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John Franklin Hight Leaves His Mark in France |
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I found this graffiti in 2010. I thought it was a graffiti left by a U.S. soldier
in 1944 because there was an American airfield at Louplande in 1944. There a
few weeks ago while doing research on the presence of U.S. troops in Sarthe
in 1918, I discovered that the insignia was that of the 89th Division. Photos and information courtesy of Philippe Gondard |
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The Church in Louplande, France  |
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 Graffiti location |
 Graffiti location close up |
 Graffiti detail C. WA. (89th Infantry Insignia) F. Hight Oroville Cal. |
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Hight's Draft Card
Hight's draft card is dated near the very end of World War I. |
1920 US Federal Census
Record
The 1920 US Census reveals a John Hight living in Oroville with his wife, Annie, two other adults and an infant of unknown relationship to him. |
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| Voter Registration Records | |
Voter Registation Record for 1910 shows John F. Hight as a 31 year old painter, still in Precinct 6, probably unmarried as his wife is not listed. |
John Hight is listed living with his wife Annie in Thompson Flat. He was working as a rancher in this early gold mining town at the south end of Table Mountain, near the Feather River. Black Bart, the infamous stagecoach bandit, was rumored to have lived here. |
Precinct 6 must have been in the western downtown area of Oroville. Hight and his wife Anne are located in this voter registry at the very western end of Bird Street, at the corner of Bird St. and Feather River Blvd. This is now occupied by a vacant, grassy lot next to the Church of Christ. Their address was 617½ Bird Street, probably adjacent to this church at 625 Bird St..
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This Voter Registration Record has Hight living on Marysville
Road (now Feather River Blvd.). His occupation is listed as "painter".
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| Please notify Daryl Autrey if you have information on John Franklin Hight or his wife Annie. | |
