Individual Details

1830 Census. Randolph Co MO, p.322
Thomas Wright: 1m under 5, 1m 20-30. 1f age 20-30.


The book found in the Randolph Library says that Thomas married Mary Cochran and died in 1852 in Council Bluffs [state not named] on the way to Oregon.
In 1840, Thomas Wright wasn't in Randolph Co with the others. In 1850, there were the 13 Thomas Wrights in Missouri, all born in Kentucky, anywhere from 1788 to 1841. Of course the oldest and youngest can be eliminated. The ones of the right age in 1850 have no wife named Mary except for a Thomas Wright in Putnam Co. who was age 49, b. KY, wife was Mary, age 41, b. KY - they had two children Hathran [or maybe Nathran/Nathan, age 3, and Mary age 1. He also had living next door to him an Amos Wright age 21 whose wife was "Manrva", age 21 - Amos was plenty young enough to be a son of this Thomas and that was also a brother's name if this is the right guy.

According to one tree on Ancestry--w/o sources--this Amos who married Minerva is Thomas and Mary Cochran Wright's son. It lists three children: Amos, who married Minerva Downs; Catherine who married Henry Custer in Shelby Iowa; and Mary Wright who married Francis Waterbury, doesn't say where. According to this tree Mary Cochran Wright died in 1865 in Pottowattomie county Iowa.

1860, Knox Twp, Pottawattamie Co, Iowa, Hh 872
Amos Wright, age 31, farmer, b. MO. Minerva, age 29, b. MO
children all born in Iowa: Gideon age 10, Sarah 7, Melissa 5, Amanda 4, Nicholas 2, and an unnamed male baby age 2 months
Polly Henderson, age 50, b. KY [age and birthplace and the nickname for Mary as Polly, plus the next two children - I think this is Amos' mother remarried after the death of Thomas]
Nathaniel, age 15, b. MO
Mary, age 12, b. MO.
[There were ditto marks for the surname for Nathaniel & Mary, but they do seem to be the children that were with Thomas & Mary in Putnam Co, MO in 1850.]

So it looks like Thomas Wright did indeed die in Council Bluffs, and it was Iowa.

Birth	1800	Kentucky
Death	1852	Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa

Father	Gideon WRIGHT (1771 - 1858)
Mother	Rebecca Pettit ( - 1840)
Sibling	Hezekiah WRIGHT (1798 - 1860)
Sibling	Elizabeth WRIGHT (1804 - )
Sibling	Catherine Wright (1805 - )
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Durling WRIGHT (1810 - 1850)
Sibling	Rebecca WRIGHT (1810 - 1891)
Sibling	Gideon WRIGHT (1812 - )
Sibling	David WRIGHT ( - 1858)
Sibling	Mary "Polly" WRIGHT (1816 - 1882)
Sibling	Amos WRIGHT (1817 - 1858)
Sibling	Susanna WRIGHT ( - 1843)
Sibling	Living
Sibling	Delia "Dilly" WRIGHT (1825 - 1858)