LIGHTHILL, Thomas

LIGHTHILL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/4/2014 at 22:02:46

Obituary ~ Thomas Lighthill
June 25, 1767 ~ October 02, 1871

Decatur County Journal
Leon, Decatur County, Iowa
October 21, 1871

Thomas Lighthill, whose death occurred Oct. 2d, 1871, was born in what is now known as the city of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in the year 1767, consequently he was 104 years old; perhaps the oldest man in Southern Iowa, if not in the State. Father Lighthill lived in or near Pittsburg for 88 years then moved to Decatur county, Iowa, and settled on Grand River, and remained there till his death. The deceased was temperate in his diet, made but little use of liquor, but was a great slave to tobacco, having made use of it from a boy.

[Interment was made at Funktown [a.k.a. Oak Hill] Cemetery. ]

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2014