D.R. Knight, Rapides Parish, Louisiana 
Submitted by Gaytha Thompson 

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Source: Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana 
Nashville & Chicago, The Southern Publishing Company, 1890 

D.R. KNIGHT  
Prominent among the leading men of Natchitoches Parish, La., and among those 
deserving special notice for their public spirit and energy, is the gentleman 
of whom this notice is given. He has been closely identified with the progress 
and development of this section for many years and no more whole souled gentleman 
can be found than he. He was born in Georgia, January 5, 1836 to Speer and Nancy 
(Carey) Knight, the former of whom died in Florida in 1844, and the mother in 
Louisiana in 1869. D.R. Knight is the youngest of their ten children, only two 
of whom survive. In childhood he went with his parents to Florida, where he 
lived until 1854, when he came to Louisiana and settled in what was then Rapides 
Parish, removing in 1885 to his present place of residence near Robeline. He 
followed the occupation of farming alone until 1889, when he added his saw mill 
and cotton gin, the two later enterprises being very remunerative and the best 
arranged establishment of the kind in the parish. Mr. Knight is an energetic 
and straightforward man in every respect, and is genial and pleasant in his 
intercourse with his fellow men. His marriage took place in 1869, the maiden 
name of his wife being Viola Eddleman, who was born in Mississippi, and to 
their union a family consisting of four children has been born: Ellen, Thomas, 
Maude P. and Daniel. Like the majority of the residents of this parish, Mr. 
Knight is a Democrat and he has shown his approval of secret organizations be 
becoming a member of Sabine Lodge of the A. F. & A. M.