Margaret BrownAge: 81 years1840–1922
- Name
- Margaret Brown
- Given names
- Margaret
- Surname
- Brown
- Married name
- Margaret Knight
 Birth | September 22, 1840 |
 Marriage | George Wade Knight — View this family unknown |
 Historical Event | Mexican-American War from 1846 to 1848 (Age 5 years)Note: The Mexican-American War was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States from 1846 to 1848 in the wake of the 1845 U.S. annexation of Texas, which Mexico considered part of its territory despite the 1836 Texas Revolution - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican%E2%80%93American_War |
| Historical Event | Influenza Epidemic between 1857 and 1859 (Age 16 years)Note: 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 20 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 26 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 26 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 28 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 |
 Birth of a son#1 | William Benjamin Knight October 20, 1871 (Age 31 years) |
| Historical Event | Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 1878 (Age 37 years)Note: Over 13,000 deaths occurred from yellow fever in lower Mississippi Valley - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_yellow_fever |
| Death of a husband | George Wade Knight September 17, 1893 (Age 52 years) |
| Marriage of a child | William Benjamin Knight — Mary Francis “Mollie” McMillan — View this family September 3, 1896 (Age 55 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #1 | Lola Knight March 12, 1897 (Age 56 years) twin: Lora Knight
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| Birth of a granddaughter #2 | Lora Knight March 12, 1897 (Age 56 years) twin: Lola Knight
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| Historical Event | Spanish-American War between April 1898 and August 1898 (Age 57 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 |
| Birth of a grandson #3 | George Francis “Bear” Knight August 11, 1899 (Age 58 years) |
| Birth of a granddaughter #4 | Margaret Evelyn Knight March 29, 1903 (Age 62 years) |
| Birth of a grandson #5 | Garner Benjamin Knight May 10, 1910 (Age 69 years) |
| Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 75 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 76 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 77 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 27, 1922 (Age 81 years) |
| Family with George Wade Knight |
| husband |
George Wade Knight Birth: February 2, 1839 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States Death: September 17, 1893 — Houston, Tennessee, United States |
| herself |
Margaret Brown Birth: September 22, 1840 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States Death: February 27, 1922 — Dickson, Tennessee, United States |
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Marriage: — |
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| son |
William Benjamin Knight Birth: October 20, 1871 32 31 — Humphreys, Tennessee, United States Death: September 20, 1932 — Houston, Tennessee, United States |