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Note: 1841 - about 1926
He is in the 1860 census in Lexington in Burleson County, age 19 bornMS, with brother Robert age 13 born LA, and sister Aloysia (Elvira) age11 born LA, with father William A. Knox age 52 born SC, but no mother.She had died in 1858.
He must be the William who is a Civil War veteran, instead of hisfather William, who would have been much too old. Robert has aConfederate Veteran's grave marker.
There is a W. A. Knox who was District Clerk of Lee County in 1877,but Jo Knox Marcia says that this Knox was a first cousin of hergreat-grandfather Capt. William Alexander Knox, and that the DistrictClerk was W. A. PegLeg Crippled-Billy Knox, because he had an artificialleg, after a Civil War injury, and that the District Clerk is the fatherof Alice Knox who married William Estill Williams.
This William was a member of the first Board of Trustees when theschools were founded in 1883 as "Giddings Free Public School."
He had the first, or older, Mercantile Store in Giddings.
The second store was "H. Charles Joekel and W. Estill Williams."Herman Charles Joekel was the father of William Herman Joekel.
William Knox kept the money of certain customers in his safe, fortheir convenience. He later had checks printed with his store name.This was the beginning of his banking experience.
The first bank in Giddings, of Dr. J. A. Fields in 1891, becameunpopular. Emily Fariss Joekel reported to her daughters that, for somereason, the customers of this bank got on the "outs" with Dr. Fields andhis bank. Thus Knox was encouraged to start a bank. Knox arranged forhis niece's husband, Ira Jones Fariss, and others to join him in formingthe Citizens State Bank in 1906.
Knox was President from 1906 until 1926. We believe that after hiswife died in 1925. He left Giddings and went to Brownwood where hisson Harry Knox and daughter Carrie Knox Chandler lived. But even aftermoving, he retained the position of President of the bank until he wasassured that the Board of Directors would name I. J. Fariss as the nextPresident.
We believe that it was after he moved to Brownwood that he broke hiship. He was told that he would never walk again. But he did.
He died in Brownwood in 1926.
His house was bought in 1925 by his nephew, John Bates Knox.
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