Wright McBride (1836 - 1922)

Born 21 Aug 1836 in Rankin County, Mississippi, USA

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Died 24 Sep 1922 at age 86 in Victoria County, Texas, USA

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Biography

MILITARY: 1st Sergeant, Co. D., 27th Texas Calvary C.S.A. (1st Texas Legion, Commanded by Whitfield) Wright McBride officially enlisted in the 27th Calvary of Texas on January 1, 1862. When they were pressed into the service of the Confederate Army, they had been joined by units until their strength had reached a total of 339 men. Wright McBride's parole in Columbus, Texas occurred July 10, 1865, just before his 29th birthday. He returned to Hackberry, Texas, resumed farming with his dedication to the Methodist church.

OBITUARY: On Sept. 15, 1922 a young soldier of the World War stood facing the sunset and sounded the plaintive call of "taps" above a flower-covered mound which held all that was mortal of Wright McBride, Confederate veteran, and for sixty-six years an honored and beloved citizen of Texas. He was born in Jackson, Mississippi, Aug. 20, 1836, when Santa Anna's soldiers had just been driven from the prairies around his future Texas home. He was married to Ann Williams Brown, Nov. 18, 1855. The honeymoon of the young people was spent in an ox wagon traveling the long road from Jackson to DeWitt County, Texas. Ten children were born into the pioneer home, two of whom died in infancy. The other eight who survive their father, together with the faithful wife, his constant companion for sixty-six years, Mrs. T. E. Griffith of Stockdale, Texas; Mrs. N. L. Haynes, Mrs. J. W. Patterson, and Mrs. L. S. Wilborne, all of Nursery, Texas; Miss Clara McBride of Austin, Texas; Mrs. Hiriam McBride of Schulenburg, Texas; Mr. Henry McBride of Baldwin Park, California; and Mr. W. A. McBride of Imperial, California. He served in the Confederate Army from 1861 to 1865, in the 9th Texas Legion, Company D, which was a mounted infantry company. At one time his horse was not unsaddled except to adjust the saddle blanket, for 92 days, and both horses and riders went for days without food. At one place through which they rode, the loyal Southern women prepared a basket dinner for them. The men could not stop to eat, but women stood by the roadside and held up their baskets of bread, meat and such dainties as their ingenuity could provide from the scant resources at hand. The men, as they rode by, reached into the baskets and took out whatever they could carry, eating as they went. Mr. McBride, like all old soldiers, enjoyed relating these thrilling experiences of the old war days. From 1905 to 1913, he served the U.S. Post Office Department as star route mail carier from Nursery to Mission Valley. Only once during those eight years, did he fail to get the daily mail to its destination, and that one failure was caused by high water. All his life he was a conscientious Christian and an active member of the Methodist Church. Until his increasing deafness made such work impossible, he was a teacher in the Sunday School and a leader in prayer meetings, class meetings, and all other religious activities. His large family grew to manhood and womanhood blessed by the daily presence of the family altar in the home. It was a source of great pride and satisfaction to him to have in his possession the Bible which had been in his family for 170 years. The worn pages show that the book has been used as well as reverenced by many devout readers in those long past generations. He had been in ill health for several months. He was almost deaf and blind, but at the close of his 86 years, his mind was clear, and he kept up his interest in national and world events. He went willingly to his reward--the reward of a life well lived in the service of his family, his country and his fellow man. by Laura A. Davis.

FAMILY BIBLE and family records: This Bible provided McBride genealogy back Phillip and Margaret McBride of Goose Creek Parish, South Carolina. The Bible was destroyed in the house fire, when Ann died. A handwritten copy of these records was created by Wright McBride, and was included in the 1957 DAR application of Una Wilborne Kelly, descendant of Wright McBride.

CHILDREN: ten children, Tennessee Ellen, Nancy, William, Alice, Webster, Hiriam, Henry, Walton, Cora, and Clara.

CONFEDERATE PENSION: Texas Pension - her #38551, his #28303,

Sources

• DAR application of Una Wilborne Kelly, patriot James McBride #A074495,
• Texas Death Certificate (does not list his parents);
• Obituary;
• Bio & military written by James A McBride II of Houston Texas, Sept 2000 - http://gen.1starnet.com/civilwar/mcbridew.htm
• Confederate Pension Records
• Family Records;
• Marriage, Rankin Co., MS; Wright McBride and Ann Brown, 17 NOV 1855;
• Land Records; Dewitt Co., TX (DeWitt Co., is beside Lavaca,Co., TX);
• 1860 Census, Lavaca Co., TX; Hallettsville, 655;
• 1870 Census, Lavaca Co., Tx; pg 466, 901/781;
• 1880 Census, Lavaca Co., TX; pct. 2; 56/56;
• Handwritten family records copied by Wright McBride from McBride family Bible;
• Find-a-grave Memorial https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/17275200/wright-mcbride ;