Kentucky: A History of the State, Battle, Perrin, & Kniffin, 4th ed., 1887
Garrard Co.

GEORGE ROBERT BRIGHT was born August 28, 1833, near Bryantsville, Garrard
County, Ky., where he grew to manhood, and in 1872 he located in the Big
Bend of Dick's River where he has since resided.  His father, Thomas
Bright, a native of Virginia, removed , in childhood, with his parents to
Garrard County, Ky., where he was reared; was a farmer, a Whig, lost six
slaves by the late war, and died May 11, 1867, aged seventy-five years.  He
was the son of James Bright, of Virginia, who located on Sugar Creek,
Garrard County, Ky., about 1800; was a farmer and slave-holder, and died in
1840, at the age of eighty years.  He married Margaret Smith, and their
offspring were Margaret (Garvin), Betsey (Hoskins), James, John, William
and Thomas.  Thomas married Sophia Rochester, of Boyle County (died August
5, 1848), and to them were born Elizabeth J. (Grimes), William H., Margaret
(deceased), Thomas H. (deceased), Mary H. (Robinson), John R., Martha E.
(Saunders), and George R.  George R. Bright has never married.  He is a
farmer and owns 343 acres of productive and well improved land, in a high
state of cultivation; has also an interest in another tract of 455 acres.
He is a Presbyterian, a Democrat and a prohibitionist.

Bright Smith Garvin Hoskins Rochester Grimes Robinson Saunders
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Boyle-KY VA

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