CASS CITY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927, page 1
Ephraim A. Knight Died at Age of 85
Ephraim A. Knight passed away Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Duncan Battel, in Elkland township, at the age of 85 years. He had been in poor health for several months. Funeral services will be conducted at the Battel residence this (Friday) morning at ten thirty o'clock by Rev, P. J. Allured, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Ephraim A. Knight was born at Milton, Ontario, on April 6, 1842, the youngest of eight children. He was married in 1874 to Martha A. Morris of Alton, Ontario. To this union were born three sons and four daughters. The family moved to Marlette, Mich., in 1885, and the following year to Cass City. Mrs. Knight died here in 1899. The father is survived by two sons and three daughters: Mrs. Maybelle Moore of Detroit, William Morris Knight of Seattle, Wash., Robert J. Knight and Mrs. Anna A. Battel of Cass City and Mrs. Martha Nesbit of Pontiac.
Mr. Knight was an active member and an ordained elder of the Presbyterian church. All his life he was unusually interested and active in thewelfare of his home community, promoting better school methods and farmers' clubs and setting a good example in the highest standards of living. He has left to his family and community an inheritance of Christian ideals which will make the world eternally better for his having lived in it so long and so well.Biographical sketch of Ephraim Knight excerpted from 1904 "Plat book of Huron County, Michigan :…with biographical sketches" by E. B. (Ernest B.) Foote (Philadelphia, Penn. : Imperial Publishing Co., 1904), on page 85.
Ephraim A. Knight Died at Age of 85
Ephraim A. Knight passed away Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Duncan Battel, in Elkland township, at the age of 85 years. He had been in poor health for several months. Funeral services will be conducted at the Battel residence this (Friday) morning at ten thirty o'clock by Rev, P. J. Allured, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Ephraim A. Knight was born at Milton, Ontario, on April 6, 1842, the youngest of eight children. He was married in 1874 to Martha A. Morris of Alton, Ontario. To this union were born three sons and four daughters. The family moved to Marlette, Mich., in 1885, and the following year to Cass City. Mrs. Knight died here in 1899. The father is survived by two sons and three daughters: Mrs. Maybelle Moore of Detroit, William Morris Knight of Seattle, Wash., Robert J. Knight and Mrs. Anna A. Battel of Cass City and Mrs. Martha Nesbit of Pontiac.
Mr. Knight was an active member and an ordained elder of the Presbyterian church. All his life he was unusually interested and active in thewelfare of his home community, promoting better school methods and farmers' clubs and setting a good example in the highest standards of living. He has left to his family and community an inheritance of Christian ideals which will make the world eternally better for his having lived in it so long and so well.Biographical sketch of Ephraim Knight excerpted from 1904 "Plat book of Huron County, Michigan :…with biographical sketches" by E. B. (Ernest B.) Foote (Philadelphia, Penn. : Imperial Publishing Co., 1904), on page 85.
CASS CITY CHRONICLE, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1927, page 1
Ephraim A. Knight Died at Age of 85
Ephraim A. Knight passed away Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Duncan Battel, in Elkland township, at the age of 85 years. He had been in poor health for several months. Funeral services will be conducted at the Battel residence this (Friday) morning at ten thirty o'clock by Rev, P. J. Allured, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Ephraim A. Knight was born at Milton, Ontario, on April 6, 1842, the youngest of eight children. He was married in 1874 to Martha A. Morris of Alton, Ontario. To this union were born three sons and four daughters. The family moved to Marlette, Mich., in 1885, and the following year to Cass City. Mrs. Knight died here in 1899. The father is survived by two sons and three daughters: Mrs. Maybelle Moore of Detroit, William Morris Knight of Seattle, Wash., Robert J. Knight and Mrs. Anna A. Battel of Cass City and Mrs. Martha Nesbit of Pontiac.
Mr. Knight was an active member and an ordained elder of the Presbyterian church. All his life he was unusually interested and active in thewelfare of his home community, promoting better school methods and farmers' clubs and setting a good example in the highest standards of living. He has left to his family and community an inheritance of Christian ideals which will make the world eternally better for his having lived in it so long and so well.Biographical sketch of Ephraim Knight excerpted from 1904 "Plat book of Huron County, Michigan :…with biographical sketches" by E. B. (Ernest B.) Foote (Philadelphia, Penn. : Imperial Publishing Co., 1904), on page 85.
Ephraim A. Knight Died at Age of 85
Ephraim A. Knight passed away Tuesday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Duncan Battel, in Elkland township, at the age of 85 years. He had been in poor health for several months. Funeral services will be conducted at the Battel residence this (Friday) morning at ten thirty o'clock by Rev, P. J. Allured, pastor of the Presbyterian church, Ephraim A. Knight was born at Milton, Ontario, on April 6, 1842, the youngest of eight children. He was married in 1874 to Martha A. Morris of Alton, Ontario. To this union were born three sons and four daughters. The family moved to Marlette, Mich., in 1885, and the following year to Cass City. Mrs. Knight died here in 1899. The father is survived by two sons and three daughters: Mrs. Maybelle Moore of Detroit, William Morris Knight of Seattle, Wash., Robert J. Knight and Mrs. Anna A. Battel of Cass City and Mrs. Martha Nesbit of Pontiac.
Mr. Knight was an active member and an ordained elder of the Presbyterian church. All his life he was unusually interested and active in thewelfare of his home community, promoting better school methods and farmers' clubs and setting a good example in the highest standards of living. He has left to his family and community an inheritance of Christian ideals which will make the world eternally better for his having lived in it so long and so well.Biographical sketch of Ephraim Knight excerpted from 1904 "Plat book of Huron County, Michigan :…with biographical sketches" by E. B. (Ernest B.) Foote (Philadelphia, Penn. : Imperial Publishing Co., 1904), on page 85.
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