George Washington Wright
and Harriett Addington

George Washington Wright b 21 Mar 1854/53 Letcher Co KY d 7 Nov 1934 Letcher Co KY; buried Wright Cemetery, John Moore's Branch, Elkhorn City, Pike Co KY, (See 1860 Letcher Co KY Census); s/o Andrew Jackson Wright and Harriett Adams. George Washington Wright m. 19 Feb 1876 Letcher Co KY to Harriett Addington b 25 Feb 1858 Wise Co VA d 1932 Letcher Co KY; buried Wright Cemetery, John Moore's Branch, Elkhorn City, Pike Co KY; d/o William Addington III and Nancy Kilgore. Children of George Washington Wright and Harriett Addington;

1. Geneva Wright b about 1877 Letcher Co KY

2. Thomas Benton Wright b about 1878 Letcher Co KY; m. Sarah Vanover b Mar 1881 KY.

3. Andrew Jackson Wright b about Mar 1880 Letcher Co KY; m. Rindy Johnson.

4. William Wright b Feb 1882 Letcher Co KY; m. Louella Bartley.

5. Amanda Wright b Feb 1884 Letcher Co KY; m. Nathaniel Cocker.

6. Barbara E Wright b Jul 1887 Letcher Co KY; m. 1907 to Harlan Cook.

7. Martha J Wright b Aug 1889 Letcher Co KY

8. Franklin Monroe Wright b Oct 1891 Letcher Co KY

9. Elizabeth Wright b Dec 1893 Letcher Co KY

10. Daniel Boone Wright b Sept 1896 Letcher Co KY

11. Florence Wright b about 1900 Letcher Co KY

12. Booker Wright b about 1902 Letcher Co KY

13. Clarissa Wright b about 1904 Letcher Co KY

More About George Washington Wright

According to Phebel Wright, son of Franklin Monroe Wright, George Washington Wright b, grew up and married Letcher Co KY. The effects of the Civil War created much turmoil Letcher County and in 1903 George Washington decided to remove his family from the area.

He sent his son, Andrew Jackson (Andy) Wright, to the Elkhorn City, Kentucky area (John Moore's Branch) to check out the area for farm land and timber. Andrew was a young man at this time with four small children and he discovered there were large tracks of land in the area with heavy timber on it. When Andrew (Andy) returned to Letcher County and told his father what he had found.

George Washington sold his farm Letcher County for $300.00 and came to John Moore's Branch in 1904, moving his belongings and family with a wagon and a team of horses. He bought a piece of property on John Moore's Branch for 300.00 and later he bought his brother, Lige's (Elijah) property which was situated just above the land he had purchased.

"Lige" had bought his land from G.Tom Hawkins who at one time was a state representative, an attorney and a school teacher. At the time George Washington came to John Moore's Branch there were three log buildings on the Creek. He lived in one with his family and later he hired a Mr. Elswick to move his sawmill to John Moore's Branch.

Mr. Elswick cut and sawed timber for George Washington Wright for a new home. The house burned many years later after the death of George Washington and his wife. The chimney is still standing (just below the Wright Cemetery). At the same time in 1911 George Washington built a school house for the county on John Moore's Branch from the timber he had cut and sawed. George Washington eventually owned the majority of property on John Moore's Branch, 500 to 600 acres of land.