Pike County AlArchives Obituaries.....Lightfoot, Jesse March 22, 1930
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LIGHTFOOT, Jesse (7-15-1847 – 3-22-1930)

	Jesse Lightfoot, pioneer citizen and one of the best known and loved men of
this section, died Saturday a.m. at six o’clock at his home in Little Oak
[community of Pike Co., Alabama] after an illness of several weeks.  Funeral
services will be held Sunday morning at 11 o’clock from the home and at the
Methodist Church of Little Oak and will be conducted by Rev. R. A. Foster, a
life-long friend of the deceased, assisted by Rev. L.H.S. Chappelle of Luverne,
Rev. J. B. Tate of Brundidge, and Rev. Luther Kersh of Brantley.  Interment will
be in Little Oak Cemetery with Carroll in charge of arrangements.
	Pallbearers will be Aubrey Cowart, J. D. Walden, Luther Snyder, Hubert Cowart,
Johnnie Brown, and Roy Snyder.
	Mr. Lightfoot was one of the founders of Little Oak, which for years has been
known as one of the outstanding rural communities of South Alabama, and in his
death the community as well as the County has suffered a great loss.  He was a
member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and, during his lifetime, he served the
Little Oak church as steward for 40 consecutive years.  His wife, Mrs. Julia O.
Lightfoot, died several years ago, and he is survived by one daughter, Mrs. J.
T. Lightfoot of Little Oak and four grandchildren, Mrs. Albert Cowart of Troy,
Sellers Lightfoot of Birmingham, R. M. Lightfoot of Selma, and J. Fox Lightfoot
of the University of Alabama.




Additional Comments:
Jesse Lightfoot’s parents were Wesley and Sarah “Sallie” Lightfoot.  Jesse was a
planter and married on 3-6-1873 to Julia Ophelia Wilson.  An item in the
"Alabama Christian Advocate" of 5-29-1930 states that the couple had a son and a
daughter … that Pick, the older, died at age 13, and that the daughter Viola
married Joseph Lightfoot and she and children Sellers, Jesse Fox, Mathias, and
Mrs. Albert Cowart survived her father.  He was said to have joined the
Methodist church in August 1868 and to have been a loyal member the remaining 60
years of his life … and to have belonged to a family “marked for its industry,
frugality, honesty, truthfulness, but most particularly for sincere piety.”  


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