Amanda Isabel “Bell” LatimerAge: 62 years1860–1923
- Name
- Amanda Isabel “Bell” Latimer
- Given names
- Amanda Isabel
- Surname
- Latimer
- Nickname
- Bell
- Married name
- Amanda Isabel Knight
 Birth | November 2, 1860 |
 Marriage | Fernando Joshua “Josh” Knight — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | American Civil War between April 1861 and May 1865 (Age 4 months)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 6 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 6 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 8 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 17 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 23 years) |
| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 37 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 55 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 56 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 57 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 | February 16, 1923 (Age 62 years) |
| Family with Fernando Joshua “Josh” Knight |
| husband |
Fernando Joshua “Josh” Knight Birth: March 14, 1857 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States Death: December 28, 1926 — Waverly, Humphreys, Tennessee, United States |
| herself |
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 |