In a message dated 1/16/2006 4:38:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, deltalimemike@netscape.net writes: If I could talk to one ancestor it would be John S. Wright, who was buried in Magnolia Cemetery on 20 Oct 1882. He is my g-g-g-grandfather, and my brick wall. I would ask him where he was born, and who his parents and siblings were. "Yesterday morning the illness of Mr. Jno. S. Wright, noted in the CHRONICLE, terminated in his death. Mr. Wright was one of the most popular and progressive merchants of Augusta. He was among the first men to open a store on Warren Block, after which he became engaged in the grocery business on Broad. Subsequently be returned to the Cotton Row, and was engaged with Messrs. Josiah Sibley & Sons, and then with Messrs. Claghorn, Herring & Co. For the past six years be has been conducting the cotton business with Mr. Geo. W. Crane, and was successfully continuing that branch up to the time of his death. He was sixty-three years old, and was universally esteemed by his friends and associates. He will be buried to-day, at three o'clock from St. Paul's Church, with Masonic exercises." is from the 20 Oct 1882 issue of the Augusta Chronicle. If anyone has access to the sexton's records, the funeral home records, or his Masonic records, I would be deeply appreciative. David L. Moody USA Researching: Moody, Matkovich, Beckwith, Wright, Eve, La Pointe, MacKay http://homepage.mac.com/deltalimemike