I was very surprised to find that Avery and Orie Knight were not twins. In fact, they were more than two years apart in age. Avery was born on June 24, 1900, and Orie was born exactly 27 months later on September 24, 1902.
In the 1920 census their parents, William and Carrie are 49 and 47 years of age respectively. They were also the parents of ten children ages 3-22. And if that isn't interesting enough, they were all boys! While I was feeling sorry for Mother Carrie who had no female help in the house, I checked the 1910 census and found that there were originally thirteen children in the family. The three oldest children, a boy first and then two girls had moved away, leaving the youngest ten boys and more chaos than I can imagine. (Purely my guess; I am the mother of eleven--seven girls and four boys.) :)
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I can find no records for Avery after 1920, he just disappears, but I can find quite a few records for Orie. In the 1930 census he is married to Evelyn and they are living in Indiana. Ten years later I find them in Fort Worth, Texas, living in a rented house for $33 a month and their yearly income is listed as $2,080. The couple continues to move south where Orie dies at the age of 79 while living in Sun City, Arizona.
