Ministers Received From Other Denominations
J. R. Knight - Clarksville Presbytery - Tennessee Synod - Oct. 16, 1907
[Source: Minutes of the General Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, 1907, page 2b]

Tennessee Synod - Minutes

1908 - J. R. Knight, Rt. 3, McEwen, Tenn., is listed in the Roll of Ministers under Clarksville Presbytery.

1909 - J. R. Knight, Rt. 3, McEwen, is listed in the Ministerial Directory on page 15 under Clarksville Presbytery.

1910 - The minutes for 1910 were reviewed by the General Assembly in 1911 and apparently judging from the reports were printed. However, they are not available in the Historical Library and Archives.

1911 - The minutes for 1911 were reviewed by the General Assembly in 1912 and apparently judging from the reports were printed. However, they are not available in the Historical Library and Archives.

1912 - The minutes for 1912 were reviewed by the General Assembly in 1913 and apparently judging from the reports were printed. However, they are not available in the Historical Library and Archives.

1913 - J. R. Knight, Rt. 3, McEwen, is listed in the Ministerial Directory under Clarksville Presbytery.

1914 - The minutes for 1914 were not reviewed by the General Assembly in 1915 because they were not printed and transcriptions were not sent. Probably they are forever lost.

1915 - The minutes for 1915 were not reviewed by the General Assembly in 1916 because they were not printed and transcriptions were not sent. Probably they are forever lost.

1916 - J. R. Knight, Rt. 3, McEwen, Tenn., is listed in the Directory of Ministers page 23 under Clarksville Presbytery, although he is dead.

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes

1900

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 14-16, 1900

The Committee on Education Report No. 2, page 25, "The committee further reports that J. A. Crowell and Jas. R. Knight, both members of the Waverly congregation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, having recently come out of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the one as a Licensed Exhorter and the other as an Ordained Deacon, have been before the Committee for Conference in reference to the privilege of licensure as lay workers or exhorters. The committee have carefully considered the matter, and while provision is made in the Constitution of our Church for the licensing of lay workers or exhorters, yet it is our opinion that this should be deferred till the next meeting of Presbytery, as the committee have not had time to examine them, and that these brethren meet the Committee on Education and Examination at 10 o'clock A. M. in Charlotte the day preceding the next meeting of Presbytery.

1900

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 2-4, 1900
Page 14, "A motion prevailed that Mr. J. R. Knight be licensed as a 'lay exhorter'."

1901

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 1901
No minutes in archives.

1901

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 1901
No minutes in archives.

1902

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 1902
No minutes in archives.

1902

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 1902
No minutes in archives.

1903

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 1903
No minutes in archives.

1903

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 1903
No minutes in archives.

1903-1904

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, Oct. 20, 1903 and March 15-17, 1904
Not mentioned.

1904

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 1904
No minutes in archives.

1905

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 21-23, 1905
Not mentioned.

1905

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 1905
No minutes in archives.

1906

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 1906
No minutes is archives.

1906

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 2-4, 1906
Pages unnumbered. Report of Committee on Pastor and Supply, #6. "That Bros. A. J. Turner and J. R. Knight go about from place to place as old age and declining health will admit, and pray with and exhort and encourage our shepherdless flocks in these trying times."

1907

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 1907
No minutes in archives.

1907

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 1907
No minutes in archives.

1908

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 10-11, 1908
Roll Call of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers, page 14 - J. R. Knight, McEwen, (R. F. D. 3) Tenn.

1908

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 9-12, 1908
Page 3 - J. R. Knight, minister, present at presbytery.
Page 5 - Member of Committee on Sabbath Observance.
Page 7 - Report of Committee on Sabbath Observance.
Page 9 - Reports from pastors and delegates - "Under this head encouraging reports were made by the following ministers and delegates: Revs. F. P. Arterburn, H. H. Binkley, B. B. Larkins, R. J. McCaslin, V. B. Costello, J. J. Rye, S. A. Sadler, A. H. Sykes and J. R. Knight.
Page 15 - Roll of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers, J. R. Knight, McEwen, (R. F. D. 3) Tenn.

1909

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 9-11, 1909
Page 18 - Roll Call of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers, J. R. Knight, McEwen, (R. F. D. 3) Tenn.

Called Meeting April 6, 1909
Page 19 - Ministers present - J. R. Knight

1909

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, September 21-23, 1909
Page 16 - Roll of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers - J. R. Knight, McEwen, (R. F. D. 3) Tenn.

1910

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 22-24, 1910
Page 3 - Ministers present at Presbytery - J. R. Knight.
(Not listed in Roll Call of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers, page 17).

1910 - September 13-15
Page 2 - Roll of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers - J. R. Knight, McEwen, Tenn. (R. F. D. 3).
Page 3 - minister present at Presbytery - J. R. Knight.
Page 5 - appointing to Committee on Temperance. Page 7 - Report of Committee on Temperance.

1911

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 21-23, 1911
Page 22 - Roll Call of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers - J. R. Knight, McEwen, Tenn. (R. F. D. 3).

1911

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 10-12, 1911
Page 19 - Roll Call of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers - J. R. Knight, McEwen, Tenn. (R. F. D. 3).

1912

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 26-28, 1912
Page 20 - Roll Call of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers - J. R. Knight, McEwen, Tenn. (R. F. D. 3).

1912

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, Fall 1912
No minutes in archives.

1913

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 25-27, 1913
Page 3 - Ministers present at Presbytery - J. R. Knight.
Page 5 - "A special Auditing Committee, consisting of Elder W. H. Rice, Rev. J. E. Powers and Rev. J. R. Knight, was appointed, to which was referred the Report of the Stated Clerk and Treasurer."
Page 10 - Report of the special Auditing Committee.
Page 13 - Roll Call of Clarksville Presbytery, Ministers - J. R. Knight, McEwen, Tenn, (R. F. D. 3.).

1913

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, October 7-9, 1913
Part of minutes missing.

1914

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, March 10-12, 1914
Page 21 - Roll Call of Presbytery (Clarksville), Ministers - J. R. Knight, McEwen, Tenn. (R. F. D. 3.).

1914

Clarksville Presbytery Minutes, September 29-30 & October 1, 1914
Page 3 - Report of Committee on Ministerial Relief - "In the case of the sisters and widow of Bro. Knight, we learn that she has a small country home and some means, and that she will not be a charge on the Presbytery, at least for the present.

Old Time Cumberlandism

By Rev. J. R. Knight.

I am almost seventh-six years old and a Cumberland Presbyterian by principle. I believe the Bible and preach it. I never preach what "I think" but what the Bible says. The Spirit is with the preachers to-day just as in olden times, but many of them preach, "I think" so and so and what they call the gospel has not the ring of 1850, when men would fall prostrated all over the house. They preached then that there was a judgement to come and a heaven and a hell. They preached that all men both saint and sinners must appear before God at the bar of judgement to answer for the things written in the books that are to be opened. I have not heard a preacher quote the twentieth chapter of Revelations in many years. The old time preacher preached the law and hell to sinners and sugarcoated nothing. They preached for Christ and not for the people and the church, but to them. If an old preacher like me preaches the law in my part of the country now he is laughed at. I do hope that it is not that way everywhere.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, May 14, 1914, page 5]

Obituary

Rev. J. R. Knight.--Rev. J. R. Knight of Deer Creek, aged seventy-six years, was found dead in bed by his wife Friday morning, June 19th. He went to bed as well as usual and his death was atributed to heart failure. He leaves a wife eighty-two years old and one daughter, Mrs. Tom Hughey, of Waverly, Tenn., and one brother, old "Uncle" Johnny Knight, who resides on Richland and is in his ninety-first year. He was a Confederate soldier being a member of Tyany's Battery. He was captured at Shelbyville and carried North where he remained in prison two years. He was a member of the Presbyterian [sic Cumberland Presbyterian] Church and a local minister for thirty years. His remains were buried in the head of Turkey Creek at the Knight graveyard. Funeral services were conducted by Brother George Wheeler, of Deer Creek.

A Friend and Neighbor.

[Source: The Cumberland Presbyterian, July 23, 1914, page 13.]

James Robert Knight
Cumberland Presbyterian minister
[parents: Wade Hampton Knight and Elizabeth Knight or Dunlap]
born: 1838 - Tennessee
died: 19 June 1914 - Deer Creek, Humphreys County, Tennessee
buried: Wade Hampton Knight Cemetery, on Turkey Creek, Humphreys County, Tennessee
1st wife: Cynthia Thomas
[daughter of John H. Thomas and Cynthia Isabella Anderson]
born: 27 February 1844 - Tennessee
died: 26 July 1890 - Tennessee
buried: Union Cemetery, Dickson, Tennessee

Daughter of James Robert Knight and Cynthia Thomas Knight:

1. Minnie Knight
born: 13 October 1879 - Tennessee
died: 7 March 1958 - Tennessee
buried: Wade Hampton Knight Cemetery, Humphreys County, Tennessee
married: 30 October 1907 - Tennessee
husband: William Thomas Hughey
[son of Marion Box Hughey and Nancy C. Priest]
born: 11 March 1885 - Tennessee
died: 3 September 1974 - Tennessee
buried: Wade Hampton Knight Cemetery, on Turkey Creek, Humphreys County, Tennessee

Children of Minnie Knight Hughey and William Thomas Hughey:

1.1. Clyde Thomas Hughey
born: 23 September 1910 - Humphreys County, Tennessee
died: 17 January 1953 - Waverly, Humphreys County, Tennessee
buried: Bakerville Cemetery - Waverly, Humphreys County, Tennessee
married: 12 January 1936 - Dickson County, Tennessee
wife: Ollie Mae Coble
[daughter of William Riley Coble and Henrietta Blackwell]
born: 12 March 1915 - Hickman County, Tennessee
died: 21 February 1951 - Waverly, Humphreys County, Tennessee
buried: Bakerville Cemetery - Waverly, Humphreys County, Tennessee

1.2. Vilet Beatres Hughey
born: 1908
died: 1912
buried: White Cemetery, Blue Creek, Humphreys County, Tennessee

 

2nd wife of James Robert Knight:
2nd marriage: 17 September 1891 - Humphreys County, Tennessee
2nd wife: Mellie Louisa "Lou" James
[she was a widow and had been married to William Fulton Hatcher]
born: May 1834 - Tennessee
died: September 1917 - Dickson, Dickson County, Tennessee