Son of Thomas Jefferson Knight and Martha Ann Sanders. Father of Morris, Thomas Regan, Lloyd, Clyde, Berttie Lee and Mary Cathren, who died soon after birth, along with her mother, Rebecca Cathren McCasland. An extraordinary man, Henry was an 'ornery', 'fractious', and 'high-tempered man'. When he told his kids to do something, they knew he meant business. He was quick to correct them if they didn't. After his wife Rebecca died in 1915, he raised his family, saying he didn't want any other woman to rule over his children. He did not remarry. He was a school teacher, worked for the post office delivering mail to and from the train station, a farmer and raised horses, owned and operated a dray wagon (hauling trash or whatever), carpenter and 'night watchman' or 'jailor' for sheriff Buck Garrett in Ardmore, Ok. He wore a gun as did most other people in that day. Henry was in Texas, Upshur Co, in 1910 according to the 1910 Texas census, with his first 4 children. Was a policeman in Ardmore, Oklahoma between 1912 and 1914. Henry was my mother's great uncle,who married my father's grandmother's neice, a long time before mom and dad were born, let alone married. Strange how families mix..

The picture that I have posted of the rock at the foot of Henry's grave has an interesting story. This was the rock that Henry used as Rebecca's gravestone in 1915 at Graham, Ok.. He had carved her initials into it. If you click on the picture, you can make out the initials Henry carved on it to serve as her headstone. R C K. After his death someone moved the stone to the foot of his grave. Don't you just adore a love story?

I am especially attached to this man. He was my ggg uncle in my mother's Knight's and he was married to my 1st cousin twice removed from my Daddy's McCasland's, long before my mother and daddy were born and came together to be married.