Isaac Austin McKnight
TIOGA -- Funeral services for Isaac Austin McKnight, 94, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Beck funeral Home chapel in Pilot Point with the rev. Ron Cremeens officiating. Burial will be in Tioga Cemetery.
Mr. McKnight died Wednesday in The Collinsville Care Home after an extended illness.
He was born October 15, 1879 in Garland county, Arkansas, the late of the late William Bartlet McKnight and Lucinda Cranford. He married Alice Ballard in 1900 in Amity, Arkansas. She died in 1923.
He married Leona Thompson in Sherman in 1926. He was a retired farmer and member of the First Baptist Church of Tioga.
He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Hazel Mulder of Sherman and Clara Watson of Sherman; four sons; Huelton and McCleatus McKnight, both of Tioga, Thuman McKnight of Denton and William B. McKnight of Hutchens, Texas; one sister, Dora Smith of Little Rock, Arkansas; 16 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Beck Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family will be at the funeral home Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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After returning from the Civil War and after being held as a POW, Columbus's father Wm. B. was in bad health. He wrote relatives in Collinsville, Texas and let them know that he was sending his sons there while he went toan "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, 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 William 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 and when their father was well enough to travel they sent him the money to travel by train to join them in Texas. A picture of the tree they camped under is inserted.
He had 2 brothers
William Washington McKnight #83862416
Columbus Houston McKnight #28434218
Half Brother Rev. Charles McKnight #62609921
TIOGA -- Funeral services for Isaac Austin McKnight, 94, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Beck funeral Home chapel in Pilot Point with the rev. Ron Cremeens officiating. Burial will be in Tioga Cemetery.
Mr. McKnight died Wednesday in The Collinsville Care Home after an extended illness.
He was born October 15, 1879 in Garland county, Arkansas, the late of the late William Bartlet McKnight and Lucinda Cranford. He married Alice Ballard in 1900 in Amity, Arkansas. She died in 1923.
He married Leona Thompson in Sherman in 1926. He was a retired farmer and member of the First Baptist Church of Tioga.
He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Hazel Mulder of Sherman and Clara Watson of Sherman; four sons; Huelton and McCleatus McKnight, both of Tioga, Thuman McKnight of Denton and William B. McKnight of Hutchens, Texas; one sister, Dora Smith of Little Rock, Arkansas; 16 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Beck Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family will be at the funeral home Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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After returning from the Civil War and after being held as a POW, Columbus's father Wm. B. was in bad health. He wrote relatives in Collinsville, Texas and let them know that he was sending his sons there while he went toan "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, 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 William 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 and when their father was well enough to travel they sent him the money to travel by train to join them in Texas. A picture of the tree they camped under is inserted.
He had 2 brothers
William Washington McKnight #83862416
Columbus Houston McKnight #28434218
Half Brother Rev. Charles McKnight #62609921
Isaac Austin McKnight
TIOGA -- Funeral services for Isaac Austin McKnight, 94, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Beck funeral Home chapel in Pilot Point with the rev. Ron Cremeens officiating. Burial will be in Tioga Cemetery.
Mr. McKnight died Wednesday in The Collinsville Care Home after an extended illness.
He was born October 15, 1879 in Garland county, Arkansas, the late of the late William Bartlet McKnight and Lucinda Cranford. He married Alice Ballard in 1900 in Amity, Arkansas. She died in 1923.
He married Leona Thompson in Sherman in 1926. He was a retired farmer and member of the First Baptist Church of Tioga.
He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Hazel Mulder of Sherman and Clara Watson of Sherman; four sons; Huelton and McCleatus McKnight, both of Tioga, Thuman McKnight of Denton and William B. McKnight of Hutchens, Texas; one sister, Dora Smith of Little Rock, Arkansas; 16 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Beck Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family will be at the funeral home Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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After returning from the Civil War and after being held as a POW, Columbus's father Wm. B. was in bad health. He wrote relatives in Collinsville, Texas and let them know that he was sending his sons there while he went toan "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, 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 William 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 and when their father was well enough to travel they sent him the money to travel by train to join them in Texas. A picture of the tree they camped under is inserted.
He had 2 brothers
William Washington McKnight #83862416
Columbus Houston McKnight #28434218
Half Brother Rev. Charles McKnight #62609921
TIOGA -- Funeral services for Isaac Austin McKnight, 94, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at Beck funeral Home chapel in Pilot Point with the rev. Ron Cremeens officiating. Burial will be in Tioga Cemetery.
Mr. McKnight died Wednesday in The Collinsville Care Home after an extended illness.
He was born October 15, 1879 in Garland county, Arkansas, the late of the late William Bartlet McKnight and Lucinda Cranford. He married Alice Ballard in 1900 in Amity, Arkansas. She died in 1923.
He married Leona Thompson in Sherman in 1926. He was a retired farmer and member of the First Baptist Church of Tioga.
He is survived by his wife; two daughters, Hazel Mulder of Sherman and Clara Watson of Sherman; four sons; Huelton and McCleatus McKnight, both of Tioga, Thuman McKnight of Denton and William B. McKnight of Hutchens, Texas; one sister, Dora Smith of Little Rock, Arkansas; 16 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.
Beck Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
The family will be at the funeral home Thursday from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
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After returning from the Civil War and after being held as a POW, Columbus's father Wm. B. was in bad health. He wrote relatives in Collinsville, Texas and let them know that he was sending his sons there while he went toan "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, 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 William 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 and when their father was well enough to travel they sent him the money to travel by train to join them in Texas. A picture of the tree they camped under is inserted.
He had 2 brothers
William Washington McKnight #83862416
Columbus Houston McKnight #28434218
Half Brother Rev. Charles McKnight #62609921
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