James Wightman and Martha Smiley

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Husband James Wightman ^{1 2 3}

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           Born:  - County Down, Ireland
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       Marriage: 

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Wife Martha Smiley ^{1 3}

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            AKA: Catherine Smiley 2
           Born:  - County Down, Ireland
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           Died: Abt 1830
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Children

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1 M Thomas Wightman ^{2 3 4 5}

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           Born: 8 Jan 1818 - Newtownards, County Down, Ireland 1 3
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           Died: 1 Sep 1908 2
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Isabella Ruth Russell (1824-1904) 2 3 6
           Marr: 30 Jul 1845 3 6

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2 M Robert Wightman ⁷

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           Born:  - Ireland
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         Spouse: Margaret Morrison (      -      ) 7
           Marr: Pittsburgh, Allegheny Co, PA

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General Notes: Husband - James Wightman

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He was a prosperous farmer of County Down, Ireland, and was of Scotch-Irish lineage. He and his wife became the parents of nine sons and two daughters, of whom Thomas was the youngest of the sons, and he was the last survivor of that large family of children. In the year 1825 he, in company with his entire family, emigrated to America, and took up his residence in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, for fifteen years being in Pittsburgh, and in 1840 he purchased a tract of land and developed an extensive fruit orchard, giving it his attention during the remainder of his life.
He was a member of the Presbyterian church, with which the family had been identified for more than two centuries, but for a time after coming to America he attended the services of the Protestant Episcopal church. He was a man of unbending integrity and positive opinions, having strong intellectual powers and ever showing the courage of his convictions, though he was tolerant in his judgment of his fellow men and was animated by a most generous and kindly spirit. It is worthy of note that during the long course of his life he was never once involved in litigation,-a fact which stands in evidence of his straightforward course and of the fact that the shadow of wrong and injustice never clouded any portion of his career. His wife passed away about five years after the family took up their abode in the United States, but he lived to attain the venerable age of eighty-eight years.

1 —, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 1056.

2 —, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 533.

3 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. IV (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 264.

4 —, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 251.

5 —, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 1055.

6 —, Encyclopedia of Genealogy and Biography of the State of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1904), Pg 1061.

7 John W. Jordan, LL.D, A Century and a Half of Pittsburg and Her People, Vol. III (New York: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1908), Pg 233.