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Jesse Knight
Jesse Knight was born on 29 Aug 1893 in Coaltown, Lawrence Co., to James & Belle Lumley
Knight. He married Sarah Jane Curtis on 19 Dec 1919.
They had the following children: Clarence Earl and Charles Leroy both
of Volant; Ethel Masajada of New Castle; Ruth Butler, Mercer; Esther Hanna, Volant; & Wanda Rummell, Arlington, VA.
Jesse
Knight served during WWI as a private in Company C 12th Machine Gun BN with the US Army in Germany & France.
He was
a retired coalminer and a member of the United Mine Workers of America. He was a member of the Richard Craft Post of the American
Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars & a member of the Stanley Snyder Post of #2 Mine.
Jesse Knight died on 17 Apr 1972
and is buried in Carpenter Cemetery.
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