Wright Family in Stith Valley, Meade County, Kentucky

Courtesy of Joseph Mac Wright 2000.  Correspondence with Phillip Stith -- more on the Wright Stith connection.
Back to Stith Valley front page.              More Wright correspondence.

Five Wright Brothers came from England to Virginia; sons of Martin Wright
1.  Riley m Osborne  3 children
     1. Liza m Brown
     2. Margaret  m Nall
     3. Lindy  m French
2.  Poaste  never married
3. Harve  m Bell Board  1 child
     1. Joe
4. Stanley  ?
5. Gilbert Dempsy Wright d March 15, 1878  m 1st Hester Ann Stith (dau Griffin Stith) 2 children
        1.  Emma   m Charley Stith 5 children
             1.  Charley Gray
             2.  Boone
             3. Grace
             4. Bess
             5. Ed
        2.  Arthur  m  1 child
             1. Charlie
       Gilbert m 2nd Nancy Elizabeth Stith on March 1, 1865; 8 children
              Nancy b July 29, 1843; d Nov 10, 1910; daughter of  Henry Stith and Mary Ann Stith
         3.  Eudora Ann b Jan 20, 1868
         4.  Mary Lee b Dec 2, 1869
         5.  Martha J. b Dec 2, 1869
         6.  Lucy Jane  b Sept 10, 1871
         7.  Thomas Riley b Sept 10, 1871
         8.  Joseph Henry b Dec 4, 1874   m Effie Rachel Hughes Sept 3, 1902  8 children
               Joseph buried in Stith Valley; Effie Rachel b May 13, 1885
                1. Robert Henry b May 11, 1903
                2. Arvin Hughes b Sept 26, 1906
                3. Bessie Lee b Jan 6, 1910
                4. Eva Mae b July 9, 1914
                5. Shellie Witt b July 27, 1917
                6. Joseph Mac b May 3, 1919
                7. Nettie Rachel b May 6, 1924
                8. Clara Frances b Aug 11, 1927
         9.  Lona Catherine b Oct 12, 1876   m 1st Benjamin Hughes (then divorced) 1 child
                1. Henry Robinson Hughes (This was the Henry Hughes who worked for John Williams for many years.)
              Lona m 2nd William (Will) Thomas Hughes  1 child  (William and Benjamin were brothers to Effie Rachel)
                Lona and William buried in Indiana
                2. Susie
         10. Gilbert Robinson b July 27, 1878; d ~ 1950; m 1st Lillie Mae Hughes  1 child
                buried in Buck Grove Cemetery
                1. Earl Edward Wright 4 children
                     1.Laverne Wright married Pius Whelan 4 children
                            1. Mary Lillian Whelan
                            2. Joseph Earl Whelan
                            3. Stephen Woodrow Whelan
                            4. Catherine Anne Whelan
                            5. Donna Michelle Whelan
                      2. Ruth
                      3. Betty
                      4. Earl Jr.
                Gilbert m 2nd Effie Rachel Hughes  no children  (m after death of Joseph Henry Wright)

Three more Wright Brothers also came; cousins to the five; don't know father's name
6. Mark m Nannie Yates 2 children
      1. Fronie m Miller 5 children
            1. Luther twin
            2. Louise twin
            3. Martin
            4. Guy
            5. Irene
       2. Hugh  2 children
             1. Ersie  m Vertreese
             2. Ellen  m Long
7. Silas     m Lissie ______  
       1. Mark
       2. Lucy
       3. Dee  m George Chaney
       4. Crit   never married
       5. Lucy  m James Ritchie
       6. Mack
       7. M. C. Lina m Dan Thomas
8. Robert m Mary Hughes  (Mary was sister of Effie and Lillie Hughes)

The above provided by Joe Mac Wright January 2000.

Joe Mac also notes:

" The house that my grandmother Nancy Stith Wright lived in was a large log house.   It burned while she was still living.  the house that you and I remember as 'The Uncle Gill house' was built mistly by neighbors.

" The Joseph H. Wright family first lived with his mother Nancy.  Their first child was born there in 1903.  Sometime between 1903 and 1906 they bought on what is known as Sandridge, Hardin County."