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William Hunter Wright was born 1829 Near Ben Lomand, Sevier County, Arkansas. He married Sarah Annie Smith who was born 1829, Wilson County, Tennessee.
He was in the Civil War and was captured twice.
In 1869 he traveled to California in a "Wagon Train" with fourteen related families. His son James David Wreight and a Falls child were born near Maricopa Springs, Arizona on the trip.
Some of the family stayed in California, but some of them did not like it there and returned back East. He stopped off in Cook County Texas where he made one crop. The next year he Homesteaded near Brushy Creek in Montague County, Texas where he became a succesful "Fruit Farmer"
He and wife Sarah are burried in Brushy Cemetery, three miles East of Bowie, Montague County, Texas
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Thomas Wright was born 1807 St Charles County Missouri
He married Mary Ann McClenden Hunter McClenden was a given name for her grandmother
Thomas died 1873 Sevier County Arkansas
His Father James W. (Walker) Wright was eighty three years old, living with his son Thomas, in the 1850 Sevier County Arkansas Census.
Joseph and Mary
Joseph Scott Wright 1851-1937 and Mary Helen Park 1861-1933
Jpseph Scott walked to Paraclifta,Arkansas and joined the Confederate Army at a very early age. (About 14 years old)
His father William Hunter Wright Sr. had been captured and young Joseph wanted to do whatever he could.
He was in the wagon train that traveled to California in 1869. He returned to his native State of Arkansas where he homesteaded near Refugee Springs. There he raised a large family,just a short distance from Campground Cemetery where he and Mary are buried. |
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