History of Daviess County, Kentucky, Inter-State Publishing Co., 
Chicago, 1883.  Reprinted by McDowell Publications, Utica, KY, 1980.  p. 
619.

JAMES I. KNOTT, half mile east of Knottsville, was born in Nelson 
County, Ky., July 2, 1825, and is a son of Leonard Knott (deceased).  
Our subject came with his parents to this county in the fall of 1826.  
He has always been a farmer.  He received an education in a log cabin, 
and sat on a split pole bench.  He was married Feb. 1, 1853, to Mrs. 
Mary A. McDaniel, daughter of James T. Carrico.  By her he had five 
children-Mary M., Matilda J., Tresa R., Robert I. and William M.   Mrs. 
Knott died in 1863, and he married in 1865, Verlinda J. Ludwick, by whom 
he has had four children, three living--Marcellus, Genevieve and Agnes. 
 The family are Catholics, and Mr. Knott is a member of the Total 
Abstinence Society.  He owns 137 3/4 acres of land, and is engaged in 
farming and stock-raising.

Knott McDaniel Carrico Ludwick
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Nelson

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