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Charles Knox, brother of Sarah Knox |
All Census information can be found at ANCESTRY.COM
MATHEW KNOX
1880 June 10, June 12, Inman Town, Otter Tail, Minnesota,
page 3, ED 175, start at line 10
MOORE, VIOLET J, female, 44, head of house, listed as
single and married (maybe husband at war), keeping house, PA, PA, PA
MOORE, ELLA, female, 15, daughter, single, attending
school, WI, NY, PA
MOORE, HARY, male, 13, son, single, attending school, MN,
NY, PA
MOORE, MINER, male, 11, son, single, attending school, MN,
NY, PA
MOORE, CORA, female, 9, daughter, attending school, MN, NY,
PA
KNOX, MATHEW, male, age 35, brother, single, farming, PA,
PA, PA
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Private, Company D, 10 Regiment,
New York Calvary,
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Crossville Chronicle - 1936 February - Matthew KNOX, 96, a
Civil War veteran, passed away after four days illness of pneumonia. Born in
Pennsylvania, he saw three and a half years service with the Union Army in the
10th New York Calvary. He had made his home here for many years. Cumberland
County Post No. 163 of the American Legion gave an impressive service at the
city cemetery. February 1936 – reprinted in Crossville Chronicle Looking Back
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November 2Q:; th,
1935 Mr. Knox celebrated his 96 th birthday
with a dinner party and several guest to aid in the celebration.
For several years he had made his home with his nephew Benjamin
H. West and family. Mr. Knox and the paternal grandmother of Benjamin H. West
were brother and sister.
Mr. Knox was born in Pennsylvania arid saw three and one
half years of service with the Union Army during the Civil War in the Tenth New
York Calvary. He had made his home here for several years.
Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at
the Methodist Church, with the Rev. M.F. Goss in charge, after which Cumberland
County post no. 163 of the American Legion took charge giving their impressive
service at the City Cemetery.
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The Knoxville Journal
, February 25, 1936 - MATHEW
KNOX CROSSVILLE, Feb. 24.—Mathew Knox, 96, a veteran of the 'Union army, died at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben West here yesterday.
A native of Elmyra, N. C., he served in the 10th New
York cavalry. He had lived here 35 years.
A military funeral was held today by the American Legion
at the M.E. church. Burial was in City cemetery.
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Crossville Chronicle, Thursday, February 27 1936 - CIVIL
WAR VET PASSES AWAY MATTHEW KNOX, AGE 96 SUCCUMBS TO PNEUMONIA ATTACT
FEBUARY 22 ND
Matthew Knox, Civil War Veteran, passed away at 1:30
o’clock Saturday afternoon February 22 nd after four
days of illness of pneumonia. His remarkable vitality was evident until the
very last hours.
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Mathew Knox never married and from census information seems
to have lived his adult life with his sisters.
Marilyn Bishop-West believes she remembers Velera Ellen Harris-West
telling her that Mathew Knox suffered from a problem with his privates being
enlarged. It may well have been a case of hydrocele
– an accumulation of fluid usually around the testis (from dictionary.com). Since he lived to be 96 years old it obviously wasn’t a life threatening medical condition. Wikipedia.org offers the following information : A hydrocele denotes
a pathological accumulation of serous fluid in a bodily cavity. A hydrocele testis
is the accumulation of fluids around a testicle, and is fairly common. It may
be treated surgically. It can occur in infants undergoing peritoneal dialysis.
A hydrocele testis is due to fluid secreted from a
remnant piece of peritoneum wrapped around the testis … It can also be as a
result of cancer, trauma (such as a hernia), or orchitis.
It can also be the result of a plugged inguinal lymphatic system caused by
repeated chronic infection of Wucheria bancrofti or Brugia malayi, two mosquito-borne parasites of Africa and S.E.
Asia, respectively. As such the condition would be a part of more diffuse sequelae commonly referred to as elephantiasis.
SILAS KNOX
Crossville Chronicle, September 8, 1913, page 8 column 2 – Silas Knox, uncle of MW West arrived from Wisconsin
Sunday to pass the winter. Mr. Knox has
passed several winters here of late years.
He finds the climate more congenial here when Old Borious
is around than in the Badger State
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Crossville Chronicle, March 13, 1914 – Mr. Knox, who has
been passing the winter here with M. W. West and family expects to leave for
his home in Wisconsin next week. He will
visit with a sister at Milwaukee, Wisconsin on his homeward way.
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As of April 19, 2008 I (Velera West-Pace) can only find on
e online mention of Silas Knox - 1860 census August 6 – NY, NY – there
is a Silas Knox age 23, mechanic, born in Ireland living in the house of a
James Conner, who is wealthy enough to have a servant. Also in this house is James knox age 17 born in Ireland and
Martha Knox age 60 born in Ireland.
Cannot be sure if
this is some of the Knox family I need.
VIOLET J KNOX – MOORE
1860, June 28 - Census - Oconomowoc, Waukesh,
WI Census, page 67
1880 -June 10 and 12, census Inman, Otter Tail, MN age 44
with 4 kids living in house and Mathew Knox age 35 was living with her and she
is listed without a husband - that census didn't mark married widowed or single
1885, May 5 - census - Inman, Otter Tail, MN, Violet Moore
with kids, and Mathew Knox
1900, June 4, Inman, Otter Tail, MN, Violet Moore living
with son Miner and his family, had 5 kids, 3 living, age 64
1905 June 6, Inman, Otter Tail, MN, Violet Moore living with brother Mathew
and cant find Miner on same or other pages
1910 April 25,census, Carbon Co, MT livign
with son M M Moore and family - probably Miner Moore
still, age 75, widdowed,
1920 Feb 13, census, Carbon Co, MT, age 83, widowed, living
with Mathew Knox age 76, single, only two in house and they are neighbors to
her son Miner Moore and his family
1926 Burial: Belfry Cemetery Belfry Carbon County Montana,
USA
CHARLES KNOX Married to ELIZA ??
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1875 Mower Co, MN,
KNOX, CHARLES – 38 – M – W - PA, IRELAND, IRELAND
KNOX, ELIZA – 24 – F – W – CANADA, ENGLAND, ENGLAND
KNOX, WILLIE – 14 – M – W – WIS ?
, PA, CANADA
KNOX, BERTHA – 6 - F – W – IA, PA, CANADA
KNOX, JOHN – 3 – M – W – MN, PA, CANADA
KNOX, THOMAS – 0 – M – W – MN, PA, CANADA
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1900 June 8-9, Red Rock Township, Mower, Minnesota, sheet
3, ED 97
Charles Knox 63 - born Oct 1836, married 29 years, PA,
IRELAND, IRELAND, farmer
Eliza Knox 51 - wife, born Sept 1848, had 4 children, 3
still living, CANADA, ENGLAND, ENGLAND
Blanche A Knox - 13 – grand daughter, born Oct 1886, MN,
NY, CANADA
*** clue time … 1) Blanche’s Daddy was born in NY and none of the 4 of Charles
and Eliza’s kids were born in NY
2)Bertha wasn’t born in Canada – so at the moment Blanche cannot be
completely tied to any of the 4 kids of Charles and Eliza and she is not their
child … because that would have made the 1900 census say 5 kids and 3 still
living
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