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Frank Ellsworth Knight

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Frank Ellsworth Knight

Birth
Morgantown, Morgan County, Indiana, USA
Death
16 May 1923 (aged 55)
Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Morgan County, Indiana, USA Add to Map
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MORGANTOWN NATIVE DIES

DANVILLE, ILL., May 17 - - Frank E. Knight, native of Morgantown, Ind., where he was born in 1867 and a veteran telegraph operator, died Thursday morning at his home in Vermillion Heights, a suburb, after an illness of several months.

For twelve years he was the first trick telegraph operator for the Big Four railway here in the yard office, coming here from Indianapolis where he had worked for the Belt railway for a number of years.

The body will be taken on Saturday forenoon to Morgantown for the interment.

One daughter, Mrs. Gail Sallee, resides in Indianapolis.

(Submitted by: #49446328 Mavvy Vasquez)
MORGANTOWN NATIVE DIES

DANVILLE, ILL., May 17 - - Frank E. Knight, native of Morgantown, Ind., where he was born in 1867 and a veteran telegraph operator, died Thursday morning at his home in Vermillion Heights, a suburb, after an illness of several months.

For twelve years he was the first trick telegraph operator for the Big Four railway here in the yard office, coming here from Indianapolis where he had worked for the Belt railway for a number of years.

The body will be taken on Saturday forenoon to Morgantown for the interment.

One daughter, Mrs. Gail Sallee, resides in Indianapolis.

(Submitted by: #49446328 Mavvy Vasquez)


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