Simeon Bright was born in South Carolina March 22, 1806; died October 12, 1864 at age 58 in Choctaw County, Mississippi and was buried in McCurtain's Creek Baptist Cemetary. Along the way, he was married April 1828 in Hardeman Co.TN to Kezia Box who was born December 22, 1810 in Kentucky. She died at age 68 February 27, 1879 and was buried beside Simeon. Their first four sons were born in Tennessee between 1829 and 1835: Robert (1829), Caleb, (1830), Nehemiah (1833), and William (1835). After they moved to Tippah County, Mississippi, they had six more sons and two daughters: Susan Catherine (1838), Tandy (1840), Simeon, Jr. (1843), Samuel.H (1847), John Jackson (1848), Martha A. (1851), Abram L. (1855), and Lafayette (1858). The census data of 1850 1860 and 1880 indicates the men of the family were farmers. Simeon and Kezia were still in Tippah County at the time of the 1860 census. Kezia was left with three children under age 15 when Simeon died in Choctaw County in 1864. In the Census of 1870, Kezia is enumerated in Choctaw County MS in the Bankston P. O. District in house No. 19 as House keeper with a personal property value of $375 with sons William, Samuel, Abe L. and Lafayette J. listed as farmers. Daughter Martha S. is also in the household. In house No. 16, her son Nehemiah (and his family Tabithi M. and children Susanah, Oliver S. and Martha F.) is enumerated with a real estate value of $240 and a personal property value of $300. ( From the files of Joseph Fox)
1850 Census of Tippah Co. Mississippi: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4LN-B26
FindAGrave Memorial of Simeon Bright: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=26809148
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