Alfred Walter Knight1

M, #16136, b. Nov 11, 1853, d. Oct 20, 1931
Father*Jeremiah Johnson Knight1 b. Mar 31, 1831, d. circa 1900
Mother*Eunice Amy Dewey1 b. circa 1828, d. Sep 5, 1885

Family

Emma Jane Tyler b. May 11, 1855, d. Nov 30, 1928
Children

Chronological Events

Birth*Nov 11, 1853 Alfred Walter Knight was born on Nov 11, 1853 at Coventry, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States.1 
 He was the son of Jeremiah Johnson Knight and Eunice Amy Dewey.1 
Marriage*circa 1874 Alfred Walter Knight married Emma Jane Tyler circa 1874 at Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States.1 
Death*Oct 20, 1931 Alfred Walter Knight died on Oct 20, 1931, at age 77 at Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States.1 
Burial*Oct 21, 1931 He was buried on Oct 21, 1931 at Moosup Valley Cemetery, Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, Find A Grave Memorial# 18259219
Plot: FR083.2 
Book Excerpt* 
BIOGRAPHY: E-Mail received from S.M. Green great-grand-daughter of Alfred Walte r Knight 13 May 2003

BIOGRAPHY: Hi,
Fanny Sayles and uncle Obed, and it is just Obed, never lived together, even though they had to get married. She woul d not leave her mother and he wouldn't live with her mother! I do have a lot o f Knight material, since I have those lines.
My father was born in Sept 1904 and Obed and Fanny's son, Harold , was born in March 1904.

Did you know tha t our Richard-1 Knight, who came over on the ship "James" first came to New Ham pton, NH? He was a carpenter and was hired to build a new Congregational church for the town. Instead, he ran off with the money, went to Newburyport, MA then eventually to Newport, RI He then got a job as "keeper" of the jail. The histo ry book states that, "after that he led a good and decorous life". It is littl e things like that that keep me doing genealogy. My 5th g-grandmother , on my m other's side, slept in a log cabin in Iowa, keeping an axe beside her bed to ch ase bears. Her husband was in the Civil War. They later returned to N.E.
I don 't know where you live, but if you ever go out Broadway towards Olneyville , in Providence, look carefully at the wrought iron along the steps and fences. Gra mpa Knight was a blacksmith and he lived on Broadway for awhile and did a lot o f work along there. His father also a blacksmith, had a shop in Scituate, RI an d when the state took the land for the reservoir, he lost his shop. He came to Burrillville and Grampa Knight Alfred Walter, worked in Hopkins machine shop ru nning a trip-hammar machine.
Sorry, I get carried away.My husband and I used to own and run a railroad in Cranston, RI If you type in "Fallen Flags" and War wick, Railway, that is us!!
I am, (was) a qualified locomotive engineer. Both my boys worked there and you can see one of them, Robert, in one of the pictur es.
Did you know that the firm of B.B. and R. Knight held the patent for Fruit of the loom underwear? My grandmother and her brothers and sisters each recei ved $500 from one of them when they died. I have it upstairs somewhere.
I will stop. Honest. S.M. Greene.3
 

Citations

  1. [S802] Site - Ancestry.com, online at http://www.ancestry.com
  2. [S58] Gravestones - Death Cert, Find-A-Grave, BillionGraves.
  3. [S943] Book - Unknown,.