John BRIGHT, JR.
1. Archives Knoxville Tennessee Geneological Lib. 2. Courthouse census records Knox County 3. Dup of fam sheet placed in Gen. Lib Salt Lake City by Mrs A. B. Patterson 124 So. 12th East Salt Lake City, Utah, for Rose Floyd, Glendale,Ca 4. Family records kept by Sarah Matilda Bright Miles. All previous Church Blessings reconfirmed and ratified for above Susan Pugh date 3 Nov 1967, Sarah Ann Bright date 15 Sep 1967, Joseph, Gilbert, Isaac, John on 7 Sep 1967. No. 4 Isaac Preston md (2) Cordelia Hussey Brower No. 4 Isaac Preston md (3) Martha Adaline Craghead 2 Mar 1887. No. 6 John md (2) 9 Mar 1887 Nelson, Alice Young. No. 6 John md (3) 7 Feb 1912 Lissian Hibbert.
The ancestral File gives an additional Endowment date 21 Nov 1862.
Gilbert was rebaptised in 1875. I need that date.
MARRIED 1 SMITH, MARY ETTA 2 BROWER, CORDELIA HUSSEY 3 CRAGHEAD, MARTHA ADALINE 1.Archives Knoxville Tennessee Geneological Lib. 2.Courthouse census records Knox County Tenn 3.Dup of Fam sheet placed in Gen. Lib Salt Lake City by Mrs A. B. Patterson 124 So. 12th East Salt Lake City, Utah 4.Family records kept by Sarah Matilda Bright Miles United Kinsman Book and family records in possession of Nettie Payne 261 So. lst West Tremonton, Utah Logan Temple records. Genealogies and biographies Utah Pioneer Book pg 768-825 Logan Library. This sheet was submitted by George Bright originally. #4 Zoras baptism cannot be found rebaptized by proxy 19 Dec. 1922 in Logan Temple, also endowed by proxy. #7 Netties baptism cannot be found rebaptised 14 Feb 1923. #3 George Md (2) 22 Dec 1942 Anderson, Liona
The baptisam in 1856 had no day or month the Ancestral File gives another date 30 Nov 1967. We have two death dates the one is the 14 Sep 1887 and the other is 15 Sep 1887. Sarah died 3 days after the birth of her 12th child. In 1891 Diptheria took the lives of 6 of her children. Marion, her husband was the one who was alive at that year. He had remarried to Orpha Elvira White.
John was Baptised in May 1854 but the date was not known. The Baptusam has another year 1857 but still no date and in this case no month was known.
He married Susan Pugh 18 Aug 1835 at Knoxville, Knox, Tenn . Susan Pugh was born at Knoxville, Knox, Tenn 7 Nov 1810 daughter of Daniel Pugh and Martha Harris .
They were the parents of 6
children:
Charles Bright
born 3 Jun 1836.
Joseph Minott Minett Bright
born 17 Feb 1838.
Gilbert Bright
born 9 Mar 1840.
Isaac Preston Bright, Farmer
born 13 Oct 1844.
Sarah Ann Bright
born 1 Apr 1847.
John Bright
born 26 Mar 1849.
John Bright, Jr. died 8 May 1852 at Council Bluffs, Pottawtomie, Iowa .
Susan Pugh died 17 Sep 1874 at Richmond, Cache, Utah .