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Note: f Lydia Ann Taylor is "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i>(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD4V-R2Q : 10 December 2017), Charles W. Knopp and Ann Taylor, 03 Nov 1844; citing Marriage, Gallia, Ohio, United States, p433, Franklin County Genealogical & Historical Society, Columbus; FHL microfilm.
Name Charles W. Knopp
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 03 Nov 1844
Event Place Gallia, Ohio, United States
Spouse's Name Ann Taylor
The source for the family and children of Charles W and Lydia is the 1850 Putnam County, Virginia census, Lydia survived Charles' pre 1860 death and she and her children, plus the ones born to she and Charles after 1850 are found in the 1860, 1870 and 1880 Lawrence County, Ohio census records.
1850
Source Citation: Year: 1850; Census Place: District 46, Putnam, Virginia; Roll: M432_971; Page: 307A; Image: 283.
1860
Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Union, Lawrence, Ohio; Roll: M653_997; Page: 57; Image: 117; Family History Library Film: 803997.
1870
Source Citation: Year: 1870; Census Place: Union, Lawrence, Ohio; Roll: M593_1231; Page: 532A; Image: 647; Family History Library Film: 552730.
1880
Source Citation: Year: 1880; Census Place: Union, Lawrence, Ohio; Roll: 1039; Family History Film: 1255039; Page: 339D; Enumeration District: 098; Image: 0671.
The source for the Civil War death and burial (re-interment) of Rufus Knapp is Source Citation: The National Cemetery Administration; Grafton National Cemetery, Burial Ledger, c. 1861-1992.
Amos Moore's second wife, Lydia Ann Knapp was born Lydia Taylor and had been married previously to Charles W Knapp, born abt 1827 in Ohio. The source for this is the 1850 Putnam County, Virginia, District 46 census. Charles obviously died before 1859. After Lydia married Amos Moore in 1859 she appears on the Lawrence County 1860 census record twice- once living with Amos and his other children as Lydia Moore with son Gerard Moore in Fayette, and a second time as Lydia Moore with son Gerard Moore in Union with her Knapp children by the previous marraige. This is the last time she appears as Lydia Moore or that Gerard appears as Gerard Moore. On the 1870 and 1880 census records Lydia and Amos are living apart, Amos with his children and Lydia with her children and her mother, Lucinda Taylor. After the 1870 census both Lydia and Gerard take the surname Knapp. Presumably there was a rupture in the marriage between Amos and Lydia and she took her former married name. As Gerard grew up with his half brothers and sisters from infancy who were Knapps, it is likely that Lydia chose to call him by the surname Knapp. There is no indication of what the problem may have been. Lydia's Knapp children on the 1860 Ohio census are also on the 1850 Putnam County, Virginia census. Lydia and Gerard Moore are referred to as Lydia and Gerard Knapp on all records after 1870 and so have been called here.
The source for the birth month and year of Lydia comes from the 1900 Gallia County census. This record states she was the mother of seven children but that in 1900 only two were living. If this record is accurate that means that Girard, the son with whom she resides on this census, is one, and that Charles E is the other still living. This is the source of the pre 1900 death for the other children. Note that her grandson, Everett Blagg, son of daughter Ella, lives in this household. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i>(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MM89-9Y6 : 22 January 2015), Lyda Knapp in household of Gerard R Knapp, Gallipolis Township Gallipolis City Ward 3-4, Gallia, Ohio, United States; citing sheet 11B, family 280, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,271.
Name Lyda Knapp
Event Type Census
Event Year 1900
Event Place Gallipolis Township Gallipolis City Ward 3-4, Gallia, Ohio, United States
Gender Female
Age 74
Marital Status Widowed
Race White
Race (Original) W
Relationship to Head of Household Mother
Relationship to Head of Household (Original) Mother
Number of Living Children 2
Birth Date Mar 1826
Birthplace West Virginia
Father's Birthplace West Virginia
Mother's Birthplace New York
Mother of how many children 7
Gerard R Knapp Head M 38 Ohio
Clara C Knapp Wife F 36 Ohio
Orland R Knapp Son M 9 Ohio
Ruth C Knapp Daughter F 7 Ohio
Everette Blagg Nephew M 19 Ohio
Lyda Knapp Mother F 74 West Virginia
Subsequent research in 2017 found the obituary of Lydia Ann. The statement that her first husband, Charles Knapp, died in 1862 is erroneous information/memory as the widow Lydia married Amos Moore in 1859 as per the data above. This death date may have been generated in the family so that Gerard could be considered a son of Charles Knapp and not Amos Moore. Lydia's second marriage to much older Amos seems to have dissolved soon after the marriage, after which she re took her first married name and gave her son Gerard, by Amos Moore, the surname Knapp also. Saying that Charles died in 1862, after the birth of Gerard, would give credence to Charles being his father. This is only, of course, conjecture.
Knapp, Lydia A. [Taylor]
"Death of Mrs. Knapp
Mrs. Lydia A. Knapp, mother of Mr. Girard Knapp, with whom she made her home at 1016 Second avenue extension, died Tuesday evening, March 1st, 1904, after a continued illness with bronchitis for the past five months and aged 77 years, 11 months and 14 days.
Her funeral services will be conducted by Rev. W. H. Miller of Grace M. E. Church of which she was a member at 10 a.m. Thursday, at her late residence, the interment following at Mound Hill by Wetherholt.
Mrs. Knapp’s maiden name was Taylor and she lived here when a girl and told us herself that she attended the Old Academy under the administration of Prof. J. C. Robinson, father of the Tribune man. She became a teacher herself and when her husband died in 1862 [maybe an incorrect date as she is alone and a widow on the 1860 census above. NR], she again taught and was a very intelligent intellectual lady.
She was of a sunny, jolly disposition and in her better days of health and strength had hosts of loving companions. We thought a great deal of Mrs. Knapp, but of late years saw but little of her, her infirmities keeping her confined to her home. In her last days, she found comfort and kindness and every possible attention from a loving son and his wife and we have no doubt but that when her spirit took flight it went straight to heavenly realms where sickness, sorrow and death enter not in.
Gallipolis Daily Tribune
Wednesday Evening, March 2, 1904"
Transcribed by Sandy L. Milliron
The phrase from the first paragraph of the obituary above "and aged 77 years, 11 months and 14 days" is the source for calculating the exact birth date of Lydia.
Note: The source for the marriage of Charles W Knapp and the first marriage o
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