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Franklin Wright was born in North Carolina in 1829, and is a son of James H. and Polly (Brooks) Wright, natives of the same State, where they were reared. After their marriage they lived in Tennessee until the war, when they removed to Kentucky. A few years later they went to Indiana, and there the mother died in 1884, aged seventy-seven, and the father in 1885, aged eighty-three. They were people of good standing, and had for many years been members of the Baptist Church. In occupation the father was a farmer. The great-grandfather Harrison was a soldier in the Revolution. Our subject was the second child in a family of five sons and seven daughters. William, one brother, served in the Confederate army until the surrender of Vicksburg, when he was paroled. He is now living at Nemeha, Neb. James H., another brother, died at Knoxville, Tenn., while in the Confederate service. Franklin attended a common school in North Carolina, and was there married, in 1854, to Charity, daughter of Abraham and Mary Church, all natives of North Carolina. The father died in that State, and the mother died in Tennessee in 1876. The date of Mrs. Wright’s birth is January 9, 1833. To herself and husband ten children have been born, of whom two sons and three daughters are living. Mr. Wright lived with his parents in Tennessee and North Carolina, and in 1868 removed to Hancock County, Tenn. In 1863 he to Kentucky, and in the same year, in July, enlisted in Company A, Forty-seventh Kentucky Volunteer Infantry, serving eighteen months in the United States Army. He was stationed in Kentucky, and was honorably discharged at Lexington, December 26, 1864. In 1868, after his return home, he went to Madison County, Ind., and four years later went to Madison County, Ark. In 1874 he went to Franklin County, and kept a boarding-house for railroad hands at Mulberry. He now lives upon a nice farm of 160 acres, seven miles north of Mulberry, upon which he moved in 1876. At that time the place was nothing but a wilderness, but by hard labor he has converted it into a well-improved piece of land. He is an enterprising man, who takes an interest in public affairs, and believes in educating his children. His son James received his education at Ozark College. In politics he was once a Whig, but after days of that party became a Republican. Himself and wife are active workers in the Baptist Church, to which they were united when young.