Joel Ellis Wright

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Joel Ellis Wright

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Virginia
Death: September 24, 1879 (62)
Letcher, Letcher, Kentucky, United States (kicked in the head by a horse)
Place of Burial: Jenkins, Letcher County, Kentucky, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Joel Wright and Susannah M. Wright
Husband of Elizabeth Agnes Wright
Father of "Devil John" Wright, US Marshal; Sarah Potter; William Jesse Wright; Joel Martin Wright; Samuel J Wright and 6 others
Brother of Margaret Wright; James Wright; John Wesley Wright; Hiram Wright; Elizabeth Quillen and 9 others

Managed by: Betty Jean Kroupa
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About Joel Ellis Wright



https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/36036529/joel-martin-wright

Joel married Susannah Bentley about 1805.Susannah was born about 1787 in Virginia and died in Apr 1860 in Letcher County,Kentucky about age 75.

Children from this marriage were:

v.Joel E. "Ellis" Wright was born on 7 Jul 1817 in Lebanon, Russell County,Virginia, died on 24 Sep 1879 in Kentucky at age 62,and was buried in Payne Gap,Pike County,Kentucky.


From great-great-grandson Steve Conley:

"His death at 65 was traumatic. Eliza had a nightmare about a horse and begged him that morning to be careful with his horses. Instead, he beat one of them in the barn. The horse kicked him in the head and he never recovered!"

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Joel Ellis Wright's Timeline

1817
July 17, 1817
Virginia
1841
1841
1841
Letcher, Letcher, Kentucky, United States
1844
April 17, 1844
On the Kentucky River, near Kona, Letcher County, Kentucky, United States
1847
March 10, 1847
Letcher County, Kentucky, United States
1850
1850
1851
December 1851
Letcher, Letcher, Kentucky, United States
1853
September 1, 1853
Letcher, Letcher, Kentucky, United States
1856
November 29, 1856
Letcher, Letcher, Kentucky, United States