Robert Wright (b. 1847)

WRIGHT, GRUMMITT

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 6/16/2005 at 12:00:42

Wright, Robert, farmer, Section 29; PO Fayette; was born in Yorkshire, England, March 31, 1847; came to this county in 1871; has 160 acres of land valued at $3,200, Married Catherine Grummitt in 1870; she was born in Lincolnshire, England, April 4, 1844. He left England, May 1869; came to America with his father; traveled over nearly all of the Eastern States and part of Canada; returned to England, lived there one year, then came to Ogle Co., Illinois, lived there two years, then came to this Co., where he has resided since.

Page 685, 1878 History of Fayette County, Iowa
Smithfield township