Ancestry of
Don Knotts

TV and Movie Actor

Jesse Donald Knotts

View famous kin of Jesse Donald Knotts

• • 1st Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 1 
  • Father:
  • William Jesse Knotts 
  • Mother:
  • Elsie Luzetta Moore   
  • Birth Date:
  • 21 Jul 1924 
  • Birth Location:
  • Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 24 Feb 2006 
  • Death Location:
  • Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Westwood Memorial Park, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Co., California 
  • Notes: 

  • aka Don Knotts

    TV and Movie Actor

• Marriages for Jesse Donald Knotts

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  • Spouse:
  • Kathryn Elaine Metz
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1947

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  • Spouse:
  • Loralee Czuchna
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1974

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  • Spouse:
  • Frances Yarborough
  • Marriage Date:
  • 2002

• Sources for Jesse Donald Knotts

  • ¹ Federal Census, WV, Monongalia County, 1940, Morgantown, E.D. 31-28, Sheet 5A, Image 9 of 59.
  • ² Federal Census, WV, Monongalia County, 1930, Morgantown, E.D. 31-20, Sheet 1B, Image 2 of 38.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/02/2020).
  • ⁴ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Record for Jesse Donald Knotts.
  • ⁵ U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947, Draft registration for Jesse Donald Knotts.
  • ⁶ West Virginia, U.S., Marriages Index, 1785-1971, Marriage record for Jesse Donald Knotts and Kathryn Elaine Metz.
  • ⁷ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 344-345.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Don Knotts", (accessed 03/28/2020).