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Submitted: 11/17/19 • Approved: 11/19/19 • Last Updated: 11/22/19 • R239760-G0-S3
February 28, 1851 - February 17, 1940
Son of William and Mary Ann Jenkins Knight
Husband of Elizabeth Elvy Fisher Knight
ERA LEADER, Washington Parish, Louisiana
02-22-1940
William Penn Knight, resident of the 6th ward, died Saturday. Interment was in the Ellis cemetery.
He was 88 years, 11 months and 17days old.
Survivors are his 11 children, Mrs. John M. Fussell, Mrs. Ed Bailey, Mrs. E.C. Bannister, and Miss Elva Knight, Esco, Alton, Purcell, and Dupree Knight, all of Franklinton, Mrs. W.A. Brooks and Mrs. Zeke McGehee of Bogalusa, and Mrs. Maude Bartley of Raleigh, N.C., and a number of great grandchildren and other relatives.
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Contributed on 11/17/19 by billsully060
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