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Addie Area Knight Wade

13 Oct 1863 – 24 Jul 1929

Birth	13 Oct 1863
Death	24 Jul 1929
Cemetery	Grice Cemetery Grice , Upshur County , Texas , USA
Added by	Ron Wade on 21 May 2008
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/26975304

Bio

Area Addie E. Knight was born to Thomas Jefferson Knight (1827-1892) and Martha Ann Sanders (1832-1880) and married first Lenard G. Gear 29 Jun 1881 in Upshur Co., Tx. and had 2 children, Arie P. Gear (1882 – 1917) and Jeff L. Gear (1884 – 1885). After Mr. Gear's death in 1883 she married the widower of her sister, Mirah, Whitfield A. Wade (1847-1928) also in Upshur Co., and they had an additional 7 children. She was a beloved mother and grandmother and a hearty woman. Once on her Rosewood home she heard a ruckus outside and found a huge snake had entered into her chicken house and part of the snake was hanging out a hole in the house and she dragged it out through the hole and disposed of it with an ax. Her father named her at birth for an old Indian lady who saved his life when he was near death on his way home at the end of the Civil War. Her full name was Eary Airy Area Edro Entrest Ann Gear Knight Wade but she was known simply as "Aunt Addie."

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Family

Parents

• Thomas Jefferson Knight 1827–1892
• Martha Caroline Ann Sanders Knight 1832–1880

Spouse

• Whitfield Anthony "Whit" Wade 1847–1928 FaG
• Lenard G Gear 1856–1883 FaG

Siblings

• Thomas Jefferson Knight Jr 1848–1865
• William Alfred Knight 1850–1880
• James Jefferson "Jimmy" Knight 1852–1918
• George Washington Knight 1854–1881
• Mirah Elizabeth Knight Wade 1855–1885
• Margaret M Knight McAllister 1857–1885
• Mary Jane Knight Bryce 1860–1880
• Rebecca C Knight Bryce 1860–1883
• Rev David Benjamin Franklin Knight 1866–1905
• Bell Z Knight 1870–1880
• Henry Milton Knight 1875–1933

Children

• Arie Gear Dugger 1882–1917 FaG
• Jeffie L Gear 1884–1885 FaG
• Chester L. Wade 1886–1906 FaG
• Charles Milton Wade 1889–1970 FaG
• Zelma Wade Hymer 1891–1964 FaG
• Lillie Ruth Wade Barton 1897–1977 FaG
• Cullis Wade 1900–1969 FaG
• Preston Vernon Wade 1903–1957 FaG
• Burchell Bennie Wade 1906–1983 FaG

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