AUTOBIOGRAPHY
                     OF

REV. A. B. WRIGHT.


               CHAPTER I.
      OUR ANCESTRY FOR MY CHILDREN.
 MY grandfather's name on my father's side was
 Ml Moses Wright. I am inclined to think he
 was born and ever lived in North Carolina. His
 father came from Ireland. Moses Wright married
 Margaret Edmondson.    I do not know where she
 was raised, perhaps in North Carolina. Some time
after their marriage my grandfather became a local
preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
traveled some circuits as supply under Bishop As-
bury. He and grandmother reared nine children.
Some. may have died in infancy; I do not know. I
remember hearing my father call over the names of
his brothers and sisters. The names of the boys
were Jesse, James, John, Robert, Jeremiah, and
Aaron. The girls' names were Sarah, Zilphia, and
Martha-six boys and three girls.
   Uncle Robert and Uncle Jerry Wvright died in
the War of 1812. They were both soldiers. Uncle
Jesse Wright married a Vaughn; Uncle James, a
Gravel; Uncle Robert married Nancy Dale; my
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