In The Bishop's Boys, by Tom Crouch (1989 W W Norton Co), the author devotes several pages to the Wright ancestry. The father of Wilbur & Orville Wright (not to mention Reuchlin, Lorin and Katherine, and two infant twins) was Milton Wright, who apparently was highly interested in genealogy. On p. 21, he is quoted as saying: "Dan Wright (my father) was the third son of Dan Wright, who was the third child of Benoni Wright, who was the tenth child of Samuel Wright, who was the fifth child of James Wright, who was the second son of Samuel Wright, our first American ancestor of the name, who was born in England about the year 1600, settled at Springfield, Massachusetts in 1637 or before, less than twenty years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at Plymouth Rock." The family found itself in Connecticut and Vermont before joining brother Porter Wright's family in the Gennessee Valley of NY in 1813. But on p. 11: "The following year, the entire Wright clan--the elder Dan, his wife Sarah, and their four children Asahel, Porter, Dan and Eliza--pulled up stakes and moved west. They traveled overland to Olean, PA, then rode a flatboat down the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati. After a quick survey of available land, the family settled on a farm near Centerville, eight miles south of Dayton..." Which would have convinced me they were always in Montgomery County, Ohio, if the next two pages weren't devoted to the emigration of Dan and Catherine Reeder Wright and their two sons, Samuel & Harvey on to Rush County, Indiana. Four more children were born in Indiana, including Sarah (1824),Milton (1828), William (1832) and Kate (1834, died at birth). There's a good deal of detail in this chapter about Rush County in its frontier days. When Milton was 12, his father purchased a farm in Orange Twp, Fayette County, IN. The family's religious orientation isn't clear in skimming this chapter. Each of Catherine Reeder Wright's surviving sons chose the church as a career. She was Presbyterian but attended the nearby Methodist Episcopal. Son Harvey "grew up to be a Primitive Baptist minister." Son Samuel died of typhoid before completing his studies. Son William became a United Brethren preacher. And Milton, father of the famous Wright Brothers, joined the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. I think that may be the fancy name for United Brethren, associated with Otterbein. The fact that the author refers to UB'ers as "the Brethren" tends to confuse me. After Milton's marriage to Susan Koerner, they moved around enough that I lost track. Marion, Dublin, Williamsburg, New Castle, Millville, Hartsville, Grant County..... I think that at one point the family lived in Iowa. Anyway, it all sounds possible that they may have kinfolk in Indiana. At our house, we were much more interested in Reuchlin Wright, who settled on a farm near Tonganoxie, KS. His daughter married a McLouth banker, and my mom, as a high school student, sometimes babysat for their kids. JT **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)

I have a Nancy Tennessee Keedy who married a Wright in Orange County, IN. The Keedys were members of the Lost River Church. (Now Liberty Christian Church). I would imagine the Wrights were also. Alice ----- Original Message ----- From: <KTompk7744@aol.com> To: <brethren@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [BRE] Wright Family > In The Bishop's Boys, by Tom Crouch (1989 W W Norton Co), the author > devotes > several pages to the Wright ancestry. > > The father of Wilbur & Orville Wright (not to mention Reuchlin, Lorin and > Katherine, and two infant twins) was Milton Wright, who apparently was > highly > interested in genealogy. On p. 21, he is quoted as saying: > > "Dan Wright (my father) was the third son of Dan Wright, > who was the third child of Benoni Wright, who was the > tenth child of Samuel Wright, who was the fifth child of > James Wright, who was the second son of Samuel > Wright, our first American ancestor of the name, who > was born in England about the year 1600, settled at > Springfield, Massachusetts in 1637 or before, less than > twenty years after the landing of the Pilgrim Fathers at > Plymouth Rock." > > The family found itself in Connecticut and Vermont before joining brother > Porter Wright's family in the Gennessee Valley of NY in 1813. But on p. > 11: > > "The following year, the entire Wright clan--the elder Dan, > his wife Sarah, and their four children Asahel, Porter, > Dan and Eliza--pulled up stakes and moved west. They > traveled overland to Olean, PA, then rode a flatboat down > the Allegheny and Ohio rivers to Cincinnati. After a > quick survey of available land, the family settled on a > farm near Centerville, eight miles south of Dayton..." > > Which would have convinced me they were always in Montgomery County, Ohio, > if the next two pages weren't devoted to the emigration of Dan and > Catherine > Reeder Wright and their two sons, Samuel & Harvey on to Rush County, > Indiana. > Four more children were born in Indiana, including Sarah (1824),Milton > (1828), William (1832) and Kate (1834, died at birth). There's a good > deal of > detail in this chapter about Rush County in its frontier days. When > Milton > was 12, his father purchased a farm in Orange Twp, Fayette County, IN. > The > family's religious orientation isn't clear in skimming this chapter. > Each > of Catherine Reeder Wright's surviving sons chose the church as a career. > She was Presbyterian but attended the nearby Methodist Episcopal. Son > Harvey > "grew up to be a Primitive Baptist minister." Son Samuel died of > typhoid > before completing his studies. Son William became a United Brethren > preacher. And Milton, father of the famous Wright Brothers, joined the > Church of > the United Brethren in Christ. I think that may be the fancy name for > United > Brethren, associated with Otterbein. The fact that the author refers to > UB'ers as "the Brethren" tends to confuse me. > > After Milton's marriage to Susan Koerner, they moved around enough that I > lost track. Marion, Dublin, Williamsburg, New Castle, Millville, > Hartsville, > Grant County..... I think that at one point the family lived in Iowa. > > Anyway, it all sounds possible that they may have kinfolk in Indiana. > > At our house, we were much more interested in Reuchlin Wright, who settled > on a farm near Tonganoxie, KS. His daughter married a McLouth banker, > and my > mom, as a high school student, sometimes babysat for their kids. > > JT > > > > > > > **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for > fuel-efficient used cars. > (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007) > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > Support Our Sponsoring Agency > The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) > For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:McAdamsr@hotmail.com > ------------------------ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> I have a Nancy Tennessee Keedy who married a Wright in Orange County, IN. > The Keedys were members of the Lost River Church. (Now Liberty Christian > Church). I would imagine the Wrights were also. > Alice > I'm still working on the several families in southern Indiana - Actually the Wrights lived east of the Lost River Church/Liberty Church (at Orleans, Orange Co IN), over in Washington Co IN - Amos, his son John, and his brother, Philbert, might have been early Brethren from the Uwharrie (Rowan Co NC), but they went quickly with the "Revival" (or as they called it "the Reformation") and formed the Blue River Baptist Association, which then led the "Brethren Association" (including the Lost River Church) into the "Revival" and the Disciples of Christ Denomination. Salem IN (Washington Co) was along the same "Buffalo Trace" as the Lost River Church (Orange Co), and the Olive Branch Chuch (Clark Co), and not too far from the White River Church (now Old Union Christian Church)(in Lawrence Co) - all of whom went Disicples. This occurred several years after Elder Adam Hostetler, of Mt Eden KY, was put on the Ban by the Annual Meeting Elders. (He then moved to the Olive Branch Church.) Included in this is that the "boy preacher", Joseph Hostetler (son of Abraham Hostetler and Agnes Hardman, nephew of Elder Adam Hostetler) spoke to Annual Meeting in 1821, and persuaded them that a person immersion just once, was going to heaven as surely as those immersed three times (the Brethren "Trine Immersion") [he had discussions with Alexander Campbell (Campbellites/Disciples of Christ)]. This was rejected by the Elders of Annual Meeting in 1826, and led to the above Ban - and everything that followed! Merle C Rummel