Re: wrights who were Cherokee Indians
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In reply to:
wrights who were Cherokee Indians
Marilyn Davis 11/03/05
Marilyn, I saw your posting and wanted to contact you.I am searching very desperately for a WRIGHT who married sometimes during the early 1840s and had a son named James N. Wright.This was probably in the Carroll and Paulding Counties of GA.What we are having trouble on is that this child, James Wright, grew up under the name of CHAMBERS; he was found living in the household who I think was his mother, Margaret Chambers, in 1850 Paulding Co., GA.The Chambers have grown up always being told that they were really Wrights and not Chambers. The Chambers family is now trying to find out who their Wright ancestor was; they have information that their ancestor tried to get Cherokee citizenship in the late 1890s due to what he says...his father was J. M. Wright and his father was a William Wright.He was rejected and did not get citizenship.Why I myself am writing is that the Chambers' DNA has matched a descendant of my GGG Grandfather, Jesse R. Wright who was in Caroll Co., GA in 1830 and then the family was moved to Paulding Co., GA, due to boundary changes.My Jesse R. Wright was in SC in 1810 through 1820.
If any of the following rings a bell with you will you please email me directly?
Thank you,
Ruby Wallace of Texas
The folowing from One World Tree; Ancestry.com
Contact: James Beaver, Jr.jbeaver @surry.net
Jack WRIGHT 1
Sex: M
Birth: ABT. 1760
Reference Number: 1795
Note: Starr, note A15; Tradition says that after a violent storm on the coast of South Carolina a baby was found on the beach, leashed to a spar. He was well clothed and the only word that he could articulate was "Jack" and upon being adopted by a family known as Wright, he was known as Jack Wright. He married Jenny Crittenden.
Marriage 1 Jennie CRITTENDEN b: ABT. 1772
Children
Sallie WRIGHT b: ABT. 1790
Delilah WRIGHT b: ABT. 1790
Lydia WRIGHT b: ABT. 1792
Mary WRIGHT b: ABT. 1796
Clarissa WRIGHT b: 25 OCT 1803
Melvina WRIGHT b: ABT. 1806
William WRIGHT b: ABT. 1808
Rebecca WRIGHT b: 1 JAN 1814
Eli WRIGHT b: ABT. 1816
Cornelius WRIGHT b: ABT. 1820
Sources:
Title: Starr
Author: Emmet Starr
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Media: Book
Page: 335