Brianna wrote on her blog of May 22, 2015 at briannaaudreywright.wordpress.com that she had received a box from her father's cousin full of genealogy material. She was ecstatic, and I was just a little envious. However, the box is now at my house. I must say I think I have some very generous second cousins whom I have only recently had the pleasure to spend a little time talking with, remembering and sharing family stories.
As I have had the opportunity to read through the contents of this box, I have discovered that I have most of the information. For example, I knew the story of Royal Wright.
I did find an amazing piece of new information, well new to me. Royal was the son of Elihu and Margarett Wright, my 3rd great grandparents. They had six children. Ebenezer B. appears to be Elihu's first son by his first wife, Hipsibuth (although I am not totally sure this is correct). The mother of Ebenezer must have died when the family still lived in New York. He was 17 years older than Royal and appears to have married in 1833. He would have been 23 years old. The family moved to Illinois in 1836. Their other children were (my great-great grandfather) Royal age 9, Roswell age 7, Asahel age 2. It is said that James was born in a covered wagon in 1836 and was possibly the first white child born in Sycamore township. (I might have to do a little research on first born children in the west. You may remember that there was a Grisso child said to be the first white child born in Oklahoma). Their last child, Burt, was born in Illinois in 1856.
The interesting document I noticed was the marriage certificate of
Ebenezer B. (older 1/2 brother to my great-great grandfather Royal)
Read it again. Did you catch the ages of the bridge and groom?
And who could think genealogy is boring?
Such fun discoveries.
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