Father: Willis WRIGHT
Mother: Mary (WRIGHT)
Family 1 : Rebecca CHAPPELL
Family 2 : Sarah Anne CHAPPELL
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_Edward WRIGHT _|
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_Willis WRIGHT _|
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Notes:
| The history of the Wright family as told by the earlier generations in Woodruff County can be summarized as follows (extracted from a few handwritten notes in Ora Cain's notebooks): | ||
| The Wrights were MacWrights and were originally from Edinburgh, Scotland. The stories goes that they settled in USA during the 5th Presidential term in 1817. "According to the dates I have it was E. A. Wright's dad that came from Scotland between 1809 or 1817... Our clan saw all but the first 4 Presidents may have come when the fourth President was in office... He also saw the stars fall he was 13 years old in 1832." | ||
| Henry Wright had once told Ora's daughter, Gayle,
that the Wrights left Ireland (MacWright is the Irish spelling of "son
of Wright" whereas it would be McWright in Scotland) and lived in
Edinburgh, Scotland until they could afford to come to America, and that the
Wright family patriarch arrived in Maryland in 1819. Ora Cain also wrote an article about E. A. and the Wright family, published in 1986 the Woodruff County Historical Society journal, Rivers And Roads And Points In Between. These accounts vary somewhat from the documentation which has been found at this time by the more recent Wright family historians. Much remains to be proven with documented sources of this Wright history before E. A. arrived in Arkansas. According to Michael Wright, a chief researcher in determining where the Wrights of Woodruff County came from, E. A. Wright returned to Troy, North Carolina after the Civil War for a short time, and then he, his wife, Sarah, and their family, moved to Fayette County, Tennessee in 1868 and then on to Woodruff County in 1871. |
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| From the Woodruff County News (McCrory, G. W. Kramer, editor), Volume 1 Number 1, April 4, 1901, unnumbered pages (p. 3): | ||
| E. A. Wright one of the oldest citizens of Woodruff County and an old Confederate veteran called at the News office on Wednesday. He has been a resident of this County since 1871. | ||
There is an ambiguity about E. A.'s middle name, on whether it is Ausburn or Austin which also could be wrapped up in the question of his actual paternity. In all the documentation found so far in Woodruff County, his name is always listed as E. A. Wright. In what is assumed to be his Civil War Service Record, there is this cryptic remark written: E. A. (not borne as Edward Ausburn) Wright... If he was not born as Edward Ausburn Wright, then who was this person and why did they make note of who he was not born as since there are no records listed in these files for another Edward Ausburn Wright? There are also two deeds recorded in Montgomery County, NC which the name Edward Ausburn Wright is recorded and presumed to be our E. A. Wright, though this is not completely conclusive in itself that there could only be one E. A. Wright in Montgomery County during this time, or that he was the grandson of Edward Wright. Henry Wright and his children have claimed on the other hand, that our E. A.'s middle name was actually Austin, though no written documentation for a Edward Austin Wright has been found to support this family contention. To complicate the arguments for either side there is a Ausburn Wright as well as a David Austin Wright and a Elma Auston Wright listed among his descendants. |
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Listed in the 1850
Census, Montgomery Co., NC (M432 Roll 637), as living in dwelling #447,
Edward A. Wright, age 30, head of household, a farmer, estate worth
$125. Enumerated with Rebecca (22), Nancy A. (4), and Edward
B. (3), with Elizabeth Chappell (a. 50, Rebecca's mother), and
James Chappell (a. 19, Rebecca's brother), working as a laborer.
In
the next dwelling (#448), Mary
Wright, age 59, and the supposed widow of Willis Wright and mother of
E. A. Wright is the head of the household.
In 1860 Census, Montgomery Co., NC (CAI22), dwelling #175, Edward A. Wright head of household, real estate worth $300 and personal estate worth $460. Enumerated with Nancy A. (14), Edward (13), David R. (10), Sarah E. (8), Franklin P. (6), and Gaston A. (1).
See a list of Montgomery County, North Carolina property with E. A. Wright as Grantor (information from Michael Wright).
In 1880 Census,
DeView Township (ED. 296
SD. 1 page 14), dwelling # 118 Edward Wright head of household, a. 60,
bp. NC (both parents' bp. NC), Farmer. Enumerated with wife, Sarah, a.
37, bp. NC (both parents' bp. NC). Children: Robert, a. 17, bp. NC;
James A., a. 13, bp. NC; Martin, a. 10, bp. TN, has whooping
cough; and Deomas [Decimus], a. 7, bp. AR).
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Holland's family is listed in dwelling #114 in this census. The James Fall (wife, Betty) family is listed in dwelling # 117. In dwelling # 119 is George Beard, a. 36, bp. AL (both parents' bp. AL), widower, farmer; James<?>, "boarder" (a son?), a. 22, bp. AR (both parents' bp. AL), single and a farmer; Henrietta, "sister," a. 23, bp. AR (both parents' bp. AL), single and "at home"; Eliza Merriwether, "sister," a. 30, bp AL (both parents' bp. AL), widow and "keeps house"; Bessie A. Merriwether, "niece," a. 6, bp. AR (father's bp. MS and mother's bp. AL); Frank Wright, "boarder," a. 23, bp. NC (both parents bp. NC), single and occupation listed as "Boarder"; Naughton Chambers, "hired," a. 18, bp. AR (both parents' bp. NC), single and a farm laborer. See history of the town of Beards. |
| In 1900
Census, DeView Township (ED. 107 Sheet 10 page 47A), dwelling # 164
Edward A. Wright head of household, b. Dec 1819, a. 80, bp. NC (both
parents' bp. NC), married 39 years, a landlord who can read and write, owns
"free" (i. e. not mortgaged) house. Enumerated with wife, Sarah A, b.
Oct 42, a. 57, bp. NC (both parents' bp. NC), married 39 years, the mother of 7
children, 3 of which still survive, not listed if she can read or write; and
two sons: David R., b. Nov 1852, a. 47, bp. NC, married for "0" years,
can read and write, works as a farm laborer; Taylor, b. Nov 1870, a. 29,
single, can read and write, a farmer who rents farm #113; Also enumerated as
living in the same household is a daughter-in-law, Ethel
Wright, b. Jan 1881, a. 19, bp. AR (both parents' bp. AR), and a
grandson, Alfred H. Burrows, b. Oct 1892, a. 7,
bp. TN (father's bp. TN, mother's bp. AR), neither are listed as being able to
read or write. In dwelling # 163 is William M. Chappel and dwelling #165 is Robert L. Wright. Edward Ausburn Wright was a member of Company G, of the 14th North Carolina Infantry in the Confederate Army. He joined at the relatively old age of 37. He was captured nine months after he joined, spent four months in a prisoner-of-war camp, and had to be hospitalized after his release. Abstracted information about his military service is available here. Extracted tax record information for E. A. Wright in Woodruff County is available here. Abstracted property holdings of E. A Wright in Woodruff County is available here. An obituary for E. A. Wright is available here. |
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