AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF



father married Peninah Dole. I do n't think Uncle
Jerry was ever married. Uncle Aaron married a
Pritchard; Aunt Sarah married a Pierce; Aunt
Martha married a Lynn; and Aunt Zilphia married
a Halbert.
   My Grandfather Wright died before my father
was fully grown, leaving some small children on
grandmother's hands to rear.  They lived by farm-
ing. Grandmother was a very devoted Christian
woman, praying in her family when grandfather
was not at home to pray. M1y father emigrated to
East Tennessee into what is now Anderson or
Union County, when quite a young man, my father's
name being John Wright.
   And now, boys, I will trace up on my mother's
side of the house. On her side my grandfather
was named William   Dale.  Grandmother was a
Barden before she married William Dale. I do not
recollect her given name. After they were blessed
with five children, grandmother died.  The five
children, three girls and two boys, were small. Not
a great while after her death, one of the boys,
named James, dlied. The girls' names were Peninah,
which was my mother, Nancy and Alsie. Aunt
Nancy married Uncle Robert Wright, and Aunt
Alsie married Timothy Carpenter, a brother of my
wife's mother.  Grandfather Dale was born and
lived the early part of his life in North Carolina.
After the death of grandmother he moved and
lived near Augusta in Georgia. Mother's brother's
name was William Dale. He was younger than
either of the girls. Aster the children were pretty
well grown they emigrated to East Tennessee, near



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