Father: Henry Thomas WRIGHT
Mother: Jessie Mae CURTIS
_Edward Ausburn WRIGHT _+
_Franklin Pierce WRIGHT _|
| |_Rebecca CHAPPELL ______+
_Henry Thomas WRIGHT _|
| | _Joseph DAUGHETY _______
| |_Sallie Ann DAUGHETY ____|
| |_Ollie Rebecca PIPKIN __
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|--Frances Ernestine WRIGHT
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| _Reece Henderson CURTIS _|
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|_Jessie Mae CURTIS ___|
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|_Alice Mae HUMPHREY _____|
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Notes:
Another great Wright story
teller who fascinated us for several hours with her tales of the family history
as well as taking us out into the Possum Creek/Beards community area during our
first visit to Arkansas in 1997. She walked down the washed-out, turtle and
copperhead snake-infested road with me, out to where Beards Cemetery was, and
pointed out E. A. Wright's stone as well as other significant grave stones
laying broken and covered with grass out there. As with hearing subsequent
stories and my return visits to this area, one feels without a doubt, that it
is as close to sacred land as one can get, and that the story of the Wright
family in Woodruff county is indeed the story of this land.
Ernie also had
the first concrete evidence for us that we were all indeed related. This was in
the form of a wedding photograph of William Neely and Daisy Holland, which had
written on the back, "The Neelys Daisy & husband/ Grandpa's niece
daughter/Aunt Sarah (Sack) Holland." The same photograph existed in the
collection of my Aunt Clara, and had originally belonged to Cora (Holland)
Warner, though no one in my family could identify it any longer. We had heard a
story from Joe Holland that Grandma Holland was known as Aunt Sack by some
family members, but no one we had asked before this trip had ever heard that
name before. Sarah Holland's brother was Franklin Pierce Wright, Ernie's
grandfather. Though the research and the stories which we had just learned on
this trip supported this connection, we now had actually recognized an
identical object that had been passed down the two different branches of our
family. It was a profoundly momentous occasion in our quest to determine the
family lineage. Not only did it correct an error which Joe Holland had made
some twenty years before, but it also put my family back on track of
remembering a part of its heritage which it had collectively forgotten with the
passing of Cora Warner. Meeting Ernie was like discovering some long-lost
cousin, which indeed she was.
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