BIO:  McKNIGHT, Samuel, s/o James & Rosann (Ginn) McKnight

Submitted by:  phill@redrock.net   (Phyllis Hill)

McKNIGHT   GINN   DICKERSON   COLE   

History of Knox and Daviess Counties, Indiana
Chicago:  The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1886

Daviess County, Barr Twp., page 824

SAMUEL McKNIGHT is a native of Daviess County, Ind., where he was born in 
1838.  His parents were James and Rosann (Ginn) McKnight, born in Kentucky 
in 1796 and 1802 respectively.  They were married and lived in Kentucky
until 1833, when they came to Indiana, locating in the woods of Daviess
County.  The father died in 1866 and the mother in 1877.  Samuel received
the education and raising of the average farmer's boy.  At the age of twenty
he began working for himself among the farmers in the neighborhood, con-
tinuing to earn his living in this way for six years.  He then began farming
on the home place, and after buying out the other heirs to the property, he
became sole proprietor.  He is the owner of 146 acres and is well to do
financially.  In 1866 he married Malinda Dickerson, born in 1837, daughter
of Zadock and Elizabeth (Cole) Dickerson, born in Maryland and Kentucky in
1795 and 1793 and died in 1877 and 1842, respectively.  Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Knight became the parents of three children:  Laura B., Suda (deceased) and
Lizzie (deceased).  Both husband and wife are members of the Christian
Church, and Mr. McKnight is a Republican in politics.  He enlisted in 
Company I, Twenty-fourth Indiana Infantry, in 1861, and was a faithful and
courageous soldier while in the service.  After serving eleven months he
was discharged on account of disability.  He has prospered well as a farmer
and is one of the first men in the county.
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