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William Lightfoot
(1745-1790)
Sarah S. Stewart
(1745-Abt 1792)
Solomon Lightfoot
(1783-After 1850)
Susanna Vink
(1792-After 1850)
Susan Lightfoot
(1815-1892)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. James A. Fortune

Susan Lightfoot 1 2 3

  • Born: 1815, Pennsylvania 2
  • Marriage (1): James A. Fortune about 1841
  • Died: 3 March 1892, Pittsburgh, PA at age 77 3
  • Buried: 4 March 1892, Pittsburgh, PA 3

bullet   Cause of her death was Bright's Disease.

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bullet  Death Notes:


Name: Susan Fortune
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 03 Mar 1892, 03 Mar 1892
Event Place: Pittsburgh, Allegheny, Pennsylvania
Gender: Female
Age: 77
Birth Year (Estimated): 1815
Father's Name: Lightfoot
Mother's Name: Lightfoot

Citing this Record
"Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh City Deaths, 1870-1905," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XZWM-G92 : 11 March 2018), Susan Fortune, 03 Mar 1892; citing v 65 p 165, Allegheny County Courthouse, Pittsburgh; FHL microfilm 505,848.
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bullet  Noted events in her life were:

• She appeared on the 1870 US Census in Rochester Township, Beaver County, PA on 11 July 1870. 2

1870 US Census
Page 23, Dwelling 170, Family 185
Rochester Borough, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
Susan Fortune..52..PA..At Home

(Living with husband and daughter.)
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• Death Image: Image, on 3 March 1892, in Pittsburgh, PA.

• She was buried on 4 March 1892 in the Allegheny Cemetery in Pittsburgh, PA.

Section: 31, Lot: 255
Find A Grave Memorial 46545404
. 5


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Susan married James A. Fortune about 1841. (James A. Fortune was born in 1812 in Pennsylvania,2 died in 1877 6 and was buried in 1877 in Pittsburgh, PA 6.)

bullet  Noted events in their marriage were:

• They appeared on the 1870 US Census in Rochester Township, Beaver County, PA on 11 July 1870. 2

1870 US Census
Page 23, Dwelling 170, Family 185
Rochester Borough, Beaver County, Pennsylvania
James A. Fortune..58..PA..Dry Goods Merchant
Susan Fortune..52..PA..At Home
Emma Fortune..18..PA..At Home
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Sources


1 Keith A. Dull, Ashland, Ohio [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE,] to Brian L. Lightfoot, e-mail, Aug 2014, "Solomon Lightfoot"; privately held by Lightfoot, [(E-ADDRESS) & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Ceres, CA; Email dated Aug 2014 about Solomon Lightfoot and his family; Extensive E-mail messages beginning in July 2001 regarding the entire line of Lightfoot families especially Perneleper Lightfoot and the Gantz family.

2 1870 U.S. census, population schedule, Rochester Borough, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, p. 23, dwelling 170, family 185, James A. Fortune and Susan Lightfoot; index and images, FamilySearch.org (accessed 14 Feb 2019); citing National Archives and Records Administration microfilm M593.

3 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ ); accessed 13 February 2019), memorial page for Susan Fortune (unknown\endash 1892), Find A Grave Memorial no. 46545404, citing Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA

4 Keith A. Dull, Ashland, Ohio [(E-ADDRESS) FOR PRIVATE USE,] to Brian L. Lightfoot, e-mail, Aug 2014, "Solomon Lightfoot"; privately held by Lightfoot, [(E-ADDRESS) & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE,] Ceres, CA; Email dated Aug 2014 about Solomon Lightfoot and his family.

5 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ ); accessed 13 February 2019), memorial page for Susan Fortune (unknown'961892), Find A Grave Memorial no. 46545404, citing Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA

6 Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/ ); accessed 14 February 2019), memorial page for James A Fortune (unknown\endash 1877), Find A Grave Memorial no. 46545396, citing Allegheny Cemetery, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA


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