William T. Knott

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1822-10-10

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1899-02-07

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"William T. Knott" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00009967, (accessed April 22, 2025).

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Lebanon, Marion County, Kentucky, teacher, farmer, and railroad agent. Washington County, Kentucky native. Son of Joseph Percy Knott and Maria Irvine McElroy Knott. Married Marion B. McElroy on July 11, 1847. Father of Joseph McElroy Knott, William Sneed Knott, Kate Grundy Knott, Jennie Marion Knott. School teacher at the Lebanon Seminary in Marion County in 1850. Owned three enslaved persons in Marion County in 1850. Worked with the Lebanon Branch of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad from 1858 to 1890. Farmer in Marion County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons in Marion County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 398B.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, p. 615.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 2, p. 721.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, District 2, p. 496A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Marion County, Lebanon, p. 40A.
Biographical Cyclopedia of the Commonwealth of Kentucky (Chicago and Philadelphia: John M. Gresham Company, 1896), 413-415.
Find A Grave, "William Thomas Knott (1822-Death)," Memorial #86744568, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86744568/william-thomas-knott (accessed December 24, 2018).

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