Francis Asbury Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright
Francis Asbury Wright, called "Dixie" when he was a young boy, and "Dick" when older, was born November 28, 1867, one of six sons born to Rev. Isaac Edward Wright and Martha Ellen Henderson. His father, Rev. Isaac Edward Wright was born to Lt. Col. Robert Dawson Wright and Eleanor Dickerson in 1836 in their log house in De Siard Bayou, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Rev. Edward Isaac Wright, a Minister was Pastor of Holly Grove Methodist Church, Vernon Parish, Louisiana in 1870. He relocated to Burke, Texas to be near his brother Rev. Henry Dawson Wright, Pastor of Ryan Chapel Church, Burke (Diboll) , Texas. Rev. Isaac Edward Wright died in 1873, age 36 years, Angelina County, Texas. Martha Ellen Henderson was born September 28, 1838, in Mississippi, and died January 30, 1900 in Angelina County, Texas where they lived. They are buried at Ryan Chapel Cemetery, Burke, Angelina County, Texas. Isaac's brother Rev. Henry Dawson Wright was the first Pastor of Ryan Chapel.. Rev. Isaac Wright was a Methodist-Episcopal Minister and farmer.
Pvt. Co E, Borders Regiment Texas Mounted Calvary, CSA, in Civil War.
Dick Wright's five brothers were:
1. Rev. John "Wesley" Wright, died 1902 Falls County, Texas.
2. Robert Henry Wright died age 12 in 1873, the same year as his Father
Isaac Edward Wright.
3. Napolean Columbus "Dow" Wright
4. James W. Wright, died age 18.
5. Rev. Isaac Marvin Wright
Francis Asbury Wright was eight years old when his Father died at age 36, and Martha was left a young widow with her sons to raise. Martha and the sons worked the farm and eventually they became very poor without their Father to provide for them. Martha was a woman of faith, a devout Christian, and she taught her boys to be young men of character. John Wesley Wright and Isaac "Marvin" Wright grew up and were called to became Ministers as their Father before them.
Some of Martha's sons lived to have adult lives: "Dow" the eldest son, Wesley, Dick, and Marvin. Dick and his brother Marvin Wright rode from Angelina County to Sabine County, about 50 miles to visit friends and relatives, and they fell in love with their cousins, the sweet Wright sisters Cynthia "Sintha" Sarah Wright and Bessie Lynn Wright. Bessie was sixteen years and Cynthia was fourteen.
Twice widowed Grandmother Mary Ann Jackson Carter Gary Loggins (widow of Govy Gordon Gary) and (widow of William"Henry" Loggins) welcomed deceased Rev. John Wesley Wright and her deceased daughter Cynthia Elvira Wright's children to live with her. Cynthia Elvira had married Rev. Robert "Ed" Wright son of Rev. Robert Dickerson Wright who died from a fatal heart attack. Grandma Mary did not want her teen-age girls to marry at such young ages. On December 26, 1895, the day after Christmas Dick came riding on a borrowed horse to visit and Cynthia eloped with him. They took off on the horse and never looked back! They were married that very day by Dick Wright's minister brother in Angelina County. Marvin and Bessie ran away and married January 9, 1895. They lived with their Mother Martha (Henderson) Wright for the next few years. It took two years for Grandma Gary to reconcile with any of them and allow them to visit her. Bessie had her first child with Marvin by then and peace was restored within the family.
Dick and Cynthia Sarah Wright had two fine boys, George Wesley Wright and Isaac William Wright, called Willie, and they were happy together for the next almost forty-eight years until Dick passed away. Dick Wright, like many of his time was a farmer. Dick and Cynthia Sarah were devout Christians of the Methodist faith, and raised their sons in the Methodist Church. Cynthia Sarah taught Sunday School for years at the Methodist Church close to Centerview Cemetery which was located beside their family land. Their eldest son Willie Wright was a very serious minded person and he read his Bible daily most of his life from a young man. He told his son Elzie Wright that there was only one book worth reading, the Holy Bible.
Francis Asbury "Dick" Wright had a stroke on a springtime evening, April 26, 1943. Elzie Wright, a grandson, was about 10 years old. He remembers well the family gathering at the farmhouse, quietly talking and praying, a sleepless night as they lovingly cared for Grandpa Dick Wright. The next morning at 10:00am he quietly passed to eternal life.
Francis Asbury Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright were both buried near his land in Centerview Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. Their son Isaac Willie Wright and wife Etta Bea (Thomas) Wright and son George Wesley Wright and his wife Ruby were later buried on each side of his parents in Centerview Cemetery. Their children would live several more years, but life and dreams were changing with the wars and attitudes that were ahead for the next generation.
Marvin and Bessie Lynn were a happy family busy with Marvin preaching and farming, and with Bessie managing the household and raising their growing family. The physical strain of frequent pregnancies weakened Bessie Lynn. She gave birth to infant Elma Bessie December 17, 1913, their ninth born. February 2, 1914, Bessie was hanging the wash outdoors to dry on the clothesline when she began hemorrhaging and died. Marvin Wright had his beloved Bessie buried in Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas, where her parents Rev. John Wesley Wright and Cynthia Elvira Wright were.
Rev. Marvin Wright was left with his children to raise and he devoted much time to them. A few years later in early 1918 he met a lovely school teacher Martha Augusta Palmore who came from Jones County, Mississippi to visit her brother Robert "Bob" Palmore. They were married September 22, 1918, on Martha Augusta Palmore's birthday. They became parents of seven children. Marvin passed away in 1939. Both are at rest in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. A strong generation was slowly going home. There would never again be the closeness this generation had as a family due to changes in living, in our culture and in our country.
Bio by Mary Wright Davies
Francis Asbury Wright, called "Dixie" when he was a young boy, and "Dick" when older, was born November 28, 1867, one of six sons born to Rev. Isaac Edward Wright and Martha Ellen Henderson. His father, Rev. Isaac Edward Wright was born to Lt. Col. Robert Dawson Wright and Eleanor Dickerson in 1836 in their log house in De Siard Bayou, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Rev. Edward Isaac Wright, a Minister was Pastor of Holly Grove Methodist Church, Vernon Parish, Louisiana in 1870. He relocated to Burke, Texas to be near his brother Rev. Henry Dawson Wright, Pastor of Ryan Chapel Church, Burke (Diboll) , Texas. Rev. Isaac Edward Wright died in 1873, age 36 years, Angelina County, Texas. Martha Ellen Henderson was born September 28, 1838, in Mississippi, and died January 30, 1900 in Angelina County, Texas where they lived. They are buried at Ryan Chapel Cemetery, Burke, Angelina County, Texas. Isaac's brother Rev. Henry Dawson Wright was the first Pastor of Ryan Chapel.. Rev. Isaac Wright was a Methodist-Episcopal Minister and farmer.
Pvt. Co E, Borders Regiment Texas Mounted Calvary, CSA, in Civil War.
Dick Wright's five brothers were:
1. Rev. John "Wesley" Wright, died 1902 Falls County, Texas.
2. Robert Henry Wright died age 12 in 1873, the same year as his Father
Isaac Edward Wright.
3. Napolean Columbus "Dow" Wright
4. James W. Wright, died age 18.
5. Rev. Isaac Marvin Wright
Francis Asbury Wright was eight years old when his Father died at age 36, and Martha was left a young widow with her sons to raise. Martha and the sons worked the farm and eventually they became very poor without their Father to provide for them. Martha was a woman of faith, a devout Christian, and she taught her boys to be young men of character. John Wesley Wright and Isaac "Marvin" Wright grew up and were called to became Ministers as their Father before them.
Some of Martha's sons lived to have adult lives: "Dow" the eldest son, Wesley, Dick, and Marvin. Dick and his brother Marvin Wright rode from Angelina County to Sabine County, about 50 miles to visit friends and relatives, and they fell in love with their cousins, the sweet Wright sisters Cynthia "Sintha" Sarah Wright and Bessie Lynn Wright. Bessie was sixteen years and Cynthia was fourteen.
Twice widowed Grandmother Mary Ann Jackson Carter Gary Loggins (widow of Govy Gordon Gary) and (widow of William"Henry" Loggins) welcomed deceased Rev. John Wesley Wright and her deceased daughter Cynthia Elvira Wright's children to live with her. Cynthia Elvira had married Rev. Robert "Ed" Wright son of Rev. Robert Dickerson Wright who died from a fatal heart attack. Grandma Mary did not want her teen-age girls to marry at such young ages. On December 26, 1895, the day after Christmas Dick came riding on a borrowed horse to visit and Cynthia eloped with him. They took off on the horse and never looked back! They were married that very day by Dick Wright's minister brother in Angelina County. Marvin and Bessie ran away and married January 9, 1895. They lived with their Mother Martha (Henderson) Wright for the next few years. It took two years for Grandma Gary to reconcile with any of them and allow them to visit her. Bessie had her first child with Marvin by then and peace was restored within the family.
Dick and Cynthia Sarah Wright had two fine boys, George Wesley Wright and Isaac William Wright, called Willie, and they were happy together for the next almost forty-eight years until Dick passed away. Dick Wright, like many of his time was a farmer. Dick and Cynthia Sarah were devout Christians of the Methodist faith, and raised their sons in the Methodist Church. Cynthia Sarah taught Sunday School for years at the Methodist Church close to Centerview Cemetery which was located beside their family land. Their eldest son Willie Wright was a very serious minded person and he read his Bible daily most of his life from a young man. He told his son Elzie Wright that there was only one book worth reading, the Holy Bible.
Francis Asbury "Dick" Wright had a stroke on a springtime evening, April 26, 1943. Elzie Wright, a grandson, was about 10 years old. He remembers well the family gathering at the farmhouse, quietly talking and praying, a sleepless night as they lovingly cared for Grandpa Dick Wright. The next morning at 10:00am he quietly passed to eternal life.
Francis Asbury Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright were both buried near his land in Centerview Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. Their son Isaac Willie Wright and wife Etta Bea (Thomas) Wright and son George Wesley Wright and his wife Ruby were later buried on each side of his parents in Centerview Cemetery. Their children would live several more years, but life and dreams were changing with the wars and attitudes that were ahead for the next generation.
Marvin and Bessie Lynn were a happy family busy with Marvin preaching and farming, and with Bessie managing the household and raising their growing family. The physical strain of frequent pregnancies weakened Bessie Lynn. She gave birth to infant Elma Bessie December 17, 1913, their ninth born. February 2, 1914, Bessie was hanging the wash outdoors to dry on the clothesline when she began hemorrhaging and died. Marvin Wright had his beloved Bessie buried in Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas, where her parents Rev. John Wesley Wright and Cynthia Elvira Wright were.
Rev. Marvin Wright was left with his children to raise and he devoted much time to them. A few years later in early 1918 he met a lovely school teacher Martha Augusta Palmore who came from Jones County, Mississippi to visit her brother Robert "Bob" Palmore. They were married September 22, 1918, on Martha Augusta Palmore's birthday. They became parents of seven children. Marvin passed away in 1939. Both are at rest in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. A strong generation was slowly going home. There would never again be the closeness this generation had as a family due to changes in living, in our culture and in our country.
Bio by Mary Wright Davies
Francis Asbury Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright
Francis Asbury Wright, called "Dixie" when he was a young boy, and "Dick" when older, was born November 28, 1867, one of six sons born to Rev. Isaac Edward Wright and Martha Ellen Henderson. His father, Rev. Isaac Edward Wright was born to Lt. Col. Robert Dawson Wright and Eleanor Dickerson in 1836 in their log house in De Siard Bayou, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Rev. Edward Isaac Wright, a Minister was Pastor of Holly Grove Methodist Church, Vernon Parish, Louisiana in 1870. He relocated to Burke, Texas to be near his brother Rev. Henry Dawson Wright, Pastor of Ryan Chapel Church, Burke (Diboll) , Texas. Rev. Isaac Edward Wright died in 1873, age 36 years, Angelina County, Texas. Martha Ellen Henderson was born September 28, 1838, in Mississippi, and died January 30, 1900 in Angelina County, Texas where they lived. They are buried at Ryan Chapel Cemetery, Burke, Angelina County, Texas. Isaac's brother Rev. Henry Dawson Wright was the first Pastor of Ryan Chapel.. Rev. Isaac Wright was a Methodist-Episcopal Minister and farmer.
Pvt. Co E, Borders Regiment Texas Mounted Calvary, CSA, in Civil War.
Dick Wright's five brothers were:
1. Rev. John "Wesley" Wright, died 1902 Falls County, Texas.
2. Robert Henry Wright died age 12 in 1873, the same year as his Father
Isaac Edward Wright.
3. Napolean Columbus "Dow" Wright
4. James W. Wright, died age 18.
5. Rev. Isaac Marvin Wright
Francis Asbury Wright was eight years old when his Father died at age 36, and Martha was left a young widow with her sons to raise. Martha and the sons worked the farm and eventually they became very poor without their Father to provide for them. Martha was a woman of faith, a devout Christian, and she taught her boys to be young men of character. John Wesley Wright and Isaac "Marvin" Wright grew up and were called to became Ministers as their Father before them.
Some of Martha's sons lived to have adult lives: "Dow" the eldest son, Wesley, Dick, and Marvin. Dick and his brother Marvin Wright rode from Angelina County to Sabine County, about 50 miles to visit friends and relatives, and they fell in love with their cousins, the sweet Wright sisters Cynthia "Sintha" Sarah Wright and Bessie Lynn Wright. Bessie was sixteen years and Cynthia was fourteen.
Twice widowed Grandmother Mary Ann Jackson Carter Gary Loggins (widow of Govy Gordon Gary) and (widow of William"Henry" Loggins) welcomed deceased Rev. John Wesley Wright and her deceased daughter Cynthia Elvira Wright's children to live with her. Cynthia Elvira had married Rev. Robert "Ed" Wright son of Rev. Robert Dickerson Wright who died from a fatal heart attack. Grandma Mary did not want her teen-age girls to marry at such young ages. On December 26, 1895, the day after Christmas Dick came riding on a borrowed horse to visit and Cynthia eloped with him. They took off on the horse and never looked back! They were married that very day by Dick Wright's minister brother in Angelina County. Marvin and Bessie ran away and married January 9, 1895. They lived with their Mother Martha (Henderson) Wright for the next few years. It took two years for Grandma Gary to reconcile with any of them and allow them to visit her. Bessie had her first child with Marvin by then and peace was restored within the family.
Dick and Cynthia Sarah Wright had two fine boys, George Wesley Wright and Isaac William Wright, called Willie, and they were happy together for the next almost forty-eight years until Dick passed away. Dick Wright, like many of his time was a farmer. Dick and Cynthia Sarah were devout Christians of the Methodist faith, and raised their sons in the Methodist Church. Cynthia Sarah taught Sunday School for years at the Methodist Church close to Centerview Cemetery which was located beside their family land. Their eldest son Willie Wright was a very serious minded person and he read his Bible daily most of his life from a young man. He told his son Elzie Wright that there was only one book worth reading, the Holy Bible.
Francis Asbury "Dick" Wright had a stroke on a springtime evening, April 26, 1943. Elzie Wright, a grandson, was about 10 years old. He remembers well the family gathering at the farmhouse, quietly talking and praying, a sleepless night as they lovingly cared for Grandpa Dick Wright. The next morning at 10:00am he quietly passed to eternal life.
Francis Asbury Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright were both buried near his land in Centerview Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. Their son Isaac Willie Wright and wife Etta Bea (Thomas) Wright and son George Wesley Wright and his wife Ruby were later buried on each side of his parents in Centerview Cemetery. Their children would live several more years, but life and dreams were changing with the wars and attitudes that were ahead for the next generation.
Marvin and Bessie Lynn were a happy family busy with Marvin preaching and farming, and with Bessie managing the household and raising their growing family. The physical strain of frequent pregnancies weakened Bessie Lynn. She gave birth to infant Elma Bessie December 17, 1913, their ninth born. February 2, 1914, Bessie was hanging the wash outdoors to dry on the clothesline when she began hemorrhaging and died. Marvin Wright had his beloved Bessie buried in Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas, where her parents Rev. John Wesley Wright and Cynthia Elvira Wright were.
Rev. Marvin Wright was left with his children to raise and he devoted much time to them. A few years later in early 1918 he met a lovely school teacher Martha Augusta Palmore who came from Jones County, Mississippi to visit her brother Robert "Bob" Palmore. They were married September 22, 1918, on Martha Augusta Palmore's birthday. They became parents of seven children. Marvin passed away in 1939. Both are at rest in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. A strong generation was slowly going home. There would never again be the closeness this generation had as a family due to changes in living, in our culture and in our country.
Bio by Mary Wright Davies
Francis Asbury Wright, called "Dixie" when he was a young boy, and "Dick" when older, was born November 28, 1867, one of six sons born to Rev. Isaac Edward Wright and Martha Ellen Henderson. His father, Rev. Isaac Edward Wright was born to Lt. Col. Robert Dawson Wright and Eleanor Dickerson in 1836 in their log house in De Siard Bayou, Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Rev. Edward Isaac Wright, a Minister was Pastor of Holly Grove Methodist Church, Vernon Parish, Louisiana in 1870. He relocated to Burke, Texas to be near his brother Rev. Henry Dawson Wright, Pastor of Ryan Chapel Church, Burke (Diboll) , Texas. Rev. Isaac Edward Wright died in 1873, age 36 years, Angelina County, Texas. Martha Ellen Henderson was born September 28, 1838, in Mississippi, and died January 30, 1900 in Angelina County, Texas where they lived. They are buried at Ryan Chapel Cemetery, Burke, Angelina County, Texas. Isaac's brother Rev. Henry Dawson Wright was the first Pastor of Ryan Chapel.. Rev. Isaac Wright was a Methodist-Episcopal Minister and farmer.
Pvt. Co E, Borders Regiment Texas Mounted Calvary, CSA, in Civil War.
Dick Wright's five brothers were:
1. Rev. John "Wesley" Wright, died 1902 Falls County, Texas.
2. Robert Henry Wright died age 12 in 1873, the same year as his Father
Isaac Edward Wright.
3. Napolean Columbus "Dow" Wright
4. James W. Wright, died age 18.
5. Rev. Isaac Marvin Wright
Francis Asbury Wright was eight years old when his Father died at age 36, and Martha was left a young widow with her sons to raise. Martha and the sons worked the farm and eventually they became very poor without their Father to provide for them. Martha was a woman of faith, a devout Christian, and she taught her boys to be young men of character. John Wesley Wright and Isaac "Marvin" Wright grew up and were called to became Ministers as their Father before them.
Some of Martha's sons lived to have adult lives: "Dow" the eldest son, Wesley, Dick, and Marvin. Dick and his brother Marvin Wright rode from Angelina County to Sabine County, about 50 miles to visit friends and relatives, and they fell in love with their cousins, the sweet Wright sisters Cynthia "Sintha" Sarah Wright and Bessie Lynn Wright. Bessie was sixteen years and Cynthia was fourteen.
Twice widowed Grandmother Mary Ann Jackson Carter Gary Loggins (widow of Govy Gordon Gary) and (widow of William"Henry" Loggins) welcomed deceased Rev. John Wesley Wright and her deceased daughter Cynthia Elvira Wright's children to live with her. Cynthia Elvira had married Rev. Robert "Ed" Wright son of Rev. Robert Dickerson Wright who died from a fatal heart attack. Grandma Mary did not want her teen-age girls to marry at such young ages. On December 26, 1895, the day after Christmas Dick came riding on a borrowed horse to visit and Cynthia eloped with him. They took off on the horse and never looked back! They were married that very day by Dick Wright's minister brother in Angelina County. Marvin and Bessie ran away and married January 9, 1895. They lived with their Mother Martha (Henderson) Wright for the next few years. It took two years for Grandma Gary to reconcile with any of them and allow them to visit her. Bessie had her first child with Marvin by then and peace was restored within the family.
Dick and Cynthia Sarah Wright had two fine boys, George Wesley Wright and Isaac William Wright, called Willie, and they were happy together for the next almost forty-eight years until Dick passed away. Dick Wright, like many of his time was a farmer. Dick and Cynthia Sarah were devout Christians of the Methodist faith, and raised their sons in the Methodist Church. Cynthia Sarah taught Sunday School for years at the Methodist Church close to Centerview Cemetery which was located beside their family land. Their eldest son Willie Wright was a very serious minded person and he read his Bible daily most of his life from a young man. He told his son Elzie Wright that there was only one book worth reading, the Holy Bible.
Francis Asbury "Dick" Wright had a stroke on a springtime evening, April 26, 1943. Elzie Wright, a grandson, was about 10 years old. He remembers well the family gathering at the farmhouse, quietly talking and praying, a sleepless night as they lovingly cared for Grandpa Dick Wright. The next morning at 10:00am he quietly passed to eternal life.
Francis Asbury Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright were both buried near his land in Centerview Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. Their son Isaac Willie Wright and wife Etta Bea (Thomas) Wright and son George Wesley Wright and his wife Ruby were later buried on each side of his parents in Centerview Cemetery. Their children would live several more years, but life and dreams were changing with the wars and attitudes that were ahead for the next generation.
Marvin and Bessie Lynn were a happy family busy with Marvin preaching and farming, and with Bessie managing the household and raising their growing family. The physical strain of frequent pregnancies weakened Bessie Lynn. She gave birth to infant Elma Bessie December 17, 1913, their ninth born. February 2, 1914, Bessie was hanging the wash outdoors to dry on the clothesline when she began hemorrhaging and died. Marvin Wright had his beloved Bessie buried in Wood Cemetery, San Augustine County, Texas, where her parents Rev. John Wesley Wright and Cynthia Elvira Wright were.
Rev. Marvin Wright was left with his children to raise and he devoted much time to them. A few years later in early 1918 he met a lovely school teacher Martha Augusta Palmore who came from Jones County, Mississippi to visit her brother Robert "Bob" Palmore. They were married September 22, 1918, on Martha Augusta Palmore's birthday. They became parents of seven children. Marvin passed away in 1939. Both are at rest in Evergreen Cemetery, Lipan, Hood County, Texas. A strong generation was slowly going home. There would never again be the closeness this generation had as a family due to changes in living, in our culture and in our country.
Bio by Mary Wright Davies
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Francis Asbury Wright and Cynthia Sarah Wright
