Biographical Sketch of J. A. Hight, Wright County, Missouri

>From "History of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, 
Pulaski, Phelps and Dent Counties, Missouri" The Goodspeed Publishing
Company, 1889.
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J. A. Hight, of Mansfield, Mo., is a son of John H. and Jane (Baker)
Hight, and was born in Middle Tennessee in 1830.  The father was also
supposed to have been born in Tennessee in 1809, and there grew to
maturity and married.  He was a carpenter by trade, but also farmed,
and after moving to Missouri in 1839, followed both these occupations
in what is now Wright County.  He was killed in Arkansas, through
mistake, by the Federal forces during the late war.  His wife was born
in Kentucky in 1810, and is now living in New Mexico.  Five of their
thirteen children grew to maturity, only two of whom are now living,
J. A. and his sister.  The Hights are of Irish descent, and the mater-
nal grandfather and the grandmother immigrated to Tennessee from 
Kentucky, thence to Missouri, and died in the latter state.  J. A.
Hight received only the advantages of the subscription schools in his
youth, and was engaged in assisting his father in tilling the farm.
At the age of twenty years he was married to Miss Mary Ann Rippee,
who was born in Indiana in February, 1831, and five children have
blessed their union: Thomas Jefferson, John Wesley, Hiram Jackson,
William H. and Mary J., wife of William B. King.  Mr. Hight farmed in
Wright County until the breaking out of the Civil War, and in 1862 he
joined the Eighth Missouri State Militia, entering as a corporal, 
through exposure his eyes became somewhat diseased.  Since August,
1883, he has received a pension of $30 per month, and received back
pay to the amount of $2,433.39.  He is a member of the G. A. R.  He
owns four lots in the town of Mansfield.

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