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Joseph Knox

Male 1805 - 1868  (~ 63 years)


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  • Name Joseph Knox 
    Born Jun 1805 
    Gender Male 
    Died 20 Jun 1868  Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I3586  MyTree
    Last Modified 15 Aug 2009 

    Father James Knox,   b. Abt 1761, NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Nov 1842, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 81 years) 
    Mother Hannah McFalls,   b. 1767, NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Feb 1847, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married 1797  SC or NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2330  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Violet B. Simeril (Simeral),   d. 1849, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 7 Dec 1838  Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Mecklenburg Marriages 1783 - 1868:
      Knox, Joseph & Simeral, 7 Dec 1838, Henry H. Knox bondsman, B. Oates - C.C.C. wit.
    Children 
     1. James F. Knox,   b. Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 May 1862, Williamsburg, VA (in the Civil War) Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. John S. Knox,   b. Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   bur. Pleasant Hill Cemetery, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Nancy Hannah Knox,   b. 26 Oct 1839, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Sep 1910, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years)
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 
    Family ID F2331  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 2 Cynthia T. LNU (Knox),   b. 24 Feb 1828, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Jun 1884, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 56 years) 
    Married Abt 1851  prob Yorktown, SC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Tabitha Knox,   b. 1851, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     2. William Knox,   b. 29 Aug 1861, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Mar 1904, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years)
     3. Charles Lee Knox,   b. 7 Jan 1867, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Mar 1933, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., NC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years)
    Last Modified 17 Jul 2017 
    Family ID F2332  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • Joseph Knox, son of James and Hannah Knox, was named in his father's
      will as receiving the plantation on which the father now lives. This
      is evident in the 1840 census listing of old James and Hannah as there
      is male living in the household age 30-40 and 1 female age 15-20 and a
      female under 5 years. Also living in the household is 1 male 80-90 yrs
      and 1 female 60-70 which are James and Hannah. Living next door to
      them was Samuel Buie Knox and his family. When Hannah died, she left a
      will leaving to Joseph all of the household items. From the various
      census records, i.e. 1850 and 1860, Joseph never moved from his home
      place.

      His first wife, Violet B. Simeril (spelled various ways, Simmeral,
      Simmerel, Simril, Simeril, Simeral, etc) was the daughter of Francis
      Simeral, who lived on the other side of Samuel Buie Knox. She had died
      in 1849 and in the 1850 census, Joseph was shown with his three
      children, Nancy H. Knox, James F. and John S. Apparently he married
      his 2nd wife, Cynthia T. ? right after the 1850 census taker recorded
      them as this only child by Cynthia, Tabitha, was born in 1851. It is
      probable that Joseph married Cynthia in York County, SC as no marriage
      record for him and Cynthia has been found in Mecklenburg County. It
      could well be that he married her in Gaston County as those records
      have not been checked. Many of the Price family married people from
      Gaston and even one of Samuel Buie's daughters married a man from
      Gaston County. With Price's ferry almost within sight of their land,
      it was easier to meet someone from across the river than others in
      Steele Creek. In 1860 all of the children born before that date, Nancy
      H., James F., John S. and Tabitha, were living at home with their
      parents Joseph & Cynthia Knox.

      The sons of Joseph, James F. and John S. Knox, and younger sons
      William and Lee, did not leave any known heirs.

      Joseph Knox was an elder at Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church. When
      Pleasant Hill was formed in 1836, the charter members list included
      many of the Knox name.
      On that list of first members are Joseph Knox and his brother Samuel
      B. Knox who was one of the first elders. At some point Joseph Knox
      became an elder as his tombstone indicates he was a, "Ruling Elder
      Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church".
      This is just one more Knox family that did not have the named carried
      on in Steele Creek. Only the daughter's married and none of Joseph's
      sons married to carry on the name.
      The daughters are not researched further.
      In the 1830s, 40s and 50s, there were so many Knox families in Steele
      Creek it was hard to sort them out. By 1900, there was only one or two
      left.

      1850 Census, Steele Creek, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.:
      Joseph Knox, m., age 45; Nancy, f., age 11; James, m., age 9; John
      S., m., age 4; Jacob Hankins, m. age 16.

      Joseph died in 1868, prior to the 1870 census of Steele Creek. The
      1870 census has an even greater mystery. Living in an area closer to
      Pleasant Hill Presbyterian Church was Joshua Boyd and Tabitha Boyd.
      She was shown as age 19 . Her marriage took place at the home of her
      mother on 9 Sept 1869. Joshua D. Boyd was the son of Thomas. M. & T.
      C. Boyd.

      In the 1970s interview with Uncle Sam and Aunt Kate, he related that
      Joseph Knox was a brother of his grandfather, Samuel Buie Knox, and
      that his son Lee ran the Knox ferry that went across the river into
      where Gaston Co. and York Co. came together.
      In the 1970s interview with Uncle Sam and Aunt Kate, he related that
      Joseph Knox was a brother of his grandfather, Samuel Buie Knox, and
      that his son Lee ran the Knox ferry that went across the river into
      where Gaston Co. and York Co. came together.