John Eugene Lightner (1914 - 1996)

Born 24 Apr 1914 in West Virginia, United States

Ancestors

Died 22 Jan 1996 at age 81 in Warren, Trumbull, Ohio, United States

Biography

John Lightner was born in Appalachia, in West Virginia.

Son of Levi Lewis Lightner and Audrey Ruth Jacobs.

His father was a preacher and moved a lot around West Virginia.

He was enumerated as Eugena Lightner (female) age 5 in 1920 in Fork Lick, Webster, West Virginia.^[1]

In 1930 the family was living at Petersburg, Grant, West Virginia.^[2]

Married Margaret McMahan 1946 in Marion County, West Virginia.^[3]

John and Margaret were the parents of Margaret Mosella Lightner (named for his grandmother Moselle Robe) b 1947. Margaret Mosella married Michael Anthony Di Censo 21 Jun 1969 in Trumbull County, Ohio.^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MNKG-18W : 4 February 2021), Eugena Lightner in entry for Levi J Lightner, 1920.
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XMCT-N88 : accessed 28 September 2021), John E Lightner in household of L Lewis Lightner, Petersburg, Grant, West Virginia, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 2, sheet 3B, line 68, family 56, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2532; FHL microfilm 2,342,266.
3. ↑ "West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FYC7-84X : 11 February 2018), John E Lightner and Margaret Mcmahan, 1946; citing Marion, West Virginia, United States, , county clerks, West Virginia; FHL microfilm 835,648.
4. ↑ "Ohio, County Marriages, 1789-2016", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q297-TG6J : 24 September 2021), John E Lightner in entry for Michael Anthony Di Censo and Margaret Mosella Lightner, 1969.

• *"United States World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K8RB-P9Z : 5 December 2014), John E Lightner, enlisted 18 Jun 1942, Roanoke, Virginia, United States; citing "Electronic Army Serial Number Merged File, ca. 1938-1946," database, The National Archives: Access to Archival Databases (AAD) (http://aad.archives.gov : National Archives and Records Administration, 2002); NARA NAID 1263923, National Archives at College Park, Maryland.

• "Ohio Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, and 1958-2007", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VK24-7YC : 30 June 2021), John Eugene Lightner, 1996.

• "United States Social Security Death Index," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JRCP-SJ8 : 8 January 2021), John E Lightner, 22 Jan 1996; citing U.S. Social Security Administration, Death Master File, database (Alexandria, Virginia: National Technical Information Service, ongoing).