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Leroy Lightfoot
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Leroy Lightfoot 1 2 3 4
- Born: 7 October 1892, Carterville, MO 1 2 3 4 5 6
- Marriage (1): Ethel Marie Chapman on 23 December 1912 in , Jasper County, MO 1 2
- Died: 23 October 1918, Carterville, MO at age 26 2 4 6
- Buried: 25 October 1918, Carterville, MO 4 6
 Cause of his death was Tuberculosis.4
Another name for Leroy was Roy Lightfoot.2 5 6
Noted events in his life were:
• He appeared on the 1900 US Census in Carterville, MO on 1 June 1900. 3
1900 US Census
Sheet 1A, District 47, Family 8, Roll 866
Carterville, Jasper County, Missouri
house owned with mortgage
Leroy Lightfoot..Son..Oct 1892..7..MO..At School
(Living with parents.)
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• He appeared on the 1910 US Census in Carterville, MO on April 1910. 5
Sheet 12A, Family 247, District 58
Carterville, Jasper County, Missouri
Roy Lightfoot...Son..17..MO
(Living with parents.)
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• He was buried on 25 October 1918 in the Carterville Cemetery in Carterville, MO.
Roy's gravestone in the Carterville Cemetery is a small sloped face block of light gray granite. The inscription reads "Roy Lightfoot, Oct. 7, 1892 - Oct. 23, 1918".
Plot: Section 2A, Lot 115
Find A Grave Memorial #42056078
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Leroy married Ethel Marie Chapman, daughter of John Merle Chapman and Anna Alice Devine, on 23 December 1912 in , Jasper County, MO.1 2 (Ethel Marie Chapman was born on 3 June 1894 in Sarcoxie, MO,2 7 8 9 died on 23 June 1989 in Joplin, MO 2 9 and was buried after 23 June 1989 in Joplin, MO 9.)
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Sources
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Lightfoot Family Association Newsletter; Volume III, Number 1 (Dallas, Texas: Mrs. Stanley A. Williams, January 15, 1980), page 6. Detailed the children of Eli A. Lightfoot and Evaline Matilda Stover.
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Joyce Texler, "TREE TREK ODYSSEY," database, RootsWeb (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=odyssey : accessed 4 Dec 2013).
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1900 U.S. census, population schedule, Carterville, Jasper County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 47, sheet 1A, dwelling 8, family 8, Eli A. Lightfoot and Evaline Matilda Stover; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 27 Mar 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T623, roll 866.
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Missouri death certificate 34060 (1918), Leroy Lightfoot; digital image, "Missouri Death Certificates, 1910 – 1963," Missouri Digital Heritage (https://s1.sos.mo.gov/Records/Archives/ArchivesMvc/ : accessed 21 May 2014).
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1910 U.S. census, population schedule, Carterville, Jasper County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 58, sheet 12A, family 247, Eli A. Lightfoot and Evaline Matilda Stover; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 22 Nov 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T624.
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Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 4 Dec 2013), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=42056078.
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1920 U.S. census, population schedule, Shoal Creek, Newton County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 153, sheet 1A, family 7, John Merle Chapman and Anna Alice Devine; index and images (accessed 4 Dec 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T625, roll 937.
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1930 U.S. census, population schedule, Shoal Creek, Newton County, Missouri, enumeration district (ED) 0022, sheet 18B, family 443, Clarence Sowersby and Ethel Marie Chapman; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 4 Dec 2013); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm T626, roll 949.
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Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ : accessed 4 Dec 2013), http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=61655539.
