Hi, I don't connect to the Bright family other than a brother and sister of my ancestor married two children of Tobias Bright b 1735 VA and died in 1825 in Kentucky. He lived in Spt. SC for a while where these two children married into my Burton family. Sorry, I don't have any more info on the Bright other than what I'm including. I'm sure Tobias had more children and probably Tobias b 1841 is his son or nephew. Hope this will help someone out there. I do believe that several of the VA folk who settled in Spt. had large blocks of land in KY from land lotteries. Many of them moved on over to settle on this land rather than forfeit it. Consquently they left their children scattered across parts of SC, GA and KY. Ann Descendants of Tobias Bright 1 Tobias Bright b: 1735 in Virginia d: 1825 in Kentucky .. +Rachel Goodone b: Bef. 1750 d: 1835 .................... 2 James Bright b: 1775 in Spartanburg, South Carolina d: 1825 in Allen County, Kentucky ........................ +Mary Polly Burton Father: Charles Burton Mother: Mary Hunt b: May 10, 1781 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia d: 1846 in Allen County, Kentucky m: 1798 in Spartanburg, South Carolina ........................................... 3 Rachel Bright b: 1799 in South Carolina ........................................... 3 Nancy Bright b: November 19, 1802 in South Carolina ........................................... 3 Cecil Bright b: 1804 in South Carolina ........................................... 3 Ira Bright b: 1807 ........................................... 3 Charles Burton Bright b: 1810 in Kentucky ........................................... 3 Leticia Bright b: 1813 in Kentucky ........................................... 3 John Bright b: August 12, 1814 in Kentucky ........................................... 3 James Alva Bright b: December 22, 1817 ........................................... 3 Mary E. Bright b: 1820 ........................................... 3 Tabitha Bright b: 1822 .................... 2 Mary Polly Bright b: June 08, 1788 in Spartanburg, South Carolina d: May 24, 1866 in Allen County, Kentucky ........................ +Drury Allen Burton Father: Charles Burton Mother: Mary Hunt b: December 01, 1777 in Pittsylvania County, Virginia d: October 26, 1831 in Allen County, Kentucky m: April 19, 1810 in Warren County, Kentucky ........................................... 3 Malinda Burton b: February 15, 1811 in Scottville, Kentucky d: March 15, 1852 in Difficult, Smith County, Kentucky ............................................... +Henry Shelby Mitchell b: Bef. 1811 m: in Allen County, Kentucky ........................................... 3 William Henry Harrison Burton b: November 01, 1813 in Kentucky ............................................... +Lucienda Spears b: Bef. 1827 m: December 17, 1845 in Allen County, Kentucky ........................................... 3 Catherine G. Burton b: October 1815 in Kentucky ............................................... +Willis Dearing b: 1816 in Allen County, Kentucky d: 1859 in Warren County, Kentucky m: February 27, 1837 in Allen County, Kentucky ........................................... 3 Lucy Hunt Burton b: 1818 in Kentucky ............................................... +William Dearing b: Bef. 1818 m: January 05, 1836 ........................................... 3 Sterling Willis Burton b: April 1818 in Kentucky ........................................... 3 Tobias W. Burton b: November 17, 1819 in Kentucky d: February 1892 ............................................... +Elizabeth Hanna b: Aft. 1819 m: November 04, 1852 ........................................... 3 Drury Junior Burton b: Abt. 1820 ........................................... 3 Francis M. Burton b: May 25, 1824 d: January 27, 1892 Surnames in Genealogy in my direct line: Harwell, Frey, Morris, Holloway, Dunn, McCrary, Finch, Riddle, Cheek, Smith, Williams, Cook, Blake, Hudson, Jefferson, Jones, Shipp, Field, Soane, Bolling, Judkins, Pettaway, Gray, Robertson, Burton, Thomson, Moore, Lawson, Fair, Rush, Temple, Chambliss, Fortune, Kennedy, McKinney Edwards, Harris, Gurgunay, Giles, Parker, Pritchard, Symons, Page, Fry, Shattuck, Daniel, Dorris, Stark, McDaniel, Woads, Fain, Mercer, Taylor, Loftin, Lanier, Johnson, Jackson, Farrar, Branch, Allman, Reynsford, Addie, Sparks, Baugh, Hatcher, Newporte, Reynolds, Walgrave, Percy, Jurnigan, Jennings, Bowman, Brookes, Byrd, Clark, Drury, Calthorpe, Stapleton, deLaPole, Cheney, Stafford, Beauchamp, deAudley, deClare, deMortimer, deLongspee,Mainwaring, and others. >From: Mwoman1948@aol.com >To: SCSPARTA-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [SCSPARTA] Annie Bright Brank's Bible >Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:29:45 EST > > gen. #1 Tobias Bright:b 05/06/1841,d 10/17/1914(Conf.Vet) >?son of a Calvin/Culvin Bright?no proof. >m Jennie Branch in 1867,b 04/09/1851, d 07/05/1894 (buried in Oakland >Cemetery Spartanburg SC >#2 Ben,09/20/1868 d 03/03/1917 > Joe 09/07//1870 > James 02/17/1872 > Annie Lou 06/03/1874 d 11/15/1927 >@7:50pm > Ida Lou 06/30/1877 d 10/07/1892 > Laura Lou 08/19/1879 d 02/18/1897 > Hall b11/07/1883 > Alva 08/10/1887 > Carl 07/01/1890 > >Annie Lou m James Robert Brank?/11/1894,b unknown d 03/17/1924@03:45 am > >Does any one connect,I see lots of common names on line? >Mary > > >==== SCSPARTA Mailing List ==== >Your list administrator is Mildred "Mickey" Fournier. 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