Berrien-Lanier County GaArchives News.....Rays Mill Home Burned January 6, 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jon Sizemore vsizemore@windstream.net April 25, 2009, 12:41 pm Valdosta Daily Times January 6, 1909 Valdosta Daily Times January 6, 1909 Rays Mill Home Burned Residence Of S.J. Knight Consumed While He was At Funeral Milltown, Ga., Jan. 6. -- Tuesday morning while Mr. S.J. Knight and family of the Rays Mill district were at the burial of Mrs. Geo. W. Knight, his home and smokehouse burned down. One of the two sons, who did not go to the burial, was at work in a back field and saw the flames coming from the direction of his home. He was quickly on the scene and with the assistance of the neighbors, who joined him, and succeeded in saving a portion of the furniture, and most of the meat from the smokehouse. It is not known what started the fire, unless it was rats, as the fire seemed to have started in the upper part of the house. It is not known whether Mr. Knight carried any insurance. Additional Comments: Mrs. George Washington Knight - maiden name was Rhoda Futch born 31 OCT 1846 Bulloch Co., GA S.J. Knight appears in the U.S. Federal Census of 1900. Some researchers have indicated that S.J. Knight is Sovin J. Knight. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/berrien/newspapers/raysmill340nnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb