Andrew Spurr Knight

Andrew was born on May 14, 1838 in Charlton, MA to Lyman and Hannah (Brown) Knight. He was the oldest of their three children, born only three months after their marriage. Lyman died in 1844 at age 24 of a gangrenous infection.

I wasn’t able to find Andrew in the 1850 Census, but in 1855 he is living in Charlton with Andrew McIntyre and working as a shoemaker in his shop—perhaps an apprentice?

On October 21, 1858 he married Catherine A. “Kate” Olds. The marriage was registered in Thompson, CT, but they are both listed as being “of Charlton”. They had one son, Lyman W. in 1860.

In August 1862 Andrew was mustered into Company D of the 15th Massachusetts Regiment. He was wounded in the head and leg at Antietam one month later but recovered. In early 1864 he was transferred to the Veterans Reserve Corps, and discharged later that summer.

After the War he found work as a laborer and then as a carpenter. His son Lyman lived with his parents until his marriage to Eliza M. Hovey in 1884. After her death Lyman married Ada C. Bradford in 1887. Lyman died of emphysema in Lawrence, MA.

Andrew died in Charlton on March 24, 1912 of liver cancer. Kate joined him in death in 1914. They are both buried in the Union Cemetery in Charlton.