Son of William Wight and Abigail Cudworth
Married Nancy Urania Elliot, 10 December 1827, Centerville, Allegany, New York
Married Mary Straight, abt 1832

MORMON PIONEER who came to Utah in Fall of 1850 in the Edward Hunter Company; Age at Departure: 42.

LIFE OF LEWIS WIGHT by a great-grand-daughter, Sylvia Cutler Steiner: "Lewis Wight was born 11 Dec 1806 at Appenheim, Montgomery, New York. He was the son of William and Abigail Cudworth Wight. The Wights were early settlers of the State of New York and were presumably quite well to do.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ reached them in 1841 and they were soon baptized. Lewis had married Nancy Elliot in New York in 1827. They had seven children, all but one being born in New York State, the youngest, William Lewis being born 22 March 1850 at Potawauna, Iowa. (On their family group sheet it has the last 3 children born in Council Bluffs.)

Lewis was baptized 21 Feb 1843 in Allegany county, N.Y. and by 1846 the Wights went to Nauvoo. From there to Iowa and thence to Council Bluffs in the spring 1849. In 1848 the Wight famiy was quite well and comfortably situated on a 25 acre farm on the banks of Little Pigeon Creek, Iowa, raising grain and cattle, making every available turn for the welfare of the family and assisting the Saints.

Lyman Wight who at one time was very active in the Church, even one of the Apostles, was a brother of Lewis, who endured the persecutions who decided to follow the saints who had gone west to Utah. They sold their farm with a promising crop of grain for $50.00 and joined Bishop Hunter's Company, which was the first company to be helped by the perpetual emigration fund. Lewis Wight was made Capt. of fifty (some family information says Capt of Ten, but from Journal History 31 Dec 1850 page 12 says Captain of 50.)

They traveled through dense underbrush, but searched out a suitable camping place, and as was the usual order the wagons were arranged in a circle, so the oxen could graze inside. During the first night the animals became frightened and escaped, but due time they reached the valley. On their arrival in Utah the 13 Oct 1850, they settled on the Jordan River and engaged in the dairying business. They lived in the vicinity of Salt Lake for about 5 years, then they moved to Brigham City.

From the Deseret News it says that three horsemen drew rein on the banks of Box Elder Creek one sunny day in April 1851 and it was then that the first groups settled in this community, and they called the place Box Elder because of the trees along the creek banks, so it was sometime later that the Wights with the Cutlers and others came there. 500 Indians claimed the country known as Box Elder. They were not altogether friendly so the people built a Village Fort and built a school house. In the spring of 1852, the settlers broke up the Fort and moved out on the farms, which had been surveyed by Henry G. Sherwood and Jesse W. Fox. The land in Brigham was first taken as a squatters claim and was first known as Box Elder and then for a period of two years as Youngsville and later named Brigham City after Brigham Young.

Lewis Wight was engaged as town herder and built a large pole corral on his property located on what is now First West Street midway between Forest and 1st North. In 1856 the United Order was lived in Brigham and no doubt the Wights were with the rest. He had charge of church cattle for several years in the early fifties and had charge of public works getting out timber for the courthouse.

Lewis Wight was ordained a High Priest 25 Nov 1856 by Lorenzo Snow who was called as the Presiding Elder. He, Lewis, died 2 Aug 1882 in Brigham City and is buried there. He and his wife Nancy, having been married fifty years.