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Emma Jane Turnbow Knight

Birth	:	15 Apr 1848 Covington County, Mississippi, USA
Death	:	23 Jun 1915 Antonito, Conejos County, Colorado, USA
Burial	:	Sanford Cemetery, Sanford, Conejos County, USA
Coordinate	:	37.2374992, -105.9103012
Plot	:	2727-C
Description	:	Sanford Cemetery Record. Record of Death, Sanford Ward Record of Members, Film #0002771. (age 67 yrs.) Emma Jane Turnbow Emma Jane Turnbow was born April 15, 1848 in Williamsburg, Covington, Mississippi, the fourth child of Joseph Turnbow and Rebecca Cole George. Little is known of Emma Jane's childhood. Her father Joseph died of natural causes in 1863, leaving his wife Rebecca with small children still to be raised. This was in the middle of the Civil War. Knowing the family was in dire straits, Emma Jane's oldest brother, Pleasant Childers Turnbow, deserted the Confederate... Read More	Sanford Cemetery Record. Record of Death, Sanford Ward Record of Members, Film #0002771. (age 67 yrs.) Emma Jane Turnbow Emma Jane Turnbow was born April 15, 1848 in Williamsburg, Covington, Mississippi, the fourth child of Joseph Turnbow and Rebecca Cole George. Little is known of Emma Jane's childhood. Her father Joseph died of natural causes in 1863, leaving his wife Rebecca with small children still to be raised. This was in the middle of the Civil War. Knowing the family was in dire straits, Emma Jane's oldest brother, Pleasant Childers Turnbow, deserted the Confederate Army to return home and care for the family. In later years, Emma Jane tells the story of twice saving her brother from capture by the Confederate soldiers who came looking for deserters. Once she stampeded some cattle to throw them off track, and another time she hid her brother between feather bed mattresses. Emma Jane obviously had spunk! (Taken from a history written by Geneva Anderson Joseph, granddaughter of Pleasant Turnbow.) The Eldon Knight website at http://www.eldonknight.us tells how five wagons made the trek to Texas in 1865. One held Emma Jane's mother and two younger brothers, two held Jane's sisters and their husbands. Jane's brother-in-law and his family were in a 4th wagon, and Frank Knight and Emma Jane were in the 5th wagon. Frank and Jane were married in 1865, location unknown. Frank and Jane lived in Texas for 10 years, during which time Jane gave birth to 3 daughters and one son. Their first two daughters died young and are buried in Texas. Emma Jane's mother Rebecca died in Texas in 1869, and in the 1870 census two of Jane's bothers are living with her and Frank. Sometime around 1875, the Knight family moved back to Mississippi, this time settling in Jasper County. It was here that the Knights came in contact with Mormon missionaries and were converted to Mormonism. Frank was baptized in 1881 and Emma Jane in 1882, after giving birth to their 7th child. In 1882, Frank and Jane sold most of their possessions and boarded a train to southern Colorado. They became early settlers in the San Luis Valley, CO. In 1889, Emma Jane gave birth to her last child, a son who died shortly after birth. At the same time, another woman in the community passed away a month after giving birth to a daughter, Mary Philanda Woodward, or Little Mae as she was known. Emma Jane nursed and cared for Little Mae and she remained with the Knight family until she was 12 or 13 years old. Little Mae's father was William Andrew Woodward who later married the Knight's oldest living daughter, Pleasant Ann. As faithful members of their religion, Frank and Jane planned and saved for the time when they could have their marriage solemnized in a Mormon temple. They fulfilled this dream on Oct. 15, 1890 in the Logan Temple, Logan, Cache, Utah. Emma Jane's health failed the last few years of her life. She died on June 23, 1915 at the home of her daughter, Pleasant Ann, in Antonito, Conejos, Colorado. Both George Franklin and Emma Jane Turnbow Knight are buried in the Sanford Cemetery, Sanford, Conejos, Colorado. bio by Marilyn Woodward Blumell - August 1, 2016

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Emma Jane Turnbow Knight death on 23 Jun 1915 in Antonito, Conejos County, Colorado, USA
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Latitude: 37.2374992
Longitude: -105.9103012

Family Members:

Spouse

George Franklin “Frank” Knight

(1843 - 1926)

Children

Pleasant Ann Knight Woodward

(1871 - 1948)

William Alexander Knight

(1873 - 1901)

Margaret Rebecca “Maggie” Knigjt Pryor

(1878 - 1949)

Joseph James Franklin Knight

(1879 - 1926)

John Samuel Knight

(1881 - 1955)

Ephraim Knight

(1889 - unknow)

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