MEIGS COUNTY, TN - CEMETERIES -  KNIGHT Cemetery (Partial Listing)
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KNIGHT CEMETERY

Location - Drive TN Rt. 58 one mile North of intersection with Ten Mile Rd.
In the Ten Mile Community. Turn left and drive about 1½ tenth mile, turn rt.
drive about 1 ½ tenth mile to small spring crossing, Small spring joins
larger spring. Go upstream on big spring to barn near head of spring. Facing
woods behind barn, there is a dirt road going into woods behind and to left
of barn. Beginning at the edge of woods, walk this road for about 200 long
steps, go to right and through a gap in barbed wire fence. From gap walk 62
long steps to KEYLON tombstone, on your right, in edge of woods.In 1999, a
pond is at foot of hill below cemetery.

Sarah Keylon
w/o J. H. Keylon
married 8/12/1865

(No evidence of an engraved tomstone for Sarah Keylon, though there are
several unmarked tombstones of the fieldstone variety here. The only
indication Sarah is buried here is her listing in Knight's cemetery in Meigs
Co. , TN Cemeteries.) Sarah is actually buried at Luminary Methodist Church
in Ten Mile, Roane Co. , TN.

Catherine Philport ( Best guess, engraving very indistinct.)
1808
Dec. 21, 1864

E. N. Knight
Co. D 2nd TN Infantry

Knight, Ethard H., private, Company D; age 25; enrolled at Camp Dick
Robinson, KY., 1 SEP 1861; mustered in at Camp Wildcat, KY., 24 OCT 1861;
discharged by order of General Buell at Cumberland Gap, 30 Jun, 1862;
details of discharge not stated.



(Jherdin???) Knight
b. ? - d. Aug. 8, 1869
(small grave of infant)

J. J. Knight
Co. D 2nd TN Infantry

KNIGHT, JOHN: private, Company F; age 30; enrolled and mustered in at
Somerset, KY., 11 NOV 1861; captured at Rogersville, 6 NOV 1863; confined
at Richmond, 13 NOV 1863; confined at Andersonville, 18 FEB 1864;
admitted to hospital at Andersonville with "scorbutus", 11 SEP 1864;
paroled at Vicksburg, MS., about 21 APR 1865, perished in the disaster of
the steamboat Sultana, 27 APR 1865; Casualty Sheet: "the steamer
'Sultana' was lost on the Mississippi River, about 9 miles above Memphis,
TN., about 2 a.m. on 27 APR 1865 when the boiler exploded.'"

Margaret Knight
May 4, 1847
Aug. 25, 1847

Capt. J. H. Knight
2nd TN Calvary
Knight, James H.: second Lieutenant, Company D; age 31; enrolled at Camp
Dick Robinson, KY., 1 Sep 1861; mustered in at Camp Wildcat, KY, 24 OCT
1861; resigned about 5 JUN 1862; letter of resignation cites ill health
and inability to perform duties as a soldier; resignation letter in file.