This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wright Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BGB.2ACI/475 Message Board Post: Deodatus E. Wright Birth: Apr. 27, 1812 New York, USA Death: Oct. 20, 1900 Burial - Wright Cemetery - Parma The info below I recently learned from a posting here. I am hoping someone might be able to look for a death notice for Deodatus. Hoping to find names of siblings - as my goal is to prove he was brother to my great grandmother, Margery. Info previously posted: Namesake of Wright Cemetery, Wright country School, and Wright neighborhood. Wife Serena. The Wright Schoolhouse is a State of Michigan Historic Site and there is a marker in front of the school along M-99 at Comdon Road. The school closed in June, 1967. Deodatus' father Frederick and brother Frederick Jr. had settled land in Parma Township in 1836. Deodatus married Serena Fox on October 12, 1836 in New York. The couple came to Michigan in April, 1839 to the home of the Frederick Wright Sr. and Jr. on the Territorial Road, now known as Comdon Road in Parma Township, Jackson County. Deodatus and Serena had ten children. A biography of the Wright family (written in 1908)appears in the January 26, 1985 issue of the Journal of Albion, page 5.