CORSON, WESCOTT, MULLIN, BERRY, AVERILL, LINDSAY OF MAINE:Information about Nelson Eugene Knight
Nelson Eugene Knight (b. May 1871, d. date unknown)
Notes for Nelson Eugene Knight:
Nelson murdered his wife's Uncle, Alfred Corson in Dexter Maine January 7, 1921 . He disposed of the body in a trunk which he put in some ones barn. Later he put the trunk on a sleigh and using Alfred's horse brought the body in the trunk, to his mothers house in Canaan Maine were he proceeded to bury the body in the barn.The body was later found and him arrested and sentenced to hard labor for life at Thomaston State Prison.
1900 census has him at Thomaston State Prison.
1910 census living in West Athens married to Mertie Corson.
1920 census living in Corrina Maine w/ Mertie and 6 children.
1930 census has him still in prison age 62.
More About Nelson Eugene Knight and Annie M. Chaplain:
Marriage: 1892
More About Nelson Eugene Knight and Mertie A Corson:
Marriage: July 29, 1904, Brighton, Somerset County, Maine.
Children of Nelson Eugene Knight and Mertie A Corson are:
- Nelson Eugene Jr. Knight, b. 1906, d. date unknown.
- Olan Knight.
- Lililan May Knights.
- Maynard Knight.
- L??? Knight.
- Linden Knight, b. May 18, 1918, Dexter , Maine, Penobscot, d. December 26, 1981, Anson, Maine.