Leaves From My Family Tree

My grandmother, Mildred Knox Brown Pollock, was named for her grandmother, Margaret Knox Brown. When I asked her about her grandmother, she replied that she didn't know much about that side of the family, and had never met them. She did say that Margaret Knox had been the second of three children.

Many years ago, my grandmother gave me a hand-written family tree for Margaret Knox and John Simpson, which had the following note in the margin:

"President Lincoln's favorite poem was written by Wm. Knox (Marg. Knox' 1st cousin)"

"Why should the spirit of mortal be proud
. . . a swift moving cloud"