How Did We Arrive on Light's Ridge

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D:	1818 , Anderson, South Carolina
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Matthias LIGHT

B:	7 Jun 1769 Pendleton, Anderson, South Carolina
D:	Bef 1810 , Harrison, Indiana
M:	Bef 1792 , , South Carolina

Family

Anna or Katherine Russell

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Israel LIGHT

B:	1800 , , S. Carolina
D:	28 Sep 1891 Rosco, , Texas
M:	25 Oct 1832 Owen Co., In

Family

Hugh MOORE

B:	15 Sep 1750 Belfast, Antrim, North Ireland
D:	24 Oct 1833 , Mccracken, Kentucky
M:	1772/1773 Wafford's Fort, , South Carolina

Mary Catherine "Polly" MOORE

B:	12 Feb 1774 , Pendleton, South Carolina
D:	Aft 1850 , Owen, Indiana

Robert Leonard "Bob" LIGHT

B:	20 Feb 1852 , , Missouri

Family

Sarah FRENCH

B:	Mar 1757 New Jersey City, , New Jersey
D:	2 Jan 1854 , Mccraken, Ky

Family

Thelitha PATTON

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Archibald EVANS

B:	Abt 1802 , , Virginia
D:	Bef 1900
M:	Abt 1818 , Hawkins, Tennessee

Family

Anna EVANS

B:	22 Feb 1812 Hawkins Co., Tn
D:	7 Oct 1861 , Camden, Missouri

Family

Mary EVANS

B:	Abt 1806 , Hawkins, Tennessee
D:	Bef 1900 , Pulaski, Missouri

information provided by: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Which direction shall I go on this tree -- from left to right or right to left? Let's try beginning with Jacob Light and moving to the left and hope it doesn't become too confusing. I have already found information disputing what is on the above tree from LDS. Since I have cited LDS, I will put any disagreeing information in green.

I will begin with Jacob Light as he is leaving Virginia for a new life in South Carolina. The Lights appear in several generations in Virginia but often not at the same time. There was a lot of travel back to England and Barbados.
The Anderson SC tax "roles" show that a Tyce (Matthias) and a Jacob Light were sons of Jacob Light, who is the same person I think as Jacob Light of Halifax who left for SC about 1780. Jacob sold some property before he left Halifax, VA to Robert Mann.

information from researcher Steve W. Light on Genealogy.com

I will probably be quoting Steve W. Light often as he has done an enormous amount of research on the Light families of Colonial times.
According to the above researcher one of Jacob Light's wives was a Katherine Russell, who I believe was from Virginia, not South Carolina. Perhaps Katherine Anne??

Who We Are

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Today I am starting a long-delayed project that I have been promising several of my cousins for many years. I have been doing genealogy research off-and-on for several decades. It is in a few different unfinished forms - none of which I am ready to share with my family. And since we are all getting older and our memories are getting shorter, I thought I should get started this way.

My plan is to just relay interesting bits and pieces of our history and accompany each story with a genealogy chart, so you will be able to see how the persons in the stories are related to each of us.

I will also use this as a research diary for myself that I will be able to use anywhere I can get on the internet. My notes will be posted in this color. If anyone has any suggestions that will make this blog more useful for you or if you have any information, documents, family pictures, etc, please email me at

okoma46@gmail.com

So, what and where is Light's Ridge? Light's Ridge lies off Hwy 7 between Cowell and Lurton AR. You won't find the name on any map, because it was a locally used name to indicate the original 120 acres of the Robert and Thillitha Patton Light homestead.

(Already reached my first stumbling block. Can't seem to incorporate a family card from my genealogy program. Will work on creating a family tree diagram of some sort that I

can put into a blog post. )

As of my last visit about 12 years ago and a Google map search today, Nellie's Craft Shop, HC 30 Box 102, Pelsor, AR (870) 294-5317, is just across the road from the main part of the homestead. In the early 1950's, Nellie and her husband purchased their first farm from Arthur Light, grandson of Robert and Thillitha, who was the last of the Light family to own any part of Light's Ridge. Nellie has built a nice craft shop on the site where she sells the crafts and needlework of local residents.

So, now you know a very little about Light's Ridge. Google "Nellie's Craft Shop" to get better idea of where it is according to Google (they make the statement that the location is approximate).