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Coffin plate · primary-source record

Deacon Harris Wight

abt 1794 – 20 Nov 1869

75 · transcribed from the original coffin plate

Editorially verified

At-a-glance facts

Record type

Coffin plate

Date of death

20 Nov 1869

Date of birth

abt 1794

Age at death

75

Plate found in

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States

The coffin plate

Inscription transcription

Dea. Harris Wight
Died Nov 20. 1869
AE 75
Transcription from the Ancestors at Rest archive.

Researcher's notes

This Wight coffin plate was found in Charlottesville, Virginia but I wanted to see if I could find out some more info on Mr Wright so I went to Ancestry.com and looked him up in the 1850 United States Federal Census.

I found him in Buckland, Franklin County Massachusetts with his wife Almira and daughter Emiline. He was a wheelright.

Because this Coffin Plate was found in Charlottesville, Virginia some of his descendants may have ended up in that state.

Sources consulted

  • 1850 United States Federal Census

Record submitted by

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Source & citation

Source type
Original photograph
Provenance
From the Ancestors at Rest archive — founded 2004 by Brian and substantially built out across two decades by Lorine McGinnis Schulze of Olive Tree Genealogy.
Transcribed by
Ancestors at Rest archive — original contributor not recorded.
Last verified
2026-05-12
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