KNIGHT, J.W. - Fountain County INGenWeb Project

Funeral services for the Rev. J.W. Knight, age 85, who died Friday morning, July 17, at his home in Attica, were held at 4:30 pm Sunday at the Perrysville Methodist Church. Dr. Thomas L. Stovall of Lafayette officiated and burial was in Lower Mound Cemetery, southwest of Covington. The son of William Wallace and Lucinda Rosenberger Knight, James Wallace Knight was born March 16, 1879 in Wexford County, Michigan. He was married to Anna L. McKee at Twelve Mile, Ind., October 6, 1915. A graduate of Taylor University, Upland, Ind., he sang first tenor in the university's male quartet five years and in the Missouri Conference Quartet two years. He was a Methodist minister all of his life, serving from 1916 to 1923 with the Missouri Methodist Conference and from 1923 to 1950 with the Northwest Indiana Methodist Conference. He had served at Bellflower, Ludlow and Laredo, Mo. In Indiana he had been a minister at Brownsburg and Clermont, Michigantown and Morris Chapel, Pine Village and Rainsville, Ambia, Locust Grove and Talbot, Lakeville and Maple Grove, Burlington, Ball Hill and Darwin Chapel, Veedersburg and Salem, and Perrysville, Eugene and Benson Chapel. He retired at Perrysville in 1950, living there until August 1963 when he moved to Attica. He had been in ill health for five years. Survivors are the widow and four children, Mrs. Lois Stuart, Graettinger, Ia., Mrs. Frances Webb, Atlanta, Ga., Wallace M. Knight and James M. Knight, Attica, a sister, Mrs. Bertha Worth, Compton, Cal., two brothers, Robert Knight, Gainesville, Fla., and Rev. Roy Knight, McMinnville, Org., and nine grandchildren. He was preceded in death by four brothers and three sisters.  -- typed by Barbara B -