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    1. Re: [TNFENTRE-L] Joshua Foster WRIGHT
    2. I think I may have talked to you a long time ago, but just in case, this is all the info I have.........my main line is the Choate/Conatser family there in Fentress County: From the book "History of Fentress Co., TN": (pg 106) Joshua Wright came with his family from VA and settled at Clarkrange, in the southern part of the county. He was probably the first settler in that region. He blazed out a way for the road from 2 miles south of Jamestown to the Bledsoe stand. He was a farmer and stockraiser. He entered several large tracts of land in Overton and in Fentress counties. He is said to have controlled at one time over one hundred thousand acres of land. He had two sons--Mitch and Wilson L. Wright. The Wrights in Fentress Co. are generally the descendants of Wilson...... Mitchell's descendants having left the county. On Fentress Co. list, Sabrina K. Ide had Joshua as being born in Randolph Co., NC (The following info came from Max Brown in Ringgold), Joshua Foster Wright married Sarah Lamar 1803 in NC, came to Overton & Fentress area with Means family. Abigail Wright, dau of J.F. & Sarah married Pleasant Howard and lived in Morgan, Cumberland and Overton Counties. Not sure they moved or county lines moved. Pleasant was killed after the Civil War by persons unknown and date unknown. Bev Casey

    04/07/2006 08:51:01