History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., Chicago, 1883. Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980. p. 619. LEONARD KNOTT (deceased), for whom the village and precinct of Knottsville were named, was born in Nelson County, Ky., and was the son of James Knott, a native of Maryland and a pioneer of Nelson County. Our subject came to this county in 1826, and was the first settler in what is now the village of Knottsville. He first lived one year in a small cabin on the Whitesville road, and built in Knottsville in 1827. He married Mary M. Drury, by whom he had four children; of these three are living--James I., Mary E. and Margaret A. The first lives near Knottsville; Mary E. is now Mrs. John Haynes, and lives in this precinct; Margaret has been married twice, first to John Melton, and the next time to J. M. Hayden, both of whom are dead. She resides in the lower end of the county. Mr. Knott was a life-long Catholic, and died in 1854. Knott Drury Haynes Melton Hayden = Nelson-KY MD http://www.rootsweb.com/~kygenweb/kybiog/daviess/knott.l.txt