The Knowles Story

Closing

Acknowledgements

by Dave Jordan

Many people were instrumental in providing research, stories, recollections, letters, memorabilia, and enthusiasm for The Knowles Story. Without their efforts, we would not have such a comprehensive story. In particular, I would like to acknowledge and thank the following for their contributions.

  1. I wish to thank my dad, Edward C. Jordan for helping me get started on the Jordan and Knowles genealogy. He carefully provided initial information. Later he patiently chatted with his mother to try to help her recollect things from the past. When I was stuck he suggested that I write his Uncle Charles Jordan, and that was the hint that really got me going.
  2. I wish to thank Charles Jordan, son of James Oscar Jordan for the lengthy letter he wrote me about the Jordan and Knowles history. It clarified so much, provided interesting tidbits about family lore, and gave me the hints that were helpful ten years later in tracking down who was who and where we were from.
  3. I wish to thank Elizabeth M. Jordan for sending me letters and chatting on the phone about remembrances of her husband's family.
  4. I wish to thank Muriel Leonhardt for the pioneering genealogy research she did on the Knowles and Black families in the 1930s. Her notes and letters were instrumental in knowing whom to look for and where. Without her research, documentation and her first hand access to recollections by her sister Margaret and her Aunt Lizzie, many of the events we know about the Black and Knowles families would not be known.
  5. I wish to thank Charlotte Leonhardt and the Leonhardt family for the treasure of information and photos made available to me in the late 1980s about the Knowles and Black family. Charlotte is Muriel's daughter-in-law. Information included Muriel's letters, notes, pictures, and old letters.
  6. I wish to thank Pat Check for her genealogy research on the Knowles and Black families and for her submissions of key information to the International Genealogy Index (IGI).
Notes
  1. Initial Web Publication Date: 4/1/2003
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  3. Desktop Master file: Stories_Knowles