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Note: My 3rd grt grandparents: I think they married in 1822-24 in Erie, New York. They then moved to Port Dover, Ontario. Lived in Woodhouse until around the 1830- 1840's or so and then Walpole. By 1853 living in Winnisheik, Iowa. He was a part of the 1837 Rebellion in Upper Canada, a brief skirmish which began and ended at Montgomery's Tavern near Tornato, though his name is not on record. Family say he was. Most people who were recorded were the ones that were caught or died. Most of the people then moved to Iowa. So alot of Knight families moved to Iowa. Do not know if we are all related or not. Silas father died in Canada before 1850-(John). In Canada they also supposedly sold guns or supplied them, from there basement for the 1837 Rebellion at Montgomery's Tavern. Silas was not Indian, but we hear that Pheobe was Cree. Do not know her tribe, maybe "Metis". Her father was from Rhode Island. We were told he only spoke French. He was a big man. In Rebecca's story she said they came to the states in May 1853 which is corrected by the census I found on Silas in 1856. He said he was here 3 yrs. Edward came ahead to make a home for his parents to come. He arrived in 1851/2. He lived the with his uncle Benjamin or another building on the same property. Benjamin was here in 1850. Silas then came by 1853. After coming to the States, Silas did some logging and cutting ship masts along the Great Lakes. At one time his son John came with and they traded 320 acres of land for a yoke of Oxen and a two-wheeled cart and went to work in the Pine forrest in Black River Wisconsin. In 1860 the value of his real estate was 800 dollars and a personal estate of 300 dollars. He could not read or write, and he spoke fluent French. The family were "Loyalist" I have the path of Simeon Short and the Knights by them, and that will be in the Short file. Family rumor also was the Knight use to be Chevalier, the timing is unknown, should it be true. Nanticook is on Lake Erie in Walpole twp. This is where his kids were born. Walpole was origionally in the Talbot District and then later in Haldimand. Ontario birth records did not begin until 1869, though "some" births were in census records and on marriage reords. Eleanor Witwicky Carlysle-Smith started this family tree back in 1980, I thought she was the first but she was up in "Canada", my mother Sandra Knight Hedlund Honadel started here in the "US", in 1965-1968. Her father Glenn then helped with Eleanor. Writing to Tressie and Grady and not getting much. Maureen and Donald Knight then went at it, also, but we didn't know until many yrs later. The Short family was started by Howard Short probably back then too or earlier. Families helped also from Missouri, Iowa, Canada, Oregon, Calif. Wisc. Minn. Wash. Ohio, Illi. Neb.New York, Ariz. May have forgot a few. Historians in New York, Random Acts of Kindness people, Obits, Canada's Norfolk Historical Society, Town Historians, Ancestry for birth and death and marriage records, just numerous! Reva Wilson, and Eldon Larson, on the Wood families, Wilfred Vasile, Howard Short, Lois Kopp, and Molly Banfield on the Short Families, Rosalyn Lee and LaVerne Heaton, and Wm. Bruce Willford on the Reed families, Eleanor Witwicky Carlysle-Smith, Linda Wood, Sandra Lesanko,Sandra Knight Honadel, for coming with me from town to town for company and helping, walking the Cemeteries was hot! , Lorraine Knight, Tom Kennison (family changed spelling from Kinnison) Paul Knight, Ardis McCallion, David Knight, Harold Chilton, Earl Knight, Dennis Schildauer, and the late June Emery. Many Many more names of people, exactly too many to name, so you will know who you are..A great big thank you for sharing your stories, photo's, maps, family lineage, census records, etc...Again, Thank you so much, this is all of the researchers work in the family who began this long ago, and I took it over, and I hope you all are happy with what I have done, I know I am. Thank you for sharing your notes too, those were the best of help to start out with, saved me leg work..God Bless you all. Jaimee Hedlund 1995-2014 Notes from David: Jaimee, in this search for the first wife of John, a story came to mind that my dad used to tell me. He told me that one of my great great something grandfathers lived in New York , with a family, and used to cut ships mast timber up along the St. Lawrence River during the winter. He would go into the area along the St. Lawrence in the fall and winter, then in the spring bring a raft of mast timber down to sell to the ship builders. As the story went, one winter he never came back, so they thought he had died. But a couple of years later someone else came back from that northern region and said, no, he hadn�t died but had an Indian wife and was living just fine. As the research goes it seems my dads stories always turned out to be true, and this was one of his favorite recountings of the Knight family, in that he has a special enjoyment for anything talking about our Indian heritage. Someone who is a active Morman has the marriage for Silas and Phoebe as abt 1825 and it is sealed. Someone may check into this to see what they know or if this is true. Number for the LDS Church Film is # 2034505, it can be ordered to see.
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