David Wright

Birth Date

c1801

Death Date

1870-03

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Hopkins County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to Eleanor Wright. Father of Virginia Wright, Doctor P. Wright, Benjamin F. Wright, Excelline Wright, Nancy Wright, Susan Wright, David Crockett Wright, and Mary C. Wright. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1850. Owned four enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1850. Farmer in Hopkins County in 1860. Owned three enslaved persons in Hopkins County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 100A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, District 1, p. 700.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 744.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, p. 216A.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Mortality Schedules, Kentucky, Hopkins County, Charleston, Precinct 5, p. 657.

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