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…“Tale of Two Johns” Character Profiles… |
Andrew
Springs Knox
b. 15 Jan 1834 - d.17 Nov 1861
Youngest son of John and Polly B.
(Robison) Knox.
Andrew Springs Knox, baptized
March 28, 1834 (No 2 Session Book - 1855 Bethel Presbyterian Church
Records, Cornelius, Mecklenburg Co, NC; page 16)
Died as a results of the Civil War;
buried at Bethel Presbyterian. Three
different death dates are found:
1)
2) Civil War Records report
3) Bethel Session records note: "died
Likely namesake: Andrew
Baxter Springs was a Ruling Elder at Bethel Presbyterian Church, Cornelius,
Mecklenburg Co, NC.
More about Springs/Robison/Gillespie/Knox connections:
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In
1845,
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About 1847, Joseph Robison Gillespie m.
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In
1863, Joseph Robison Gillespie was the Admin of the combined estates of his 1st cousins John R. Knox and Andrew Springs Knox.
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Mecklenburg Co NC Minutes of Court of Common Pleas &
Quarter Sessions
1853 October Session
Book 10, page 424
Deed from Hugh McCauley to E. A. McCauley for 37 acres dated
31 Aug A. D. 1853, proved by A(ndrew)
S(prings) Knox.
[Source: Herman W.
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Andrew fought in the Civil War and died at age 27, soon
after returning home.
He never married.
KNOX, ANDREW S. COMPANY B, 2nd
Rank in - Private, Rank out- Private
National Archives Microfilm Box, Roll and Record - 000230,
0022, 00002370
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1861. January Session
Ordered by the Court that Andrew S.
Knox be Overseer of the
[HWF 1861-1868, page 9]
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American Civil War Soldiers - Ancestry.com:
Andrew S. Knox
Residence:
Service Record:
Enlisted as a
Private on
Enlisted in Company
B, 2nd Cavalry Regiment
Died on
Sources:
Published in 1993
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American Civil War Soldiers
Name: Joseph Gillespie
Residence:
Enlistment Date:
Enlistment Place:
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served:
Service Record: Enlisted as a
Private on
Enlisted in Company B, 2nd Cavalry
Regiment
[...same Company as Andrew Springs Knox]
Transferred Company C, 37th Infantry Troops Regiment
Transferred out of Company B, 2nd
Cavalry Regiment North
Promoted to Full 2nd Lieutenant on
[PRB NOTE: This is
nephew of John and Mary B. (Robison) Knox, therefore 1st cousin of Andrew. Joseph Robison Gillespie was the
Administrator of the combined estates of John R. Knox and Andrew S. Knox, sons
of John and Mary B.]
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1863. January Session
Ordered by Court
that Letters of Administration on the Estate of John Knox, decd. be granted to Joseph R. Gillespie who appeared in Court
& gave bond in the Sum of $3000 with Robert J. Knox as Security, which bond
was approved by Court whereupon the said J. R. Gillespie was duly qualified in
conformity of Law.
Ordered by Court
that Letters of Administration on the Estate of Andrew Z (sic S) Knox, decd. be
granted to Joseph R. Gillespie who appeared in Court & gave bond in the Sum
of $600 with Robert J. Knox as Security, which bond was approved by Court
whereupon the said J. R. Gillespie was duly qualified in conformity of Law.
[HWF, 1861-1868, page 53]
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Mecklenburg Co, NC - On September 3, 1870, Robert J. Knox
petitioned the probate court to name Robert J. Knox, Patrick J. Knox, Mary
Smith and the children of Margarette Alexander as heirs (tenants in common) and
to sell the land and divide the proceeds equally. This was
done and the land was sold being equally divided between Robert J.,
Patrick J. and the children of Mary Smith and the children of Margarette
Alexander (wife of Amos Alfred Alexander).
Margarette's daughter, Eliza (Alexander) Pott had already died, and so her children, rather than
their mother, were named in papers as heirs for a
portion of the estate.
(Documentation is found in the 1870 -72 settlement of the
John R. & Andrew S. Knox estate)
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