Bright, Frank - 1936

Frank Bright, 86 years old retired farmer, of Quakertown R.D. passed away late Sunday night in the Quakertown Community Hospital. Death was due to heart failure, he had been a patient in the hospital for the past three months.

The deceased was a member of the Zion Hill Reformed Church and was the son of John and Hildewell Bright.

~ Easton Express, April 13, 1936


Frank Bright a prominent farmer of Zion Hill where he was born and lived all his life in the old family homestead, died Easter Sunday night in the Quakertown Community hospital. He was eighty-six years of age.

He had been a patient at the hospital for the past three months. Death came as the result of a complication of ailments superinduced by his advanced years. Mr. Bright was the last of his family. He was never married and his only survivors are several nieces and nephews.

The son of the late John and Sarah Hildebeitle Bright. Mr. Bright was born in the homestead in Zion Hill and lived there all his life.

Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Treffinger's residence funeral home, 24 North Ambler Street, Quakertown, and interment will be made in the Zion Hill Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home Wednesday night from 7 to 9 o'clock.

~ Easton Express, April 14, 1936

You can visit the memorial page for Frank Bright.

Bright, Elizabeth - 1920

Mrs., Elizabeth Bright , wife of Charles H. Bright, died suddenly on Sunday from apoplexy, age 73 years. She was born in Lower Saucon township and is survived by her husband and two daughters, Mrs. John W. Mauch and Mrs. Harry F. Wirebach both of Hellertown, Pa.

Also by one sister Mrs. Howard Riegel of Hellertown and four brothers, Wilson and John Wagner, of Lower Saucon; Quintus Wanger of Hellertown and Benjamin Wagner, of Philadelphia.

Funeral Thursday afternoon with interment in Hellerstown Union cemetery.

~ Easton Express, November 22, 1920

You can visit the memorial page for Elizabeth W. Bright.

Bright, Charles - 1921

Charles Bright, one of the oldest citizens of Hellertown, died Wednesday morning at his late home, 425 Main Street, Hellertown, Pa., of complication of ailments.

He was taken ill last Sunday.

The deceased was born at Milford township, Bucks County on January 21, 1844. He was the son of the late John and Sarah Bright, and is survived two daughters, Mrs. Amella Mauch and Mrs. Mary Wirebach of Hellertown; two brothers, Michael and Frank Bright, of Zion Hill Pa. two Sisters Mrs. Emma Bright also of Zion Hill Pa. and Mrs. Lewis Butler, of Quakertown: five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

For the past forty years Mr. Bright was proprietor of the general store at Hellertown. He was a tailor by trade and followed that profession in with his store work.

The funeral will be held from the residence Saturday. Services at 2 o'clock and interment at the Hellertown Union cemetery.

~ Easton Express, December 9, 1921

You can visit the memorial page for Charles H. Bright.

Smith & Roberts - 1778

Went to monthly meeting this morning; 3 couples passed, viz. Jonathan Knight and ye widow Baldwin [Margaret Harry, widow of William Baldwin], George Smith and Elizabeth Roberts, Danl Mifflin and Debby Howell.

~ Genealogical Gleanings from the Journal of Elizabeth Drinker, 1759 to 1807, Page 594 in Pennsylvania Vital Records, Vol I, by the Genealogical Publishing Company, Incorporated in 1983.