I have just made an update adding 2,198 persons, 1,808 direct descendants.
This web site encompasses 49,426 individuals out of a total database of
71,439 relatives. Direct descendants of Richard Wright, Sr. include
30,356. The rest are closely related.
Major Surnames include Allen, Cauble Colglazier, Cooley, Gilstrap, Goss,
Hazel, Hill, Hinds, Johnson, Marshall, Martin, Monical, Morgan, Moss,
Mullenix, Naugle, Parrish, Purlee, Ratts, Trueblood, Voyles, Wingler,
Wright and Zink.
Most of these families emigrated to Edgar County, Illinois; Putnam &
Washington Counties, Indiana; Greene County, Iowa; Kansas and Macon and
Putnam Counties, Missouri.
Updates include adding descendants of the following among others:
1. Timothy Cooley/Lucinda Mullinix,
2. James Mulanix/Cora Partin
3. Smiley Silvey/Joyce Wright
4. Noah Fouts/Jane Wright
5. McCajah Wright/Holland Whisunhunt
6. Noah Wright/Recy Musgrove
Info from Pape Funeral Home (mostly woodrum) and more from Crown Hill
Cemetery, Wash. County, IN
I would appreciate any comments, additions and corrections.
Herb Arkin
40,000 Descendants and relatives of Richard Wright, Sr. of Rowan County,
North Carolina who emigrated to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas and
Missouri. Web page:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~herbarkin