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Surnames: BARKER, HUSTON, O’DONALD, WRIGHT
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday July 19, 1945,Volume
LXX, Number 38, Page 5, Column 1, “FORMER INDIANIAN DIES IN KANSAS.” [Transcribed on
December 19, 2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the
Bloomfield-Eastern Greene County Public Library.]
Word has been received in Bloomfield of the death of Julia (WRIGHT) HUSTON, a former
resident of the Scotland neighborhood, on June 5th at Dodge City, Kansas.
Mrs. HUSTON was Julia Ann O’DONALD, daughter of the Rev. Fielding O’DONALD and Nancy
(BARKER) O’DONALD, early settlers of Greene County.
She was married to Owen Thomas WRIGHT in 1866. In 1886, the WRIGHTS with their five
children and two other families went to Kansas seeking homesteads. They arrived in Dodge
City, Kansas, in a terrible blizzard. They were snowbound in a hotel there for a week
before Mr. WRIGHT’S brother who had induced them to come to this land of promise could
send a conveyance for them.
They proved up two claims in Kansas and then moved to Ft. Dodge. WRIGHT died in 1910.
Mrs. WRIGHT was married to James HUSTON, a Civil War Veteran and merchant of Wichita.
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Link to the Obituary of her first husband, Owen Thomas WRIGHT [1842KY—1911KS], A Civil War
Veteran:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to a 1884 Biography of her first husband, Owen T. WRIGHT:
http://members.tripod.com/~debmurray/greene/grnbioref-11.htm#owright
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NOTES—RLJ: 1880 US CENSUS OF GREENE COUNTY, S1/2 Taylor Township, Page 202B, 3 Jun 1880,
Dwelling 59, Family 62: WRIGHT, Owen T. (w, m, 37, m, Farmer and Enumerator, KY, NY, KY),
Julia A. (w, f, 30, Wife, m, keeping house, IN, TN, OH), Florence J. (w, f, 11, Dau, s, At
home, IN, KY, IN), Cora A. (w, f, 6, Dau, s, IN, KY, IN), Nannie E. (w, f, 4, Dau, s, IN,
KY, IN), Bertha F. (w, f, 1, Dau, s, IN, KY, IN), O’DONALD, Nancy (w, f, 68,
Mother-in-law, widow, OH, KY, KY), WRIGHT, Abraham (w, m, 59, Father, m, minister, M, E.,
NY, NY, NY).