OBIT: John LIGHTNER, 1880, native of Huntingdon County, PA

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Death of an Abolitionist.

  At his residence in Greenville, Mercer county, died on Thursday night 
Mr. John Lightner, at the age of nearly eighty-four years.  Deceased 
was born in Huntingdon county, December 20, 1796, and removed to Mercer 
county in 1835, where he was engaged in farming and stock-raising up 
until some five or six years ago.  He was one of the earliest 
Abolitionists in Western Pennsylvania, this house being a station on 
the Underground Railway.  He was one of the prime movers in the 
secession of a portion of the Old-School Presbyterian Church, which 
founded the Free Presbyterian Church on the grounds of opposition to 
slavery.  In 1868 he was elected Associate Judge of Mercer county.  He 
leaves a wife, three sons and one daughter.

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, November 20, 1880