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From: "Barbara Starr" <>
Subject: Re: [LIGHT] Otis Light/ Durham of Cal.& Illinois
Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:07:10 -0800
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Dear Angela,
I'm afraid that I cannot be much help as I am not familiar with your family.
Back in the 1800's there was a George and an Otis light who lived in Texas
that migrated from TN where many Lights lived during the late 1700's. This
is where my family is from -TN to MO to AR and then CA.

Have you tried the 1930 census for George Light and Edna? Perhaps Edna's
death certificate would give her parents names. Also, have you tried getting
a birth certificate for Otis Light? If you do not have access to the census,
I do and will be glad to look them up for you.
Sincerely
Barbara Light Starr


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Subject: [LIGHT] Otis Light/ Durham of Cal.& Illinois


>
> I was hoping that someone could tell me the natural father for Otis
> Light/Durham. Before my great grandmother died (1971), Otis came to her
> home and
> introduced himself as her 1/2 brother. Her name was Edna Marie Garner.
> My
> mother told me that she remembers the day that he did it. Also, he is
> listed as
> her 1/2 brother in her obit.
>
> I am trying to find out whom Edna's parents were. I know that her mother
> died when she was about 6 weeks old and then her father took her to live
> with
> the Durham family members in Alexander County Illinois: Susan Durham
> (wife of
> John A. Durham) and her children. Susan was a widow when Edna came to
> live
> with her in 1900.
>
> As I can tell, Otis was born before Edna and perhaps out of wedlock.
> Otis'
> mother was Minnie Eliziabeth Durham. Instead of calling her son Otis
> Garner,
> he was given the Light name. I do not know if Mr. George Light adopted
> him
> or not, I do know Otis used the last name Light through out his adult
> life
> and then went on a search for his father and then finding Edna, his
> sister. No
> one has said or will say who the father was of these two people. Edna
> told
> my mother she was told he died when she was around the age of 6 or 7.
>
> Any information on Otis and Edna's father would be great.
>
> Sincerely,
> Angela
>
>
> 3 _George Washington LIGHT_
> (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=colvis&id=I514) b: 9
> DEC 1875 d: 6 JUN 1953
> + _Minnie Elizabeth DURHAM_
> (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=colvis&id=I376) b: 18
> OCT 1874 d: 9 NOV 1951
> 4 _Odis\Otis DURHAM_
> (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=colvis&id=I515) b: JAN
> 1 1894 d: AUG 1975 California
> + _Anna SNYDER_
> (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=colvis&id=I1132)
> 4 _Luta LIGHT_
> (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=colvis&id=I1130) b: 24
> NOV 1897 d: 29 DEC 1906
> 4 _Beulah Leona LIGHT_
> (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=colvis&id=I516) b: 20
> FEB 1900 d: 22 JUL 1989
> 4 _Guy Edward LIGHT_
> (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=colvis&id=I517) b: 19
> JUN 1902 d: 17 APR 1984
> 4 _Melvin LIGHT_
> (http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=colvis&id=I1131) b: 12
> MAR 1905 d: 4 APR 1905
>
>
>
>


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