Isaac Marshall Wright Sr was born November 11, 1848, in Pulaski County, Virginia. His parents were Crockett Anderson Wright and Elizabeth Shively and the three of them were listed on the 1850 U.S. Federal Census for district 48, Pulaski, Virginia.
After his mother’s death in 1856, his father married Elizabeth Bryant in Franklin County, Virginia. Isaac was listed on the 1860 U.S. Federal Census for Franklin, Virginia with his father, siblings, and step mother.
Isaac married Naomi Lee “Oney” Bryant in Franklin County, Virginia on March 02, 1871 and they were the parents of ten children.
The family can be found on the U.S. Federal Census for 1880, 1900, and 1910 for Franklin County, Virginia. The children were: Jacob Anderson Wright, Henry Crockett Wright, Isaac Marshall Wright Jr, Lucy Elizabeth Wright, Regina Wright, Mary Lou Wright, Waddie James Wright, John Edmund Wright, Oney Lee Wright, and Ginerva Wright.
Isaac died October 09, 1918, in Franklin, Virginia, at the age of 69, and was buried in the George Wright Cemetery, located at 1500 Six Mile Post Road, Franklin, Virginia. Isaac’s wife Naomi was also buried there.
This Wright ancestral line is Haplogroup I-M253 and has been identified through Y-Dna testing. Testing has traced the ancient path of this branch back as “Old Norse” through Denmark and most likely settlements in Yorkshire, England.
Paternal Wright males are invited to participate in YDna testing with the hopes of eventually connecting this line to other family members who descend from earlier ancestors. The project also accepts autosomal dna Wright descendants.
The Wright FTDNA dna project link is: https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/wright/about
Information and discussion about the Wright DNA project and ‘paper trails’ can be found in the Facebook group…. Facebook.com/groups/WrightSurnameFTDNA.
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