Martha Sims McKnight (1793-1856) - Find a Grave Memorial

Martha Sims McKnight

Birth

1793

South Carolina, USA

Death

17 Aug 1856 (aged 62–63)

Chambers County, Alabama, USA

Burial

McKnight Family Cemetery

Bosworth, Chambers County, Alabama, USA Add to Map

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Mother of: Andrew M. McKnight, Mariah McKnight Bentley, Nancy McKnight Causey, Hiram Lee McKnight, Thomas McKnight, Larissa McKnight Welch, Lewis Newton McKnight, John W. McKnight, Martha Elizabeth McKnight Sims, Mary Jane McKnight Stanley, Elvira Minerva McKnight Spraggins Monkress, Christopher Pusilamus Columbus McKnight, and Gilbert Motier Lafayette McKnight.

Daughter of Clayborn Sims and Martha.

Inscription

Estine Inez McKnight Fitzpatrick, great-great grand-daughter of John McKnight and Martha Sims McKnight, is responsible for having placed gravestones for John and Martha McKnight. The granite markers are resting upon thick rock slabs, approximately 3 1/2 feet by 7 feet, which in turn rest upon smaller, neatly squared rock bases.

Martha's stone reads: MARTHA SIMS MCKNIGHT, daughter of John Sims and wife Mariah Ann Jane McGee. Born 1793 in Laurens Dist., South Carolina. Died August 17, 1856 here in Alabama.
In 1835, John McKnight w/friend, built and operated grist and sawmills on Chicasanoxee Creek, about 3 miles from here. In 1836 he established a ferry 1/2 mile N.W. of mills, across the Tallapoosa River, to aid travel North and West.

More recent family research conducted by Charles Sims has now shown that the information on Martha Sims McKnight's gravestone regarding who her parents are is incorrect. Martha Sims McKnight's parents are Clayborn Sims Sr. and Martha, not John Sims and Mariah Ann Jane McGee.