Knapp, Rev. William B.

KNAPP

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 12/8/2007 at 00:25:03

Historical Sketches of Iowa Baptists
Burdette Company, Burlington, Iowa, 1886

Obituary Notes-

REV. WM. B. KNAPP of Charleston and his entire family, consisting of wife and two or three children, died of cholera in 1849. The family had entertained a stranger at their home, who, either before or immediately after leaving, sickened and died of the fatal disease. They had entertained an angel unawares but it proved to be an angel of death. Mr. Knapp left his home to fill an appointment at Denmark, and while there was attacked with the cholera and died in a few hours. About the same time death smote his wife and one of the children, and while a messenger was bearing to his home the sad news of his death, another was on the way to convey to Denmark the sorrowful tidings that he never received.