LENOIR COUNTY, NC - BIBLE - James Bright Bible. Copy of Bible Records found at Heritage Place, Lenoir County Community College, Kinston, North Carolina - Vertical File #02355-14 and 02855-16 We thank the staff at LCC for their permission to copy selected documents from their files to place on the internet. It is requested that researchers give appropriate credit when using these documents. Permission to combine said documents together in printed form is not given. These records are found in two formats at Heritage place - 1) in a letter written to Heritage Place from Lloyd B. Farabee of Orlando, Fla. in 1990. His wife, Eleanor is a descendant of this family 2) a transcript from Charles Holloman. Both formats are given here because of comments by Mrs. Farabee. The Bible is in the possession of Mrs. Marian Colmant, Birmingham, Alabama, copy in the Alabama Genealogical Society Magazine, Vol. 13, Nos 1-4, pp 67 - 69. If any researcher has an actual copy of this Bible, please advise me and we will replace this entry with a transcript of the actual Bible. Parenthetical comments belong to Mrs. Farabee Farabee Information Below is a list of the children of James Bright and Elizabeth Lovick who moved to Washington County, Florida from Lenoir County around 1822 or 1823. They lived on the east side of the Choctawhatchee River on a plantation known as Vallambrosa. Thomas Graves Bright and wife Ann and some of her relatives lived on what is now Walton County in the Euchee Valley on the west side of the Choctawhatchee. The families owned property in Pensacola. Henry Bright b 2 August 1797 d 14 Oct. 1811 Ann Herritage Bright b 22 Aug. 1799 d 6 Feb. 1857 (Married Nicholas H. Mitchell of Onslow County) Thomas Graves Bright b 12 Oct. 1801 md (Nancy) Ann Jones (prob of Craven County) 10 Jan. 1822 d 17 Aug. 1837 Mortimer Bright b 27 June 1804 md Frances E. Lovick 26 Nov. 1827 (d 11 Nov. 1848) Emma Bright b 17 Feb. 1807 d 23 Aug 1889 (never married) Sally Bright b 9 April 1809 md James H. Lloyd 2 Aug 1848 d 14 April 1851 Henrietta Eliza Bright b 21 Feb 1812 md James E. Simpson 20 April 1843 d 25 May 1846 Lucius Montgomery Bright b 14 Jan 1814 d 31 Aug 1846 (apparently never married) Mary Caroliine Bright, twin b 15 Jan 1817 md Dr. Ben Ferrel d 16 May 1901 Henry Augustus Bright , twin b 15 Jan. 1817 Alexander Hinderson Bright b 1 Sept 1819 The following members of the family are buried in the Bright family plot in St. Michael's Cemetery in Pensacola James Bright, died at Vallambrosa 29 June 1840, remains moved to St. Michael's Elizabeth L. Bright, died at Pensacola, 15 Aug. 1858 Emma L. Bright Mrs. Ann H. Mitchell Lucius Montgomery Bright Mortimer Bright Fannie E. wife of Mortimer Bright Sallie B. Lloyd James H. Lloyd Sallie Bright Lloyd Charles Dougherty Lloyd Emma L. G. Bright William Mortimer Bright Fannie Elizabeth Bright Theodore Manly Bright Oscar Graves Bright Rebeca Calhoun Simpson was buried in the nearby Simpson plot. She was the widow of Mortimer and they were married on his deathbed. ----- A Bright- Graves descendant had sent me a couple pages of original copy of the records. The writing is very bad due to being very dark but it appears on the copy that Mary C. Bright Ferrel died in La Grange Georgia Rose Parks ----- SECOND COPY FROM CHARLES HOLLOMAN James Bright was married to Miss Elizabeth Lovick on Wednesday, 13th of June 1796 BIRTHS Henry Bright, son of James and Elizabeth Lovick Bright, was born on Wednesday, 2nd day of August at 10 o'clock in the morning 1797 Ann Heritage Bright daughter of James and Elizabeth Lovick Bright was born Thursday, 22nd day of August 1799 at 8 o'clock in the morning. Thomas Graves Bright, second son of James and Elizabeth Bright, was born on the 12th day of October at 10 o'clock in the morning 1801 Mortimer Bright, third son of James and Elizabeth L. Bright, was born on Wednesday, 27th day of June 1804, at 10 minutes before 2 o'clock in the morning Emma Bright, second daughter of James and Elizabeth L. Bright, was born on Tuesday morning at 6 o'clock, 17th day of February 1807 Sally Bright, third daughter of James and Elizabeth L. Bright, was born on the 9th day of April 1809 Henrietta Elizabeth Bright, fourth daughter of James and Elizabeth L. Bright was born on the 21st day of February 1812 at 6 o'clock in the morning Lucius Montgomery Bright, fourth son of James and Elizabeth L. Bright, was born Tuesday, 14th day of January 1814 at 10 o'clock in the morning Mary Caroline and Henry Augustus Bright, twins, son and daughter of James and Elizabeth L. Bright, they were born 15th day of January 1817 at 8 o'clock in the morning. Alexander Henderson Bright, sixth son of James and Elizabeth L. Bright, born September 1st 1819 at 10 o'clock in the morning Cemetery Records of St. Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola Sacred to the Memory of Emma L. Bright, born Feb. 17, 1807 - Died Aug. 23, 1889 In Memory of James Bright, who died June 29 1840 in the 71st year of his age in Florida and his wife Elizabeth Lovick Bright, who died in Pensacola, Florida August 15, 1858, aged 81 years To the Memory of Mortimer Bright, who died Nov. 11, 1846 (note by Holloman said see report of his decease in the Raleigh Register) In Memory of Fannie E. Bright, wife of Mortimer Bright, who died May 25, 1842 at Vallambrosa, Florida ______________________________________________________________________ Copyright. 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