Lightfoot Home

Lightfoot Home. Freedom Park. , As an artisan with marketable skills, Juba Lightfoot earned more money than some of his neighbors and was able to make his home more comfortable. His one-room house has refinements such as wooden floors, plastered walls, a brick chimney and an attic. The exterior is covered with clapboards and has a shingled roof., Lightfoot was a bricklayer and plasterer. Though not one of William Ludwell Lee's ex-slaves, he spent much of his adult life on the Hot Water property. He and his wife, Betsy, a laundress, shared their home with several children. Lightfoot was able to buy land and was living elsewhere in 1835. However, within a year's time he returned to his home at "the Hotwaters" where he probably spent the rest of his life. Juba and Betsy Lightfoot would have had enough income to purchase fashionable goods such as a spit for roasting meats, a painted bedstead and additional clothing., (caption) , Image from Strother, D.H., One of the Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses. West Virginia University