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Note: The source for the marriage of James and Serilda is Citing this Record "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2013," database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XD7F-Y5M : 8 December 2014), James K. Mcknight and Jarelda Martin, 23 May 1852; citing Lawrence, Ohio, United States, reference cn 215; county courthouses, Ohio; FHL microfilm 317,716.
Name James K. Mcknight
Event Type Marriage
Event Date 23 May 1852
Event Place Lawrence, Ohio, United States
Spouse's Name Jarelda Martin
The source for the reconstruction of the James McKnight family is the 1860 Lawrence County, Ohio census record. "United States Census, 1860", database with images, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MCL1-WX1 : 30 December 2015), James Mc Knight, 1860.
There is an unsubstantiated legend in our family, the source being my grandmother Ethel Marie Moore Rutman and her sister Mildred, told to me in 1982, that James never returned from the Civil War but abandoned his family. The implication is that he survived the war but never came back to Lawrence County. My grandmother and her sister probably heard this from older generations. There is no death record in Lawrence County for James and no Civil War papers have been found for a James McKnight from Ohio that is clearly the James from Lawrence County, so at present (2017) his post 1860 history is unknown. Serilda remarried in 1866.
Subsequent research in 2018 found the pension application by widow Serilda McKnight in 1866 for pension benefits. In light of this the legend from my grandmother may be more colorful than true, and James may/must have died in the Civil War. Source Citation: The National Archives at Washington, D.C.; Washington, D.C.; Record Group Title: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007; Record Group Number: 15; Series Number: T288. Source Information: National Archives and Records Administration. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2000. Original data: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration. T288, 546 rolls.
Name: Sarilda A Mcknight
Gender: Female
Relation to Head: Widow
Spouse: James H McKnight
CHILDREN:
The source for the spouse of William McKnight and their respective birth months, years, locations, and year of their marriage is from the 1900 Lawrence County, Ohio census. Source Citation: Year: 1900; Census Place: Lawrence, Lawrence, Ohio; Roll: 1292; Page: 2B; Enumeration District: 0070; FHL microfilm: 1241292.
Data on the other children can be found under their own notes and under Serilda Martin.
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