John Wightman (1787 - 1837)

Born 11 Apr 1787 in Groton, New London, Connecticut, United States

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Died 12 Jan 1837 at age 49 in Newburgh Township, Cuyahoga, Ohio, United States

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Biography

John was born in 1787. He was the son of Isaac Wightman and Lucretia Packer. He passed away in 1837.

John Wightman left Connecticut in 1811 and located in Newburgh, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, being one of the pioneer settlers in the Western Reserve. His farm in close vicinity to the growing borough of Cleveland was finally comprised within the city limits. The hamlet of Newburgh lay about four miles southeast of the present civic center of Cleveland and his house, located near the fort and four corners of Newburgh, was run as an inn. The present Hospital of St. Alexis in the city of Cleveland stands on his original farm land, and the modern city thoroughfare, Broadway, runs opposite the site of the old inn.

It was in this house that Alexander Campbell met a group of religious worshipers and organized the first Church of the Disciples in Cuyahoga County, and in this faith the descendants in this line have generally remained.

After John Wightman's death, his widow made her home with their son in Springfield, Missouri, and she died there.

Sources

• Whitman, Mary Ross. George Wightman of Quidnessett, R.I. (1632-1721/2) and descendants : Waitman, Weightman, Whiteman, Whitman, Whytman, Wightman, Wyghtman. Chicago, Ill. 1939. Pages 91, 152.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadway_Avenue_Historic_District_(Cleveland,_Ohio)