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Below is a family biography included in the book, The History of Lauderdale County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1886. 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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Edmund C. Wright, a farmer of Lauderdale County, was born in Caroline County, Va., June 29, 1829, and is the sixth child of a family of six sons and six daughters, born to Edmund and Elizabeth Wright, and is of English descent. His father was born in Caroline County, Va., and came to Tennessee in 1837, and after spending a year m Haywood County, moved to Lauderdale, where he settled two miles southeast of where our subject now lives, and died May 6, 1880. Our subject’s mother was born in Virginia, and died in Lauderdale County, September 4, 1859. Mr. Wright was raised on the farm, and after completing his education, made farming his business. He served a short time in the Confederate Army, and was in the battle at Somerville, in West Tennessee. Mr. Wright was married in the house where he now lives, February 20, 1875, to Mrs. Sarah E. Wright, a daughter of Squire W. B. Sawyer; no children have resulted from this union. Mrs. Wright was born in Pasquotank County. N. C., August 2, 1838, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Mr. Wright is a Democrat, and a man of liberal ideas on all questions; he owns 707 acres of land-121 are in the home place, that is situated between Hall’s Station and Double Bridges—and raises chiefly cotton. He owns a pleasant residence and stands well in the community he lives in.
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This family biography is one of 116 biographies included in the book, The History of Lauderdale County, Tennessee published in 1886 by Goodspeed. The History of Lauderdale County was included within The History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties of Tennessee. For the complete description, click here: History of Lauderdale, Tipton, Haywood, and Crockett Counties, Tennessee
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