Note: He worked in the logging camps, at Canoe Creek in Iowa. Story has it he was walking into the woods one day at Black River Wisconsin when he met a big Indian and challenged him to a wrestling match. John's kneecap was broken when he was thrown onto the ice and he walked with a limp for the remainder of his life, which wasn't long, in 1860 he died of the Mumps. His father traded the 320 acres of land for a yoke of oxen and a two wheel cart and went to work in the Pine Forest in Black River, Wisconsin. This story was told to cousin David as follows: On Saturday nights the Chippewa Indians used to walk across a swinging bridge over Black River Falls into town to drink. When they were staggering back later John Knight took great sport in waiting on the bridge and any Indians drunk and by themselves got heaved off the bridge, never to be heard from again. The Indians eventually figured this out and caught up with him, breaking his leg. Also, this same John Knight, and you will enjoy how this one makes sense, is famous still today for being the first logger to ride a log raft over Black River Falls. The true story according to my dad was that he was too drunk to get off the raft so he went over the falls, and happened not to drown.
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