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Marriage: Children:

  1. Col. Louis Knox: Birth: 24 DEC 1874 in He became a Chemist, and taught at The Citadel in Charleston, S. C.. Death: ABT JUN 1945 in Died on a Houston-Giddings train of a heart attack.

  2. Harry K. Knox: Birth: 16 SEP 1877 in Giddings, Lee County, TX.. Death: 22 JUL 1934 in Brownwood TX.

  3. Helen Knox: Birth: 04 AUG 1885 in Giddings. Youngest of seven children.. Death: 1959 in Brownville, N. Y. N.Y.C. bank officer.

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  6. Blanche Knox: Birth: in She died in the early 1940's in an automobile accident.. Death: ABT 1943 in She was the family "butterfly" says Jo Knox Marcia, whatever that means.

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Notes
a. Note:   Bettie is the spelling used by Jo Knox Marcia, and it is Bettie in theBible.
  She was a big, regal woman who carried herself proudly. This mustmean that she had good posture.
 Betty Bettie and her daughter Blanche sang duets in church. JoMarcia says that Blanche, "the family butterfly," could not sing nearlyso well as she thought.
  Betty was paralyzed by a stroke in 1915, and spent the last 10 yearsof her life in a wheel chair. Jo Knox Marcia May 16, 1995 said that"she lived in the wheel chair."
  Jo Marcia says that Betty Bettie needed regular massages for herhealth. She was being treated in Galveston. Edna Monroe was a nurse inGalveston and was excellent at massage. Helen Knox, daughter of W. A.Knox and his paralyzed wife Betty, introduced her first cousin JohnBates Knox to the nurse, and egged them on to date. It was successful.But in 1916 Edna was offered the position of Night Supervisor of Nursesat John Sealy Hospital, and she accepted. She made John Knox wait.They were not married until October 17, 1917.

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