Knott family origin
by redmeg8
a while ago
Meimers, Sachsen, Germany
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Ancestral home of my gg grandfather, Henry Knott. He immigrated to the US on the Ship Attilie on 15 March 1861 (approximately) and settled in Niles, MI. He married Elizabeth Semmelroth Wahl in 1866. They had 4 daughters, one of whom, Louise, married Henry Bluhm in 1907 in Michigan City, IN.
Henry was a Civil War Veteran with Company E 12th Michigan Infantry.
He met a tragic end when he was hit by a Big Four Train in Niles in 1896.
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