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A F MCKNIGHT PASSES AWAY
Adam F McKnight was born at Lebanon, (Dawson(sic) Co., Pennsylvania, June 23, 1838. His death occurred at the Soldiers Home at Hot Springs, November 24, 1921, being in his eighty-fourth year.
In 1878 Mr. McKnight came to the State of Illinois, and the following year, 1879, he married to Miss
Henrietta Prouse, who for more than forty-two years has remained his faithful and helpful companion. To their union were born six boys and four girls. All of the children with the wife and mother survive him, except one boy and one girl, both of whom died in their infancy. The names of the children are as follows: John Adams McKnight, of Akron, Colorado, Edward Irvin McKnight, Circle, Montana; Roy McKnight, Albion, Montana; Roy McKnight, Albion, Montana; Dorr McKnight, Pinneille, Montana; Mrs. James Ayres, Custer, South Dakota; Mrs Bert Harley, Custer, S.D., and Mrs E.E. Smith, Hot Springs, S.D. Messrs. Edward, Dorr, and Roy McKnight were not able to be present at their father's funeral.
Mr and Mrs McKnight moved from Illinois to Broken Bow, Nebraska, in 1884, where they lived for about ten years. They came to the Black Hills in 1894 where they have resided since. During his earlier residence in Custer County, Mr McKnight was stationary engineer for the Burlington Railroad, serving as pump man at the Company's watering stations.
He was a Civil War Veteran. McKnight was one of the boys from Pennsylvania who very early in the
struggle offered his services to his country. He enlisted on April 1, 1861, and remained in the service until the end of the war. He was a G.A.R. member, belonging to Gen. Steele Post No. 94 at Custer. He with Mrs. McKnight belonged to the Methodist church of this city. He also held membership in the order of the Woodmen of the World.
In April four years ago, Mr and Mrs McKnight moved to Hot Springs where they have since resided in the Soldier's Home at that place. About four weeks ago Mr McKnight had a stroke of paralysis which entirely prostrated him. He gradually grew weaker and weaker until he passed away. During his residence at Custer, Mr and Mrs McKnight won many friends all of whom today offer to the bereft and aged widow deep feelings of loving sympathy.
He has done something for the world; one little paragraph in this obituary tells us that. Had he never
performed any service to humanity other than those four years as a fighter for the larger Freedom, he would be entitled to the plaudit, "Well Done, Good and Faithful Servant, Step up Higher." For a man who serves as a soldier in any great war must serve, gives more of himself in four years than the average man gives in a lifetime. So let us all join in saying, "Well Done."
The funeral services were conducted by Mr D.W. Davis at the Methodist church Sunday afternoon,
November 27th. The music was contributed by a quartette choir consisting of Mr and Mrs M.A. Willis, and Mr and Mrs T. W. Delicate.
The following G.A.R. members were in attendance: M.M. Brooks, John A Collins, Oliver Edmonds, W.F. Wells, Henry H Bought, H J Stone and Aaron Lovett.
About fifteen of the American Legion boys also attended in full uniform. The services were completed at the cemetery with the G.A.R. burial ceremony, the firing of the Military Salute by the Legion, and sounding of Taps.

HENRIETTA PROUSE MCKNIGHT HUCK

Custer County Chronicle Thursday March 15, 1951
Henrietta Huck Buried Here

Funeral services for Mrs. Henrietta Huck, 93, resident of Hot Springs for many years, who died Friday following a three week illness at the State Soldiers home hospital, were held Monday at 2:00pm at the Heidepriem funeral chapel at Custer with Rev. C.J. Kelley officiating.

Pallbearers were John Miller, Will Carter, John Phelps, Gus Carlson, Page Tubbs and Charles Pringle.

Obituary

Henrietta McKnight Huck, daughter of George and Nancy Prouse, was born October 7, 1857, near Columbus, Ohio. At the age of eight she moved with her family to Illinois, where she received her education.

She was married to Adam F McKnight March 6, 1879. They moved to Anselmo, Nebr., where they farmed for several years.

In 1894, the family came to South Dakota. They live at the S & G ranch, which is now Dewey in Custer County. They lived in Pringle and Custer communities until April, 1917, when Mr and Mrs McKnight became members of the State Soldiers Home at Hot Springs.

Mr McKnight passed away Nov 24, 1921. She was married July 10, 1929, at Hot Springs to Derrick Huck. Mr Huck passed away in 1938.

Mrs Huck was a member of the Custer Rebekah Lodge, the Women's Relief Corps and the Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, one daughter and three sons. She is survived by three daughters: Mrs Susan Ayres, Custer; Mrs Fred Shoemaker, Englewood, Colo; Mrs Edith Loranger, Hot Springs; three sons, Roy A McKnight, Roseburg, Ore.; Dorr McKnight, Alhambra, Calif.; and Henry McKnight, Great Falls, Montana; three brothers, Warner Prouse, Alhambra, Calif.; G. I . Prouse, Eureka, Kans.; and Dr H.L. Prouse, Allen, Nebr.; many grandchildren and great grandchildren and a multitude of friends.

Cameron McKnight, the subject of the obit., was the son of
William Asbury McKnight and and Rebecca Ann Erwin and the grandson of Roger McKnight and Lydia
Elrod.
He died Feb. 2, 1903.

PIONEER RESIDENT OF ILLINOIS PASSES AWAY.

Cameron McKnight Died Suddenly at His Home in Sailor Springs Yesterday of
Heart Disease.

Cameron McKnight, one of the oldest and most respected residents of
Clay County, Ill., died at his home in Sailor Springs yesterday at 9 a.m. Death
was caused by heart disease, with which he had been afflicted for nearly
twenty years.

"Uncle Cam," as he was familiarly known to his numerous friends, was
born in Orange County, Ind., October 7, 1828. In 1835 his parents moved to Clay
County, and he had resided their continuously since that time. He was
married on March 21, 1850, to Miss Rebecca Fields, eldest daughter of Judge
Robert Fields. Of the union, thirteen children were born, eight of whom
still survive. Jehu, Austin and Millard McKnight are prosperous farmers of
Clay County; Lyman McKnight and his sister, Mrs. Cynthia Moore, reside near
Selina, Cal.; Mrs. W.A. Harmon and Mrs. William Woods are residents of Clay
County.

After the death of his wife in 1877, Mr. McKnight married Mrs. Martha
Turner, widow of Benjamin Turner, who also survives him. Mr. McKnight
resided on his farm near Sailor Springs until 1888, when he took up his home in
town.

Mr. McKnight had been a lifelong Republican and was the oldest
subscriber of the Globe-Democrat in that locality, having received it regularly for
fifty years.

The following is an obituary for Sarah Catherine McKnight-Harmon, descendent
of Roger McKnight and Catherine Lee:

DEATH CALLS FOR US - ONE AT A TIME

Death is the door of exit from the life that now is to that which is to
come - through this open door, November 29, 1920, Sarah Catherine
McKnight-Harmon passed out to return no more.

Death found her on the same spot where birth placed her sixty-nine years
before and where the wedding day, fifty-one years ago, united her in marriage
to William Albert Harmon. Here on some part of the Cameron McKnight far, in
the southeast part of Bible Grove township, Clay County, Illinois, she spent
all her life, except for one year in Lebanon, Illinois, and one winter in
Florida. Her father, Cameron McKnight, was one of Clay County's most
substantial citizens. His father, William A. McKnight came from Southern
Indiana in pioneer days and settled in the northeast corner of Hoosier
Township, and here during the Civil War he was murdered and robbed of
$3600.00, a vast fortune in those days, which was kept in the chest in the
house. Mrs. Harmon had a wide circle of relatives. Her mother was a
daughter of Judge Fields, and a sister to Benjamin, John, George and Henry
Fields. Her paternal grandmother was a sister to Uncle Crawford Erwin, and
her maternal grandmother was a sister to the father of Alfred and Will
Conley. By the intermarriage of these pioneer families she was related to
the McKnights, Erwins, Fields, Conleys, Plotners, Dillmans, Dewhirsts,
Lewises, Moores, Harmons, and a multitude of others. Her oldest brother,
Austin, was killed by a train in Arkansas a few years ago; her brother
Millard died a year or so later, while Jehu, Lyman and Homer and her sister,
Cynthia Moore, all reside at present in California. Her sister, Mrs. Laura
Wood, the only one left in Clay County, was present and helped care for her
during her last illness.

The old adage has it that there is . . . but Divine power and the
influence of a Christian home proved an exception in this case. Mrs. Harmon
accepted Christ and united with the Methodist Church when but a child. She
bore twelve children - two died in infancy - the other ten, with the help of
her husband, who wielded the greatest religious influence of any man who ever
dwelt in the community, she brought up in the church so that today they are
all substantial Christian citizens. They were all present with her when
death came. Her oldest son, Cameron, is a minister, a Doctor of Divinity,
and now is president of the Missouri Wesleyan College at Cameron, Missouri,
where he is hewing out for himself a high place among men and doing a great
work for the uplift of humanity. Roscoe is a successful hardware merchant at
Morrisonville, Missouri. Grover (Joe) farms the home place, and John, the
youngest, and the only unmarried child, is a student in college. Of the six
daughters, Vestilla, Lydia and Gertie live in East St. Louis, Charity lives
near the old home, Belle lives in Clay County, and Nelliw, the youngest,
lives in Montana.

This was a good woman who religiously mothered her own household and at
the same time kindly and helpfully ministered to all the wide circle of
relatives. Her going is great loss and grief to the husband and children.
The funeral was conducted at Shouse Chapel by Rev. J.G. Harmon and Rev. Owens, her pastor.