1881 - 1951 (70 years)
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Name |
Charles Leroy Knight [1] |
Born |
06 Mar 1881 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah |
Gender |
Male |
Died |
13 Nov 1951 |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah |
- CHARLES L. KNIGHT
BOUNTIFUL-- Charles LeRoy Knight, 69, died in a Salt Lake hospital Tuesday at 4:10 p.m. of a heart ailment. He had been a resident of Bountiful during the past three years and was a retired farmer.
He was born in Salt Lake City March 6, 1882, a son of John Allen and Isora Atwood Knight.
He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a high priest in Bountiful Fifth Ward. He served as a stake missionary in South Davis Stake. He filled a two-year mission fo the LDS Church in the Western States from 1902 to 1904 and also filled a mission there in 1927.
He married Elsie Glenn in the Salt Lake LDS Temple Oct. 3, 1906. She died Nov. 22, 1938. After his marriage, he had worked and farmed at Bluffdale, Salt Lake County.
On Dec. 12, 1942, he married Dora Babcock Taylor at Roosevelt. He resided at Vernal prior and after his second marriage. This marriage was solemnized in the Salt Lake Temple. Four years later, his wife died.
He married Hettie Call Sainsbury on Oct. 15, 1928, in the Salt Lake Temple.
Mr. Knight had lived in the Uintah Basin from 1914 until 1942, and between 1942 and 1944, he lived at Fall City, Washington, after which he moved to Salt Lake City and in 1948 to Bountiful. While in the Uintah Basin he served as clerk for 20 years in the Randlett Ward. He had been superinetendent of the Young Men's Mutual Improvement Assn. while rediding in Bluffdale Ward.
Surviving are his widow, Bountiful; two sons and five daughters, Glen L. and Harvey M. Knight and Mrs. Eldon (Clista) Johnson, all of Vernal; Mrs. I. M.( Vera) Westover, Monietio, Nevada; Mrs. L. W. (Mildred) Maynard, Sandy, Utah; Mrs. George (Lillian) Lewis, Kamas, Summitt County and Mrs. Blaine (Lillie) Richards, Rock Springs, Wyoming; 18 grandchildren, one brothers, William A. Knight; Lillie Knight and Miss Jessie Knight, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Warren (Mayme) Hilton, Salt Lake City and Mrs. Addie Halt, Bluffdale.
Funeral services will be announced by Union Mortuary, Bountiful.
-Salt Lake Tribune, Nov. 14, 1951, transcribed by Rhonda Holton
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Person ID |
I2194 |
Grow |
Last Modified |
16 Oct 2012 |
Family |
Elsie Alberta Glenn, b. 28 May 1886, Provo, Utah, Utah , d. 22 Nov 1938, Roosevelt, Duchesne, Utah (Age 52 years) |
Children |
| 1. Clifta Ione Knight, b. 14 Dec 1921, Randlett, Uintah, Utah , d. 12 Apr 2008, Lapoint, Uintah, Utah (Age 86 years) |
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Last Modified |
24 Jan 2021 |
Family ID |
F740 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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Sources |
- [S90] Public Member Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2006.Original data - Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.Original data: Family trees submitted by Ancestry members.;), Ancestry Family Trees.
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