Griffin R Wright
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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. 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. There was a C.P. church in Benton County [http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/churches/Arkansas.htm here]. 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. | 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. 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. There was a C.P. church in Benton County [http://www.cumberland.org/hfcpc/churches/Arkansas.htm here]. 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 likely died in Arkansas, possibly in Benton County, Arkansas where he last appears in 1862. In 1870 Malinda appears on the Benton County, Arkansas census that year without him. | + | Griffin likely died in Arkansas, possibly in Benton County, Arkansas where he last appears in 1862. In 1870 Malinda appears on the Benton County, Arkansas census that year without him. |
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| + | ==Later Life== | ||
| + | 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. | ||
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| + | Malinda left a will in Tehama County where she calling herself "...of the age of seventy six" (so apparently just after her son James died without issue), divides her estate seven ways. To each of her five surviving children, and then to the heirs of her two deceased daughters Annie and Elizabeth. She names the children of Elizabeth but not of Annie, and adds note that "...if my deceased daughter Annie has no heirs living..." so apparently Malinda does not know. | ||
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