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Dear Cousin,
Received your packet o.k. and was I ever glad to
get this information! I had been to the Archives and
Montgomery County Courthouse several times, but never
found this much information on Meredith Wright.
These papers tell me a few things about the family
I have wondered about.
To start with, his will told me he (Meredith)
died in 1860, his wife Jane died in 1867, Helen
living in 1868, Jane her sister was in school in 1868
(I will discuss Jane, the sister, later), Shady Ann
and Zackariah in school from 1865-1867. This means
that Shady Ann was living and maybe not married in
1867. Louisa Wright Parker died about 1863. Her
children received her share of Meredith's estate in
1808. James A. Wright moved to Lee County, Ala.
about 1868. Meredith Wright, Jr. was living in
Montgomery County, Ala. in 1869. No other record on
him, so he must have moved from Montgomery County by
1870 because he is not on the census roll in 1870.
Henry Wright died after 1860 and before 1868. He
was a minor. Llewellyn, Zachariah living in
Montgomery County in 1868. Helen was living in
Montgomery County, Ala in 1868. She married about
1868 and moved
to Pike County. We believe she died in childbirth in
1869. She could have been buried in Pike County or
wherever the Landrums lived, or she could have been
back in Montgomery County among her kinfolks. Shady
Ann married S. K. Landrum in 1866. S. H. Landrum
bought 160 Acres from the Meredith Wright estate.
Shady Ann and Mr. Landrum were supposed to have
to Lee County and she had a child named Shady, but
our records show that she died after 1860, but
before 1868 Since Mr. Landrum bought the 160 Acres
in 1867 and died before 1868, I don't think she ever
moved to Lee County, Ala. Her husband, S. H.
Landrum, probably sold the 160 acres after she died
and moved to Lee County on his way to Atlanta.
Remember that James A. Wright, Shady Ann's brother,
had already moved to Lee County in 1868. Mary L.
Wright, a daughter of Meredith's married her 1st
cousin, David Fulton Wright. She died in 1855,
probably from childbirth. She left a child,
Caroline Elmira Wright, born in 1856. Caroline
married William F. McGee (1875). They lived in
Montgomery County, Ala, how long we don't know.
Armeticia Matilda Wright, a daughter of Meredith
was born in Georgia in 1836, married James Shaver of
Montgomery County, Ala. She died before 1860.
These are some of the best papers I have had the
pleasure of seeing. Please let me know if I should
return them or not. If you need them back, I have
the information I need from them.
I am sure you noticed in these court records a
note that Meredith held on Charlott Wright. This is
his sister who lived in Lincoln County,Georgia.The
agent for her was Francis Marion Wright, Meredith's
oldest son who lived in Lincoln County, Ga. This
is my Great Grandfather (and there is a story about
him I'11 discuss later). The J. B. or John Battle
Parker mentioned in t:he court records is the
husband of Louisa E. Wright,Meredith's daughter.
Allen Frazer, mentioned as an executor of
Meredith's estate, is his brother-in-law who married
Matilda Wright. They lived near the Meredith
Wrights. Llewellyn Evans, also mentioned as an
executor of Meredith's estate, is also Meredith's
brother-in-law· He married Louisa Wright,
Meredith's sister. Alien Frazer, a brother-in-law
of Meredith's, was also the brother of Jane M.
Frazer, Meredith's wife. I should also mention that
Llewellyn Evans was married first to Permelia
Wright, Louisa Wright's sister and another sister of
Meredith's.
_These are names that appear in the Court Records.
They are all kin to the Wrights by marriage; John W.
Eubanks; W. J. Frazer, William Chaney, Sheppard
Guice, J. F. Frazier,A.L. Guice, N. A. Evans;
J. B. and A. W. Townsend.
Meredith's daughter, Jane Louizant was born about 1843 in Ala. She
grew up here in Pine Level, Ala., attended school as a teenager. She
was not a child that could learn very well because of a slight mental
condition. She was rocking in a chair one day and the chair flipped
over and she was burned on her head and upper body. This left her
very confused for the rest of her life. She was brought up in the
Baptist Church there in Pine Level and in her confusion she thought
she was a preacher. She would preach to anyone who would listen. It
was said that she was a very good Bible student. Self-taught. With
most of her family dead there in Pine Level, she was moved to Lee
County, Ala. by her brother Zack. In early 1870, Zack and his brother
Llewellyn moved from Lee County, Ala to Lincoln County, Ga. and
some farmland from their brother Francis Marion. Here they married,
reared a family, and died. Sometime about 1873, Francis Marion went
to Lee County and bought 1500 acres for his family there to live on,
but he carried his sister Jane back to Georgia with him because he
said that she wasn't being taken care of. So Jane lived with her
brother Zachary until Zack died in 1901. Zack had such a large family
(11 children, and his wife had a five year old) that Jane moved and
lived with her brother Francis Marion and moved to Texas with Francis
Marion when he moved his family near Timpson, Texas in 1902. He moved
near his daughter Myrtis Wright Rhodes (my grandmother). He lived
here until his death in 1908. About 1920, his wife sold the farm in
Shelby County, Texas and moved back to Lincoln County, Ga. She lived
with her children here until her death in 1933· The reason I know so
many of the facts about Jane Wright is the stories told me by my
grandmother. Jane was her aunt. Also, Francis Marion used to send one
of his family to my grandmother's with a horse to bring my mother and
her sister, who were quite young, to his house for a visit. My mother
used to say that when she saw them coming with an extra horse, she
knew she was going to grandpaw's house. Also, I used to correspond
with a 96 year old lady (a daughter of Zack Wright). She used to tell
me how Jane would preach to her and her brother and sisters. Jane had
her eyesight up to the time she was about 57 years old. Then, I guess,
she lost her eyesight to cataracts. She was blind until she died in
1915.
The story is told about my great grandfather, Francis Marion
Wright, of how he was left with his aunt and uncle, Meredith's brother
and sister. The Wrights settled in Lincoln and Wilkes County, Ga.
about 1798. They were prosperous people and managed to accumulate
several thousand acres. This was Nathan and his brother John Wright.
John sold to Nathan and during the Civil War, and before, there were a
hundred or more slaves working the fields. Nathans son Meredith, with
his wife and other members of the family, left Georgia going to Ala.
in about 1838. Nathan's son Nathan,Jr.,his sister Charlott were not
married and were both school teachers. They asked Meredith to leave
Francis Marion, who was about six years old, with them and in return
they would will Francis Marion their holding in the Old Wright place
that the brother and sister had inherited from their father. These
two people were good to their word and when they died they willed
their holdings to Francis Marion. Francis Marion worked the farm with
the help of slaves until after the Civil War. After the war it became
difficult to work a place as large as the Wright Place, so Francis M.
began to sell off bits and pieces of his farm to meet living
and to pay the taxes. As I stated before, Francis M. sold several
acres to his two brothers and as his children married he would give
them enough land to make a living on. By 1902 he was down to about
160 acres. He had six girls and four boys left on the old farm living
around him. These children of Francis Marion's were all having babies
and Francis Maion's wife was trying to tend to the grandbabies.
Francis Marion got tired of all the time his wife was having to spend
with their children and their babies. He sold the last 160 acres of
the more then 2000 acres he had once owned and moved to Texas where he
only had one daughter living and she had already had her family, so
they didn't need to help with children. These are stories I have
collected over the years from different people. ,The story may vary
from time to time, but the theme is always about the same.
Again, I thank you for sending me ail these old
court records. I needed those to help put together
some more of the Meredith Wright Family. I just
found the famiiy by accident because no one in the
family knew where they had moved to when they left
Georgia. If you want these papers back, please let
me know. It's been nice talking with you about the
family and if I can be of help to you, please let me
know. If you find out anymore about Meredith or his
family, please let me know. Please send me your
geneology chart starting with Helen Wright Landrum on
through your family. I would like to include this
in my book.
Sincerely,
Veston N. Wheat
GGrandson of Francis Marion Wright
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