Howard County IN Archives Biographies.....McKnett, Minnie Colescott (Mrs.) 1873 - 
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Author: Jackson Morrow

MRS. MINNIE COLESCOTT McKNETT.

    The name of this estimable lady is a familiar sound to the people of Howard
county, Indiana, and the brief record of her life outlined in the following
paragraphs will doubtless be read with interest by the many friends and
acquaintances who have learned to prize her for her beautiful character and
useful life, which has been as an open book in which there are no pages marred
or soiled by conduct unbecoming true womanhood, and whose influence has always
made for the good of the large circle of friends with whom she associates.

    Mrs. McKnett is a native of Liberty township, this county, where she was
born May 6, 1873, on the farm where she now resides. She is the daughter of John
and Celia (Wooters) Colescott, who were natives of Caroline county, Maryland,
the former having been born there September 10, 1821, and the latter on December
8, 1829. She still survives at the age of seventy-nine years in 1908, and is
making her home on the old home farm Liberty township, section 30, with her
daughter, our subject, who delights in caring for the estimable old lady whose
influence has always been wholesome and uplifting, being known to all as a woman
of sterling qualities and loved by all her neighbors.

    John W. Colescott was married to Celia Wooters January 12, 1847. Prior to
this marriage he had lived in Fayette county, Indiana, and came to Howard county
about 1842, later returning to Maryland, and after his marriage he came with his
wife to Fayette county, Indiana, where he established a store which he
maintained successfully until 1850 when he moved to Howard county where he
purchased timbered land and soon set about improving it. Being an industrious
man he soon had the land transformed into a good farm, and later he purchased
the farm of one hundred and seventy-three acres where his daughter, our subject,
now resides. He improved this land by ditching until the farm now has more than
six miles of tile ditch on it and he improved it in many ways until it was equal
to any farm in the community in point of improvements and richness of soil and
the soil has since been kept up to its original high state of productiveness.

    Our subject was reared upon this farm and helped with the household duties
in her girlhood days, attending school during the winter months, later attending
the schools in Greentown until she had a fairly good common school education,
for she applied herself diligently to her books and always made excellent grades.

    In 1905 Minnie Colescott was united in marriage with W. R. McKnett, a man of
pleasing personality and considerable influence in his community. To this union
one daughter was born January 22, 1906, who is a winsome and promising child.

    John W. Colescott served as justice of the peace for many years and was
regarded by all who knew him as a man of many good qualities.   He was called
from his earthly labors on January 7, 1894.

     Mrs. McKnett is a woman of unusual tact and soundness of judgment, this
coupled with her industry and gracious personality renders her popular in her
neighborhood and has won and retained hosts of friends throughout Liberty and
adjoining townships.



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From:

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. II
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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