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Henry Knowles Avery

Male 1802 - 1834  (32 years)


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  • Name Henry Knowles Avery 
    Birth 1802  Pittsford, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Death 25 Dec 1834  Detroit, Wayne, MI Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I26578  Family Tree
    Last Modified 3 Nov 2022 

    Father Elijah Avery,   b. 17 Jun 1770, Norwich, CT Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1802, Pittsford, Rutland, VT Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years) 
    Mother Deborah Knowles,   b. Sep 1779, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 30 Jul 1845, Knowlesville, Orleans, NY Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Family ID F171  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eliza L Adams,   b. 8 Sep 1805, Scipio, Cayuga, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Jun 1881, Beloit, Rock, WI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Marriage 4 Mar 1823  Lyons, Wayne, NY Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Notes 
    • from "U.S., Newspaper Extractions from the Northeast, 1704-1930" (ancestry.com)
      Henry K. Avery, formerly of Boston, m. Eliza L. Adams in Lyons, N.Y., 4th inst. (CC. Mar. 15, 1823)
    Children 
     1. Charles Henry Avery,   b. 11 Jan 1824, Lyons, Wayne, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 16 Oct 1917, Beloit, Rock, WI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 93 years)
    +2. Helen Eliza Avery,   b. 29 Jun 1827, Lyons, Wayne, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Jun 1916, Beloit, Rock, WI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 88 years)
    +3. Caroline Louisa Avery,   b. 17 Dec 1829, Geneva, Seneca, NY Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 4 Aug 1926, Escondido, San Diego, CA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 96 years)
     4. John Adams Avery,   b. 15 Nov 1831, Detroit, Wayne, MI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Apr 1868, Chicago, Cook, IL Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
     5. Henry Knowles Avery,   b. 27 Oct 1833, Detroit, Wayne, MI Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Apr 1835, Detroit, Wayne, MI Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 1 year)
    Family ID F10474  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 3 Nov 2022 

  • Notes 
    • from "The Lyons Western Argus", 7 Jan 1935 (fultonhistory.com)
      Died in this city on Thursday the 25th inst. Mr. H.K. Avery, aged about 30. Mr. Avery was a man highly respected in this community, where he had resided for several years past. He has left a wife and 5 small children to mourn the loss of a kind and affectionate husband and parent, on whom they have hitherto depended for support. The suddenness and particular circumstances of his death, made it necessary to summon an inquest to examine into the cause and a person in this city has been put under arrest, and held to bail under suspicion of having occasioned it.
      (We copy the above from the Detroit Journal and Advertiser on the 26th ult. Mr. Avery was formerly a resident of this village, and has many companions, and devote friends. among our citizens. We knew him well, and it pains us to the quick, to record the details of his sudden exit from time to eternity, as we learn these from private letters received here yesterday morning. We understand that during the evening of the 24th ult., Mr. Avery happened in at grocery, in Detroit, where he met Sheldon McKnight, editor of the "Free Press," in that city, and where a political altercation ensued, in which the deceased made some unfortunate personal allusions to McKnight. McKnight gave him a blow, which knocked him down, and he was taken up, and carried into a pack room senseless. In the course of a short time, however, he came to, and walked home; and after soaking his feet in warm water, etc. retired to bed, without advising his wife of any thing particular had happened, merely complaining of a headache. Toward evening, his wife discovered that something was the matter with him; and, on lighting a candle, found him in the last agonies of death, beyond the hopes of relief. A post-mortem examination of the head showed a fracture of the back of the skull, occasioned by the fall from the blow, and considerable extravasated blood within the skull. The verdict of the Coroner's jury was that "Henry K Avery came to his death by a fall upon the floor caused by a blow given by Sheldon McKnight." McKnight has been arrested as will be seen by the above notice. The deceased was much esteemed while resident here; and his memory will be cherished by most of our citizens who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.)
      - Eds. Argus