Ancestry of
Don Knotts

TV and Movie Actor

Ruth South

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• • Great-grandmother of Don Knotts — 4th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 9 
  • Father:
  • Enoch South 
  • Mother:
  • Ruth Gregg   
  • Birth Date:
  • 29 Oct 1825 
  • Birth Location:
  • Greene County, Pennsylvania 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 7 Jul 1876 
  • Death Location:
  • Greene County, Pennsylvania 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Highland Cemetery, Davistown, Greene, Pennsylvania 
  • Spouse Name:
  • William Knotts
  • Marriage Date:
  • 29 Nov 1850 
  • Marriage Location:
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  • Child:

  Lewis E. Knotts (Ahnentafel No:4 )

• Sources for Ruth South

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A107282.
  • ² Federal Census, PA, Greene County, 1850, Dunkard, Image 33 of 34.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 05/02/2020).
  • ⁴ 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.