The McKnight Quadruplets of Bella Vista: A Mix of Joy and Tragedy.

Filmed on location.

Come experience a bittersweet moment in this episode of Exploring Shasta County history which is set in 1915 at Bella Vista, California, when Nancy (Shaw) McKnight unexpectedly, extraordinarily, and historically gave birth to the first set of quadruplet babies in Shasta County history. That's right! A set of four! Two boys, and two girls! What a sensation it was for the mother of these newborns who was aged thirty-seven-years-old, at the time, and a mother of ten previous children, as well as a two-time grandmother who achieved national fame for birthing her quadruplets. Her husband, sixty-year-old Charles O. McKnight was employed as a lumberman at the Terry Lumber Company in Bella Vista. Press play, on the video and or in the link provided to find out more. Please like, share, comment and if you haven't yet, please, subscribe to my YouTube channel.

Resources:

Quadruplets At Bella Vista - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 11, 1915

Bella Vista Mother Gives Birth Four Babies In Short Space of Four Hours - The Searchlight newspaper office Redding, March 12, 1915

Mrs. McKnights 4 Babies Coming Along Famously - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 13, 1915

“Dottie” Is the Name of Youngest and Tiniest of the Quadruplets - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 14, 1915

Death Claims One McKnight Baby - The Courier-Free Press newspaper of Redding, March 15, 1915

Life’s Short Span - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 16, 1915

Death of Quadruplet Spoils Show Chances - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 16, 1915

Joseph Terry Is the Only Cry Baby of the Three Surviving Quadruplets - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 18, 1915

Death Calls Another Quadruplet - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 21, 1915

Last of the Quadruplets Are Called by Death - The Searchlight newspaper of Redding, March 23, 1915

Four Babes in 2 Hours to 105 Pound Mother, Aged 40 - The Galena Daily Gazette of Galena, Illinois - March 12, 1915

Couple to Whom Stork Brought Four at Once - The Tacoma Times newspaper of Tacoma, Washington, March 19, 1915

Days News Condensed - The Chicago-Livestock World newspaper of Chicago, Illinois, April 6, 1915

The Potsdam Herald-Recorder of Potsdam, New York, April 30, 1915