Independent Enterprise
Thursday, September 10, 1942
Plymouth Veteran Dies From Burns
Julius H. Knight Dies In Ontario Hospital Last Friday Night
"Steve" Knight, New Plymouth resident, died last Friday night in an Ontario hospital as a result of burns sustained earlier that same afternoon. Members of a railroad section crew stated that Knight had poured gasoline on his clothing and applied a match. The crew administered first aid and rushed the man to the Oregon hospital where he later died. Knight had been operating a small acreage near New Plymouth and despondency over ill health is given as the likely cause of the taking of his life.
Funeral services were held Monday, September 7 at 2:30 p.m. for Steve Knight who passed away at his New Plymouth home following a long illness, Friday, September 4.
Steve Knight was born at Clear Lake, S.D., Sept. 22, 1899, moved to Idaho in 1913 where he married Miss Vivian Snyder, February 28, 1920. He enlisted in the World War in 1917 and was over seas until March, 1919. He is survived by his widow and three children, Albert, Dorothy and Beverly, all of New Plymouth, five brothers, Elwin, Pocatello, Ralph, Sandpoint, Lynn, Cascade, Kenneth, Mt. Home and Ray of New Plymouth, three sisters, Esther Snyder, New Plymouth, Marie Busby, Boise and Ruth Watts, Meridian, his father, E. B. Knight of Payette. Burial was a Park View cemetery.
