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Martha Caroline Ann Sanders Knight

18 Oct 1832 – 14 Feb 1880

Birth18 Oct 1832
Death14 Feb 1880
CemeteryGrice Cemetery
Grice , Upshur County , Texas , USA
Added byRon Wade on 25 Jan 2011
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26966523

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Born in Bedford Co., Tennesse, the daughter of William Hamilton Sanders (1805 – 1836) and Mary Elizabeth Hooper Sanders (1811 – 1853). Martha was a "Citizen of the Republic of Texas" early in life moving to the new country of Texas in 1836. Her grandfather, David Sanders (1775-1815) served in the War of 1812 in the Tennessee 1st Regiment Militia and died in the Battle of New Orleans under Maj. General Carroll. Her maternal grandfather was Richard Hooper (1782-1855), soldier (served in the War of Texas Independence in the Battle of San Jacinto), surveyor and congressman was elected to the First Congress of the Republic of Texas as a Representative from Shelby County. He was the Surveyor who marked the boundary line between Shelby and Panola Counties (43.5 miles). She married Thomas Jefferson Knight in 1848 in Shelby Co., Tx. and they had eleven children, William Alfred Knight (1850 – 1880), James Jefferson Knight (1852 – 1918), George Washington Knight )1854 – 1881), Mirah Elizabeth Knight (1855 – 1885), Margaret M. Knight (1857 – 1880), Mary Jane Knight (1860 – 1880), Rebecca C. Knight (1861 – 1883), Area Addie E. Knight (1863 – 1929),David Benjamin Franklin Knight (1866 – 1905), Bell Z. Knight (1870 – 1880), and Henry Milton Knight (1875 – 1933). As a result of her grandfather's service in the Texas War of Independence she received an inheritance of land in Travis County. She was active in the Enon Baptist Church with her husband and they donated land for the current church. Biography by Ron Wade

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CITIZEN OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS WIFE OF THOMAS JEFFERSON KNIGHT

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