- MRS. MARY ANN KNILE, widow, Sec. 29; P.O. Beloit; born in
Norfolk, England, in 1812;
- the daughter of John and Mary STERRY; she married in England,
in 1837, Henry KNILE, who was born in Glouchestershire, England,
in 1806; in 1849, they came to America and located in Genesee
Co., N.Y.; in 1853, they came to Beloit, and her husband bought
the east half of Sec. 29, forty acres of which was improved and
a residence on it, which they occupied for six years; Mr. KNILE
died in this house in 1858, and is buried in Beloit; after her
husband's death, she built, in 1859, the residence she now occupies,
with barns; she now owns this residence and ninety-one acres
of land, having sold the rest at different times. She had eight
children, four now living; her son Thomas married Lida WAGGONER;
has three children, and is now living at his mother's house;
he enlisted in the 2d W.V.I.; was with his regiment two years,
and at both the battles of Bull Run, and other engagements; her
son Sidney enlisted in 4th Wis. Battery and died at Portsmouth,
Va., of typhoid pneumonia.
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- Taken from "The History of Rock County, Wis."
(c)1879, p. 755.
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- Courtesy of Carol
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