Gathered here is the most comprehensive repository of materials on the life of Samuel Lee Knight, uncle of Adaline Knight (wife of Utah Pioneer Gilbert Belnap). Click on the links below to access biographical and historical information about Samuel Lee Knight:
Birth Records
- Rizpah Lee Knight Family Bible [TO COME]
- Town Birth Record (filed under Huntington, MA) (Ancestry.com)
Letters
- Samuel Lee Knight (son) to Rizpah Lee (handwritten transcription; not in original handwriting), 1830s?
- Transcription
Census Records
- 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Kankakee, Kankakee, IL
- 1870 U.S. Federal Census, Kankakee, Kankakee, IL (29 Jun 1870)
- 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Kankakee, Kankakee, IL (2 Jun 1880)
Death Records
Photographs and Images
Portraits
- Samuel Lee Knight (image previously owned by Martha Jane Belnap Hammon and her daughter Jane Hammon Baker)
Headstones
- Headstone: Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, Kankakee, IL: Samuel Lee Knight (from FindAGrave)
- Headstone: Mound Grove Cemetery, Kankakee, Kankakee, IL: Samuel Lee Knight and Lucena [sic] P. Knight (from FindAGrave)
Spouse
- Lucinda Lambert Parker (about 1811-1888)
Children
- Camden Knight (1830-1897)
- Solon Knight (1832-1895)
Parents
Last update: 8 Sep 2022