John Cragin KNOX^[1]

1888 - 1974  (85 years)

• Name	John Cragin KNOX
  Birth	9 Dec 1888	Water Valley, Yalobusha Co, MS   [2]
  Gender	Male
  birth2 (conflicting)	9 Dec 1889  [3]
  Occupation	1917, 1920, 1940	Mississippi, New Mexico   [2, 4, 5]
  	John's World War I draft registration card and the 1920 census note that he was employed as a pharmacist at a drug store. By 1940, he was working in New Mexico as a "game management agent" for the US Department of the Interior.
  Death	Jun 1974  [3]
  	John died during June 1974. His last residence was Hernando, Mississippi.
  Burial	Hernando, DeSoto Co, MS   [6]
  	His remains were interred at Hernando Memorial Park in Hernando, Mississippi.
  Person ID	I64716	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Nicholas Calvin KNOX,   b. 5 Jun 1840, Milan, Gibson Co, TN
  Mother	Henrietta Clay CRAGIN,   b. 27 Sep 1845, Mississippi
  Marriage	23 Jan 1866	Bynum Creek, Panola Co, MS   [1]
  	The couple was married at Bynum Creek, Mississippi on 23 January 1866.
  Notes	The 1900 census notes that Henrie had given birth to 13 children, of whom 8 were living on 5 June 1900.
  Family ID	F7842	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Louise PORTER,   b. c. 1893, Mississippi d. 1929 (Age 36 years)
  Marriage	Before Jun 1917  [2]
  	John's World War I draft registration card notes him as "married".
  Family ID	F7852	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Family 2	Mary Violet MOSBY,   b. 15 Jul 1908, Mississippi d. 9 Jan 2005 (Age 96 years)
  Marriage	Before Apr 1940  [5]
  	The 1940 census, enumerated 16 April, names them husband and wife.
  Children	1. Annetta M. KNOX,   b. 1936, Tennessee d. 1954 (Age 18 years)
  Family ID	F7853	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

• Notes

  Resided: June 1900, Panola Co, MS [S5309] Resided: April 1910, Panola Co, MS [S5310] Resided: January 1920, Sumner, Tallahatchie Co, MS [S5319] Resided: April 1930, Hernando, DeSoto Co, MS Resided: April 1940, Albuquerque, Bernalillo Co, NM [S5320]

  
  

• Sources

  [S5306] Dunbar Rowland, compiler, Rowland, The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1904, ((Nashville, TN, Brandon Printing Co, 1904)). p. 557: Nicholas Calvin Knox biography. [S5318] John Cragin Knox. WWI draft registration card (1917). [S5321] John Knox. SSN 427-88-5254. SSDI. [S5319] 1920 US Census / Knox, John C. [S5320] 1940 US Census / Knox, John C. [S2084] Find A Grave, online (http://www.findagrave.com). John Cragin Knox interment, Hernando Memorial Park, Hernando, MS; downloaded 29 November 2014.