Amelia Biggs

George W. Biggs Sr
(1820-1902)

Luvina Ann McCammon
(1823-1866)

Amelia Biggs
(1856-1944)

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Spouses/Children:
1. King Anderson Lightfoot

Amelia Biggs ³ ⁵ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰

Born: 27 October 1856, Indiana ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰
Marriage (1): King Anderson Lightfoot on 6 September 1874 in Carroll County, MO ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷
Died: 7 December 1944, Vinita, OK at age 88 ⁸ ¹⁰
Buried: 9 December 1944, Vinita, OK ⁸ ¹⁰

bullet Another name for Amelia was "Millie" Biggs.¹ ² ⁴ ⁶ ⁷

bullet Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1860 US Census in Hurricane Township, Carroll, MO on June 1860. ⁹

1860 US Census
Page 17, Family 2
Hurricane Township, Carroll County, Missouri
Amelia Biggs..4..IN

(Living with parents.)
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• She appeared on the 1870 US Census in Hurricane Township, Carroll, MO on 10 August 1870.

1870 US Census
Page 5, Household 33, Dwelling 31
Hurricane Township, Carroll County, Missouri
Amelia Biggs..13..Indiana

(Living with father.)
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• She appeared on the 1880 US Census in Wood Township, Carroll County, MO on 10 June 1880. ²

1880 US Census
Page 18, District 143, Dwelling 14, Roll 678
Wood Township, Carroll County, Missouri
Millie Lightfoot..Wife..23..IN..Keeps House

(Living with husband, brother, and 3 children.)
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• She appeared on the 1900 US Census in Morris Township, Texas County, MO on 8 June 1900. ³

1900 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 142, Family 65, Roll 906
Morris Township, Texas County, Missouri
Farm owned no mortgage
Married 26 years
Millie Lightfoot..Head..Oct 1856..43..IN..7/7

(Living with 7 children. Husband living with eldest son in Oklahoma.)
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• She appeared on the 1910 US Census in Township 4, Craig County, OK on 6 May 1910. ⁴

1910 US Census
Sheet 5B, District 30, Family 87
Township 4, Craig County, Oklahoma
Home owned with mortgage
Married 35 years
Millie V. Lightfoot..Wife..53..IN..7/6

(Living with husband and 2 daughters.)
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• She appeared on the 1920 US Census in Township 4, Craig County, OK on January 1920. ⁵

1920 US Census
Sheet 7B, Family 127
Township 4, Craig County, Oklahoma
Amelia Lightfoot..Wife..63..IN

(Living with husband and daughter.)
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• She appeared on the 1930 US Census in Nix Township, Craig, OK on 2 April 1930. ⁶

1930 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 18-19, Family 10
Nix Township, Craig County, Oklahoma
Millie Lightfoot..Wife..73..IN

(Living with husband.)
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• She appeared on the 1940 US Census in Township 9, Craig County, OK on 22 April 1940. ⁷

1940 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 18-19, Family 133, Roll 3287
Township 9, Craig County, Oklahoma
Residence in 1935: Same House
Home owned, value $400
Millie Lightfoot..Wife..83..IN..8th grade..Housekeeper

(Living with husband, married daughter, son-in-law, and grandson.)
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• Her obituary was published in the Unknown newspaper in December 1944 in Kelso, OK.

Illness is Fatal to Mrs. Lightfoot

Mrs. K. A. Lightfoot, 88, died Thursday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Claude Barbee, 103-1/2 South Scraper, following a long illness. She has been a resident of Craig county for 44 years, living most of this time in the Kelso community. She is survived by three sons, E. E. "Bert", R. H. and S. R. all of Vinita; three daughters Mrs. H. A. Waiss, Bartlesville; Mrs. Barbee of Vinita and Mrs. Dan Boisseau of Los Angeles, California. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 2:30 at the Burckhalter Memorial chapel and burial will be made in Fairview cemetery.

(Source: Unknown newspaper)
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• She was buried on 9 December 1944 in the Fairview Cemetery in Vinita, OK.

Find A Grave Memorial #106791196
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Amelia married King Anderson Lightfoot, son of Isaac D. Lightfoot and Lydia Jones, on 6 September 1874 in Carroll County, MO.¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ (King Anderson Lightfoot was born on 25 November 1854 in , LaPorte, Indiana, United States,² ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸ ¹¹ ¹² ¹³ ¹⁴ died on 7 May 1941 in Kelso, OK ⁸ and was buried on 9 May 1941 in Vinita, OK ⁸.)

bullet Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1880 US Census in Wood Township, Carroll County, MO on 10 June 1880. ²

1880 US Census
Page 18,, District 143 Dwelling 14, Roll 678
Wood Township, Carroll County, Missouri
King Lightfoot..Head..26..IN..Farmer
Millie Lightfoot..Wife..23..IN..Keeps House
Elbert Lightfoot..Son..4..MO
Herman Lightfoot..Son..3..MO
Alice Lightfoot..Daughter..2m..MO..born in Apr
George Biggs..Brother-in-Law..21..MO..Works On Farm
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• They appeared on the 1900 US Census in Morris Township, Texas County, MO on 8 June 1900. ³

1900 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 142, Family 65, Roll 906
Morris Township, Texas County, Missouri
Farm owned no mortgage
Married 26 years
Millie Lightfoot..Head..Oct 1856..43..IN..7/7
Herman Lightfoot..Son...Sep 1877..22..MO..Farm laborer
Ray Lightfoot..Son..Feb 1886..14..MO..Farm laborer
Pearl Lightfoot..Daughter..Jul 1891..8..MO
Opal Lightfoot..Daughter..Dec 1895..4..MO
May Lightfoot..Daughter..Apr 1900..1m..MO
Maud Kelly..Boarder..Mar 1880..20..MO..Servant

NOTE - Amelia's husband, King Lightfoot, was temporarily staying with his son, Elbert and his family, in Garfield County, Oklahoma leaving Amelia back in Missouri with the children. By the 1910 Census, the family was back living together in Craig County, Oklahoma. I'm not sure if King was separated from his wife at the time due to disputes or if he merely went out to Oklahoma in advance of moving his entire family there. (Brian L. Lightfoot)

NOTE - The mother of King Lightfoot, Lydia Jones, was living next door to the family in Missouri for the 1900 Census.

NOTE - Maud Kelly who was listed as a servant would become the wife of Robert Herman Lightfoot within the next year or so.
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• They appeared on the 1910 US Census in Township 4, Craig County, OK on 6 May 1910. ⁴

1910 US Census
Sheet 5B, District 30, Family 87
Township 4, Craig County, Oklahoma
Home owned with mortgage
Married 35 years
King A. Lightfoot..Head..55..IN..Farmer, General farming
Millie Lightfoot..Wife.53..IN..7/6
Mary O. Lightfoot..Daughter..14..MO
May B. Lightfoot..Daughter..10..MO
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• They appeared on the 1920 US Census in Township 4, Craig County, OK on January 1920. ⁵

1920 US Census
Sheet 7B, Family 127
Township 4, Craig County, Oklahoma
King Lightfoot..Head..65..IN..Mercantile
Amelia Lightfoot..Wife..63..IN
May Lightfoot..Daughter..19..MO
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• They appeared on the 1930 US Census in Nix Township, Craig, OK on 2 April 1930. ⁶

1930 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 18-19, Family 10
Nix Township, Craig County, Oklahoma
King Lightfoot..Self..75..IN..Farmer
Millie Lightfoot..Wife..73..IN
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• They appeared on the 1940 US Census in Township 9, Craig County, OK on 22 April 1940. ⁷

1940 US Census
Sheet 7A, District 18-19, Family 133, Roll 3287
Township 9, Craig County, Oklahoma
Residence in 1935: Same House
Home owned, value $400
K. A. Lightfoot..Head..85..IN..8th grade..Farmer
Millie Lightfoot..Wife..83..IN..8th grade..Housekeeper
Claud Barbee..Son-in-Law..45..OK..8th grade..Barber
Opal Barbee..Daughter..44..MO..8th grade..Housekeeper
Claud Barbee..Grandson..23..OK..12th grade..Clerk at CCC Office
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bullet Marriage Notes:

Craig County, OK History book, Vol 1, page 461 says: King A. Lightfoot with Millie (Biggs) Lightfoot, his wife and family moved from Carroll County, Missouri to Texas County in southern Missouri at Dykes. Here, King set up a country store. The children were Elbert, Herman, Raymond, Pearl, Opal, Alice and Mae.

In the summer of 1900, the brothers, Elbert, Herman and Ray heard of a wonderful place that was all prairie and there was good money to be made by baling and selling hay. They came to the Kelso community of Craig County, Indian Territory (later Oklahoma) and baled hay all summer. They found the community as wonderful as they had been told and they would be closer to their father, King who had moved to Carterville, MO and established a store, they decided to move to the Kelso community in Craig County, Indian Territory. Later in 1907 King moved to Kelso and set up yet another country store. By this time Oklahoma had achieved statehood.
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Eunice Hightower, Email Nov 2013:
"Daddy Lightfoot was the one who brought the family to Oklahoma from Missouri and started a grocery store at Kelso, OK, north of Vinita, hay center of the world. They had an elevator, several big hay barns and a corral to ship cattle, section houses for the section hands (little one room houses) across from the Kelso schoolhouse; a post office and the store and the post office had the first phones in that part of the country. They were on the east side of the road across from the school and west of the railroad tracks. They were between the schoolhouse and the railroad tracks. There was a corner house south of the store at the crossroads, Eunice's Uncle Marion Taylor lived there with his family. When he moved out, the Street family moved in and that's when we had so much fun saying that Kelso was growing so much that we had seven streets now--because the Streets had five kids or seven people."
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1 "Missouri Marriages, 1750-1920," database, FamilySearch.org (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1680838 : accessed 13 Nov 2013), Name: King Lightfoot; Spouse's Name: Millie Biggs; Event Date: 06 Sep 1874; Event Place: Carroll, Missouri.

2 1880 U.S. census, population schedule, Wood Township, Carroll County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 143, p. 18, dwelling 14, King Anderson Lightfoot and Amelia Biggs; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 13 Nov 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T9, roll 0678.

3 1900 U.S. census, population schedule, Morris Township, Texas County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 142, p. 7A, dwelling 65, family 65, King Anderson Lightfoot and Amelia Biggs; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 23 Apr 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 906.

4 1910 U.S. census, population schedule, Township 4, Craig County, Oklahoma, enumeration district (ED) 30, sheet 5B, dwelling 84, family 87, King Anderson Lightfoot and Amelia Biggs; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 14 Nov 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624.

5 1920 U.S. census, population schedule, Township 4, Craig County, Oklahoma, sheet 7B, family 127, King Anderson Lightfoot and Amelia Biggs; index and images (accessed 14 Nov 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625.

6 1930 U.S. census, population schedule, Nix Township, Craig County, Oklahoma, enumeration district (ED) 18-19, sheet 1A, dwelling 10, family 10, King Anderson Lightfoot and Amelia Biggs; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 14 Nov 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626.

7 1940 U.S. census, population schedule, Township 9, Craig County, Oklahoma, enumeration district (ED) 18-19, sheet 7A, household 133, King Anderson Lightfoot and Amelia Biggs; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 16 Mar 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T627, roll 3287.

8 Henry Johns (E-mail messages in January 2004 concerning King Lightfoot and Millie Biggs.).

9 1860 U.S. census, population schedule, Hurricane Township, Carroll County, Missouri, p. 17, family 2, George W. Biggs and Luvina McCammon; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 14 Nov 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653.

10 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 14 Nov 2013), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=106791196.

11 Karen Valenzuela, "Shearer,Rice,Jones,Zeek,Parks,Lightfoot" (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=karensu; Updated: 2009-06-20 20:59:10 UTC (Sat)).

12 1860 U.S. census, population schedule, Center Township, La Porte County, Indiana, p. 131, dwelling 1089, family 1033, Isaac D. Lightfoot and Lydia Jones; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 21 Nov 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M653, roll 275.

13 1870 U.S. census, population schedule, Hurricane Township, Carroll County, Missouri, p. 29 & 30, dwelling 102, family 110, Aaron and King Lightfoot; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 23 Jan 2019); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593.

14 1900 U.S. census, population schedule, Waukomis, Garfield County, Oklahoma, enumeration district (ED) 63, p. 4B, dwelling 87, family 91, Elbert E. Lightfoot and Pearl Miranda Lee; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 18 May 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 136.

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Amelia Biggs ³ ⁵ ⁸ ⁹ ¹⁰