Chester Knott was the son of W.S. Knott and Josephine Matheny who were divorced in Oregon in 1900.
Chester Knott, born in Oregon in 1891, grew-up in the Colton, Whitman, WA area with his mother who eventually married Joseph Copenhaver.
As a young man Chester worked in Colton as an auto mechanic.
His 1942 Draft Registration for World War II listed him as a single, 51 year old and unemployed man living in Spokane.
By the 1960s Chester was living along the railroad tracks in Almota, Whitman, WA and was displaced in 1969 by the dam construction and related work on the railroad tracks.
This photo of Chester standing by his shack was taken by the official photographer recording the Camas Prairie Relocation Project of 1969-1970.
Chester died at Clarkston in 1973 and was buried by the State in the Vineland Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
Chester Knott, born in Oregon in 1891, grew-up in the Colton, Whitman, WA area with his mother who eventually married Joseph Copenhaver.
As a young man Chester worked in Colton as an auto mechanic.
His 1942 Draft Registration for World War II listed him as a single, 51 year old and unemployed man living in Spokane.
By the 1960s Chester was living along the railroad tracks in Almota, Whitman, WA and was displaced in 1969 by the dam construction and related work on the railroad tracks.
This photo of Chester standing by his shack was taken by the official photographer recording the Camas Prairie Relocation Project of 1969-1970.
Chester died at Clarkston in 1973 and was buried by the State in the Vineland Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
Chester Knott was the son of W.S. Knott and Josephine Matheny who were divorced in Oregon in 1900.
Chester Knott, born in Oregon in 1891, grew-up in the Colton, Whitman, WA area with his mother who eventually married Joseph Copenhaver.
As a young man Chester worked in Colton as an auto mechanic.
His 1942 Draft Registration for World War II listed him as a single, 51 year old and unemployed man living in Spokane.
By the 1960s Chester was living along the railroad tracks in Almota, Whitman, WA and was displaced in 1969 by the dam construction and related work on the railroad tracks.
This photo of Chester standing by his shack was taken by the official photographer recording the Camas Prairie Relocation Project of 1969-1970.
Chester died at Clarkston in 1973 and was buried by the State in the Vineland Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
Chester Knott, born in Oregon in 1891, grew-up in the Colton, Whitman, WA area with his mother who eventually married Joseph Copenhaver.
As a young man Chester worked in Colton as an auto mechanic.
His 1942 Draft Registration for World War II listed him as a single, 51 year old and unemployed man living in Spokane.
By the 1960s Chester was living along the railroad tracks in Almota, Whitman, WA and was displaced in 1969 by the dam construction and related work on the railroad tracks.
This photo of Chester standing by his shack was taken by the official photographer recording the Camas Prairie Relocation Project of 1969-1970.
Chester died at Clarkston in 1973 and was buried by the State in the Vineland Cemetery in an unmarked grave.
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