Griffin R Wright

Sometime between 1850 and 1854 the entire family left Lincoln County and moved to the Arkansas/Texas/Indian Territory area.  Griffin and Malinda's eldest child, Edith, married on 3 Oct 1854 and went with her husband to California. Griffin likely died in Arkansas, possibly in Benton County, Arkansas where he last appears in 1862.  There was a C.P. church in Benton County [http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/churches/Arkansas.htm here].

For some time the family apparently lived in Benton County, Arkansas — Griffin R Wright's name appearing on a few land deeds there, on land next to John Tucker who was certainly his brother-in-law.  On 7 Mar 1859, Griffin R Wright, for $110 bought from Thomas Denton of Benton County, the land at SW 1/4 of SE 1/4 of S22 and the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of S27 in T21N-R34W.  These two parcels touch and form a rectangle.  Meanwhile [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch/Image.asp?Accession=AR0990%5F%5F%2E291&Format=SmallGIF this BLM entry] shows John Tucker in 1854 had purchased land just two sections away.

 

Griffin may have died in Benton County, Arkansas and appears to have died between 1862 and 1870 when Malinda appears on the census that year, in Benton County, Arkansas without him.  By 1880 Malinda has relocated, with some more of her family, near her daughter Edith in Paskenta, Tahama County, California.  Malinda died 18 Jan 1898 in Red Bluff, Tehama County, California, where her probate names all of her children.