Saturday, January 22, 2022

The Wright Family connection.

Re: Notes on the Wright family.

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Wed, Jan 5, 4:19 PM



In a message dated 1/5/2022 4:03:52 PM Eastern Standard Time, telemandeb@gmail.com writes:
 Irene Corn Wright was probably the person who transcribed the Wright history from notes
in the Bible, along with interviews with Janie Wright DeBruhl. Mam Wright, and Sadie Wright.
Her husband Tom Wright was interested in the Wright family history, but wasn't the type who 
would take the time to record it.  His wife Irene Corn Wright was interested in preserving the 
notes and interviews.
 

On Wed, Jan 5, 2022 at 3:11 PM <dres1945@aol.com> wrote:
CCW grave marker in Newton Cemetery, Asheville   
 
Catherine Cunningham Wright
1841-1881
 
Bronze marker installed to replace stolen/vandalized  headstone. 
Catherine Cunningham Wright. 
 
Born 1841.  First husband was James Henderson, by whom she had two children
Alice and Daniel
 
She was widowed and then married Andrew Jackson Wright. They had five children.
 
Margaret W. b. 1873
Sara. W. b. 1868
Anna. M. b. 1875
Thomas. died in infancy
Robert Lee b. 1879. 
 
She died when Robert Lee Wright--Pop Wright-- was an infant. 
 
Andrew Jackson then married Lillie J. Brown--Aunt Lillie. 
 
Anna [b.1875], called Aunt Annie, was allegedly the love child of Catherine Cunningham Wright and  William Taswell Reynolds--father of future Sen. Bob Reynolds [see Reynolds Mountain, etc.]  How she wound up at Newton instead of Abernethy Methodist or Alexander Chapel is something of a mystery. Perhaps through the connection to the Reynoldses or she may have consorted with a Patton. 
 
A great side note. Researching this I found out that we had grandfathers [great,great great, etc] named Lafayette ["Fate"] Cunningham and Montreville ["Mont" ] Snider. There was also a Nehemiah Blackstock. 
You have to love that. 
 
The research was fairly easy. All  was transcribed by Mam Wright and Sadie and Mom De Bruhl from family Bibles. Everything is here-- filed, annotated, etc.-- at Elk Mountain. 

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