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The Late Mrs. J. W. Knight

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Day
21
Month
July
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Mns. Cörnliea Perkins KnigSit, wife oí J. W. Knight, dled ast Friday evcninig after an illness oí ten days, brouglht 01 by the 'recent hot weather. The funeral services were held at t!h,e family residence last Kunday aftemoon at live o'clock. The pall■bearers were her two' sons, her KOn-inlaw, F. C. Clark, and her nephew, Mr. Jo'mathan Palmer, Jr., oí Detroit. i Mrs. Knigtht was barn Ín Norwicli, Coim., Jaauary 20, 1822. She was thi yioungest daughter of Dr. Jephtha Hebbard, for many years a prominent physieian in Oonnecticut. Thnough her father's family she was a lineal descendant oí Gov. William Bradflord, the second governor of Plymouth eoloay, who was one of, the oolonist? In the Mayflower on her flnst vioyage to America. Xn 1829 her father's family remove'l to Riga, N. Y., where she lived mtil 1848 when she was married to Johnson W. Knfeht, of Akron, N. Y Removing to Michigan In 1855, thcy settled lu Ann Arteor in 1856. Mr. KiiiigJit was a member of the Congregatilobal chiiireh iu thls city. He: hiusband and tlwee children eurtUb her, the latter belng Mr. Earle Knigtot of Albión, Mich., Prof. George W. Rnlgtht of Oolumbus, O., and MJr. Prederick C. Clark oí ColiLmbus, O. Mies Camelia Kerr, who was once a teadher iu the schools of thia city, üled on Monday last, at the home of lier sister, Mrs. Sburm, ia Saline, after a loeig contiiiAied illness. Funeral services ta-clay; at the residesn.ee, end burial in Lodi.

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Ann Arbor Courier