George M. Wright

As printed in 1882

GEORGE M. WRIGHT.

subject of this sketch was born in Boone county, Missouri, 3d, 1839. He was the son of Wesley and Polly (Potts) Wright as born upon the farm where he is now living. His father, y Wright was born within five miles of Nashville, Tennessee, me with his parents to Boone county, Missouri, in 1819, where )d until 1850, when he went to California. He died on his way md was buried at Cape Girardeau, Mo., in 1852. Mrs. Wright, other of George M., was born in West Tennessee, in 1808, and to Boone county, Missouri, when she was eight years of age. ed in 1879, and is buried at Hickory Grove church. George M. t was thrown upon his own resources when quite a child, and manfully did he fight the battle of life. He went to school durle winter months, and in summer he worked to earn money for xt winter's schooling. He afterwards went two terms of nine IS each, to Professors Hurt and M. G. Duncan, of Mexico, in county. Mo., taking a very liberal course, but declining prevented his graduating as he had intended. He lived with )ok care of his mother, more especially after the negroes were When the war broke out he espoused the cause of the Coney and joined Capt. Nimrod Norton's company, Clark's brigade. 18 in the battles of Boonville, Fulton Races," Lone Jack, Pea, Drywood, Cane Hill, Helena, Independence and many skir- 5. Under Gen. Joe Shelby, he was in several days continued fighter Little Rock, Arkansas, fighting Gen. Steele's division U. S- J. Mr. Wright was commissioned an officer to rank as Colonel, to raise a regiment in Missouri during Shelby's last raid, but the surrender of Lee in the following spring put an end to the war, and Col. Wright was mustered out and surrendered to Capt. Cook. He returned home without a dollar and went to work upon the old place. He was married September 16th, 1868, to Miss Minerva, daughter of Garland Sims, Esq. By this union they have six children, Garland Sims, Lena, Elizabeth, Wesley, George Walter and Ancil. The year he was married he moved to Audrain county, and lived there until the spring of 1879, when he moved back upon the old place. His house is on the north-east quarter of section 16, township 49, range 11, and his farm contains two hundred and seventy acres. Mr. Wright is an energetic, active business man, enjoying the confidence of all who know him.

As printed in History of Boone County, Missouri (1882). See the original pages. Wording is the original; obvious scanning errors have been corrected, and a few may remain.