J. M. WIGHT

WIGHT, ELLIOTT

Posted By: Mona Sarratt Knight (email)
Date: 6/6/2009 at 10:20:37

Source: The History of Appanoose County, Iowa, Containing A History of the County, its Cities, Towns, etc., A Biographical Directory of Citizens, War Records of its Volunteers in the late Rebellion, General and Local Statistics, Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, History of the Northwest, History of Iowa, Map of Appanoose County, Constitution of the United States, Miscellaneous Matters, etc.; illustrated; Chicago: Western Historical Company, 1878.

J. M. WIGHT, groceries and provisions, Main St.; residence Fifth St.; born in Washington Co., Ohio, in 1844; removed to Davis Co., Iowa, in 1847; thence to Adair Co., Mo., in 1866, and to Moulton in 1875; owns residence and place of business. Married Miss Sarah Elliott in 1872; she was born in Ohio in 1839. They have two children - Ettie, born in 1874; Zoa M., born in 1876. Greenbacker; members of the M.E. Church. He is a member of A.F.&A.M., No. 17, Moulton. Enlisted in the 7th Iowa V.C. in 1863; on frontier until mustered out in 1866.