Fernando Joshua “Josh” KnightAge: 69 years1857–1926
- Name
- Fernando Joshua “Josh” Knight
- Given names
- Fernando Joshua
- Surname
- Knight
- Nickname
- Josh
 Birth | March 14, 1857 |
 Marriage | Amanda Isabel “Bell” Latimer — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859Note: In 1857-1859, there was an extremely severe worldwide outbreak of influenza - http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3884 |
| Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 4 years)Note: In the spring of 1861, tensions between the northern and southern United States over issues including state's right versus federal authority, westward expansion and slavery exploded into the American Civil War - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War |
| Historical Event | The Alaska Purchase 1867 (Age 9 years)Note: The Alaska Purchase was the purchase of 586,412 square miles of new territory by the United States from the Russian Empire (a bargain at two cents an acre) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic 1867 (Age 9 years)Note: 3,093 perished from yellow fever in New Orleans - http://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/306 |
| Historical Event | Transcontinental Railroad completed 1869 (Age 11 years)Note: The First Transcontinental Railroad was a 1,907-mile contiguous railroad line constructed between 1863 and 1869 across the western United States to connect the Pacific coast with the existing Eastern U.S. rail network - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Transcontinental_Railroad |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 20 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
 Birth of a son#1 | James Arthur Knight March 8, 1884 (Age 26 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 41 years)Note: The Spanish-American War was a conflict in 1898 between Spain and the United States, the result of American intervention in the Cuban War of Independence - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 58 years)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 59 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 60 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Death of a wife | Amanda Isabel “Bell” Latimer February 16, 1923 (Age 65 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Mabel L Knight October 11, 1924 (Age 67 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #2 | James Wiley Knight March 8, 1926 (Age 68 years) |
 Death | December 28, 1926 (Age 69 years) |
| Family with Amanda Isabel “Bell” Latimer |
| himself |
Fernando Joshua “Josh” Knight Birth: March 14, 1857 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States Death: December 28, 1926 — Waverly, Humphreys, Tennessee, United States |
| wife |
Amanda Isabel “Bell” Latimer Birth: November 2, 1860 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States Death: February 16, 1923 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States |
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Marriage: — |
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| son |
James Arthur Knight Birth: March 8, 1884 26 23 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States Death: November 2, 1948 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States |