The Knight and Hedlund Families - submitted by Jaimee Hedlund

the Knights

My grandfather, Glenn Knight, was one of six children born to Silas Knight and Bessie Smith. His father was from Iowa and his mother was from Fairchild, WI. Silas had lived here awhile, then moved back to Iowa. His grandfather, Silas Knight, was from Canada. The family moved to WI for good in about 1913. Glenn married Alta Perry on September 13^th, 1930. He was married a 2^nd time to Louise Hingst on July 9^th, 1954. Glenn and Alta had Shirley, Dale, Gerald, Darryl, Sandra and David. He started work at Presto at about the age 28 as a buffer and stayed with the company until it moved to Mississippi. He then worked on a mink farm and egg farm until Presto reopened. Then he went back to work there and continued until 1967 when he retired. In his retirement years, he worked part-time as a maintenance man at the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire. After a few years, he moved to Eleva.

Glenn was a fiddle player and played his first dance when he was nine. At 14, he went to work for a logging camp at Jump River, north of Cadott, WI. When he was older, he had a group of guys who played around Eau Claire and surrounding towns. They called themselves G. Knight in the K's. He died in a nursing home in Strum, WI on June 12^th, 1987 as a lifelong lover of his garden.

the Hedlunds

My grandfather, Clarence Hedlund, was born on October 25^th, 190? in Boyceville, WI. He was one of seven children to Ola Nilsson (changed to Hedlund) and Mathilda Johannesson (Johnson). Ola came to America in 1878, arriving in Minneapolis, MN. Mathilda came in 1882. They met there and married in 1884, later moving to Boyceville, WI. They were from Alvsb?, Sweden. Clarence married Laura Marion Whistler on June 22^nd, 1925. They had four children: Connie, Jay, Wayne and Dirk. They lived in Eau Claire for many years. Clarence worked for the General Adjustment Bureau for 35 years, which was located on Graham Avenue. It's now called GAB Robbins. He retired in April of 1963. His home was on State Street in Eau Claire. He died on August 25^th, 1973 in a Rochester, MN hospital of Leukemia and is buried in Boyceville, WI. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and loved to golf and fish for muskies and trout.