Henry Taylor Lightfoot (1776 - 1845)

Born 20 Jun 1776 in Cary, Wake, North Carolina

Husband of Martha Dotson (Darnall) Lightfoot — married 9 Mar 1800 in Wake County, North Carolina

Husband of Nancy Ann (Webster) Lightfoot — married 18 Nov 1804 in Mercer County, Kentucky, United States

Descendants

Died 1845 at about age 68 in Clark County, Arkansas, United States

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Disputed Origins

Unless primary sources for the parents of Henry Taylor Lightfoot are found, please do not add parents for him. Extensive research has not found documented evidence for any known parents.Notes added by Virginia Kline

(A previous version of this profile claimed, without source, that his parents were William Lightfoot II and Mary Ann Maria Unknown. They've been detached. Use g2g to discuss his the evidence and sources for his origins. Thank you. Smith-32867 17:05, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

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Biography

Henry Taylor Lightfoot was born June 20, 1776 in Cary, Wake, North Carolina.^{[1] [2]} There were several Carolina and Virginia Lightfoot families in this area of Kentucky before 1800. This page has several researchers adding to the history of Henry Taylor Lightfoot.

Page from Lightfoot Family Bible with Henry Taylor Lightfoot and Nancy Webster Lightfoot dates of birth and marriage.

His place of birth has not been established but at some point he moved to Wake, North Carolina. On March 9, 1800, he married Martha "Patsey" Darnall^[3]

Henry and Martha Patsey Darnall had two children:

Delilah Ann Lightfoot

William Taylor Lightfoot

At some point, Henry abandoned Patsey. A divorce on grounds of desertion was granted Patsey Lightfoot by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1803.

"An Act to secure to the persons therein mentioned such cures as they may hereafter require.

WHEREAS it is represented to this General Assembly that [list of names including Henry Lightfoot} absented themselves from their wives. [List of wives including Patsey Lightfoot.] There being no expectation of a reconciliation, and having it in their power to deprive their wives of such estate as they [the wives] may by their labors or otherwise acquire: Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, 'That from and after the passing of this Act, the said [names of wives including Patsey Lightfoot] shall be entitled to and possess, in their sole right respectively, all such estate, either real or personal, as they or either of them may hereafter lawfully acquire, by purchase or otherwise, in as full and ample manner as if they the said [names of wives including Patsey Lightfoot] had never been married to the said [names of men including Henry Lightfoot] clear from the claim or claims of the said [names of men including Henry Lightfoot] or any of their creditors; and the said [names of wives including Patsey Lightfoot] shall have, respectively full power to sue for and recover, in any court of record, or before any jurisdiction having cognizances as if they had never been married to the said [names of men including Henry Lightfoot], any law to the contrary notwithstanding.'"^[4]

Baker-53780 Mercer County, Marriage Bonds
Henry T. Lightfoot and Nancy Webster, marriage bond dated 17 Nov. 1804
Bondsman: James Glarebrook, who certifies that the bride is 21. They were married 18 Nov 1804. (Glarebrook is Glazebrook)

I write this as the two sources for this marriage on this page under sources reference [5] & [6] - claims they married in Madison Co., Ky. obvious error somewhere. FS has a photo-copy of a book that is definately the Mercer County, Ky., Marriage Register.
I hope someone interested will adjust the source.
This is a true source - Ison and Conover, Marriage Bonds and Consents, 1786-1810, Mercer County, Kentucky (1982, Harrodsburg Historical Society Kentucky).

Henry then married Nancy Webster on November 18, 1804, in Mercer County, KY. ^[5][6]

Henry and Nancy had the following children:

1. John William Lightfoot born in Mercer County, Kentucky. Death in Battle of the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas^[7][8]
2. Mary Lightfoot born in Mercer County, Kentucky.
3. Elijah Holiday Lightfoot born in Mercer County, Kentucky.
4. Wilson Taylor Lightfoot born in Mercer County, Kentucky.
5. Jesse H. Lightfoot born in Mercer County, Kentucky.
6. William Webster Lightfoot born in Mercer County, Kentucky. Served in (Battle of San Jacinto) ^[9]
7. Henry Lee Lightfoot born in Missouri Territory, reorganized and renamed Louisiana Territory once Louisiana became a state. Served in (Battle of San Jacinto) ^[9]
8. Caleb Benjamin Proctor Lightfoot born in Missouri Territory which was the reorganized and renamed Louisiana Territory once Louisiana became a state.
9. Mildred 'Emily' Lightfoot born in Missouri Territory which was the reorganized and renamed Louisiana Territory once Louisiana became a state.
10. Rebecca Lightfoot was born in 1822 in the new State of Missouri.
11. Miriam Lightfoot born in Arkansas Territory
12. Lydia Lightfoot, daughter of Henry Taylor Lightfoot and Nancy Webster Lightfoot.

Henry moved the family to Missouri Territory in 1816. By 1824 they were living in Union, Arkansas.

1830: The Census and Tax Rolls for 1830 and 1832 indicates Henry was in Union County, Arkansas Territory.^[10]

1833: Henry and his son Elijah Holiday signed a petition to admit the Arkansas Territory to statehood.

Petition for Arkansas Statehood signed by Henry T. and Elijah Holiday Lightfoot

1837: Henry bought 40 acres of land on August 1, 1837^[11]

1840: Henry was living in Missouri Township, Clark, Arkansas.^[12]

Henry's youngest children were born in Arkansas Territory.

Miriam Lightfoot born in Arkansas Territory

Lydia Lightfoot - born in Arkansas Territory.

No records for Henry are found after the 1840 census.

No 1850 census was found for his wife, Nancy.

1860 Census: Nancy was living with 5 young children, apparently grandchildren of one of the Lightfoot sons. Thus, it may be assumed that Henry died sometime between 1840 and 1860,^[13] probably in Clark Co., Arkansas, USA.

The preceeding narrative was written primarily by Virginia Kline Norris.

Sources

1. ↑ Lightfoot Family member list on Wayback machine
2. ↑ Texas State Historical Association John Lightfoot bio.
3. ↑ "North Carolina, County Marriages, 1762-1979 ," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-894X-SSGD-B?cc=1726957&wc=QD8P-DRT%3A1588773185%2C1588773184 : 22 December 2016), Wake > Marriage bonds, 1800-1900, vol I-O > image 991 of 2436; Office of Archives and History, Division of Archives and Records. State Archive of North Carolina and various county Register of Deeds.
4. ↑ North Carolina General Assembly, Laws of North Carolina, 1803 Chapter CXIV [114]: 56-57, divorce of Henry and Patsy Lightfoot.
5. ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939K-YDSG-J6?cc=1804888&wc=QD3Q-W7K%3A148190101 : 17 May 2018), 004705549 > image 56 of 530; Madison County Courthouse, Richmond.
6. ↑ "Kentucky, County Marriages, 1797-1954," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V653-2QY : accessed 12 October 2015), Henry Tayler Lightfoot and Nancy Webster, 18 Nov 1804; FHL microfilm 192,267; citing Madison County, Kentucky, marriages, p. 100, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond.
7. ↑ Lightfoot Family Tree on Wayback Machine.
8. ↑ The Alamo Defenders.
9. ↑ ^{9.0 9.1} Battle of San Jacinto at rootsweb
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1830," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHPX-DWC : 24 August 2017), Henry Lightfoot, Union, Arkansas Territory, United States; FHL microfilm 2,473 citing 144, NARA microfilm publication M19, roll 5. Ancestry.com, "Arkansas, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1819-1870", (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3534&h=1168231&ssrc=pt&tid=109242283&pid=210072732984&usePUB=true) citing Ron V. Jackson, compiler, Arkansas Census, 1819-1870 (Accelerated Indexing Systems), compiled and digitized by Mr. Jackson and AIS from microfilmed schedules of the U.S. Federal Decennial Census, territorial/state censuses, and/or census substitutes.
11. ↑ "United States, Bureau of Land Management. Arkansas, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908," database, Ancestry.com (https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2070&h=57159&tid=109242283&pid=210072732984&usePUB=true&_phsrc=NLN4274&_phstart=default&usePUBJs=true) citing United States, Bureau of Land Management. Arkansas Pre-1908 Homestead and Cash Entry Patents. General Land Office Automated Records Project, 1993.
12. ↑ 1840 Arkansas census), Arkansas, Benton, Carroll, Chicot, Clark, Conway, Crawford, Crittenden, Desha, Franklin, Greene, Hempstead, Hot Springs, Independence, Izard, Jackson, Jefferson, Johnson, Lafayette, Lawrence, Madison, Marion, Mississippi, Monroe, Phillips, Pike, Poinsett, Pope, Pulaski, Randolph, St. Francis, Saline, Scott, Searcy, Sevier, Union, Van Buren, Washington, and White counties, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) microfilm publication M704.
13. ↑ "United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:33SQ-GYBF-9742?cc=1473181&wc=7QJZ-PQQ%3A1589422280%2C1589422392%2C1589422441 : 24 March 2017), Arkansas > Ouachita > Behistian Township > image 12 of 18; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3 (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653.

See also:

• Stephanie R Bradshaw Descendants of Henry Taylor LIGHTFOOT (online tree, unsourced)
• Kentucky Compiled Marriages, 1802-1850, Mercer Cty. Kentucky Marriage Records 1800-1830
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
• 1840 U.S. census, Clark County, Arkansas, p. 108, Henry T. Lightfoot; NARA microfilm publication M704, roll 17.
• Lightfoot Family on Wayback machine
• Sue Overturf, Re: Henry Taylor Lightfoot 1776 (Genealogy.com Discussion Forum); May 23, 2004.
• Lightfoot family Bible

Research

Added by Dona Floyd Kimmons at 21:51, 20 July 2018

Bessie Mae Owen is my great-grandmother, the mother of Alvin Luke Williams, a Ft. Worth, Texas Judge and District Judge of Fairbanks, and Anchorage, Alaska. Her mother, Eliza (Janes) (Day) Owen, is the daughter of Lydia J. Lightfoot, who is the daughter of Henry Taylor Lightfoot.

All of the sources on the Owen Family History are recorded in a book written in 1961 by Bonner Frizzell, on the entire Owen/Lightfoot family for my grandfather, Judge Alvin Luke Williams, and he gave this family history book directly to me, Dona Floyd Kimmons. All of the information in the Owen Family History book came directly from his own family descendants, including the Lightfoot data. This book was again updated in 1994, Dallas, Texas by Joe T. Owen. After I went to Alaska and sat on the bench there and in Ft. Worth, Texas, he asked me to write a book on the "Williams Family History", which I did in 1974, compiling this book from direct descendants of this family, and direct interviews with relatives in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Jasper County, Georgia, Lufkin and Ft. Worth, Texas, with all interviews given to me on tapes, which I transcribed into my book, and self-published this book and distributed it to our Williams relatives in 1974. This book is copyrited in Washington, D.C. I still print this book for my own relatives who requested it from me, it is still available, and it includes the Lightfoot family. Both the Owen Family History Book and my book the "Williams Family History Book" contain birth, death, marriage, probate, and deed records, as well as many family photos given to me by my own family. All of this was done in 1974, and the earlier Owen book was written in 1961, and updated 1994, Dallas, Texas, rewritten by Joe T. Owen. I am in the Daughters of the American Revolution DAR #0763837, and had to prove my lineage to belong to that organization with birth, death, marriage, divorce records, which I did. My book has been placed in the Jasper County, Georgia library and the Chamber of Commerce Library, the Tennessee Library, the Texas State Library, Austin, Texas, the Ft. Worth State Library, Ft. Worth, Texas. This book was also distributed by me to all of my living descendants and all those who contributed to the book.

In North Carolina, records were given to me by ancestors in North Carolina proving their descent by joining Americans of Royal Descent, Colonial Dames, Dames of Magna Carta, all having to prove their lineage to join those organizations. The current Courthouse in Raleigh, North Carolina is the old Plantation home of my own ancestor of the Lane family, and they are listed in the book "Royal Descent of 600 Immigrants" under Richard Lane.

A massive DNA study was done long before 1974, given to me in 1985, which was done on the male and female lines of all descendants of this family down to me and my current generation. This study was done by MORGAN/REID/WILLIAMS/GREER/SANDIFER/BEARDEN/MCKENZIE, Y.. JOHNSTON, HALCOMB, MCGUIRE, CAMERON AND STEWART, and it includes my Lightfoot family of Henry Lightfoot, Jacob Lightfoot Williams, Ann Lightfoot, and has proven their lineage by DNA. It lists all of the descendants of this family down to the current generation which includes me and my children, Sheryl Lynn (Sanders) Bolton, and her 3 children.

HENRY TAYLOR LIGHTFOOT born June 20, 1776, Cary, Wake, North Carolina, United States of America and died in 1860, Amity, Clark, Arkansas, United States of America is my 4th great-grandfather, and he was the son of William Lightfoot II, Jr. and Mary Ann Maria, my 5th great-grandparents. Also included in my book are the Hartsfield family of Baden, Germany, who also married into the Williams family in North Carolina.

Henry Taylor Lightfoot is also in the American Genealogical-Biographical Index, (AGBI), as well as many Quaker meeting records which recorded births, deaths, marriage at those meetings which I have listed on the Profile page of William Lightfoot II Henry Taylor Lightfoot is also listed in the Official records of the Union and Confederate Armies, 1861-1865. He also is in the Arkansas, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908. He is also listed in the U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907, as well as the Virginia, Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850. Because the courthouse in Virginia was burned down during the Civil War, records had to be obtained by hiring a professional genealogist in Virginia to physically search the Virginia Library for any records. My own records were obtained directly from my own family and ancestors when I wrote my book in 1974, and in 1961, the same is true for the Owen Family History book of Bessie Mae Owen, my great-grandmother, the mother of my grandfather, Judge Alvin Luke Williams who requested me to write my own book on the Williams family which did include the Lightfoot family. All of this came directly from my own ancestors to create our own family history books and distributed widely to our families, the Owens and Williams families. The Owen family cemetery is located on the old homestead of the Owen family in Athens, Texas where reunions were held every year at that homestead, and written about in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram.

My own grandfather, Judge Alvin Luke Williams and his father, French Beard Williams hold many Patents in Washington, D.C. and founded Crown & Machine Tool Company and Molded Products in Ft. Worth, Texas, still in operation today. At the Crown Machine and Tool Company, they provided all of the bullets for the Navy during World War II, the only company that was able to create and build this type of weapon. He also invented the Geo-Thermal machine which located uranium in Colorado, Alaska, and other locations, that Patent is on file in Washington, D.C. Many newspaper articles have been published on all of this in the Ft. Worth Star Telegram as well as the Owen reunions every year, Ft. Worth, Texas.

This data entered today July 20, 2018. You will see our DNA matches to William Lightfoot II, as well as mamy other of our own relatives, along with my daughter, Sheryl Lynn (Sanders) Bolton, and our DNA is also on Henry Taylor Lightfoot and Nancy Webster (Lightfoot).

Sources added by Dona Floyd Kimmons

• Bonner Frizzell, Owen Family History Book, published 1961, updated nd republished 1994, Dallas.* Dona Vance (Dona Floyd Kimmons), The Williams Family History book, 1974
• Lydia J. Lightfoot, 2nd great granddaughter has Lightfoot Family Bible, tax records of Henry Taylor Lightfoot. The Family Bible Records were given to Dona Floyd Kimmons of the Lightfoot family of Lydia J. Lightfoot, and Henry Taylor Lightfoot, as well as listing their children, birth, and death records, which came directly from his descendants.
• Lightfoot Family History shared with Dona Floyd Kimmons by grandfather, judge Alvin Luke Williams
• Family History by Judge Alvin Luke Williams about his mother, Bessie Mae Owen
• DNA matched to Dona Floyd, 4th great-granddaughter on Ancestry.
• Lightfoot family Bible, Owen Family History Book, published 1961, Bonner Frizzell, updated republished 1994, Dallas, Texas. The Williams Family History book, author, Dona Vance, (Dona Floyd Kimmons) 1972. Information given to Dona Floyd by grandfather, Judge Alvin Luke Williams about his mother, Bessie Mae Owen. Bessie Mae Owen's mother Eliza Janes Day Owen, is the daughter of Lydia J. Lightfoot, my 3rd great-grandmother. The 2nd great-granddaughter of Lydia J. Lightfoot has the Lightfoot Family Bible, and found some tax records in the Dead Letter file on Henry Taylor Lightfoot.