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JOSEPH LEE MCKNIGHT FAMILY HISTORY
I trust that the things that I mention as I try to build this family History will nit compremise nor embarrace any member of the family. And I hope that they know that any burden that they have is also my burden and what ever I may be able to do I will and most of all I will pray for you always, and try never to use that as an excuse for not doing what I can, and always with the love the God has given me.
Monday 5/27/02)
***My starting point shall be Mcknight, for that is the name along with McKissick that I was immediately born with. My Father is Webster Hunter Mcknight Jr. and my mother is Josephine McKissick-Mcknight.
In dealing with the very concept of Family it can be a never ending process. There should be no part of ones family that is more or less important the another. To do such a thing is to down-grade your own self.
I shall attempt to bring in and honor every member branch of my family. It shall not be easy, by that should be a large part of the joy and pleasure of searching out the family and it's member. This is the reason that the family tree has been applied to the family.
I have two brothers, and one sister, Webster 3rd, Cynthia, and Baron. We were all born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, And we grew up in Roanoke Alabama. All my brothers and sister from the marriage of WebsterH. McKnight Jr and Josephine McKissick-Mcknight was born between 1943 and 1948. There are other half brothers and sisters and step brothers and sister I shall try to list as soon as I can, I will attemp to list them as I go along.
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Joseph L. McKnight Of Spartanburg, SC
( Sat. 6/02/02)
I am Joseph L. McKnight. I was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where my mother's family is from; and grew up in Roanoke, Alabama, where my father's family is from. Most of my childhood years was spent in Roanoke, Alabama; and my teen years was spent in Cleveland,Ohio, Meadville, Pa, and Queens New York.
I have moved around a lot in my life, and I have and am proud to call Queens, New York, Meadville, Pennsylvania, Detroit, Mi, and Lynchburg, Va, where I presently call home. I spent four years in the US Air Force, in Texas, Japan, Hawaii, and Washington, DC,or rather Silver Springs, Md.
I have seen many things happen to families, in families and between families, some bad, most it good; yet inspite of the bad and because of the good there is no union and relationship that is more important than that of the family. One of the sadest things that I have ever witnessed is when families foolishly and knowingly hurt another family member. I understand that there are many factors that affect ones life; depending on your prospective, things from other people, to money, to religion, to politics, to time and space, to the heavens and the earth; and most of all we are affected by the plan and purpose of God.
The defined limits of what constitutes family may vary; I personally think that the defined limits that the bible uses are very good. The limits that I speak of is in relationship to marriage and the sexual relationships of a male and female.
It is never ok for father and daughter, mother and son, an uncle or aunt with a nephew, or neice: the blood child of an aunt or and uncle, these are some limits that I personally think should not be crossed. All things that exist has a purpose and it is to the one who designed, planned and purposed a thing that we must go to find out the limits and capibilities of that thing, be it plant, animal, or human, animate or inanimate. I accept that the designer of all that is God....
In reality, if we subscribe to the bibically based version of creation, The children of Adam and Eve, would have had to start the process by marriage between brothers and sisters. If we try to deny or to ignore this fact, we become like an ostrich that sticks it's head in the ground when danger danger comes near. Whether we like it or not marriage between brother and sister did happen, morally and legally. We trust that if indeed when it stopped at whatever pointin time, that it was God who had a purpose for stopping it. When we confront reality, and although we now call it incest, physical intimacy of parent and child, and between siblings,
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McKnight-Smith,McKissick-Foster Family
McKnight-Smith, of Roanoke, Ala; McKissick-Foster of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
To approach the family from a number of prospective, and points of view. I desire to research the expanding development of the family that I came out of. I want to go back as far as I can, to experience both the links and the the broken links of my family.
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Joseph Lee McKnight - Of Spartanburg, South Carolina
Updated February 1, 2003
Althought I was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, I grew up in Roanoke, Alabama. I had two brothers, Webster Hunter McKnight 3rd, and Baron Dexter McKnight, and one sister Cynthia Maureen McKnight. We grew up with Joyce Spencer McKnight. We have always considered her as our sister. Although she is a member of our family, I was never told how it fit. I knew Joyce's mother, but I personally never knew her father. Be that as it may we are still family, and that it more important than anything else.
In the area of Spartanburg, S.C., The McKissicks, Fosters, Atchisons, and McKnights are that basic family names that I am aware of and begin with. In the area of Roanoke, Ala, the family names of McKnights, Smiths, Wrights, and Reeds. As members of the family grow up and marry, the family tree grows larger and larger. This is good. May God bless each union. And even when the union end in divorce, the family has never the less, been blessed by that union as children are born and relationships formed.
As the family grows and expand, it become even more important to maintain contact with family members. It should never effect our lives in a negative way, rather it should help us realize how rich we are as individuals and as a family, particularly when we realize the great and deverse resourses we have within the family.
There are many things that go on that can tend to divide and cause ill feelings among individuals. When we center in on the spiritual nature and reality of our lives, as life a force, we will see and learn a lesson that most of us experience from time to time in our lives, that is the fact of forgiving those who offend you, whether real or imagined.
Love and forgiveness should begin and develop with the individual and the family. There are things that are said or done that cannot be taken back once it has been done. However, there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and even it it cannot be forgotten, it can be added to our life experiences that make us a better person. This is something that must be the responsiblity of the individual person. We must not require it of other as much as giving it even if it not given to you. We can rest in the fact that giving love is indeed like sowing a seed in good ground, if it is done in sincerity, honestly, it will come back to you sooner or later.
And most important is the truth that the love and forgiveness that you ahave given to someone,thou it may not come back to you from the one that you directly gave it to, it will come to you when you most need it. There are times when a friend or love one may have passed on before you got the chance to give the love you wanted to express or give to them; do not dispire,
for you can give it in their name to someone that you meet alone this present lifes journey who need it.
What we learn and experience in our family, those things that are as, Norberto R. Keppe refer to as "good", truth", and "beauty". This is basically difine within the context of that which respect other life's right to life liberty and the pursuit of "growth and survival", some times referred to as the " pursuit of happiness."
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JOSEPH L. MCKNIGHT SR. / MCKISSICK
Starting with McKnight and McKissick, I shall attempt to trace and gather the lineage of a family that for me begins in Spartanburg, South Carolina and Roanoke, Alabama. This efford shall consider, McKnight's, Mckissick's, Foster's, Smith's, And Reed's, as foundational and basic points of references for me. It is necessary to consider the families of the Green, Burnett, Stinson, and childress. These are the satellite families that immediately touch my life. These are people that I do not have to strech to call and know as family. It is important to keep the connection going and growing. In fact family will continus to grow, even if we do not keep the connection.
Also because of the nearness and closeness of our relationship, I must and will consider the Atchison's of Spartanburg, South Carolina; The Ellis's and the Seon's of New York City. The list will grow as the family marry have children, biological, step, and adopted.
Most notable With the McKnights From Roanoke, Alabama, and the Chambers county area, begins for me with my grandfather Webster Hunter McKnight Sr. I can remember growing up w use to go down to a families house that were for us second. or third cousins. The father was cousin Will Reed. He was first cousin to my grandfather Webster "Web" McKnight.
I consider the McKissick's from Spartanburg, South Carolina, where I was born, and from where my mother Josephine McKisssick-Mcknight was born, and where her immediate family was also born. This is where the roots of the Foster's Atchison and Ellis's are from.
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Joseph Lee Mcknight Family
In dealing with the very concept of Family it can be a never ending process. There should be no part of ones family that is more or less important the another. To do such a thing is to down-grade your own self.
I shall attempt to bring in and honor every member branch of my family. It shall not be easy, by that should be a large part of the joy and pleasure of searching out the family and it's member. This is the reason that the family tree has been applied to the family.
My starting point shall be Mcknight, for that is the name along with McKissick that I was immediately born with. My Father is Webster Hunter Mcknight Jr. and my mother is Josephine McKissick-Mcknight.
I have two brothers, and one sister, Webster 3rd, Cynthia, and Baron. We were all born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, And we grew up in Roanoke Alabama. All my brothers and sister was born of Josephine McKissick-McKnight, were born between 1943 and 1948.
There are other half brothers and sisters that I will list as I go along. There are those born of Webster H. McKnight Jr. and Eleanor Green- McKnight, who are Larry M. McKnight, George C. McKnight, and Trawlawney L. McKnight-, And the children that She brought into their marriage; who are Patricia V. Stinson-Burnett, Egar Stinson, Albert Stinson, and Richard Stinson.
In the third marriage that my fatheer was in, before he oassed away was with Doris McKnight; she brought three or four children into the marriage, I am in the process of getting those names.
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Joseph Lee McKissick-Mcknight Of Spartanburg South Carolina
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I want To begin to build the family tree from the prospective of the Mckissicks of Spartanburg, South Carolina, which is the place of my biological birth; the place where my mother's family lives; also the Foster side of the family lives, or at least my grandmother Gertrude Foster- McKissick lived with my grandfather William Branson McKissick lived; and the McKnights of Roanoke, Alabama, this the place where I grew up until I was about 13 or 14 years old; this is the place where my father's family lives. This is also the place where the Smith side of my family lives. My grandmother, Maude Smith-McKnight, and my grandfather, Webster H. McKnight Sr. lived. It is a fact that a human life is the immediate combination of two unigue humans that come together to produce another unique human being. It is interesting yet of relatively minor importance which of the two people had the dominate gene when they produced a child. In the process and final end they are both equal contributor to the new life. And the process keep going onward and out in an ever broadening circle called family. Whether we like it or nor this fact is true and we are of all races, no matter what the dominate feature choose to manifest. And try and we sometimes may we cannot purify any partcular strain or set of features, there is to many variable that cannot be controlled.
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Joseph Lee McKnight - Of Spartanburg, South Carolina (Delete this.... enter the date)
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Althought I was born in Spartanburg, South Caroline, I grew up in Roanoke, Alabama. I had two brothers, Webster Hunter McKnight 3rd, and Baron Dexter McKnight, and one sister Cynthia Maureen McKnight. We grew up with Joyce Spencer McKnight. We have always considered her as our sister. Although she is a member of our family, I was never told how it fit. I knew Joyce's mother, but I personally never knew her father. Be that as it may we are still family, and that it more important than anything else.
In the area of Spartanburg, S.C., The McKissicks, Fosters, Atchisons, and McKnights are that basic family names that I am aware of and begin with. In the area of Roanoke, Ala, the family names of McKnights, Smiths, Wrights, and Reeds. As members of the family grow up and marry, the family tree grows larger and larger. This is good. May God bless each union. And even when the union end in divorce, the family has never the less, been blessed by that union as children are born and relationships formed.
As the family grows and expand, it become even more important to maintain contact with family members. It should never effect our lives in a negative way, rather it should help us realize how rich we are as individuals and as a family, particularly when we realize the great and deverse resourses we have within the family.
There are many things that go on that can tend to divide and cause ill feelings among individuals. When we center in on the spiritual nature and reality of our lives, as life a force, we will see and learn a lesson that most of us experience from time to time in our lives, that is the fact of forgiving those who offend you, whether real or imagined.
Love and forgiveness should begin and develop with the individual and the family. Sometimes there are things that are said or done that cannot be taken back once it has been said and done. However, there is nothing that cannot be forgiven; and even it it cannot be forgotten, it can be added to our life experiences that can make us a better person. This is something that must be the responsiblity of the individual person. We must not require it of others as much as giving it ourselves even if it not returned to us.
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MCKNIGHT / MCKISSICK PLUS
I would have you remember one thing, and it is no secret, yet few of us really know or acknowledge the power and reality of whatit mean and is, that is the simple fact that there is no greater force power and beauty than family.
It is in the love of a mother that we see it in all it raw power and beauty, and just as equal there is nothing worst than a mother who is devoid of love. So in the power and wisdom of a mother's love inforced by it's natural ingredient, the father's love I say to you, we are family, you are my life and I am yours, though we may seem to stand alone, we are united.
When ever you start a journey you must begin somewhere, It is as much arbituary as it is an act of love, in the point where I begin this labor of love. For someone to love any part of themselves less than any other part is foolish. There may be things in your families past that you may not be proud of, but it becomes responsibility to begin to change that part into something positive. Therefore I begin now to share. I hope and pray that I can be a bridge that will begin to bring us as family back together, for the benefit and betterment of us all.
Mcknight is the central starting point becaus it is I Joseph Lee McKnight that is the present author.There are some basic name that I want to deal with. These names are name the I am aware of, names that I grew up hearing. These names are, McKnights of Roanoke, Alabama; Smiths of Roanoke, Alabama Both of these families were from Roanoke, Alabama and the surrounding counties of Randolph, Chambers,and some others I can not recall at the present time. I would like for anyone who have any information about the Mcknights, and Smiths even the Reeds related to the McKnights, to email me so I can contact you as I build upon this very special family tree. It is important to note that this family have causian, native American, and African cultures and races in it's make up. As in so many case in America, it is the mix that reflect the truth and beauty of what America is all about. Because without God and the races that make up the planet, that which makes America great and blessed of God, However we may view and experience God, or by whatever name we may give God or know God by, America would be nothing.
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McKnight-Smith,McKissick-Foster Family
McKnight-Smith, of Roanoke, Ala; McKissick-Foster of Spartanburg, South Carolina.
To approach the family from a number of prospective, and points of view. I desire to research the expanding development of the family that I came out of. I want to go back as far as I can, to experience both the links and the the broken links of my family.
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JOSEPH LEE MCKNIGHT FAMILY HISTORY 2
Monday 5/27/02
My starting point shall be Mcknight, for that is the name along with McKissick that I was immediately born with. My Father is Webster Hunter Mcknight Jr. and my mother is Josephine McKissick-
Mcknight. The Smiths of The Roanoke, Alabama, is the maturnal link of my Father and his mother. The mcknights and Reeds of the Roanaoke, Alabama area, are the paternal links of My Father. The
McKissicks and Fosters of the Spartanburg, South Carolina area are the links and lines of Mother's family. It is my deep desire to gather have and be able to pass on the links and lines of our famil and they have grown and expanded. It is something that I know that I cannot do alone, it is with the help of family and friends that I hope to do this.
-----In dealing with the very concept of Family it can be a never ending process. There should be no part of ones family that is more or less important the another. To do such a thing is to down-grade your own self.
-----I shall attempt to bring in and honor every member branch of my family. It shall not be easy, by that should be a large part of the joy and pleasure of searching out the family and it's members. This is the reason that the family tree has been applied to the family.
-----I have two brothers, and one sister, Webster 3rd, Cynthia, and Baron. We were all born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, And we grew up in Roanoke Alabama. All my brothers and sister was born between 1943 and 1948. There are other half brothers and sisters that I will list as I go along.
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Joseph L. McKnight Of Spartanburg, SC
Sat. 6/02/02)
-----I am Joseph L. McKnight. I was born in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where my mother's family is from; and grew up in Roanoke, Alabama, where my father's family is from. Most of my childhood years was spent in Roanoke, Alabama; and my teen years was spent in Cleveland,Ohio, Meadville, Pa, and Queens New York.
-----I have moved around a lot in my life, and I have and am proud to call Queens, New York, Meadville, Pennsylvania, Detroit, Mi, and Lynchburg, Va, where I presently call home. I spent four years in the US Air Force, in Texas, Japan, Hawaii, and Washington, DC,or rather Silver Springs, Md.
-----I have seen many things happen to families, in families and between families, some bad, most it good; yet inspite of the bad and because of the good there is no union and relationship that is more important than that of the family. One of the sadest things that I have ever witnessed is when families foolishly and knowingly hurt another family member. I understand that there are many factors that affect ones life; depending on your prospective, things from other people, to money, to religion, to politics, to time and space, to the heavens and the earth; and most of all we are affected by the plan and purpose of God.
-----The defined limits of what constitutes family may vary; I personally think that the defined limits that the bible uses are very good. The limits that I speak of is in relationship to marriage and the sexual relationships of a male and female.
-----It is never ok for father and daughter, mother and son, an uncle or aunt with a nephew, or neice: the blood child of an aunt or and uncle, these are some limits that I personally think should not be crossed. All things that exist has a purpose and it is to the one who designed, planned and purposed a thing that we must go to find out the limits and capibilities of that thing, be it plant, animal, or human, animate or inanimate. I accept that the designer of all that is God....
-----In reality, if we subscribe to the bibically based version of creation, The children of Adam and Eve, would have had to start the process by marriage between brothers and sisters. If we try to deny or to ignore this fact, we become like an ostrich that sticks it's head in the ground when danger danger comes near. Whether we like it or not marriage between brother and sister did happen, morally and legally. We trust that if indeed when it stopped at whatever pointin time, that it was God who had a purpose for stopping it. When we confront reality, and although we now call it incest, physical intimacy of parent and child, and between siblings.
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Some of the information listed above may be duplicated, yet, I hope that it will be vital information that is approached from different prospectives. I hope that in working with other members of the family to make sure there is no unnecessary duplications, and that when there are duplications it will be important to make certain vital links. As our family grows the links become more diverse, and the membership larger. I pray that there be no older and senior family that have not blessed us with there life's experience wheter it is good or bad. If their experience has been negative I pray that by God's grace they have come through it, and if the experience is positive I pray that they have born it graciously.
There are some Things that some members can not do, do not do as naturally as other some other member, yet, there is one things that we all can do, that is we can encourage the one who have accepted the burden to accomplish a particular temporary task, or who has accepted the task that is longer, sometimes it may be of a life time duration.
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Here is a list of web site I have the honor to be working on.
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/m/c/k/Joseph-L-Mcknight-Va/index.html
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http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/users/m/c/k/Joseph-L-Mckissick/index.html
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Family Reunion Preparation
Within the next few months there will be, a McKnight-Green family reunion, a Smith family reunion, a McKissick family reunion, and an Atchison family reunion, and also a Burnett family reunion, I don't have the dates of them all, however I shall try to get and keep up with and post the dates and times of all that I can.
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Family Reunion Preparation
Get ready for the upcoming family reunion! It's at Aunt Bertie's this year, so bring your bowling gear and your swimsuits.Also be thinking of which family member could be the following trees inthe family grove: the nut tree, the fruity tree, the shady tress, thetree with the most bark, or the evergreen.
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