Lewis Lightner

Title

Lewis Lightner

Aliases

Lewis Hamilton

Date

10 August 1862-1 November 1862

Description

Regiment: 79th USCT [1st Kansas Colored Infantry also provided]
Company: B
Rank: Private
Mustered-in date and place: 10 August 1862 in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States
Mustered-out date and place: 1 November 1862 in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States

Other locations listed during time of service: Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States
Comrades: Not listed

Name(s) of spouse(s): Huldah Conley [Huldah Steele] (died 25 June 1896) [later married an unknown Jones]
Marriage date & place: June 1852
Children: Lucy Lightner (born 1854); Lizzie Lightner (born 1859); Susan A. (Lightner) Lilliard (born ~1860, also known as Susan A. Lewis)

Veteran's birth date and location: September 1862 in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States
Veteran's death date and location: 16 December 1864 in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States
Plantation(s): Not listed
Enslaver(s): Not listed

Parents of veteran: John Anderson [John Spencer] and Jemima Ellison
Other listed family members: Simon Ellison [Williams]; Henderson Ellison; Ellen Gray; Maria Williams; Maggie Pope

Wife's place of birth: Not listed
Wife's enslaver: A. J. Steele
Wife's parents: Not listed
Wife's other family members: Squire Jefferson (1st spouse); Andy Jones (3rd spouse)

Creator

Department of the Interior Bureau of Pensions

Publisher

National Archives and Records Administration

Type

Document

Format

Portable Document Format

Language

English

Coverage

United States of America

Rights

Public Domain | All records should be cited as coming from the Center Family History at the International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

Donated by:

Bernice Bennett