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SUBJ: In Brazil: Mary "Caroline" CARLOS (b 1858-?) m 1874 Wilbur McKnight (1848-1935), both born in USA & dying in Brazil
I found reference to a Mary Caroline "Caroline" CARLOS in the following book:
McKnight Genealogy 1754-1981:
The documented story of the descendants of James McKnight (1754-1835) of Adams and Crawford Counties, Pennsylvania [USA] and his wives, Mary Sterrett McKnight and Lovina (Leonard) Weller McKnight
Compiled by Lilla Giles McKnight, Remsen, New York [USA]
and
William Bruce Moore, Meadville, Pennsylvania [USA]
Self-published by Lilla Giles McKnight, 1981
1st edition
ASIN: 0960718400
Call #: 929.273M218I
Author's email address used to be and still may be lmcklicht@aol.com
Here is some of the Wilbur Fisk McKnight/Mary Caroline "Caroline" Carlos family tree quoted from this book. If you need more info, there is LOTS more, before and after this couple. You probably can get this book via Inter Library Loan at your local library, or contact the author to see if she still has copies to sell.
Sincerely,
L. J. Shulman
Gilroy, California, USA
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p. 136 & 137
Calvin McKnight, son of Thomas & Margaret F. (Stewart) McKnight, was b March 15 1826, McKnightown, Adams County, PA [Pennsylvania, USA]. On Oct 9 1845, at the age of 19 he married Isabella Wenk (Wank) of Wenksville, Adams County, PA [Pennsylvania, USA].
Calvin went west with his family. In 1851, at the time of his father's death, he was in Missouri [USA]. From here he went to Texas [USA]. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he was farming near Dresden, Navarro City, Texas, where he enlisted in Capt. Samuel Wright's Company, Texas Cavalry, Colonel N. M. Buford, Commander, Confederate Army. His papers describe him as 36 years old in 1862, height 5' 10", gray eyes, black hair. He was stationed in Dallas, Texas. During the war, General Sherman's armies devastated the area, burning all the plantations. So after the war, Calvin and his brother Thomas joined other families from the South and emigrated to Brazil.
Judith McKnight Jones, a descendent of Calvin, has written in Portuguese a book about the families and their descendants who emigrated to Brazil. Excerpts have been translated. (p. 90) "Arrived in New York [City] but too late for the boat to Brazil and need to wait almost a month for another one. They stayed in a hotel on Canal Street [New York City] and used the time for visiting their family in Pennsylvania from which they had left many years ago for Texas [USA]. In spite of the war, they were received well and many religious institutions helped them with many things including books." (p. 213) "The MacKnights began their life badly in Brazil because when they arrived their daughter Emma was ill and they couldn't get proper medical attention. The girl died. Because of the illness of Emma, they were late and the McMullen Colony left without them. In Rio [Rio de Janeiro], Calvin McKnight received an appointment to administer a farm close to Angra Dos Reis in Ilha Grande. They planted sugar cane and made sugar and an alcoholic drink called Pinga. Traveling there in little boats, they began a better life than the McMullen Colony had. They had a salary and a share of the profits of the farm and the use of the house. Everything went well except the feeling of isolation, the lack of friends of their country, lack of anyone speaking their language. The Calvin McKnight family was large. Wilbur was sixteen years old and was almost a man. He helped his father administer the farm. The women learned many good Brazilian dishes, how fish is made with bananas. There was a man on the farm, a member of the colony who didn't like Calvin. One day he ambushed Calvin almost killing him. Calvin killed this man. Some friends took Calvin far away and hid him to await trial. Finally he was freed for manslaughter in self defense. That was the end of an adventure in Angra Dos Reis. They went to Santa Barbara where they had friends." Calvin died 1893 in Brazil.
Children of Calvin & Isabella (Wank) McKnight
5.24 i. Wilbur Fisk McKnight, b 1848; m July 17 1874, Mary Caroline ["Caroline"] CARLOS in Brazil; d 1935.
5.25 ii. Emma McKnight, b ca 1851; d Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; bur Cemetery for Strangers, ca 1866.
5.26 iii. Josephine McKnight, b Jan 21 1854, Texas; m in Brazil, Adoniana Judson Pyles; d Santa Barbara, Brazil, Aug 8 1935.
5.27 iv. Fleming Margaret McKnight, m Ezekiel Pyles, brother of Adoniana Judson Pyles. Both d Nov 1916.
5.28 v. Madora McKnight; m Leonidas S. Bowen; d Santa Barbara, Brazil.
5.29 vi. Amanda McKnight; b Oct 27 1862, Texas; m George Diversi; d Nov 13 1929, Santa Amaro, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
5.30 vii. Amazona McKnight; m William Lorrain McKnight (see #5.21) [her 1st cousin].
p. 153
5.24 Wilbur Fisk McKnight
Wilbur Fish McKnight, son of Calvin and Isabella (Wank) McKnight, was born in 1848 possibly in Adams County, PA, or perhaps in Missouri where his father was in 1851. He married in Brazil, June 17 1874, Mary Caroline CARLOS. The wedding was officiated by Rev. Julius Newman, Pastor of the Methodist Church in Sao Paulo. Judith McKnight Jones says in her book "Wilbur was 27 and Caroline 16 years old." She further relates, (p. 51) "Also in the South (U.S.A.) were many Italian immigrants and most had a place in the war. Among them a person named CARLOS had a wife and many children. After he died in the war, John and Margaret Perkins took care of the little girl Caroline CARLOS. And in the years following, she went with them to Brazil and married Wilbur McKnight."
The McKnights of Brazil and the United States kept in touch with each other during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Some even visited each other. Wilbur wrote Sarah Maxwell McKnight, my great grandmother, Nov 11 1917 from Santa Barbara, Essado de Sao Paulo, Brazil saying "After a lapse of several years, I haven't had any news of any of you so I decided to write you a few lines to find out if you all are still in the land of the living. I hope this may find all well and enjoying good health as it leaves all here in our usual good health. My brother in law E. B. Pyles and wife passed away in November. They died in about 18 days' difference of each other. I have been off from home for two years on a place of my son John but have come home again as I am getting on in years. I was very sick from a relapse from influenza but am all right again. I sincerely hope that none of your family have gone to the war (sic WW I) for it's bad enough at home. It is to be hoped it will not continue much longer. Write and let me know how you are all getting on. I had a letter from my son Prudente that he is employed in the Company Armaz in Rio Grande de Sul. He writes they have had bad times there on account of a strike among the laboring class. They have torn up Rio roads and killed several persons here also. The people have been doing a good deal of mischief on account of the German houses and destroy things in general. I will now close hoping to hear from you soon. From your nephew, Wilbur F. McKnight." Wilbur died in Brazil in 1935.
Children of Wilbur Fisk McKnight and Mary Caroline ["Caroline"] (CARLOS) McKnight
5.69 i. John Calvin McKnight, b March 1876; bapt 2nd Sunday of March 1884; m Elizabeth McAlpine, b 1880, Santa Barbara, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
5.70 ii. David Carlos McKnight, bapt 2nd Sunday of March 1884; m Ethel Kennerly.
5.71 iii. Margaret Isabel McKnight; m Charles Morrison.
5.72 iv. Wilbur Fisk McKnight; died young.
5.73 v. Henry Oscar McKnight; m Nettie Thomas.
5.74 vi. Annie Lou "Lula" McKnight; m Orville Miller.
5.75 vii. Marvin Edward McKnight; m Helen Thomas.
5.76 viii. Harvey Monroe McKnight; m Mary Harris.
5.77 ix. Elsie McKnight; m Arthur Pfaffenbach, a German.
5.78 x. Prudente McKnight; unmarried.
5.79 xi. Alice McKnight.
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