Dessie A. Lightfoot ^{1 2}

  Noted events in her life were:

1. 1900 US Census, 15 June 1900, Piney Township, Texas, Missouri, United States. ¹ Page 12A, District 144, Dwg 213, Family 213
Piney Township, Texas County, Missouri
farm owned no mortgage
Dessie O. Lightfoot...Granddaughter..May 1900..2m..MO

(Living with parents at home of widowed maternal grandmother.)

2. Obituary: Webb City Register, 8 November 1906, Webb City, Jasper, Missouri, United States. ² Dessie the 8 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Lightfoot of Carterville died yesterday in Cabool, Missouri.

Mrs. Lightfoot and daughter were visiting in Cabool, and this morning they were expected home. Mr. Lightfoot met their train, but they did not arrive and a few moments later, he received a telegram announcing the death of his daughter. He left for Cabool at once, and no particulars of the funeral have been announced. Mr. and Mrs. Lightfoot buried a child about two months ago.

(Source: Webb City Register, 8 Nov 1906, Carterville, MO, page 3)
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