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Eli W. McKnight
The death of Mr. Eli McKnight occurred at his home on East Main street Monday evening, October 26, after a long illness of Brights disease.
Eli. W. McKnight was born at Olivet and was seventy-six years of age. He spent his early life in that neighborhood and at Morristown where he was married to Miss Samantha Tolbert who passed away in 1909.
Thirty-two years ago they moved to Barnesville where Mr. McKnight followed the occupation of a teamster and in later years, he has been city weighmaster and only gave it up a week prior to his death.
Mr. McKnight has no immediate survivors, but leaves three nieces and one nephew; Mrs. Goldie Carleton of Cleveland who was raised in the McKnight home and who cared for him during the last sickness; Mrs. Cora Jenkins, Bethesda; Minnie and Clyde McKnight of Speidel.
Funeral was held Wednesday afternoon at one o'clock at the Campbell Funeral Home on West Main street, conducted by Rev. A.M. Flax of the Christian church and burial was made at Morristown.
From a newspaper obituary, November 5, 1925
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