Wright Family Cemetery

submitted by: Gayle Palmer Morgan <gpmorgan72@hotmail.com>

The following is the Wright Family Cemetery located in West Feliciana Parish. I surveyed this cemetery May 11, 2002.

From Hwy 10, follow Rte. 421 7 miles to Gonzales Rd. Follow Gonzales Rd .9 miles. Cemetery in on right hand, gated and locked.

Esaias A(rlington) Wright 2/13/1840 - 12/19/1921
Mary H(igginbotham) Wright 9/24/1850-4/1/1922

B(ythel) W. Wright 12/26/1854-4/27/1920
Alice Wright 2/22/1850-4/3/1913

Minnie M. Wright 9/8/1878-2/15/1962

Sadie Wright Welch 2/20/1887-12/28/1969
Lawrence Thomas Welch 3/15/1882-11/29/1967
Mary Katherine Welch 12/28/1916-3/13/1918

Robert L. Gonzales 2/15/1912-10/9/1978

This cemetery is on the site of the former home of Esaias and Mary Wright. Esaias and brother Bythel W. are sons of Bythel Whitaker Wright and Rebecca Chambers Wright of Wilkinson Cty, MS. who moved to West Feliciana sometime after the Civil War. Minnie and Sadie are daughters of Esaias and Mary. Robert Gonzales is husband of Sadie's daughter Annie Murl.

Mary Higginbotham Wright is daughter of William Guerrant Higginbotham andSarah Ann Palmer.