Rev. John Wright and Mary Ann Wild

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Husband Rev. John Wright ¹

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           Born:  - Nottinghamshire, England
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       Marriage:  - Indiana

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Wife Mary Ann Wild ¹

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            AKA: Mary Anne Widey, Mary Wilde
           Born:  - Holden, England
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Children

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1 M William Wright ¹

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2 M Albert Wright ¹

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3 F M. Jennie Wright

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           Born: 27 Sep 1852
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           Died: 18 Feb 1920
         Buried:  - Chapmanville Cemetery, Chapmanville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 2

         Spouse: Shubeal Simeon Proper (1832-1909)

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4 M John S. Wright ¹

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           Born: 12 Mar 1855 - Vinton, Benton Co, IA 1
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         Spouse: Emma Goodwin (Abt 1859-      ) 3
           Marr: Abt 1879

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5 F Alice Wright

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           Born: 27 Aug 1863
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           Died: 16 Apr 1929
         Buried:  - Chapmanville Cemetery, Chapmanville, Plum Twp, Venango Co, PA 2

         Spouse: Simeon Ogilvia Proper (1857-1918)

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General Notes: Husband - Rev. John Wright

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When he and his wife settled in Iowa their nearest neighbors were two miles distant, but they were ambitious and industrious and willing to make their way in the face of hardships. In 1867 they came east, locating at Diamond, Venango County, Pennsylvania, whither they had been attracted by the oil finds, and he did very well for a time as an oil producer at Petroleum Center. By occupation he was a sawyer, and he subsequently operated a sawmill at Diamond, where he spent the rest of his life, dying on a farm there at the age of eighty-three years.
He became well known all over Venango County through his activities as a minister of the United Brethren Church, of which he was a minister, receiving ordination in the United States. He began preaching even before he was of age, and even in his advanced years continued to serve as a local preacher, supplying many pulpits.

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Ann Wild

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She died at the age of fifty-seven years, the mother of twelve children, eleven of whom reached maturity, ten still surviving in 1918. Four of the family resided in Venango County, Pennsylvania.

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 828.

2 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 8, Plum Township (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 2000), Pg 23.

3 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 829.