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Submitted: 5/17/11 • Approved: 5/21/11 • Last Updated: 8/13/12 • R529549-G529549-S3
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Civil War Confederate
Feb. 7, 1826 - Apr. 16, 1901
Barbary
May 20, 1832 - Feb. 18, 1892
Isom M. Wright. Prominent among the successful and wealthy farmers of Benton County, Ark. , may be mentioned Mr. Wright, who is deserving of special mention. He was born, reared, educated and married in Alabama, the first event taking place in 1826, and the latter in December, 1847. His wife whose maiden name was Barbra Latham, was born in Alabama in the 20th of May, 1832, and by Mr. Wright became the mother of the following family: William A., James A., Celestia (wife of E. H. Pass), Elizabeth Jane (wife of Samuel Garrett), Henry W., E. L. and Isaac J. In 1850 Mr. Wright moved to Fannin County, Tex., and after residing there about seventeen years came to Benton County, Ark., in the autumn of 1867, where he has been engaged in tilling his valuable farm of 920 acres. He is a Democrat , and during the late war served a few months in the Confederate Army. His parents, William and Clarissa (self) Wright were born in North Carolina in 1800 and 1804, respectively. The father was reared in hi native state, and married in Alabama when he was about twenty-five years of age. He moved to Fannin County, Tex., in 1853, and there resided until his death in 1872. His wife died in Washington County, Ark., October 16, 1885. The following are their children: Isom M., Susan E (widow of J. F. Dabs), William Neton, Zina Catherine (wife of William Shaffin), Mary Adeline (wife of W.L. Gualtny), Jasper A., and Vina Jane (wife of Charles Johnson).
*Goodspeed Biographical and Historical Memoirs of NW Arkansas; Biographical Appendix, p 909; Benton Co., Pub. 1889
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