Anna Knight lived a long and prosperous life. During her lifetime, she accomplished many things and did a lot of great things for the church and her community. She was born in 1874 in Mississippi, but her family was originally from Georgia where her mother was born a slave. The white man who bought the family was named Knight, and he moved the family to Mississippi. Obviously, he also gave the family their name. When slavery …showed first 75 words of 1244 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1244 total…to return again to the Southeastern Conference as a field secretary. She remained in this position until December of 1945, when the black conferences were organized. In total, Anna Knight worked for 16 union presidents, 38 local conference presidents, 8 union Sabbath school and home missionary secretaries, 22 union education and missionary volunteer secretaries and 5 union colored secretaries. She lived for 98 years, and died in 1972 at the Riverside Sanitarium. She is buried on the Knight's family plot near Soso Mississippi.