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Submitted: 8/16/13 • Approved: 8/17/13 • Last Updated: 8/20/13 • R918656-G0-S3
December 24, 1855 - March 3, 1929
*Obituary
Benton County Record & Democrat & Sun
Thursday, March 7, 1929
KNOTT, J.C., Sr. - J.C. Knott, Sr., business man and capitalist, died at his home in this city early Sunday morning March 3, 1929. He was 74 years of age and previous to his last illness had been at his place of business regularly for many years. On February 19 he was taken suddenly ill at his store and was taken home. He never rallied, gradually failing until the end came. Funeral services were held at the home Monday afternoon, the Rev. A.W. Henderson, pastor of the Presbyterian Church conducting the service. The funeral was largely attended and the business houses were closed during the services. Burial was made in the City cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary E. Knott; two sons, Eugene P. and J.C. Knott, Jr.; a daughter, Miss Ada Knott, all of this city; also one nephew, Virgil P. Knott of Little Rock. Mr. Knott was born in Shelbyville, Tenn. December 24, 1855. He was one of nine children. Shortly before the Civil War his parents, along with other families, the Pickens, Pattons and Burns, moved to Arkansas, locating south of here. At the close of the war these families moved to Benton county. His father died in 1865 when he was 10 years old. At the age of 13 he had left home to make his own way. He worked for the late James Burns in the summer and went to school in the winter. He also clerked for Col. Terry in his dry goods store. He was frugal and saved his money and when about 21 he started into the grocery business for himself in the same location where his wholesale grocery now is. Later, in company with Col. S.W. Peel, they purchased the Eagle Flouring Mills, the ice plant, and cold storage. He afterwards purchased Col. Peel's interests in the mill and cold storage and the ice plant was bought by H.Y. King who was then living in Rogers. On September 21, 1879 he married Miss Mary E. Peel in Fayetteville. She was a sister of Col. S.W. Peel. In September of this year they would have celebrated their golden wedding anniversary. Their entire married life was spent in their home on East Thirteenth street. Mr. Knott was considered a business man of unusual ability. He was a graduate of the school of hard knocks. From his little pioneer store with its few hundred dollars worth of groceries he became one of the wealthiest men in the county. He was of a quiet and unassuming nature and a man who never let his right hand know what his left hand had done. He did not shout his philanthropy from the house-tops but there has been many a family remembered in times of need by benevolence.
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