U.S. President Barack Obama's 3-Great Grandfather.

Found in The Sedan Lance Wednesday May 9, 1894, page 3, Column 2, Volume 4

Reverend Joseph Wright departed this life April 29, 1894. Aged 74 years, 8 months and 29 days. He was the father of 21 children, of which 18 are still living, and an aged companion to mourn their loss, three children and his first wife having pre-ceeded him to the spirit land many years ago. At the age of 14 he gave his heart to God, and has served in the pulpit 51 long years, he was a man of deep thought and his ideas original, his sermons were deep and searching, touching the hearts of both saints and sinners. The people of St. Charles will long remember his last discourse delivered on second Sunday of March 1894, at the St. Charles school house. His death was sudden but not altogether unexpected. He was born in Kentucky, and died at his home near Hale. The bereaved wife and children have the sympathy and prayers of the many friends of Father Wright. The friends and neighbors that so kindly assisted in his bural have the thanks of the bereaved family.

Wright was born in Kentucky 1819 and his first wife was born in 1818 North Carolina. They lived in Overton County, TN and part of their children born here. Then moved on a wagon train with other people from overton county to Carroll County, Arkansas in the Dry Fork area. Joseph Samuel WRIGHT was a Methodist Episcopal Church South Minister, Farmer, Teacher and Eye Doctor. He was born July 31, 1819 in Kentucky and we think his family was from N.C. He married Sarah Ababiah BROWN between 1839-1840. Her parents were Richard and Hannah BROWN. They moved the WRIGHT family to Dry Fork, Carroll County, Arkansas on a wagon train. The last child born in TN was on April 07, 1850 and the next one born was in Arkansas on October 25, 1852. Sarah the first wife died between 1852-1857. They had 8 children: James Mitchell WRIGHT married Susan Minerva HEDGESPETH, Eliza A. WRIGHT died 1859. Obediah Richard WRIGHT married Saphronia Franzine FULTZ. John M. WRIGHT infant death. Hannah Brown WRIGHT married Richard T. CHADWICK and William GILSTRAP. Linnuary J. WRIGHT married Asbury OAKLEY. Armina Matilda WRIGHT married George Allen CHADWICK. Rachel Amanda WRIGHT married James Andrew WHITELEY.

After his first wife died he married Frances Ann ALLRED. They had 13 children: Louis Burr, Sarah Melvina, Thomas Bradley, Mary Ann, Nancy Jane, Catherine Alice, Abner Fletcher, Emma Josephine, Margaret Isabel, Iredale Dillard, William Worth, Martha Smith, Benjamin Franklin Wright. and others went to Cumberland co., KY and subsequently to Cole, Co. Illinois.