George Lightner

Birth 15 Feb 1792 Pennsylvania, USA Death 28 Jul 1874 (aged 82) Bradner, Wood County, Ohio, USA Burial Chestnut Grove Cemetery Sandusky County, Ohio, USA Plot Section 3B, row 13 Memorial ID 59667136 · View Source NOTE: Where was George before 1840? We don't know the name of his father so we can't search for him as a child. By 1810 he would have been old enough to be on his own. On May 28, 1835 and in March 1836, he got land grants in Sandusky County as was shown as living in Huron County, Ohio. I could not find a Lightner in Huron County in the 1830 census.

• ***** Land Patent #11,929 Patentee: George Lightner of Huron County, Ohio State: Ohio Acres: 39.53 Issue Date: 5/28/1835 Land Office: Bucyrus Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat.566) Aliquot Parts: SESW Sec./Block: 19/ Township: 5-N Range: 13-E Meridian: 1st PM State: OH Counties: Sandusky President: Andrew Jackson
  • *** Land Patent #12,469 Patentee: George Lightner of Huron County, Ohio State: Ohio Acres: 39.65 Issue Date: 3/15/1836 Land Office: Bucyrus Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat.566) Aliquot Parts: SWSW Sec./Block: 19/ Township: 5-N Range: 13-E Meridian: 1st PM State: OH Counties: Sandusky President: Andrew Jackson
    • ******** 1840 United States Federal Census Record Name: George Lightner Home in 1840: Madison Township, Sandusky, Ohio Male - 10-15 - 1 Charles 13 Male 15-20 - 1 George 18 or Nathaniel 17 Male 50-60 - 1 George 48 ? Females under 5 - 2 Angeline 2 & Caroline 4 Female 20-30 - 1 Catherine ? [Assuming they were married in 1818 and had Catherine in 1819, she would have been 21] Female 50-60 - 1 Barbara 42 ??
      • ******* 1860 United States Federal Census Record Name: Geo Leighten Age in 1860: 67 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1860: Madison, Sandusky, Ohio Gender: Male Value: $4,000 Head of Household: Geo Leighten Post Office: Fremont

George, age 67, Farmer, born Pa. Barbara, age 65, born Pa. Angeline, age 21, born Ohio Mary Tribbs (sp?), age 17, born Ohio William, age 16, born Ohio

• *********** 1870 United States Census - Madison Township, Sandusky County, Ohio Name: George Lightner Age in 1870: 79 Estimated Birth Year: 1790 Birthplace: Pennsylvania Home in 1870: Madison, Sandusky, Ohio Value of real estate: $6,000 Race: White Gender: Male Post Office: Fremont Roll: M593_1264 Page: 168 Image: 341 Year: 1870

Name: Age: Occupation: Value: Birthplace: George Lightner 79 Farmer $6,000 Penna Barbara Lightner 75 Keeping House Penna Charles Lightner 37 Farmer $400 Penna Precilla Lightner35 Keeping House Ohio John Lightner 2 Ohio Jane Lightner 4/12 Ohio

• **** "Record of Revolutionary Soldier's Graves 7 List of Soldier's of War of 1812 from Sandusky County" Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio

"Scott Township - Bradner Cemetery - Location about 1 mile east of Bradner on County Line Road...Lightner, George..."

• **** "History of Sandusky County" H. Z. Williams & Bro., Cleveland, 1882

Pages 793 - 795

"The first lands were entered in Madison in 1830 and 1831. Very few, if any, squatters had penetrated the swamp before that time. This sickly flat, made hideous by the hum of mosquitoes, had no attractions for the professional rovers... Settlement here involved sacrifices which no one was willing to endure, except in the hope of building up a home, and providing a heritage for their children. All who came had the necessary resolution to make them wealthy men, but more than half were wanting in the stability necessary for pioneer service; they abandonded their stations and sought a more promising clime. Most of those who remained, the pioneers of to-day, accomplished in a satisfactory measure the object of their ambition. They have also performed a high mission in life by clearing, plowing, and ditching, thus finishing the work of creation by adapting nature to the use of civilized man.

"As a guide to the location of early settlers, as they are mentioned in the foregoing sketch, a list of the original land entries is herewith given. The date of entry in nearly every case antedates the date of record five years. A further explanation is found in connection with York township. What is said there concerning the State turnpike lands does not apply here, there being no pike lands in this township;

"The following entries are recorded in 1825:

"...George Lightner Section 19 Acres 39...

"The following entries were recorded in 1840:

"...George Lightner Section 19 Acres 39

Page 799

"...1836...George Lightner settled about the same time."

• **** "Index to Servicemen of War of 1812, State of Ohio" Compiled by Ohio Society U. S. Daughters of 1812, Edited by Phyllis Brown Miller. Page 124

"LIGHTNER, George; b. 2-15-1792; d. 7-28-1874; bur. Bradner Cem., Chestnut Ridge; Mil. File, Sand. Co. Courthouse, Fremont, OH; flag sticker 1812; (1955)."

• **** Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s-2009, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Name: George Lightner Birth Date: abt 1792 Death Date: 28 Jul 1874 Age at Death: 82 Death Place: Sandusky, Ohio Spouse: Barbara Other Sources: F497 S2w3 Orr Other Source Data: 2048; P 124; P 44 Source Description: Dar, 1946 Notes: Buried: Bradner, Scott Twp; Library Link: 42165