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 Mrs. W. W. McKnight Dies COLLINSVILLE - Mrs. W. W. McKnight, 74, of Collinsville route 1, died Friday at 11:35 a.m. after an illiness of two weeks. Funeral services probably will be held Sunday. Burial will be in Collinsvile Cemetery, directed by Barrett Funeral Home of Sherman. Survivors are Mrs. McKnight's Husband: six daughters, Mrs. O. A. Wood of Sherman, Mrs. A. L. Carney of Southmayd, Mrs E.C. Dobbs of Sadler, Mrs. Claude Jackson of Collinsville, Mrs. Luella Ridinger of Denison, Mrs. R. V. Hazelwood of Whitesboro; a son Dan McKnight of Tioga; a brother Dan Shipman of Ringling, Okla.; a sister, Mrs. W. C. Walters of Roff, Okla.; 32 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.  After returning from the Civil War and after being held as a POW, Will's father William Bartlett. was in bad health. He wrote relatives in Collinsville, Texas and let them know that he was sending his sons there while he went to an "Old Soldiers Home" to get well. Lucinda Cranford, his wife, had taken the girl(s) and gone into Hot Springs. Sons, William W. the oldest son was 15, Columbus, 8, and Isaac, 6, walked from near Hot Springs to Collinsville Texas. They would find places where they could trade work for food along the way. One of the places they camped on their way was in Oklahoma near Hugo and it was at the base of a Cyprus tree they camped, located on the Texas trail; the base of this tree was so large that a lariat rope would not reach around it. At Paris, Texas, they stayed at the Garner farm for several weeks and helped get the crops finished for the season. When they started to leave Mr. Garner talked Will into letting his younger brother Columbus stay with him and his family, promising he would be sent to school and taken good care of. Columbus was left with the Garners and he was treated well and grew up and married their daughter. William and Isaac traveled on to the Collinsville area where they stayed with relatives and worked and saved money; when their father was well enough to travel, they sent him the money to travel by train to join them in Texas.  Flossie Marie McKnight 7 January 1922 - 9 July 1938  Flossie was only 16 years old when she died, what a sad loss to her family....she was one of eight children born to William Washington McKnight and Margreat Ann Shipman Mcknight.....Flossie was in highschool when my oldest brother Dan McKnight, Jr. started school, he has told many loving and things that she did for him. She would see to it that he made it to school each day and would walk him to his room, always the care taker for him.....Her brother and sisters are as follows: Thelma McKnight Ballard Woods (1907 - 1980) Belma Mary McKnight Carney (1908 - 1984) Willie Opal McKnight Dobbs (1910 - 1970) Dan Isaac McKnight (1911 - 1996) Fern A Jackson (1914 - 1968) Lou Ella McKnight Ridinger (1917 - 2001) Anna Lee McKnight Hazelwood (1919 - 1966) Flossie Marie McKnight (1922 - 1938)  Collinsville Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |
