Cemetery Cemetery

Old Lightsey Cemetery

Locationi: On County Road 116 between Highway 503 and County Road 99

Transcribed & Donated by Faye Brown Harrington
© 1997


S.A. WIFE OF 0.C. RHODES
BORN JAN 17 1818
DIED JAN 10 1895

MOTHER
CAROLINE T. WIFE OF J.E.LIGHTSEY
BORN MAY 31 1824
DIED MAY 29 1894
SHE DEID AS SHE LIVED TRUSTING IN GOD.

FATHER
J.E.L. LIGHTSEY
BORN DEC. 10 1819
DIED JUNE 13 1896
GINE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

MARY B. LIGHTSEY
BORN DEC. 8 1809
DIED SEPT. 26 1852
HE TOOK THEE FROM A WORLD OF CARE
AN EVERLASTING BLISS TO SHARE.

DAVID LIGHTSEY
BORN JAN. 9 1800
DIED NOV. 9 1879
SLEEP ON DEAR FATHER, AND TAKE THY REST,
IN JESUS ARMS FOREVER BLEST.

WILLIAM SON OF J & S.E. MCCORMICK
BORN DEC. 27 1903
DIED JUNE 3 1908
GOD BLESSES IN AN EARLY DEATH,
AND TAKES THE INFANT TO HIMSELF.

FRANCIS M. DAUGHTER OF F.J.& M.E LIGHTSEY
WIFE OF J. MCCORMICK
BORN FEB. 27 1871
DIED MARCH 11 1892
HER WAYS WERE OF PLEASENTNESS, AND ALL
HER PATHS WERE PEACE.

MARY E. WIFE OF F.J. LIGHTSEY
BORN MAY 26 1845
DIED SEPT 15 1920
OUR DARLING MOTHER HATH GONE BEFORE
TO GREET US ON THE BLISSFUL SHORE.

F.J. LIGHTSEY
BORN JAN 12 1844:.DIED DEC. 21 1882
HE WAS A KIND AND AFFECTIONATE HUSBAND,
A FOND FATHER, AND A FRIEND TO ALL.

DUKE L. LIGHTSEY
BORN JAN. 29 1871
DIED MAY 6 1931
HE HAS GONE TO THE MANISIONS OF REST.

JENNIE B. LIGHTSEY
BORN FEB. 18.1880
DIED AUG. 5 1945
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.

SAM RICHARD LIGHTSEY
BORN NOV. 27 1873
DIED JULY 9 1956


S.C. LIGHTSEY
BORN SEPT 11 1849
DIED JAN 21 1928
SHE FALTER BY THE WAYSIDE AND THE ANGELS TOOK HER HOME.

J.C. LIGHTSEY
BORN FEB. 21 1841
DIED DEC. 30 1928
THY GOD HAST CLAIMED THEE AS HIS OWN.

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