BIO:  KNOTTS, WILLIAM F., s/o Ambrose & Mary E. (Bland) Knotts

Submitted by:  ivie@tima.com   (Diana Flynn)

KNOTTS,   BLAND,   CRIGER,  LEDGERWOOD,   CARTWRIGHT


"HISTORY OF GREENE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES, STATE OF
INDIANA, FROM THE EARLIEST TIME TO THE PRESENT; TOGETHER WITH INTERESTING
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, REMINISCENCES, NOTES, ETC." CHICAGO: GOODSPEED BROS.
& CO., PUBLISHERS. 1884.

SULLIVAN CO., IN
HAMILTON TWP.
PAGE 730
WILLIAM F. KNOTTS was born in Sullivan County June 14, 1838,
and is the fifth in a family of eight born to Ambrose and Mary E.
(Bland) Knotts, natives of Kentucky.  The father was born in 1802,
and the mother in 1804.  The father died August 25, 1882, and the
mother January 28, 1846.  The father's second wife was Letitia,
daughter of Thomas Criger.  The subject of this memoir finished his
education in his native county in 1860, and then followed farming
until October,1863, when he enlisted in Company G, Eleventh
Indiana Cavalry, One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment as
Third Sergeant, and served faithfully until his muster-out at Leaven-
worth, Kan., in 1865.  He then bought eighty acres of land near
New Labanon, upon which he lived until September 6, 1869,
when he bought his present farm of 160 acres.  Here he has since
resided.  His wife was Miss Mary A., daughter of William and
Sarah (Ledgerwood) Cartwright, the latter, it is said, being the
first white child born in Sullivan County.  Mrs. Knotts was born
February 22, 1846, and has presented her husband with two
children--Lucian C. and Ida.  The parents belong to the Methodist
Episcopal Church.  Mr. Knotts is a Republican.
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