Cynthia Sarah Wright
Beloved Wife Of Francis Asbury Wright
By Mary Wright Davies
Two young Wright brothers in their 20s, Francis "Dick" Asbury Wright,[called Dixie when growing up], and Isaac Marvin Wright, called Marvin, came riding on horses from Angelina County to visit family and friends. They soon were in love with the sweet Wright sisters. Bessie Lynn Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright were reared by their twice widowed Grandmother Mary Ann Jackson Carter [Gary] Loggins, widow of Govy Gordon Gary, and widow of William "Henry" Loggins.
*Govy Gary was fatally shot May 9, 1869, at Bucks Branch near San Augustine Park, when he quarreled with ---- Miller for speaking dishonorably about Govy's eldest daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Gary, age 18. The Miller clan left immediately, supposedly headed for Oregon before the Gary clan could settle the score! Years later it was known they headed to another area of the huge state of Texas to live. Family meant everything, and honor was highly valued in those times. Govy Gary was a resilient, strong pioneer, well respected family man. Families often settled disputes themselves in the 1800s, and this was just a few years after the Civil War ended when honor was sacred.
Mary Carter Gary was left with their four living young children to love and provide for after Govy Gary died. Mary Carter Gary 2nd married widower William Henry Loggins October 16, 1870, in San Augustine County, Texas. Henry Loggins was a Citizen Of The Republic Of Texas, a farmer from a long line of hardy pioneers. Henry Loggins died in 1885 and was buried in Wood Cemetery. There is no headstone in the 21st Century.
The Wright brothers worked on the family farm from the time they were young lads helping their widowed mother Martha Eleanor Henderson Wright. Their father Rev. Isaac Edward Wright, a Methodist Minister of the Gospel and Confederate Civil War veteran of Co E, Border's Texas Cavalry, died on his farm in 1873, in Burke, Angelina County, TX at age 36. The Wright brothers rarely got to visit their relatives in San Augustine County and Sabine County through their growing up years. Traveling about 50 miles was quite a journey by horseback in those days. They were very family oriented, responsible young men, working the farm, caring for their Mother, attending church on Sundays.
Bessie Lynn Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright's father died when they were very young. Rev. John Wesley Wright succumbed to a massive heart attack on June 10, 1884. He was laid to rest in Wood Cemetery. Rev. Robert Edward "Edd" Wright, a son of Rev. Robert Dickerson Wright and Frances (Henderson) Wright, was a nephew of Rev. John Wesley Wright. He was a Methodist-Episcopal Circuit Rider at age 18. In 1884 he was 24, a widower having lost his young 20 year wife Octavia "Octavy" Morris to illness April 5, 1884. They had no children.
Cynthia Elvira Gary Wright, called Elvira, nicknamed "Sulie" married November 2, 1884 to mature, responsible Robert "Edd" Wright. Cynthia Elvira Wright gave birth to their first born, George Asrel Wright, on October 2, 1885, Burke, Angelina County, Texas. His middle name Asrel was to honor Cynthia Elvira's brother Asrel Gary, called Ase. Their second born arrived February 4, 1888: Robert Govy Wright, whom they called Govy, named to honor Cynthia Elvira's deceased father Govy Gordon Gary who was named for his grandfather, his mother Rutha Gordon's father Govin Gordon, and Robert for his father.
**Cynthia Elvira and infant Govy became ill. On March 4, 1888, Elvira awakened and knew she was dying. Early afternoon she asked Edd to being her children in one by one, and prophesied to her children every hour on the hour until 6:00pm when she died. Infant Govy died shortly after. In later years their lives were fulfilled exactly as their Mother said on her deathbed.
Edd was grief stricken at the deaths of his wife and infant son! He gathered together the five children of Cynthia Elvira and their two years old son George Asrel Wright. Edd placed his beloved Cynthia Elvira and infant Govy in his horse pulled wagon. Having been working in the Saratoga - Batson area in the oil fields, he journeyed about 100 miles with his young family to take them home. Rev. Edd Wright buried his wife and infant son Govy beside Rev. John Wesley Wright on the sloping hill in Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. It is a peaceful cemetery with huge spruce trees on land right by the peaceful shores of present day Sam Rayburn Lake.
Wood Cemetery was donated by the Wood family sometime after their father Charles Ayers Wood died. Born in New Jersey, a blacksmith by trade, he was said to have worked on riverboats he migrated to Nacogdoches, Texas by May 4, 1830, to San Augustine County by 1831 where he received a land grant and died 1850 - 1858. The Woods, Garys, Wrights, Bobbits, Robbins and several families at rest there are related. The cemetery is lovely and well kept by caring family.
Grandma Mary Ann Jackson (Carter)[Gary] Loggins raised five of Cynthia Elvira's and John Wesley Wright's six children. John and Elvira's eldest, a natural beauty, Mary "Molly" Wright had married William "Henry" Powell of Brookeland, Texas, soon after her father's death in 1884.
Edd Wright slowly healed from the death of Elvira. Edd Wright and 16 year old Frances "Fannie" Bell Carpenter, daughter of Starling Carpenter and Sarah Tobitha Jennings, originally from Mississippi, married November 17, 1891, at Homer, Angelina County, Texas. They reared Robert and Cynthia Elvira's son George Asrel Wright, and became the parents of seven children. They named one of their daughters in honor of Elvira Gary Wright. For the rest of his long life, living to be 86, Edd visited the girls and Isaac William "Will" Wright. He came often to visit Cynthia and Dick Wright at Centerview.
Larrissa Cordelia "Dealie" Wright married Charles "Jack" Ayers Wood April 27, 1890, San Augustine Co, Texas.. Irenia Ophelia "Rena" Wright married William "Bill" Pence in 1892 at age 16. Bessie was 16 when Marvin came courting. Cynthia Sarah Wright was fourteen when Dick came courting. Grandma Mary was not happy about the brothers visiting and did not want Marvin and Dick to be serious over her young grand-daughters and let them know exactly how she felt, to no avail.
Marvin Wright and Bessie Wright married January 9, 1895. Grandma Mary Gary Loggins was upset with them for running off "eloping" and marrying. She did not want Cynthia to get married at age 14, even though Dick made his honorable intentions clear. Strong willed, determined, in love, the day after Christmas Dick Wright borrowed a horse and rode from Burke, Texas, to Sabine County to the logging and farming community where Grandma Mary Gary Loggins lived. Dick Wright and young Cynthia Wright eloped and were married on December 26, 1895, in Angelina County, Texas. Rev. Isaac "Marvin" Wright, youngest brother, a Methodist-Episcopal Minister, officiated the marriage ceremony. They lived in Burke, Angelina County with Dick and Marvin's widowed mother Martha Henderson Wright. Grandma Mary Carter Gary Loggins was very upset with the brothers and with her girls! It was two years before she relented and made peace with the two young couples. By this time Marvin and Bessie had their first child, and peace was restored in the family.
Cynthia and Dick Wright loved one another through good times and bad times through the years. They moved from Angelina County to Centerview Community in Sabine County, and eventually bought several acres of land where Dick farmed. They were devout Christians and attended Centerview Methodist Church which was right next to their land and Centerview Cemetery. They built a house on the sloping hill. ***Cynthia Sarah Wright taught Sunday School under the tall oak tree during the hot summer months for many years. Her faith was that of a "holiness" Methodist.
They had two fine sons, George Wesley Wright and Isaac William"Willie" Wright named Isaac after his paternal grandfather Rev. Isaac Edward Wright. Dick and Cynthia were married for almost forty-eight years until Dick had a stroke April 26, 1943. He died Apr 27, 1943 at their farm home in Centerview, near Bronson, Sabine County, Texas. His grandson Elzie Randolph Wright, 10 years old, remembers when his grandfather died. The adults were gathered in the bedroom, and came out and told the children that Grandpa had just died peaceably in his sleep. Cynthia died unexpectedly May 29, 1953, during a visit to her son Willie and Bea his wife who were living in Galveston, Texas. Dick and Cynthia Wright are both buried in Centerview Cemetery with their two sons, George Wesley Wright and Isaac Willie Wright and their wives at rest on each side of them.
Bessie and Marvin had full lives together with Marvin preaching and working the farm, and Bessie caring for the children and handling her duties in their home. They were raising their growing family together. They were heart broken through the loss of three of their young children to illness, but their faith sustained them as they went on with their lives. On Dec 17, 1913, Bessie Lynn Wright Wright gave birth to their ninth baby, Elma Bessie Wright. Bessie Lynn had not felt well since giving birth to Bessie. She was hanging clothes outdoors to dry on the line on Feb 2, 1914, when tragedy struck. Bessie started hemorrhaging extensively, became faint, and soon died.
Rev. Marvin Wright was shocked and devastated at Bessie's sudden death! Marvin had Bessie buried at Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. It was a hallowed place where her father Rev. John Wesley Wright and mother Cynthia Elvira Gary Wright, infant brother Robert Govy Wright, grandfather Govy Gordon Gary and Mary Ann Jackson Carter Gary Loggins, (buried as Mary J. Gary by her children), step grandfather William Henry Loggins, and Mary's father William Carter her great grandfather were at rest upon the hill, no headstones in modern times.
A few years later Marvin met a lovely school teacher, Martha Augusta Palmore [called Augusta or Gus by family] who came to Texas from Mississippi to visit her brother. They were married on her birthday September 22, 1918. Marvin and Augusta Wright later moved to Hood County, Texas. They became parents of several children and had a good life. They were laid to eternal rest in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Texas, first Marvin in 1939, and many years later his wife Martha Augusta Palmore Wright. Reference: Conversation with Dorthy Kilgore Casten, a Wright relation who knew and researched her Wright relatives diligently. Rest in peace, Dorthy. You are truly missed.
*Reference: Oral history by A. G. Gary in 1982 at home Brookeland, Sabine Co, TX.
**Reference: Cynthia Sarah Wright was 7 years of age when her Mother Cynthia Elvira Wright and infant brother Govy died. Cynthia remembered the prophesies, the date and exact time her Mother died with clarity. Cynthia shared the events of the day her mother died with her grand-daughter Erma Wright Beene.
***Reference: Oral history by Rev. John Earl Wright, February 2011, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. He was in her Sunday School class as a young boy.
Beloved Wife Of Francis Asbury Wright
By Mary Wright Davies
Two young Wright brothers in their 20s, Francis "Dick" Asbury Wright,[called Dixie when growing up], and Isaac Marvin Wright, called Marvin, came riding on horses from Angelina County to visit family and friends. They soon were in love with the sweet Wright sisters. Bessie Lynn Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright were reared by their twice widowed Grandmother Mary Ann Jackson Carter [Gary] Loggins, widow of Govy Gordon Gary, and widow of William "Henry" Loggins.
*Govy Gary was fatally shot May 9, 1869, at Bucks Branch near San Augustine Park, when he quarreled with ---- Miller for speaking dishonorably about Govy's eldest daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Gary, age 18. The Miller clan left immediately, supposedly headed for Oregon before the Gary clan could settle the score! Years later it was known they headed to another area of the huge state of Texas to live. Family meant everything, and honor was highly valued in those times. Govy Gary was a resilient, strong pioneer, well respected family man. Families often settled disputes themselves in the 1800s, and this was just a few years after the Civil War ended when honor was sacred.
Mary Carter Gary was left with their four living young children to love and provide for after Govy Gary died. Mary Carter Gary 2nd married widower William Henry Loggins October 16, 1870, in San Augustine County, Texas. Henry Loggins was a Citizen Of The Republic Of Texas, a farmer from a long line of hardy pioneers. Henry Loggins died in 1885 and was buried in Wood Cemetery. There is no headstone in the 21st Century.
The Wright brothers worked on the family farm from the time they were young lads helping their widowed mother Martha Eleanor Henderson Wright. Their father Rev. Isaac Edward Wright, a Methodist Minister of the Gospel and Confederate Civil War veteran of Co E, Border's Texas Cavalry, died on his farm in 1873, in Burke, Angelina County, TX at age 36. The Wright brothers rarely got to visit their relatives in San Augustine County and Sabine County through their growing up years. Traveling about 50 miles was quite a journey by horseback in those days. They were very family oriented, responsible young men, working the farm, caring for their Mother, attending church on Sundays.
Bessie Lynn Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright's father died when they were very young. Rev. John Wesley Wright succumbed to a massive heart attack on June 10, 1884. He was laid to rest in Wood Cemetery. Rev. Robert Edward "Edd" Wright, a son of Rev. Robert Dickerson Wright and Frances (Henderson) Wright, was a nephew of Rev. John Wesley Wright. He was a Methodist-Episcopal Circuit Rider at age 18. In 1884 he was 24, a widower having lost his young 20 year wife Octavia "Octavy" Morris to illness April 5, 1884. They had no children.
Cynthia Elvira Gary Wright, called Elvira, nicknamed "Sulie" married November 2, 1884 to mature, responsible Robert "Edd" Wright. Cynthia Elvira Wright gave birth to their first born, George Asrel Wright, on October 2, 1885, Burke, Angelina County, Texas. His middle name Asrel was to honor Cynthia Elvira's brother Asrel Gary, called Ase. Their second born arrived February 4, 1888: Robert Govy Wright, whom they called Govy, named to honor Cynthia Elvira's deceased father Govy Gordon Gary who was named for his grandfather, his mother Rutha Gordon's father Govin Gordon, and Robert for his father.
**Cynthia Elvira and infant Govy became ill. On March 4, 1888, Elvira awakened and knew she was dying. Early afternoon she asked Edd to being her children in one by one, and prophesied to her children every hour on the hour until 6:00pm when she died. Infant Govy died shortly after. In later years their lives were fulfilled exactly as their Mother said on her deathbed.
Edd was grief stricken at the deaths of his wife and infant son! He gathered together the five children of Cynthia Elvira and their two years old son George Asrel Wright. Edd placed his beloved Cynthia Elvira and infant Govy in his horse pulled wagon. Having been working in the Saratoga - Batson area in the oil fields, he journeyed about 100 miles with his young family to take them home. Rev. Edd Wright buried his wife and infant son Govy beside Rev. John Wesley Wright on the sloping hill in Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. It is a peaceful cemetery with huge spruce trees on land right by the peaceful shores of present day Sam Rayburn Lake.
Wood Cemetery was donated by the Wood family sometime after their father Charles Ayers Wood died. Born in New Jersey, a blacksmith by trade, he was said to have worked on riverboats he migrated to Nacogdoches, Texas by May 4, 1830, to San Augustine County by 1831 where he received a land grant and died 1850 - 1858. The Woods, Garys, Wrights, Bobbits, Robbins and several families at rest there are related. The cemetery is lovely and well kept by caring family.
Grandma Mary Ann Jackson (Carter)[Gary] Loggins raised five of Cynthia Elvira's and John Wesley Wright's six children. John and Elvira's eldest, a natural beauty, Mary "Molly" Wright had married William "Henry" Powell of Brookeland, Texas, soon after her father's death in 1884.
Edd Wright slowly healed from the death of Elvira. Edd Wright and 16 year old Frances "Fannie" Bell Carpenter, daughter of Starling Carpenter and Sarah Tobitha Jennings, originally from Mississippi, married November 17, 1891, at Homer, Angelina County, Texas. They reared Robert and Cynthia Elvira's son George Asrel Wright, and became the parents of seven children. They named one of their daughters in honor of Elvira Gary Wright. For the rest of his long life, living to be 86, Edd visited the girls and Isaac William "Will" Wright. He came often to visit Cynthia and Dick Wright at Centerview.
Larrissa Cordelia "Dealie" Wright married Charles "Jack" Ayers Wood April 27, 1890, San Augustine Co, Texas.. Irenia Ophelia "Rena" Wright married William "Bill" Pence in 1892 at age 16. Bessie was 16 when Marvin came courting. Cynthia Sarah Wright was fourteen when Dick came courting. Grandma Mary was not happy about the brothers visiting and did not want Marvin and Dick to be serious over her young grand-daughters and let them know exactly how she felt, to no avail.
Marvin Wright and Bessie Wright married January 9, 1895. Grandma Mary Gary Loggins was upset with them for running off "eloping" and marrying. She did not want Cynthia to get married at age 14, even though Dick made his honorable intentions clear. Strong willed, determined, in love, the day after Christmas Dick Wright borrowed a horse and rode from Burke, Texas, to Sabine County to the logging and farming community where Grandma Mary Gary Loggins lived. Dick Wright and young Cynthia Wright eloped and were married on December 26, 1895, in Angelina County, Texas. Rev. Isaac "Marvin" Wright, youngest brother, a Methodist-Episcopal Minister, officiated the marriage ceremony. They lived in Burke, Angelina County with Dick and Marvin's widowed mother Martha Henderson Wright. Grandma Mary Carter Gary Loggins was very upset with the brothers and with her girls! It was two years before she relented and made peace with the two young couples. By this time Marvin and Bessie had their first child, and peace was restored in the family.
Cynthia and Dick Wright loved one another through good times and bad times through the years. They moved from Angelina County to Centerview Community in Sabine County, and eventually bought several acres of land where Dick farmed. They were devout Christians and attended Centerview Methodist Church which was right next to their land and Centerview Cemetery. They built a house on the sloping hill. ***Cynthia Sarah Wright taught Sunday School under the tall oak tree during the hot summer months for many years. Her faith was that of a "holiness" Methodist.
They had two fine sons, George Wesley Wright and Isaac William"Willie" Wright named Isaac after his paternal grandfather Rev. Isaac Edward Wright. Dick and Cynthia were married for almost forty-eight years until Dick had a stroke April 26, 1943. He died Apr 27, 1943 at their farm home in Centerview, near Bronson, Sabine County, Texas. His grandson Elzie Randolph Wright, 10 years old, remembers when his grandfather died. The adults were gathered in the bedroom, and came out and told the children that Grandpa had just died peaceably in his sleep. Cynthia died unexpectedly May 29, 1953, during a visit to her son Willie and Bea his wife who were living in Galveston, Texas. Dick and Cynthia Wright are both buried in Centerview Cemetery with their two sons, George Wesley Wright and Isaac Willie Wright and their wives at rest on each side of them.
Bessie and Marvin had full lives together with Marvin preaching and working the farm, and Bessie caring for the children and handling her duties in their home. They were raising their growing family together. They were heart broken through the loss of three of their young children to illness, but their faith sustained them as they went on with their lives. On Dec 17, 1913, Bessie Lynn Wright Wright gave birth to their ninth baby, Elma Bessie Wright. Bessie Lynn had not felt well since giving birth to Bessie. She was hanging clothes outdoors to dry on the line on Feb 2, 1914, when tragedy struck. Bessie started hemorrhaging extensively, became faint, and soon died.
Rev. Marvin Wright was shocked and devastated at Bessie's sudden death! Marvin had Bessie buried at Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. It was a hallowed place where her father Rev. John Wesley Wright and mother Cynthia Elvira Gary Wright, infant brother Robert Govy Wright, grandfather Govy Gordon Gary and Mary Ann Jackson Carter Gary Loggins, (buried as Mary J. Gary by her children), step grandfather William Henry Loggins, and Mary's father William Carter her great grandfather were at rest upon the hill, no headstones in modern times.
A few years later Marvin met a lovely school teacher, Martha Augusta Palmore [called Augusta or Gus by family] who came to Texas from Mississippi to visit her brother. They were married on her birthday September 22, 1918. Marvin and Augusta Wright later moved to Hood County, Texas. They became parents of several children and had a good life. They were laid to eternal rest in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Texas, first Marvin in 1939, and many years later his wife Martha Augusta Palmore Wright. Reference: Conversation with Dorthy Kilgore Casten, a Wright relation who knew and researched her Wright relatives diligently. Rest in peace, Dorthy. You are truly missed.
*Reference: Oral history by A. G. Gary in 1982 at home Brookeland, Sabine Co, TX.
**Reference: Cynthia Sarah Wright was 7 years of age when her Mother Cynthia Elvira Wright and infant brother Govy died. Cynthia remembered the prophesies, the date and exact time her Mother died with clarity. Cynthia shared the events of the day her mother died with her grand-daughter Erma Wright Beene.
***Reference: Oral history by Rev. John Earl Wright, February 2011, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. He was in her Sunday School class as a young boy.
Cynthia Sarah Wright
Beloved Wife Of Francis Asbury Wright
By Mary Wright Davies
Two young Wright brothers in their 20s, Francis "Dick" Asbury Wright,[called Dixie when growing up], and Isaac Marvin Wright, called Marvin, came riding on horses from Angelina County to visit family and friends. They soon were in love with the sweet Wright sisters. Bessie Lynn Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright were reared by their twice widowed Grandmother Mary Ann Jackson Carter [Gary] Loggins, widow of Govy Gordon Gary, and widow of William "Henry" Loggins.
*Govy Gary was fatally shot May 9, 1869, at Bucks Branch near San Augustine Park, when he quarreled with ---- Miller for speaking dishonorably about Govy's eldest daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Gary, age 18. The Miller clan left immediately, supposedly headed for Oregon before the Gary clan could settle the score! Years later it was known they headed to another area of the huge state of Texas to live. Family meant everything, and honor was highly valued in those times. Govy Gary was a resilient, strong pioneer, well respected family man. Families often settled disputes themselves in the 1800s, and this was just a few years after the Civil War ended when honor was sacred.
Mary Carter Gary was left with their four living young children to love and provide for after Govy Gary died. Mary Carter Gary 2nd married widower William Henry Loggins October 16, 1870, in San Augustine County, Texas. Henry Loggins was a Citizen Of The Republic Of Texas, a farmer from a long line of hardy pioneers. Henry Loggins died in 1885 and was buried in Wood Cemetery. There is no headstone in the 21st Century.
The Wright brothers worked on the family farm from the time they were young lads helping their widowed mother Martha Eleanor Henderson Wright. Their father Rev. Isaac Edward Wright, a Methodist Minister of the Gospel and Confederate Civil War veteran of Co E, Border's Texas Cavalry, died on his farm in 1873, in Burke, Angelina County, TX at age 36. The Wright brothers rarely got to visit their relatives in San Augustine County and Sabine County through their growing up years. Traveling about 50 miles was quite a journey by horseback in those days. They were very family oriented, responsible young men, working the farm, caring for their Mother, attending church on Sundays.
Bessie Lynn Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright's father died when they were very young. Rev. John Wesley Wright succumbed to a massive heart attack on June 10, 1884. He was laid to rest in Wood Cemetery. Rev. Robert Edward "Edd" Wright, a son of Rev. Robert Dickerson Wright and Frances (Henderson) Wright, was a nephew of Rev. John Wesley Wright. He was a Methodist-Episcopal Circuit Rider at age 18. In 1884 he was 24, a widower having lost his young 20 year wife Octavia "Octavy" Morris to illness April 5, 1884. They had no children.
Cynthia Elvira Gary Wright, called Elvira, nicknamed "Sulie" married November 2, 1884 to mature, responsible Robert "Edd" Wright. Cynthia Elvira Wright gave birth to their first born, George Asrel Wright, on October 2, 1885, Burke, Angelina County, Texas. His middle name Asrel was to honor Cynthia Elvira's brother Asrel Gary, called Ase. Their second born arrived February 4, 1888: Robert Govy Wright, whom they called Govy, named to honor Cynthia Elvira's deceased father Govy Gordon Gary who was named for his grandfather, his mother Rutha Gordon's father Govin Gordon, and Robert for his father.
**Cynthia Elvira and infant Govy became ill. On March 4, 1888, Elvira awakened and knew she was dying. Early afternoon she asked Edd to being her children in one by one, and prophesied to her children every hour on the hour until 6:00pm when she died. Infant Govy died shortly after. In later years their lives were fulfilled exactly as their Mother said on her deathbed.
Edd was grief stricken at the deaths of his wife and infant son! He gathered together the five children of Cynthia Elvira and their two years old son George Asrel Wright. Edd placed his beloved Cynthia Elvira and infant Govy in his horse pulled wagon. Having been working in the Saratoga - Batson area in the oil fields, he journeyed about 100 miles with his young family to take them home. Rev. Edd Wright buried his wife and infant son Govy beside Rev. John Wesley Wright on the sloping hill in Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. It is a peaceful cemetery with huge spruce trees on land right by the peaceful shores of present day Sam Rayburn Lake.
Wood Cemetery was donated by the Wood family sometime after their father Charles Ayers Wood died. Born in New Jersey, a blacksmith by trade, he was said to have worked on riverboats he migrated to Nacogdoches, Texas by May 4, 1830, to San Augustine County by 1831 where he received a land grant and died 1850 - 1858. The Woods, Garys, Wrights, Bobbits, Robbins and several families at rest there are related. The cemetery is lovely and well kept by caring family.
Grandma Mary Ann Jackson (Carter)[Gary] Loggins raised five of Cynthia Elvira's and John Wesley Wright's six children. John and Elvira's eldest, a natural beauty, Mary "Molly" Wright had married William "Henry" Powell of Brookeland, Texas, soon after her father's death in 1884.
Edd Wright slowly healed from the death of Elvira. Edd Wright and 16 year old Frances "Fannie" Bell Carpenter, daughter of Starling Carpenter and Sarah Tobitha Jennings, originally from Mississippi, married November 17, 1891, at Homer, Angelina County, Texas. They reared Robert and Cynthia Elvira's son George Asrel Wright, and became the parents of seven children. They named one of their daughters in honor of Elvira Gary Wright. For the rest of his long life, living to be 86, Edd visited the girls and Isaac William "Will" Wright. He came often to visit Cynthia and Dick Wright at Centerview.
Larrissa Cordelia "Dealie" Wright married Charles "Jack" Ayers Wood April 27, 1890, San Augustine Co, Texas.. Irenia Ophelia "Rena" Wright married William "Bill" Pence in 1892 at age 16. Bessie was 16 when Marvin came courting. Cynthia Sarah Wright was fourteen when Dick came courting. Grandma Mary was not happy about the brothers visiting and did not want Marvin and Dick to be serious over her young grand-daughters and let them know exactly how she felt, to no avail.
Marvin Wright and Bessie Wright married January 9, 1895. Grandma Mary Gary Loggins was upset with them for running off "eloping" and marrying. She did not want Cynthia to get married at age 14, even though Dick made his honorable intentions clear. Strong willed, determined, in love, the day after Christmas Dick Wright borrowed a horse and rode from Burke, Texas, to Sabine County to the logging and farming community where Grandma Mary Gary Loggins lived. Dick Wright and young Cynthia Wright eloped and were married on December 26, 1895, in Angelina County, Texas. Rev. Isaac "Marvin" Wright, youngest brother, a Methodist-Episcopal Minister, officiated the marriage ceremony. They lived in Burke, Angelina County with Dick and Marvin's widowed mother Martha Henderson Wright. Grandma Mary Carter Gary Loggins was very upset with the brothers and with her girls! It was two years before she relented and made peace with the two young couples. By this time Marvin and Bessie had their first child, and peace was restored in the family.
Cynthia and Dick Wright loved one another through good times and bad times through the years. They moved from Angelina County to Centerview Community in Sabine County, and eventually bought several acres of land where Dick farmed. They were devout Christians and attended Centerview Methodist Church which was right next to their land and Centerview Cemetery. They built a house on the sloping hill. ***Cynthia Sarah Wright taught Sunday School under the tall oak tree during the hot summer months for many years. Her faith was that of a "holiness" Methodist.
They had two fine sons, George Wesley Wright and Isaac William"Willie" Wright named Isaac after his paternal grandfather Rev. Isaac Edward Wright. Dick and Cynthia were married for almost forty-eight years until Dick had a stroke April 26, 1943. He died Apr 27, 1943 at their farm home in Centerview, near Bronson, Sabine County, Texas. His grandson Elzie Randolph Wright, 10 years old, remembers when his grandfather died. The adults were gathered in the bedroom, and came out and told the children that Grandpa had just died peaceably in his sleep. Cynthia died unexpectedly May 29, 1953, during a visit to her son Willie and Bea his wife who were living in Galveston, Texas. Dick and Cynthia Wright are both buried in Centerview Cemetery with their two sons, George Wesley Wright and Isaac Willie Wright and their wives at rest on each side of them.
Bessie and Marvin had full lives together with Marvin preaching and working the farm, and Bessie caring for the children and handling her duties in their home. They were raising their growing family together. They were heart broken through the loss of three of their young children to illness, but their faith sustained them as they went on with their lives. On Dec 17, 1913, Bessie Lynn Wright Wright gave birth to their ninth baby, Elma Bessie Wright. Bessie Lynn had not felt well since giving birth to Bessie. She was hanging clothes outdoors to dry on the line on Feb 2, 1914, when tragedy struck. Bessie started hemorrhaging extensively, became faint, and soon died.
Rev. Marvin Wright was shocked and devastated at Bessie's sudden death! Marvin had Bessie buried at Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. It was a hallowed place where her father Rev. John Wesley Wright and mother Cynthia Elvira Gary Wright, infant brother Robert Govy Wright, grandfather Govy Gordon Gary and Mary Ann Jackson Carter Gary Loggins, (buried as Mary J. Gary by her children), step grandfather William Henry Loggins, and Mary's father William Carter her great grandfather were at rest upon the hill, no headstones in modern times.
A few years later Marvin met a lovely school teacher, Martha Augusta Palmore [called Augusta or Gus by family] who came to Texas from Mississippi to visit her brother. They were married on her birthday September 22, 1918. Marvin and Augusta Wright later moved to Hood County, Texas. They became parents of several children and had a good life. They were laid to eternal rest in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Texas, first Marvin in 1939, and many years later his wife Martha Augusta Palmore Wright. Reference: Conversation with Dorthy Kilgore Casten, a Wright relation who knew and researched her Wright relatives diligently. Rest in peace, Dorthy. You are truly missed.
*Reference: Oral history by A. G. Gary in 1982 at home Brookeland, Sabine Co, TX.
**Reference: Cynthia Sarah Wright was 7 years of age when her Mother Cynthia Elvira Wright and infant brother Govy died. Cynthia remembered the prophesies, the date and exact time her Mother died with clarity. Cynthia shared the events of the day her mother died with her grand-daughter Erma Wright Beene.
***Reference: Oral history by Rev. John Earl Wright, February 2011, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. He was in her Sunday School class as a young boy.
Beloved Wife Of Francis Asbury Wright
By Mary Wright Davies
Two young Wright brothers in their 20s, Francis "Dick" Asbury Wright,[called Dixie when growing up], and Isaac Marvin Wright, called Marvin, came riding on horses from Angelina County to visit family and friends. They soon were in love with the sweet Wright sisters. Bessie Lynn Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright were reared by their twice widowed Grandmother Mary Ann Jackson Carter [Gary] Loggins, widow of Govy Gordon Gary, and widow of William "Henry" Loggins.
*Govy Gary was fatally shot May 9, 1869, at Bucks Branch near San Augustine Park, when he quarreled with ---- Miller for speaking dishonorably about Govy's eldest daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Gary, age 18. The Miller clan left immediately, supposedly headed for Oregon before the Gary clan could settle the score! Years later it was known they headed to another area of the huge state of Texas to live. Family meant everything, and honor was highly valued in those times. Govy Gary was a resilient, strong pioneer, well respected family man. Families often settled disputes themselves in the 1800s, and this was just a few years after the Civil War ended when honor was sacred.
Mary Carter Gary was left with their four living young children to love and provide for after Govy Gary died. Mary Carter Gary 2nd married widower William Henry Loggins October 16, 1870, in San Augustine County, Texas. Henry Loggins was a Citizen Of The Republic Of Texas, a farmer from a long line of hardy pioneers. Henry Loggins died in 1885 and was buried in Wood Cemetery. There is no headstone in the 21st Century.
The Wright brothers worked on the family farm from the time they were young lads helping their widowed mother Martha Eleanor Henderson Wright. Their father Rev. Isaac Edward Wright, a Methodist Minister of the Gospel and Confederate Civil War veteran of Co E, Border's Texas Cavalry, died on his farm in 1873, in Burke, Angelina County, TX at age 36. The Wright brothers rarely got to visit their relatives in San Augustine County and Sabine County through their growing up years. Traveling about 50 miles was quite a journey by horseback in those days. They were very family oriented, responsible young men, working the farm, caring for their Mother, attending church on Sundays.
Bessie Lynn Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright's father died when they were very young. Rev. John Wesley Wright succumbed to a massive heart attack on June 10, 1884. He was laid to rest in Wood Cemetery. Rev. Robert Edward "Edd" Wright, a son of Rev. Robert Dickerson Wright and Frances (Henderson) Wright, was a nephew of Rev. John Wesley Wright. He was a Methodist-Episcopal Circuit Rider at age 18. In 1884 he was 24, a widower having lost his young 20 year wife Octavia "Octavy" Morris to illness April 5, 1884. They had no children.
Cynthia Elvira Gary Wright, called Elvira, nicknamed "Sulie" married November 2, 1884 to mature, responsible Robert "Edd" Wright. Cynthia Elvira Wright gave birth to their first born, George Asrel Wright, on October 2, 1885, Burke, Angelina County, Texas. His middle name Asrel was to honor Cynthia Elvira's brother Asrel Gary, called Ase. Their second born arrived February 4, 1888: Robert Govy Wright, whom they called Govy, named to honor Cynthia Elvira's deceased father Govy Gordon Gary who was named for his grandfather, his mother Rutha Gordon's father Govin Gordon, and Robert for his father.
**Cynthia Elvira and infant Govy became ill. On March 4, 1888, Elvira awakened and knew she was dying. Early afternoon she asked Edd to being her children in one by one, and prophesied to her children every hour on the hour until 6:00pm when she died. Infant Govy died shortly after. In later years their lives were fulfilled exactly as their Mother said on her deathbed.
Edd was grief stricken at the deaths of his wife and infant son! He gathered together the five children of Cynthia Elvira and their two years old son George Asrel Wright. Edd placed his beloved Cynthia Elvira and infant Govy in his horse pulled wagon. Having been working in the Saratoga - Batson area in the oil fields, he journeyed about 100 miles with his young family to take them home. Rev. Edd Wright buried his wife and infant son Govy beside Rev. John Wesley Wright on the sloping hill in Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. It is a peaceful cemetery with huge spruce trees on land right by the peaceful shores of present day Sam Rayburn Lake.
Wood Cemetery was donated by the Wood family sometime after their father Charles Ayers Wood died. Born in New Jersey, a blacksmith by trade, he was said to have worked on riverboats he migrated to Nacogdoches, Texas by May 4, 1830, to San Augustine County by 1831 where he received a land grant and died 1850 - 1858. The Woods, Garys, Wrights, Bobbits, Robbins and several families at rest there are related. The cemetery is lovely and well kept by caring family.
Grandma Mary Ann Jackson (Carter)[Gary] Loggins raised five of Cynthia Elvira's and John Wesley Wright's six children. John and Elvira's eldest, a natural beauty, Mary "Molly" Wright had married William "Henry" Powell of Brookeland, Texas, soon after her father's death in 1884.
Edd Wright slowly healed from the death of Elvira. Edd Wright and 16 year old Frances "Fannie" Bell Carpenter, daughter of Starling Carpenter and Sarah Tobitha Jennings, originally from Mississippi, married November 17, 1891, at Homer, Angelina County, Texas. They reared Robert and Cynthia Elvira's son George Asrel Wright, and became the parents of seven children. They named one of their daughters in honor of Elvira Gary Wright. For the rest of his long life, living to be 86, Edd visited the girls and Isaac William "Will" Wright. He came often to visit Cynthia and Dick Wright at Centerview.
Larrissa Cordelia "Dealie" Wright married Charles "Jack" Ayers Wood April 27, 1890, San Augustine Co, Texas.. Irenia Ophelia "Rena" Wright married William "Bill" Pence in 1892 at age 16. Bessie was 16 when Marvin came courting. Cynthia Sarah Wright was fourteen when Dick came courting. Grandma Mary was not happy about the brothers visiting and did not want Marvin and Dick to be serious over her young grand-daughters and let them know exactly how she felt, to no avail.
Marvin Wright and Bessie Wright married January 9, 1895. Grandma Mary Gary Loggins was upset with them for running off "eloping" and marrying. She did not want Cynthia to get married at age 14, even though Dick made his honorable intentions clear. Strong willed, determined, in love, the day after Christmas Dick Wright borrowed a horse and rode from Burke, Texas, to Sabine County to the logging and farming community where Grandma Mary Gary Loggins lived. Dick Wright and young Cynthia Wright eloped and were married on December 26, 1895, in Angelina County, Texas. Rev. Isaac "Marvin" Wright, youngest brother, a Methodist-Episcopal Minister, officiated the marriage ceremony. They lived in Burke, Angelina County with Dick and Marvin's widowed mother Martha Henderson Wright. Grandma Mary Carter Gary Loggins was very upset with the brothers and with her girls! It was two years before she relented and made peace with the two young couples. By this time Marvin and Bessie had their first child, and peace was restored in the family.
Cynthia and Dick Wright loved one another through good times and bad times through the years. They moved from Angelina County to Centerview Community in Sabine County, and eventually bought several acres of land where Dick farmed. They were devout Christians and attended Centerview Methodist Church which was right next to their land and Centerview Cemetery. They built a house on the sloping hill. ***Cynthia Sarah Wright taught Sunday School under the tall oak tree during the hot summer months for many years. Her faith was that of a "holiness" Methodist.
They had two fine sons, George Wesley Wright and Isaac William"Willie" Wright named Isaac after his paternal grandfather Rev. Isaac Edward Wright. Dick and Cynthia were married for almost forty-eight years until Dick had a stroke April 26, 1943. He died Apr 27, 1943 at their farm home in Centerview, near Bronson, Sabine County, Texas. His grandson Elzie Randolph Wright, 10 years old, remembers when his grandfather died. The adults were gathered in the bedroom, and came out and told the children that Grandpa had just died peaceably in his sleep. Cynthia died unexpectedly May 29, 1953, during a visit to her son Willie and Bea his wife who were living in Galveston, Texas. Dick and Cynthia Wright are both buried in Centerview Cemetery with their two sons, George Wesley Wright and Isaac Willie Wright and their wives at rest on each side of them.
Bessie and Marvin had full lives together with Marvin preaching and working the farm, and Bessie caring for the children and handling her duties in their home. They were raising their growing family together. They were heart broken through the loss of three of their young children to illness, but their faith sustained them as they went on with their lives. On Dec 17, 1913, Bessie Lynn Wright Wright gave birth to their ninth baby, Elma Bessie Wright. Bessie Lynn had not felt well since giving birth to Bessie. She was hanging clothes outdoors to dry on the line on Feb 2, 1914, when tragedy struck. Bessie started hemorrhaging extensively, became faint, and soon died.
Rev. Marvin Wright was shocked and devastated at Bessie's sudden death! Marvin had Bessie buried at Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas. It was a hallowed place where her father Rev. John Wesley Wright and mother Cynthia Elvira Gary Wright, infant brother Robert Govy Wright, grandfather Govy Gordon Gary and Mary Ann Jackson Carter Gary Loggins, (buried as Mary J. Gary by her children), step grandfather William Henry Loggins, and Mary's father William Carter her great grandfather were at rest upon the hill, no headstones in modern times.
A few years later Marvin met a lovely school teacher, Martha Augusta Palmore [called Augusta or Gus by family] who came to Texas from Mississippi to visit her brother. They were married on her birthday September 22, 1918. Marvin and Augusta Wright later moved to Hood County, Texas. They became parents of several children and had a good life. They were laid to eternal rest in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Texas, first Marvin in 1939, and many years later his wife Martha Augusta Palmore Wright. Reference: Conversation with Dorthy Kilgore Casten, a Wright relation who knew and researched her Wright relatives diligently. Rest in peace, Dorthy. You are truly missed.
*Reference: Oral history by A. G. Gary in 1982 at home Brookeland, Sabine Co, TX.
**Reference: Cynthia Sarah Wright was 7 years of age when her Mother Cynthia Elvira Wright and infant brother Govy died. Cynthia remembered the prophesies, the date and exact time her Mother died with clarity. Cynthia shared the events of the day her mother died with her grand-daughter Erma Wright Beene.
***Reference: Oral history by Rev. John Earl Wright, February 2011, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. He was in her Sunday School class as a young boy.
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