Sandy Holmes

Harold Carson Holmes b Boston 1918
Died New Bedford MA 1996
My Dad worked for Quaker Oats Co.
Very active in community work; scouts, Kiwanis, Masons, Town Meeting etc

Photo of Charles Dunham Knight, born in Buffalo NY 1864, son of Francis Lynn Knight and Nancy Dunham Knight. With him is his wife Mary Ellen Riley Knight, daughter of Edward Riley and Margaret Egan both born in Ireland.
Also pictured are Clara Ayer Knight and Anna Theresa Knight Bryant two of their five children. They lived in Brooklyn NY. My mother Ruth Tilton Bryant. daughter of Anna T. Knight Bryant and Frank T. Bryant, U.S. Navy, was born this year.

"Pop" Knight was one of many workers on section of railroad in Brazilian rainforest. The project was abandoned when the majority of workers became ill or died as a result of the effort,hence the name "Devil's Railroad'. The real name was Memore-madeira railroad or some such. Charles D. Knight's family awaited him in Brooklyn NY.
Wife Mary Reilly Knight, children Anna, Luella, Clara, Charles and Francis.

My grandfather was born Frank T. Helfenstein, but was adopted by Hartwell I. Bryant when his widowed mother married Harwell.
At age 20 he joined the Navy where he served in Cuba, Mexico, and, in World War One in the North Sea Mine Force. He served on the U.S.S. Blackhawk and was an electrical gunner.
Frank married Anna Theresa Knight in Brooklyn and there my mother Ruth Tilton Bryant was born in April of 1919. When my great grandmother, Mary Ellen Reilly Knight died in 1928,the family moved to Boston to be near Frank's mother, Nellie Tilton Bryant.