NOTE: Where was George before 1840? We don't know the name of his father so we can't search for him as a child. By 1810 he would have been old enough to be on his own. On May 28, 1835 and in March 1836, he got land grants in Sandusky County as was shown as living in Huron County, Ohio. I could not find a Lightner in Huron County in the 1830 census.

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Land Patent #11,929
Patentee: George Lightner of Huron County, Ohio
State: Ohio
Acres: 39.53
Issue Date: 5/28/1835
Land Office: Bucyrus
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat.566)
Aliquot Parts: SESW
Sec./Block: 19/
Township: 5-N
Range: 13-E
Meridian: 1st PM
State: OH
Counties: Sandusky
President: Andrew Jackson

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Land Patent #12,469
Patentee: George Lightner of Huron County, Ohio
State: Ohio
Acres: 39.65
Issue Date: 3/15/1836
Land Office: Bucyrus
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat.566)
Aliquot Parts: SWSW
Sec./Block: 19/
Township: 5-N
Range: 13-E
Meridian: 1st PM
State: OH
Counties: Sandusky
President: Andrew Jackson

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1840 United States Federal Census Record
Name: George Lightner
Home in 1840: Madison Township, Sandusky, Ohio
Male - 10-15 - 1 Charles 13
Male 15-20 - 1 George 18 or Nathaniel 17
Male 50-60 - 1 George 48 ?
Females under 5 - 2 Angeline 2 & Caroline 4
Female 20-30 - 1 Catherine ? [Assuming they were married in 1818 and had Catherine in 1819, she would have been 21]
Female 50-60 - 1 Barbara 42 ??

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1860 United States Federal Census Record
Name: Geo Leighten
Age in 1860: 67
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1860: Madison, Sandusky, Ohio
Gender: Male
Value: $4,000
Head of Household: Geo Leighten
Post Office: Fremont

George, age 67, Farmer, born Pa.
Barbara, age 65, born Pa.
Angeline, age 21, born Ohio
Mary Tribbs (sp?), age 17, born Ohio
William, age 16, born Ohio

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1870 United States Census - Madison Township, Sandusky County, Ohio
Name: George Lightner
Age in 1870: 79
Estimated Birth Year: 1790
Birthplace: Pennsylvania
Home in 1870: Madison, Sandusky, Ohio
Value of real estate: $6,000
Race: White
Gender: Male
Post Office: Fremont
Roll: M593_1264
Page: 168
Image: 341
Year: 1870

Name: Age: Occupation: Value: Birthplace:
George Lightner 79 Farmer $6,000 Penna
Barbara Lightner 75 Keeping House Penna
Charles Lightner 37 Farmer $400 Penna
Precilla Lightner35 Keeping House Ohio
John Lightner 2 Ohio
Jane Lightner 4/12 Ohio

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"Record of Revolutionary Soldier's Graves 7 List of Soldier's of War of 1812 from Sandusky County"
Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center, Fremont, Ohio

"Scott Township - Bradner Cemetery - Location about 1 mile east of Bradner on County Line Road...Lightner, George..."

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"History of Sandusky County"
H. Z. Williams & Bro., Cleveland, 1882

Pages 793 - 795

"The first lands were entered in Madison in 1830 and 1831. Very few, if any, squatters had penetrated the swamp before that time. This sickly flat, made hideous by the hum of mosquitoes, had no attractions for the professional rovers... Settlement here involved sacrifices which no one was willing to endure, except in the hope of building up a home, and providing a heritage for their children. All who came had the necessary resolution to make them wealthy men, but more than half were wanting in the stability necessary for pioneer service; they abandonded their stations and sought a more promising clime. Most of those who remained, the pioneers of to-day, accomplished in a satisfactory measure the object of their ambition. They have also performed a high mission in life by clearing, plowing, and ditching, thus finishing the work of creation by adapting nature to the use of civilized man.

"As a guide to the location of early settlers, as they are mentioned in the foregoing sketch, a list of the original land entries is herewith given. The date of entry in nearly every case antedates the date of record five years. A further explanation is found in connection with York township. What is said there concerning the State turnpike lands does not apply here, there being no pike lands in this township;

"The following entries are recorded in 1825:

"...George Lightner Section 19 Acres 39...

"The following entries were recorded in 1840:

"...George Lightner Section 19 Acres 39

Page 799

"...1836...George Lightner settled about the same time."

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"Index to Servicemen of War of 1812, State of Ohio"
Compiled by Ohio Society U. S. Daughters of 1812,
Edited by Phyllis Brown Miller.
Page 124

"LIGHTNER, George; b. 2-15-1792; d. 7-28-1874; bur. Bradner Cem., Chestnut Ridge; Mil. File, Sand. Co. Courthouse, Fremont, OH; flag sticker 1812; (1955)."

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Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s-2009, Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center
Name: George Lightner
Birth Date: abt 1792
Death Date: 28 Jul 1874
Age at Death: 82
Death Place: Sandusky, Ohio
Spouse: Barbara
Other Sources: F497 S2w3 Orr
Other Source Data: 2048; P 124; P 44
Source Description: Dar, 1946
Notes: Buried: Bradner, Scott Twp;
Library Link: 42165