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Below is a family biography included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd in 1879. These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary. Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more. There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.
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WRIGHT, THOMAS, farmer. Sec. 35. P.O. Wrightsville, was born on the very spot he now lives upon, Dec. 27, 1836; was the second child of Thomas and Mary Wright, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Kentucky, who came to this county in the Spring of 1833. The subject of this sketch was married to Angeline Goode, daughter of W. B. Goode, Feb. 25, 1869, as a result of this alliance they have had two children: William M., born Jan, 23, 1870; George W., born July 8, 1875. Mr. Wright has 440 acres of land which he is farming, and is of a retiring nature; has held the office of coroner and constable during the past, but has never desired political honors, but is noted for his powerful and retentive memory; can remember almost entire speeches made by orators, and it is related of him that he remembered certain portions of a speech made by a prominent man in the county twenty years ago, and reiterated it, much the discomforture of the speaker, who supposed it had been buried in the debris of the past.
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This family biography is one of 744 biographies included in The History of Greene County, Illinois published in 1879. View the complete description here: The History of Greene County, Illinois
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