Comments on: Announcements: a past interview; an upcoming presentation; the Knight-Booth Family Reunion

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:14:30 +0000

Janet, I hope some of our readers can help with the question of where Newt’s gun now resides–I’d love to know the answer to that too!

Vikki

By: Janet Carver

Janet Carver — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:41:02 +0000

Vikki, i am starting back on researching my ancestors, the Knights and the Ainsworths. I was wondering if anyone out there knows what happened to my Great Grandfather, Newt Knight’s rifle he used in the Civil War. I remember my mother said she or someone gave it to my Uncle Olin Knight and it was over the fireplace at his homeplace in Clinton, MS

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 22:37:02 +0000

Hi Christine,

Welcome to Renegade South; I hope that you find valuable information about your branch of Knights. James Knight was a son of Jacky and Keziah Knight, and an uncle to Newt Knight.

The Knight-Booth reunion that I attended as a guest is a gathering of descendants of Newt Knight and Rachel, the former slave of Newt’s grandfather, Jacky, and the African American Booths, who intermarried with them; I do not know whether the Booths have South Carolina or Alabama connections–perhaps a reader can answer that question.

I hope you enjoy my book–it’s title is The Free State of Jones, however. There’s another book entitled The State of Jones. You can guess which one I recommend.

Vikki

By: Christine

Christine — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:59:35 +0000

I’m new to the Newt Knight story, and have only discovered it as I’ve been researching my husband’s Booth & Crawford family history. His GG grandmother’s (Martha Crawford who married Charles R Booth) sister Mary Kendrick Crawford married Robert O Harper, whose family was involved with the Knights. Their daughter Martha Elizabeth Harper married James Joshua Hinton, whose mother was Mary Margaret Knight, daughter of James Knight and Harriet Youngblood

You mentioned a Booth reunion. . . any connection to the Booths of South Carolina & Autauga Alabama?

I’m excited to get your book about the State of Jones to learn more.

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By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Sat, 16 Jul 2011 17:36:00 +0000

Hi Sherree,

It is so good to hear from you! And thanks for taking time to listen to the WPR interview. Like you, I am struck by what might have been as I study the defeat of post-Civil War movements aimed at reforming the political system of the South as it moved from its slaveholding base to one of white supremacy. It’s so important to know that it might have gone another way, and that change still lies before us. It’s up to us to make it a more just society rather than one divided between the very rich and those–today as yesterday–who struggle simply to have a voice.

Vikki

By: Sherree

Sherree — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:04:40 +0000

Hi Vikki,

I just finished listening to your interview with Wisconsin Public Radio. It is excellent! I consider it essential “listening” for anyone who is attempting to understand the South.

I couldn’t help but reflect as you spoke about that other South that could have been. I grew up within the vestiges of the culture of the other South that did survive, as did many of your readers, and as I listened to you speak, I remembered again standing on the grounds of the courthouse in West Virginia in the 1980s listening to Reverend Jackson, and then joining hands with black and white members of the audience.

We lost a lot. But, in the end, we have–and shall–win and create a more just society. Thank you for giving a voice to the voiceless–and an eloquent voice, at that! Sherree

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:10:34 +0000

Jon,

I sure wish you could be there, too! Hope we can meet before too long . . . .

Vikki

By: renegadesouth

renegadesouth — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:08:07 +0000

Hi Janet,

Well, I sure hope you do make it. I would love to meet you, and I know your relatives would love to see you, too!

Vikki

By: Jon Odell

Jon Odell — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:46:08 +0000

I really wish I could be there at the library. One day our visits are going to overlap!!