Boyd County KyArchives Obituaries.....McKnight, George W P July 26, 1915 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ky/kyfiles.html ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carolyn Hines Smith rogncarol@pbtcomm.net March 18, 2005, 3:55 pm Morning Irontonian, Ironton, OH, July 27, 1915 Ironton News Ironton, Ohio July 27,1915 While returning from Cole Grove where he had been calling on Miss Tillie Rowe, daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Solomon Rowe, George McKnight, who resides back of Ashland, was assaulted and so badly beaten up that he died Monday morning, at the King's Daughters Hospital in Ashland without ever having regained consciousness and it is doubted if his assailants will ever be apprehended although police are working on the case. There seems to be little if anything in the way of a clue, but the police hope to bring the guilty parties to justice. McKnight was found at about midnight on the Ashland ferry grade, and the police, thinking him drunk, carried him in the patrol to the city prison where he remained until five o'clock Sunday evening before attentiion was paid to him. Then efforts to arouse him failed and a physician was summoned. The physician saw that the young man's condition was very serious and rushed him to the hospital where death occurred early Monday morning. Miss Rowe stated that McKnight had been drinking before he called on her Saturday night. Additional Comments: Son of George W P McKnight Sr. and Nancy Ann McIntire. Death was ruled a murder, cause of death was a fractured skull File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ky/boyd/obits/m/mcknight2644gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/