Re: The Old Carrington Family

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Title	Re: The Old Carrington Family
Author	John Johnston
Source ID	S1124
Text	Tom, Thanks for pointing that out to me. However, William Knight is shown on the 1850 census of Barbour County, Alabama as being age 53, born in North Carolina. Somewhere in my notes I have a copy of a deed I found in Barbour County in which Wm. Knight acknowledges overseeing property that was bequeathed to “my minor children, the grandchildren of John Knight of Jasper Co., Georgia” or something to that effect. I can’t seem to put my hands on this copy right now, but I saw it among my papers just a few days ago. I also have a printed (typed) copy of the 1860 Barbour County census, but I do not see Wm. Knight listed therein, though he should be there. Maybe he was missed by the census enumerator. I have not seen the 1870 or 1880 Barbour censuses to check Wm. Knight’s age on them, but I will do that maybe one day next week. I have William Knight as marrying Catherine Nelson in Jasper County, Ga. on June 5, 1819, and I know that his daughter (my great-great grandmother), Mary Magdalin (Knight) Helms, was born in 1820 from her tombstone and from the Bible record so I think she was his oldest child. Mary Magdalin had a brother named Harbirt Knight, who was born in 1823 (per his tombstone). But Wm. Knight was apparently married two or probably three times. Jasper County, Ga. marriages show a William Knight married to a Cinthia Perry on Dec. 22, 1825 so that may well be his 2nd marriage. His wife on the 1850 Barbour Co. census was a Mary A. Knight, age 50. Wm. Knight’s obituary, which I found in a Eufaula, Alabama newspaper of 1882 refers to him as “one of the oldest men in the county…..He was over 90 years of age….”. That age is obviously in error if he was born in 1797. William’s place of burial has long been known by the family, but there was never a tombstone placed on his grave until about two years ago. A cousin and I went together and put one in place. His grave was always bordered by a long row of bricks stuck in the ground around the perimeter of his gravesite. One of his sons is buried near him in that same little cemetery. I was there in the cemetery several years ago when a carload of folks stopped by. Turns out that they were descendants of William’s son, who is buried there. They were from Mississippi if I remember correctly. They gave me some money to help with getting William’s tombstone. John Johnston
Linked to	Harbirt S C KNIGHT Mary Ann Magdalin Silva KNIGHT