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Corrections to the account of Awilda Kunkle
these corrections were made by Karen Baxter, February 2011

1. There was a James McKnight, born in 1830 who was from Australia. He was Bishop of Minersville for 25 years. This is not our James Mcknight, who was born in 1828 in Ireland
   Awilda does not mention that James accused church leaders of enriching themselves dishonestly. He apparently made such accusations public and wrote them in local newspapers.
   James was excommunicated 9 December 1875 for apostasy.
2. James moved to Port Townsend, Washington where he was an editor of a local paper.
3. While there he divorced Mary Ann and married Annie McCurdy (born 1850 in Maine)
4. James died in 1906 in Seattle, Washington, not Washington D.C. As Awilda states

The Harrison McKnight Family website has copies of articles and other documents pertaining to differentiating the two James McKnights from each other. The descendants of the Australian James do not want the name of their ancestor misrepresented as being “excommunicated”, and have gone to great lengths to show that the Bishop of Minersville was not the James McKnight who was excommunicated.

http://harrisonmcknightfamily.org/researchpapers.php