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The
1910 Census shows Robert L. Knox living with his grandparents, parents,
and extended family at 310 Washington
Street in South Camden. He was then working as a teamster for the
American Ice Company, which sold coal
and ice. By 1912 he had married and by the following year was
living with his wife Rosalia at 822 Division
Street. A son, Robert B. Knox, was born in 1913 but died in August of
that year at the age of six months from an intestinal
ailment.
Robert
L. Knox was still working for American Ice when he registered for the draft
on June 5, 1917. Another child had been born by this time. The Knox
family was still living at 822 Division
Street. During the years on Division Street, 821 Division
lived was well-known local baseball player George
Clayton. Both men worked for the American Ice Company. In January of
1917, while cutting ice at a lake in the Kirkwood section of Voorhees
Township, both men took part in rescuing a skater who had fallen through
the ice, with four other men, including a teenager, Raymond
Burgess. Both Knox and Burgess would later join the Camden Fire
Department.
On
March 23, 1918 Robert L. Knox was appointed to the Camden Fire
Department. By the end of 1918 he and his wife moved to 766 Pine
Street, where they were residing when the 1919 Camden City Directory
was compiled. He was still a member of the Camden Fire Department in
January of 1920 when the census was enumerated. Sadly, he and his wife
had lost their child, possibly during the flu pandemic of late 1918. The
1920 Census shows that Robert and Rosalia Knox were then living with his
mother and her third husband, John Coates, at 802 South
6th Street.
By
1924 Robert L. Knox had left the fire department, possibly due to injury
as he was collecting a pension of some sort in 1931, according to Fire
Department records. He was living at 450 Henry
Street.
The
1927 Camden City Directory indicates that Robert L. Knox had remarried.
He was working as a taxi driver and living with his wife Martha at 811 Princeton
Avenue. By 1929 they had left Camden and had moved to 721 Center
Avenue in Collingswood. The 1930 Census shows him at that address, and
states that he was a partner in a taxi business. Fire Department records
from 1931 also show him at that address.
By
the spring of 1942 Robert Knox was out of the taxi business and had
returned to Camden. He and his wife Martha were then living at 224
Friends Avenue. He was then working at the New York Shipbuilding
Corporation shipyards. The 1947 City Directory lists him and his wife at
478 Newton
Avenue. He was then working as a boiler fireman. New Jersey Bell
Telephone Directories show him at that address as late as the fall of
1959.
By
1970 Robert L. Knox had left Camden. His last address according to the
Social Security Administration was in Fortescue, Cumberland County, New
Jersey. He passed away in July of 1968.
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