WRIGHT Family Ancestors

In today`s post I am going to talk a little about my WRIGHT family ancestors. I actually have three different lines of the WRIGHT families connected to me. As you can imagine it has been quite chaos with me trying to figure out who connects to whom in my DNA matches.

My smallest WRIGHT connection comes from my Mother`s older sister. She married into the WRIGHT family. They are descendants of Jasper Newton WRIGHT and Laura Frances STONE of Arkansas and Bollinger County, Missouri area. I have several cousins from this line of WRIGHT`s.

My second line of WRIGHT`s comes from my Father`s side of the family. My Paternal 3rd Great Grandmother was Sara Catherine WRIGHT daughter of Hubbard WRIGHT & Massey FORD. She married my 3rd Great Grandfather Alexander Doc SMITH.

My Final WRIGHT connection and by far the largest one, comes from my Mother`s side of the family. My Maternal 3rd Great Grandfather was Claton WRIGHT son of Richard WRIGHT Jr. and Caroline Cary Kara KITTRELL. Claton married my 3rd Great Grandmother Anna SNIDER, she was his second wife. His first wife being that of Sarah WILEY. Claton`s father, and of course my 4th Great Grandfather Richard WRIGHT Jr. had 24 children between his two wives. With his first wife Nancy MORGAN, he had twelve, six boys and six girls. Then with his second wife Kara KITTRELL, My 4th Great Grandmother, he also had twelve, again six boys and six girls. Twins run in this line of WRIGHT`s also.

So you can imagine if all 24 of those children only had two kids each how many cousins I may have. But, that was not the case, many of them went on to have 10 or more children each! So you can imagine the chaos I have trying to figure out who fits in where, just from this part of my family only! Not to mention the rest of my family members from other lines also, had large families. Keep in mind there are likely many of us out there who will never have their DNA tested and thus we will never know about them unless we locate them on paper.

There has been quite a lot of research done on this particular line of the WRIGHT family. It is good, quality, research. Rather than try and duplicate that, I will likely be linking it all here, for other researchers.

If you think that you and I may connect on any of these WRIGHT lines or any other families I have listed here, by all means leave me a message! I would love to get to know you! Until next time...