I am unable to do much research right now, but would love to be put on your Light Family
email list. I am hoping to get back to research... but not possible right now.
Thank you for keeping up the good fight!
Terresa Thompson
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From: "Nancy Scott" <nrscott30(a)yahoo.com>
To: "Indiana Rootsweb" <inowen(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 4:52:54 PM
Subject: [INOWEN] Winter project - LIGHT
This year I have been working on the Light family. I condensed my articles from OWEN
COUNTY MAGAZINE about the Lights for a talk for the DAR. Then I posted it as a story on
ancestry.com. In the meantime, I have been contacted by a woman researching the
descendants of a younger brother of our Owen County ancestor Light. Last week she
submitted an application for DAR membership proving her descent from Revolutionary War
patriot Vachel Light. No one had ever documented descent from him, so this is new
information, and a new possibility for others, descended from Vachel Light.
There is a group on email working through the detailed information collected on the Light
family, mostly in Tennessee. If you are interested in this, let me know & I'll
include you in the next mailing. I could forward you reams of information already sent
out. I have posted some of it on
ancestry.com, as well. To see my
ancestry.com tree
search for Roy Samuel Beernink, the tree
name is "beernink Family Tree." The small "b" will tip you off.
nrscott30owner
Vachel Light, his father William Light, Sr., and his brother William Light, Jr. and
perhaps their brother our ancestor Jacob Light, moved from Halifax County, VA (where the
Scotts were, incidentally) into the North Carolina/George/Virginia corner of
"overmountain" area that later became the northeast corner of Tennessee. When
they moved there, it was toward the end of the Revolutionary War. Those three signed a
petition that their area become the State of Franklin, which was denied by Congress and
the state of North Carolina. Writing the history of the State of Franklin is my newest
project. Next year it will be a presentation at the DAR, plus it might turn into an
article somewhere.
I am interested in knowing whatever news you have about the future of the OWEN COUNTY
MAGAZINE, which was referred to in passing in a recent email.
Happy hunting.
nancy
Nancy R. Scott. 2008 Silver Court West, Urbana, Illinois 61801. 217/367-8416.
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