 1923 in Alta, IA. She was the daughter of 38. Robert B. Hutson and 39. Nancy E. Montgomery.

Notes for Theodore Lilac Holmes:
Born in Seneca Co., Ohio in 1828. Moved to De Kalb Co., Indiana in 1842 and to La Porte Co., Indiana in 1846. Settled in Honey Creek Township, Delaware Co., Iowa in 1860. Source - Biographical Directory, Delaware Township (Manchester), Iowa published by Western Historical Company, 1878.


Children of Theodore Holmes and Cynthia Hutson are:

	9	i.		Viola Adel Holmes (Allen), born August 25, 1863 in Manchester, Delaware County, Iowa; died July 25, 1930 in Fonda, Pocahontas Co, Iowa; married (1) Willis Russell Knight December 18, 1884; married (2) Henry S. Allen December 23, 1899.
		ii.		daugher Holmes, married H. M. Cocker.

      20. Charles Keefe, born Abt. 1830 in Lucan, Biddulph Twp., Ontario, Canada LDS Record 1903557 St. Patricks; died October 27, 1873 in Storm Lake, Iowa. He married 21. Julia Toohey August 16, 1855 in Lucan, Biddulph Twp., Ontario, Canada.

      21. Julia Toohey, born 1839 in Co Tipperary, Ireland; died Aft. 1874. She was the daughter of 42. Dennis Toohey and 43. Bridget Costello.

Children of Charles Keefe and Julia Toohey are:

10	i.	James Michael Keefe, born January 24, 1857 in Lucan, Biddulph Twp., Ontario, Canada; died April 11, 1950; married Mary Lynch.
	ii.	Thomas Keefe, born July 22, 1860; died March 15, 1879 in Ft. Dodge, Iowa.
	iii.	Martha Keefe, born September 12, 1862 in Lucan, Biddulph Twp., Ontario, Canada.
	iv.	Mary Keefe, born March 19, 1864 in Lucan, Biddulph Twp., Ontario, Canada.
	v.	Johanna Keefe, born April 6, 1866 in Lucan, Biddulph Twp., Ontario, Canada.
	vi.	Martha Keefe, born April 2, 1867 in Lucan, Biddulph Twp., Ontario, Canada.
	vii.	Dennis Keefe, born September 13, 1868 in Lucan, Biddulph Twp., Ontario, Canada.
	viii.	Ellen Keefe, born January 8, 1871.

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