THE WILLIAM GREEN HIGHT — NAOMI PATTERSON FAMILY
From notes obtained from Mrs Ann Hight Gore and also
those handed down by Nannie Hight Nance


William Green Hight, among the first to own land in Versailles, born 1816 in Bedford County, TN, died 1881 in Franklin County, Arkansas, married Naomi Patterson, age 15 in 1836, in Bedford County. Naomi was born in Missouri and died in Madison County, Arkansas about 1877. These two are the parents of Nannie Hight Nance and the grandparents of her seven children by two husbands, B.F. (Frank) and John W Nance. (See the B.F. Nance and the John W Nance family histories.) William Green Hight and Naomi Patterson were the parents of thirteen children:

1 Sara Jane Hight married C.L. Hendricks and moved to Collin County TX

2 Tabatha Hight died before 1889 and is buried in an unmarked grave in Jackson Ridge Cemetery.

3 Nancy Hight was the wife of the Two Nances listed above

4 Dr John Patterson Hight married Mary Caldonia Cummings in Wesley, Arkansas, died in 1924.

5 William Garrett Hight (1848-1928), born in Shelbyville, married three times: no. 1 — Lucy J Taylor, 1865, bore 6 children: Eula R, Naomi E, Mary N, William G Jr, Alice and Nola Patterson Hight. Wife no. 2 — Betty Cheshire. Wife no. 3 — Elizabeth Reeves, whose only child was Ann Hight Gore, now a retired teacher living in Shelbyville. William Garrett Hight had an envious Confederate war record, owned numerous tracts of land and operated several businesses in Bedford County. He was postmaster at Rover and is credited with preventing a second hanging on the square in Shelbyville by cutting the rope.

6 Mary Caroline Hight (1849-1901), buried in Rogers, Arkansas

7 Jefferson Taylor emigrated to Fayetteville, Arkansas.

8 Lemuel Hight emigrated to Fayetteville, Arkansas.

9 Joseph Birl Hight (1853-1893), lived in McKinney, Texas. Married Mary Jane Crockett, daughter of David Crockett and Nancy Wood Jackson.

10 Robert Hight migrated to McKinney, Texas.

11 Etta Hight McKinney, migrated to Texas.

12 Fannie Hight McKinney, migrated to Texas.

13 Lilly Hight McKinney, migrated to Texas. She married Hardy Pope and had six children.

William Green Hight's parents were John Hight and Nancy Harrison, both born in Granville County, North Carlina and died in Bedford County, TN in 1852. The Hights are French.