Historic Knight Family Cemetery

The Knight family cemetery stands on the farm formerly owned by the Knights and later by Jackson Musselman, son-in-law of Lewis Knight. It contains several graves, but only two markers are inscribed: a fully inscribed stone for Lewis Knight that was placed later by the family within the cemetery bounds, and a sandstone headstone about 1.5 feet high carved with the name "KNIGHT." The remaining markers are uninscribed fieldstones of quartz and sandstone. Although most of those buried there are unidentified, oral history holds that Roberta Garrison Knight, wife of Lewis Knight, and their son John Knight are also interred in the family graveyard. Lewis K. Knight was born about 1820, worked as a farmer, married Roberta Garrison in 1840, and by 1860 they had nine children: Sarah, Wesley, William, Uriah, Henry, Martha, John, Lucy, and Mary. On July 26, 1861, Lewis Knight enlisted at age 41 as a private in Company I, 47th Virginia Infantry, survived the Civil War, and was discharged on December 3, 1862. The family timeline also records Lewis Knight's death on November 12, 1893, Roberta's death after 1900, and later deaths and marriages among several of their children.

Embrey Mill, Virginia · United States