Information from Dorothy Glen, Wright, Larabee, Crawford, Hammond, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.
Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 559-560:
Ellis L. Wright, a thrift farmer of Colchester South township, County of Essex, and a member of one of the early settled families of this locality, was born on the farm place July 16, 1858.
The ancestor of the New World Wrights was Henry Wright, who was born and reared in England. In his young manhood he emigrated to America with a brother, locating in Rutland, Pennsylvania, where the latter remained. In that State Henry married Mary Klingensmith, and they became the parents of the following family: William, ...
William Wright, son of Henry, was born in Pennsylvania, and was eight years of age when brought by his parents to the County of Essex. By trade he was a blacksmith, following that occupation in connection with farming. His wife was Elizabeth (or Betsy) Lipps, a native of Virginia. He died in 1854, aged seventy-nine, and his wife in 1866, aged seventy-five. They were members of the Church of England. Their children, all now deceased except Daniel R., were: Henry, who married Amanda Kent; Mary, who married John Mickle; Elizabeth, who wedded Henry Leighton; Jacob, who married Amy McDonald; Simon, who married Sarah Knapp; Hannah, who died unmarried, aged forty-five; Daniel R.; and Joseph, who married Zoie Marentate.
Daniel R. Wright was born in Colchester South, on Lake Erie, April 28, 1820...
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Mary Wright ca 1802-1872
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