Ancestry of
Don Knotts

TV and Movie Actor

William Jesse Knotts

View famous kin of William Jesse Knotts

• • Father of Don Knotts — 2nd Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 2 
  • Father:
  • Lewis E. Knotts 
  • Mother:
  • Mary Ann Johnson   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Feb 1882 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 29 Apr 1937 
  • Death Location:
  • Monongalia County, West Virginia 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Beverly Hills Memorial Park, Morgantown, Monongalia, West Virginia 
  • Spouse Name:
  • Elsie Luzetta Moore
  • Marriage Date:
  • 11 Jun 1904 
  • Marriage Location:
  • Spraggs, Greene, Pennsylvania 
  • Child:

  Jesse Donald Knotts (Ahnentafel No:1 )

• Sources for William Jesse Knotts

  • ¹ Federal Census, WV, Monongalia County, 1930, Morgantown, E.D. 31-20, Sheet 1B, Image 2 of 38.
  • ² Federal Census, PA, Greene County, 1900, Perry, E.D. 97, Sheet 2B, Image 4 of 10.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/02/2020).
  • ⁴ Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriages, 1852-1968, Marriage record for Jesse Knotts and Elsie Moore.
  • ⁵ U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, Record for son Jesse Donald Knotts.
  • ⁶ West Virginia, U.S., Deaths Index, 1853-1973, Death record for William Jesse Knotts.
  • 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.
  • ⁸ Wikipedia, "Don Knotts", (accessed 03/28/2020).