ATTENtion:LM Jenkins Could be related. Most of our 'Wrights" remained in W.VA. Let's put our heads together. Thought I got your address from a posting or maybe Vaughn @Pastsnoop. Here's my info from family records. Some dates missing. My father(age 80)remembers some of these people, and can help. James Wright(son of Emery, according to family memory,but father's name unverified by primary records. Mother Annie McPHearson married Emery(?) in Cumberland, Maryland..I found an Amos in the census in county at this time with children's names Oliver and Orvine(see folllowing): James Wright supposedly born at Bingano(?sp.) WVA, sometime around 1855 and died in 1932 in Wilsonburg buried in Greenlawn cemetery. James Wright married Fanny(Frances) Egner at Craigmoor, W. Va.:James and Fanny's children raised in Craigmoor and Wilsonburg, WVA.: 1.Dorsey Earl married Anna Stark: Children: Roselean, virginia, and betty 2. Mary married Clyde Van Pelt: children: Pat, Pauline, Bell, Marie, Lloyd, Bud 3. Dona married John Reynolds:children Jack and Mary Frances(moved to Ohio) 4. Lee- married Audrey McCarty:Children Leroy and Eugene 5. Rufus-married Gertrude Rice:Children raymond, Margarite, John D., Jimmie 6. Andrew-married Emma Morris:children William, thelma, carol(Ft. Thomas, Ky., my grandfather) 7. Daisy m. Billy Shears(can't read spelling)- had 20 children James Wright of Wilsonburg had brothers: 1. Oliver- married Annie Belle Plant. Their Children: Bess, Lilly, Mary, Russell, Neiles(sp.???) a. Bess m. a Calvin-children Lillain and Annie b. Lilly m. Guy Davis-Children Mary, Homer, James Charles William, Virginia c. Mary m. Tony Travato d. Russell m. Frieda last name? e. Neihes(sp.) m. Ethel Godfre children: Junior, Bernice, Leota f.Warden(sp.?)m. ethel Connors-children: James, Russell, Billy, JEan 2. Orvine(brother of James) don't know children 3. Sisters of James Wright were Becky m . Ed Sneed and Lummy First Cousins of James,Oliver,Orvine,Becky,and Lummy were: James Wright(another"james", fletcher Wright, and Marcus Wright.) all floating around same area in census at this time. haven't followed their families yet. Let me know what you think Kathy Wright Schear,Cincinnati,OH NSchear@aol.com