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"Dr. John P. HIGHT, a successful practitioner of Madison County, Ark., and a resident of Lamar Township, was born in Bedford County, Tenn., July 7, 1843, and is the son of William G. and Naomi (PATTERSON) HIGHT, who were natives of Bedford and Rutherford Counties, Tenn., respectively. The father died in Franklin County, Ark., in 1882, and the mother in Madison County, of the same State, in 1870. The father was a farmer and trader, and at one time was sheriff of Bedford County. He was also a member of the Masonic fraternity, an Odd Fellow, and a Whig before the war, but afterward a Democrat. At the breaking out of the war he moved to Washington County, Ark., and a few years later to Franklin county. Mrs. HIGHT was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. To their marriage was born a large family of children, seven now living, and Dr. John P. being the fourth. He received a liberal education at Unionville (Tenn.) College, but left his books and school in 1861 to enlist in Capt. Blankins’ company of the Twenty-third Tennessee Infantry, Confederate army, and served until June, 1865. He was afterward transferred to a cavalry company of scouts, and was made lieutenant of the same. He was in many battles - Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, and many others; was wounded three times; first a musket ball in the right arm at the battle of Murfreesboro, and at Chickamauga he received a musket ball through the right hand. In a skirmish he received a saber cut. At the battle of Chickamauga, and while wounded, he was taken prisoner and retained about a week. While on his way to prison he jumped from the train and escaped. After the war he worked on the farm, and at the same time studied medicine. In 1871 and 1872 he attended medical lectures at St. Luis, and afterward came to his present location where he has been very successful and has a very large practice. In connection with this Dr. HIGHT is also engaged in stock raising, and has some very fine Short horn cattle, Berkshire hogs and Southdown sheep. Although starting with limited means, the Doctor has accumulated a comfortable competency and is doing well. February 27, 1873, he married Miss Mary C. CUMMINGS, a daughter of N. B. and Lucy CUMMINGS, natives of Tennessee, but old settlers of Arkansas, and a native of Madison County, Ark. Four children were the result of this union, three now living: John F., Newton B. and Lucy E. Lester died at the age of three, and was the eldest child. Dr. HIGHT is a Democrat politically, and his wife is a member of the Christian Church." (Goodspeeds History of NW AR…) |
John Patterson Hight died January 19, 1924 in Wesley AR and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Fayetteville, AR. In addition to the children mentioned in the Goodspeed biography, he and Mary Cummings Hight had five other children:
Stella Hight who married Wiley Paul McNair;
Clarence William Hight who married Eula Berry;
Alice Hight who married Adolphus Gerard,
Virginia Hight;
and Jack P. Hight who married Blanche Campbell.
John Floyd Hight married Carrie Cornwell. Newton B. Hight died at 18.
There is a later biography of John P. Hight in The Centennial History of Arkansas, published in 1922.
John Patterson Hight had eleven siblings.
Sarah Jane HIGHT (1838 - 1917) married William G. HENDRIX. They settled in Collin county, Texas.
Tabitha HIGHT (1839 - 1863) married Thomas Newton McCORD. They lived in Bedford county Tennessee. Their son,
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