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Z 1166.000
WRIGHT FAMILY LETTERS

1837 - 1876; n.d.

Letters from Laura E. Wright to her parents, Rev. David Wright and Eliza Abert Wright of Columbus; J. W. Hamilton, Columbus, to Eliza Barry Wright, October 18, 1860(?); J. W. A. Wright to his mother, Eliza Wright; and several other family letters.

Eliza Abert Wright's first husband, Dr. B. C. Barry, was an uncle of Shadie Sullivan (Buchanan) Gayarre, wife of historian Charles Gayarre. Eliza Wright later married Rev. David Wright, a missionary from Vermont to the Choctaws. Her sister was Louisa Abert Neilson, "Belmont," Lowndes County.