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John J. Lightfoot (Bath County, Kentucky, druggist)

b. 1828-03-07 d. 1889-02-27

Bath County, Kentucky, druggist. Kentucky native. Son of Katherine Lightfoot. Married to Elizabeth Downing Lightfoot in Lancaster, Kentucky, on September 24, 1855. Father of William Lightfoot, John Lightfoot, Mathew Lightfoot, Fannie Lightfoot, and Eliza Lightfoot. Clerk in Bath County in 1850. Household owned four enslaved persons in Bath County in 1850. Druggist in Owingsville, Kentucky, in 1860.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 2, p. 1A.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Division 296.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Bath County, Owingsville, p. 7.

Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mercer County, Precinct 5, p. 519A.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Garrard County Marriages, Film #000183256, p. 119.

Find A Grave, "John James Lightfoot (1828-1889)," Memorial #172452764, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/172452764 (accessed September 25, 2018).

Citation

Lightfoot, John J.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32197344 (November 12, 2026).

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