Thomas Lighthill - I4475 - Individual Information -

Thomas Lighthill (I4475)

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Thomas Lighthill

Gender: Male

Birth: 25 June 1766 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Death: 3 August 1871 Decatur, Iowa

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Thomas Andrew Lighthill was an Indian Fighter under General Harner.During the Indian Wars, Thomas received a sabre wound to his chest, withthe weapon breaking off in his body. The intrepid fighter slew hisadversary and not only recovered with the piece of steel in his body butattained the venerable age of 106. At his death, the point of the sabrewas found incased in his sternum.

‎[The preceeding was transcribed from the Closson Family Bible]‎

Thomas Lighthill, son of Johan George Lichtenberger, is believed to beenborn in the vicinity of Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, before the formation ofAllegheny County. Thomas first appears in record in Cranberry TownshipButler County Pennsylvania, buying 100 acres of land there on the BeaverCounty / Butler County line from John Kane on August 9, 1807. In thecensus of 1820, Thomas was located in Beaver County New SewickleyTownship, documented as:

Males 1 @ 10-15 ‎(which should be son John Lighthill)‎
1 @ 19-25 ‎(which should be son George Lighthill)‎
1 @ over 40 ‎(Thomas himself)‎
Females 1 @ under 10
2 @ 10-15
2 @ 16-18
2 @ over 45 ‎(one of which should be his wife Jemima Kitchens)‎

Thomas can be found in the taxes of New Sewickley Township in both 1820and 1821, taxed on 217 acres of land, two horses, and a cow. In 1827,only his son George is taxed in New Sewickley Township. By the 1830census, Thomas was living in Cranberry Township Butler County withBarbary Crile. That census descripes several of the older children there,as well as one son and one daughter under the age of five.

His first wife, Jemima, was still in New Sewickley Township, living withher son George and his family; she is enumerated there in the 1830 censusas being between fifty and sixty years old. According to "family gossip",Thomas left Jemima for a younger woman, but they never divorced, so thesecond wife was a common-law marriage ‎(living together for a least 7years constituted legal marriage)‎. Barbary Crile Lighthill was about 32years old in 1830, hardly what is believed to be a "younger" woman, butconsider that Thomas was 64 at the time !

Cranberry Township Butler County borders New Sewiclkey Township BeaverCounty. This must have been a scandalous time, considering Thomas hadjust move a mile or so from his residence with Jemima to his residencewith Barbary. Thomas and Barbary were together for 45 years, stayed inCranberry Township close to 25 years, raised 7 sons and one daughter,before moving on to Decatur Iowa sometime in the mid 1850's.

Thomas and Barbary sold all their property in Cranberry Township on March12, 1856 for $3100 dollars. The family ‎(grown children as well)‎ probablytraveled down the Ohio River to the Mississippi, and then up the MissouriRiver to Decatur County Iowa. They had arrived by 1857 since two ofThomas' grandchildren were born in Iowa that year.

Thomas and Barbary are enumerated in the 1860 and 1870 census in DecaturCity Township. All of their sons, except one, fought in the Civil War inthe Iowa Volunteers.

Thomas is buried at the OakHill Cemetary, out in the country on a dirtroad about a mile and a half from where they had lived. Several of hisand Barbary's sons, Joseph, Henry, and Peter, were buried there beforehim. Thomas outlive both John and George from his first marriage as well.The Leon County courthouse burned two years after his death, so all ofThomas' land records and well were destroyed. Barbary's land records fromwhen she sold the property she had inherited near the cemetary where theyprobably lived still exist. Thomas' tombstone claims he was over 105years old, born June 25, 1766, died October 3, 1871.

George Lighthill and his family, and possibly his mother Jemima, allmoved to Putnam County in Ohio by 1836. John Lighthill was the only childfrom the first marriage to stay with his father.

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Thomas Lighthill commanded Fort Pitt, later becoming Pittsburg. His family had immigrated to Pottstown, Pa from Neurenburg Germany via Austria in the 1600's. After Thomas retired from duty as Coronel, he was awarded a grant of 1000 acres in Western Ohio. This was common compensation and Ohio land was considered one of the finest. This property became known as the Lighthill Homestead and many of my family still live there.

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	Events of close relatives
Birth	25 June 1766 Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
Marriage	about 1792 (Age approx. 26) Jemima Kitchens - Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Death	3 August 1871 (Age 105) Decatur, Iowa
Burial	Oak Hill Cemetary, Decatur, Iowa
Last Change	13 March 2007 - 18:09:44 Last changed by: nateliston

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