This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/RAC.2ACI/646.732.1.1 Message Board Post: I am Nolan Victor Signo Wright's niece by marriage (he was my aunt's third husband). Uncle Nolan's father was George Washington Wright and his mother was Ida Fae Durham (b. July 1884 and died 1910 from typhoid). Myrtle was George's second wife and there didn't seem to be too much harmony in the home. The two boys were sent to live with their grandparents (James and Georgia Durham). Mabel was sent to the house of a friend, William Love Whitfield and his wife Maude. She later married Charles Allen Spragins, Jr. of Wichita Falls TX and they had at least 2 boys (Charles III & Robert). She passed away 1992 in Dallas. When he was a teenager, Uncle Nolan left the farm and came to live for a short time with his father. It is my understanding George ran a real estate office and taylor shop...or the taylor shop was next door. Nolan ran the iron, pressing pleats in pants. He said the real action was out back where George ran a game of dice. Uncle Nolan didn't stay long. He went back to the farm for just a short stay and then starting hopping freights and moving across the country. He worked in a copper mine in Arizona, was a chaufer for an oil rich indian, cut ice in the lakes of Minnesota and was a harvest hand across Kansas and Nebraska. He'd read about Colorado while he was at school and when he got there, he worked for Public Service (electric company) selling lamps and exchanging sad irons for electric irons. This is how he met my aunt and her son. They married in 1934 and he stayed with Public Service until he retired as a sales manager. My aunt died in 1985 and her son followed in 1993. We brought Uncle Nolan here to Missouri in 2000. He left us in 2004 at the age of 98. We thought that if anyone could live to be 100 it would have been Uncle Nolan. He was clear, sassy and always interested in the people and world around him. He had contact with his brother until Elvin died. He was never sure what had happened to Mabel. They lost contact somewhere in the 60s. I have a picture of his mother, Ida Fae and at least one picture of the store his father ran. I also have pictures dating from a visit to Texas he and Aunt Lela made either in the late 30s or early 40s. In my research, a gentleman from the area says George Wahshington Wright's father was McQuincey Wright. Do you know if this is correct? The only information Uncle Nolan gave me about his father's family was the names of his brothers: Quince, Joe and Edward. I may have the names wrong or the relationships wrong. Quince may be my uncle's grandfather and not his uncle. Any information you may have would be welcome. Uncle Nolan was very special to us and I would like to know more about where he came from and his family.