Individual Details

North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868
Bride: Peggy Pettit [Peggy is usually the nickname for Margaret, not Rebecca???]Groom: Gideon Wright
Bond Date: 29 Apr 1797
County: Stokes
Record #: 03 350
Bondsman: Eofln Flyn [Laughlin]
Witness: C L.
Bond #: 000142686


SURRY COUNTY NC DEED ABSTRACTS
VOL G 1795-1797
p.44: DB G/228 5 Dec 1798 State of NC to Gideon Wright. 350 acres. #1814. South side Yadkin, below the Yellow Bank Ford adj Thomas Poindexter & Thomas Pettit. Entered 12 May 1779. [Probably entered by Hezekiah, but he died before grant could be issed.]

Surry Co NC Deed Abstracts 1800-1803 Vol. I
Carol Leonard Snow 1995
Bk I, p.497 [ca 1802] George Hauser of Bethany, Stocke Co to Adam Hauser. $1000. 350a south side of Yadkin R beg at two box elders on bank of sd river below the Yellow Bank Ford, Thomas Poindexter's corner Also adj Thom. Pettit. Being a tract granted by the state to Gideon Wright [he & Durlin Wright being heirs of Hezekiah Wright] by grant dated 5 Dec 1798 and by Gideon & Durlin Wright Conf to sd George Hauser.
Wit: John H. Hauser, Britain Clayton, Jacob Hauser.


1810 Census, Madison Co KY: 2m -10, 1m 10-16, 1m 26-45 [Gideon]; 1f 26-45 [Rebecca]
Would seem children were omitted from the census. There should have been at least two females under 10 as well.

"The History of Randolph County", written in 1884, states that Gideon Wright and Rebecca, his wife, made a deed without compensation conveying 12 1/2 acres to the county for the purpose of building a courthouse.

WorldConnect database states that about 1828, the family moved to what was then Chariton, but soon to be Randolph Co MO.

1830 Census, Randolph Co MO, p.322:
Gideon with 1m 10-16 [Amos], 2m 16-26 [Thomas & Gideon], 1m 50-60 [Gideon]; 2f 5-10 [Delia, ?], 2f 10-15 [Mary, ?, 1f 50-60.
Durlin Wright listed on p.231 as age 20-30, a female age 16-26.
Hezakiah Wright listed on p. 333. 3m under 5, 2m 5-10, 1m 30-40, 1f 20-30

1840 - Randolph Co. Gideon was listed, age 60-70. [So he was born between 1770 and 1780]. He had 1m age 20-30, probably Amos, and 1f age 15-20. Apparently his wife already deceased.

August Term 1848. Randolph Co, MO Probate Records, Vol. B, p.272
29 Aug 1848 Settlement of James Emerson, Admr of Henry Winkler (Jr.) deceased.
Amount of Sale Bill - $103.40 3/4. Pd to c. Wisdom, $1, pd to John Winkler, $1.70, Tax for 1847 - $. 97 1/2. Due Estate $99.73 3/4.
The property Sold above was under mortgage to James Emmerson, Samuel Gooding & Gideon Wright and the foregoing is to be paid on the Same.

1850 Census, Randolph Co MO, Salt Spring Twp, Household 220
Richard Wright, age 25, b. KY, Susan 20, b. MO, Ambrose - 6 months.
Gideon, age 79, b. NC [b. 1771]

I have seen as many as 14 children listed for the Gideon & Rebecca. One son, Hezekiah, was an adult at the time Gideon moved to Missouri and also patented land there. Hezekiah's marriage took place in Madison Co KY - he married Mary Lee, daughter of Elizabeth Lee. William Lee served as bondsman. The Bond was dated 7 Oct 1820, and return was made 12 Oct 1820. There was said to be a son Thomas and there are two marriages in Madison Ky for a Thomas and a Thomas L. that could be his in 1817.

Also in Madison Co Elizabeth Wright married Jonathan Haines. Gideon Wright was father of the bride and the Bondsman. Bond dated 19 Aug 1822.

Another daughter, Rebecca, born 3 Jan 1810, is said to have married John Biswell, son of Jeremiah Biswell, adding another distant relationship to my family line of Wood [See ggg grandfather William M. Wood whose 2nd wife was Susan Manda Biswell]

Gideon, son Hezekiah, and son Durlin , all received land patents on 1 Jun 1829 in Randolph Co, MO. These tracts were in Sections 25 & 36 of Twn 54, Range 15. All were issued additional patents.

Will written 1 Apr 1858. Probate 5 Apr 1858. [ It's very odd that this will was written on the same day that Gideon died but that seems to be the case.] I Provisions of the will included the following:
Gideon was of Randolph Co , MO. He appointed Caswell Wisdom as administrator. [The name Wisdom, has been abstracted as "Widsom" but the 1860 census in Salt Springs Township of Randolph Co, does show a man named C. Wisdom, age 51 and born in North Carolina, Sheriff.] All of the estate of Gideon was to be divided in twelve parts, each child, or in the case of a deceased child, his heirs, receiving an equal share. The designation son or daughter is not repeated in each of the twelve provisions, but is certainly implied.
The twelve shares went to son Kiah [Hezekiah] Wright, children of deceased son Thomas Wright, a trust for Catherine Smoot and her children, Elizabeth Sims, son Durlin Wright, son Durlin Wright, Rebecca Biswell, children of deceased son David Wright, [8th share missing from transcription] Rebecca Mayo, children of deceased daughter Delia Belsher, children of deceased son Amos Wright, Mary Belsher. Signed and sealed 1 Apr 1858 [This was actually the day Gideon died; I suspect this date to have been copied wrong, unless his family offed him as soon as he had finished writing the will! May be that's why the inquest was ordered. The obit speaks of his exercise on that day - perhaps he had walked to town and back to make out the will.] Witness: James C. Ferguson, Wm. R. Dameron
5 Apr 1858. Will was exhibited in Court, and Caswell Wisdom appointed Executor. The witnesses proved the will. W. R. Samuel, Clerk. $20,000 bond was secured by Caswell Wisdom as principal, and G. B. Dameron, Wm. D. Malone, and R. G. Gilman. Wm. Linsley and James C. Ferguson were appointed as witnesses to be present with C. Wisdom, to examine papers, books, etc. of the deceased.

Huntsville Citizen Newspapers, April 3, 1858:
Mr. Gideon Wright, one of our oldest and respectable citizens, died very suddenly on his premises, in this vicinity, on Thursday evening last (April 1st). Stepping out of his house for a few moments, search was made for him, and he was found but a short distance for it, lying with his face to the ground. He breathed but a few times after being discovered. It was deemed best to hold an inquest over his body. The jury found he came to his death from natural causes - which was probably hastened by the exercise he took that day, and his great age, being in his 88th year. He was one of the pioneers to the State, and a resident of Huntsville for more than thirty years.. He has quite a number of relatives in this vicinity and descendants to the third generations.

Birth	1771	North Carolina
Marriage	29 Apr 1797	Stokes County, North Carolina - Rebecca Pettit
Death	1 Apr 1858	Randolph County, Missouri

Spouse	Rebecca Pettit ( - 1840)
Child	Hezekiah WRIGHT (1798 - 1860)
Child	Thomas WRIGHT (1800 - 1852)
Child	Elizabeth WRIGHT (1804 - )
Child	Catherine Wright (1805 - )
Child	Living
Child	Durling WRIGHT (1810 - 1850)
Child	Rebecca WRIGHT (1810 - 1891)
Child	Gideon WRIGHT (1812 - )
Child	David WRIGHT ( - 1858)
Child	Mary "Polly" WRIGHT (1816 - 1882)
Child	Amos WRIGHT (1817 - 1858)
Child	Susanna WRIGHT ( - 1843)
Child	Living
Child	Delia "Dilly" WRIGHT (1825 - 1858)

Father	Hezekiah WRIGHT ( - 1782)
Mother	Catherine ?Durland/Dowling ( - 1790)
Sibling	Durlin WRIGHT (1770 - 1829)