Elias R. Wightman

Stephen F. Austin named him in July 1825 to appraise cargo damaged aboard the schooner Lady of the Lake.

[1] Wightman probably attended an 1829 meeting with Austin at San Felipe to discuss founding a masonic lodge.

During the Runaway Scrape in 1836, Mary, her sister, an orphan girl, the family's slaves, and several neighbors fled the Mexican army by sea and were stranded at Galveston.

In 1840 he wrote a letter to Mirabeau B. Lamar suggesting that John Delap succeed Silas Dinsmore as county judge.

In 1841, Wightman sold his Texas lands[1] and moved to Covington, Kentucky, looking for a more healthy climate.

[3] In the 1980s some of Wightman's surveyor notes were placed in the Matagorda County Museum in Bay City, Texas.