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        1847–1868

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        Birth Date
        14 April 1810
        Death Date
        29 August 1885
        Gender
        Male

        Adam Lightner Sr.

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        • He came with his wife and 5 children.

        Alvus H. Patterson Company (1863)

        • Age at Departure: 53
        • Head of Household

        Traveled with

        • Mary Elizabeth Lightner (Age: 45)
        • John Horace Lightner (Age: 16)
        • Elizabeth Lightner (Age: 14)
        • Mary Rollins Lightner (Age: 13)
        • Charles Washington Lightner (Age: 6)
        • Adam Lightner Jr. (Age: 1)

        Sources

        • A. H. Patterson Emigrating Company, Journal, 1863 June-Sept.
        • "Deaths," Deseret News , 16 Sep. 1885, 560.
        • Josiah Rogerson, "Martin's Handcart Company, 1856," Salt Lake Herald-Republican, 10 November 1907.
        • Journal History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 4 September 1863, 2.
        • Lightner, Mary Elizabeth Rollins, [Journal], Utah Genealogical and Historical Magazine, Oct. 1926, 256-60.