Judge Lewis Fields WRIGHT, Sr. b. 1815 , , , Kentucky, USA d. 17 Aug 1865 , Vida, Phelps County, Missouri, USA: KKs Family History

Judge Lewis Fields WRIGHT, Sr.

1815 - 1865 (50 years)

Name	Lewis Fields WRIGHT
Prefix	Judge
Suffix	Sr.
Born	1815	, , , Kentucky, USA [1, 2]
1840 US Census	1 Jun 1840	, , Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA [3]
	Age: <30y
	He was represented by a mark on the census for a male between the ages of 20 and 30
		1840 U.S. census, Missouri, Pulaski County [Various]
Land Purchase	10 Aug 1841	, , Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA [4]
	T35N, R8W, Sect.4, SE 1/4 of SW 1/4 the South East quarter of the South West quarter of Section four in Township thirty-five North, of Range eight West, in the District of Land subject to sale at Jackson, Missouri, containing forty acres Patentee: LOUIS F WRIGHT Issue Date: 8/10/1841 Land Office: Jackson Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566 State: MISSOURI Acres: 40 Metes/Bounds: No Document Nr.: 7351 Accession/Serial Nr.: MO3500__.493 BLM Serial Nr.: MO NO S/N
		Land Record for WRIGHT, "Louis" F., 1841
Land Purchase	1 Feb 1848	, , Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA [5]
	T35N, R8W, Sect.5, NW 1/4 of NE 1/4 the North West quarter of the North East quarter of Secion five, in Township Thirty-five North, of Range Eight West, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Jackson Missouri containing Thirty-nine acres and fifty three and a half hundredths of an acre Patentee: LEWIS F WRIGHT Issue Date: 2/1/1848 Land Office: Jackson Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) State: MISSOURI Acres: 39.535 Metes/Bounds: No Document Nr.: 8964 Accession/Serial Nr.: MO3540__.164 BLM Serial Nr.: MO NO S/N
		Land Record for WRIGHT, Lewis F., 1848
Occupation	1850 [6]
	farmer
1850 US Census	1 Jun 1850	, District #72, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA [6]
	Age: 35y
	He was recorded as the head of household and 35 years old at the time of this census. His occupation was recorded as "farmer", and Kentucky was his reported birthplace.
		1850 U.S. census, Missouri, Pulaski County, District #72 [ARTHUR and WRIGHT]
Land Purchase	1 Apr 1858	, , Phelps County, Missouri, USA [7]
	T35N, R8W, Sect. 5, NE 1/4 of NE 1/4 T35N, R8W, Sect. 4, W 1/2 of SE 1/4 (includes Yancy Spring) the North East quarter of the North East quarter of Section five; and the West half of the South East quarter of Section 4, in Township Thirty-five North, of Range Eight West, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Jackson Missouri containing One hundred and nineteen acres and fifty three and a half hundredths of an acre Patentee: LEWIS F WRIGHT Issue Date: 4/1/1858 Land Office: Jackson Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) State: MISSOURI Acres: 119.535 Metes/Bounds: No Document Nr.: 17035 Accession/Serial Nr.: MO3840__.166 BLM Serial Nr.: MO NO S/N
		Land Record for WRIGHT, Lewis F., 1858
Land Purchase	1 Dec 1858	, , Phelps County, Missouri, USA [8]
	T35N, R8W, Sect.5, E 1/2 of SE 1/4 the East half of the South East quarter of Section five, in Township thirty-five North, of Range eight West, in the District of Land subject to sale at Jackson, Missouri containing 80 acres Patentee: LEWIS F WRIGHT Issue Date: 12/1/1858 Land Office: Jackson Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566) State: MISSOURI Acres: 80 Metes/Bounds: No Document Nr.: 25193 Accession/Serial Nr.: MO3850__.365 BLM Serial Nr.: MO NO S/N
		Land Record for WRIGHT, Lewis F., 1858
Occupation	From 6 Apr 1859 to 6 Apr 1861 [9]
	judge
1860 US Census	1 Jun 1860	, Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, USA [2]
	Age: 45y
	He was recorded as L.F. Wright in the household of E.D. Kitchen and was 45 years old at the time of this census. His occupation was reported as "farmer" and "Kentucky" was again his recorded birthplace. Judge Wright's family was counted twice in 1860. Once here, and once on the census for Little Piney Twp.
		1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Phelps County, Rolla [KITCHEN, E.D., WRIGHT, Lewis F] Lewis F. Wright household was counted twice in 1860; once in the household of E.D. Kitchen in Rolla and once in Little Piney, MO.
1860 US Census	1 Jun 1860	, Little Piney Twp., Phelps County, Missouri, USA [10]
	Age: 45y
	He was recorded as "L.F. Wright", the head of household, and was 45 years old at the time of this census. His occupation was reported as "farmer" and Kentucky was his recorded birthplace. Judge Wright's family was counted twice in 1860. Once here, and once on the Rolla census, in the home of E.D. Kitchen.
		1860 U.S. census, Missouri, Phelps County, Little Piney [WRIGHT, Lewis F] Lewis F. Wright household was counted twice in 1860; once in the household of E.D. Kitchen in Rolla and once in Little Piney, MO.
Land Purchase	10 Sep 1860	, , Texas County, Missouri, USA [11]
	T29N, R8W, Sect. 17, SW 1/4 of NE 1/4 T29N, R8W, Sect. 17, SE 1/4 of NW 1/4 T29N, R8W, Sect. 17, NE 1/4 of SW 1/4 T29N, R8W, Sect. 17, NW 1/4 of SE 1/4 ... there has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Warrant No. 30,750 for 160 acres, in favor of Isaac Wright, Private, Captain Stephens Company, Virginia Militia War 1812 with evidence that the same has been duly located up the South West quarter of the North East quarter, the South East quarter of the North West quarter, the North East quarter of the South West quarter and the North West quarter of the South East quarter of section seventeen in Township twenty-nine North of Range Eight West in the District of Lands subject to sale at Jackson, Missouri containing one hundred and sixty acres. Patentee: LEWIS F WRIGHT Warrantee: ISAAC WRIGHT Military Rank: PRIVATE Issue Date: 9/10/1860 Land Office: Jackson Cancelled: No U.S. Reservations: No Mineral Reservations: No Authority: March 3, 1855: ScripWarrant Act of 1855 (10 Stat. 701) State: MISSOURI Acres: 160 Metes/Bounds: No Document Nr.: 30750 Accession/Serial Nr.: MW-0462-252
		Military Patent Certificate for WRIGHT, Lewis F., 10 September 1860
Obituary	17 Aug 1865 [12]
	WRIGHT, Judge Lewis F. and four of his sons taken from their home and murdered on the road between Rolla and Houston last Tuesday by militia under Col. Babcoke of Miller Co. Two sons had been in the the rebel army. A 5th son was left at home with his stepmother.[sic] Liberty Tribune, 1 Sep 1865 Missouri Republican, St. Louis, 21 Aug 1865 [NOTE: A 5th son (out of 6 sons) and the stepmother was NOT left at home... the 5th son was Anthony K. Wright, who was the bushwacker whom Babcoke's posse was originally trying to capture. Anthony was in hiding at the time of the massacre. The stepmother, Mary (Kester) Wright, was riding some distance behind the Wright men when they were murdered. The 6th unmentioned son (Isaac N. Wright) was killed at the Battle of Pea Ridge in 1862.]
Died	17 Aug 1865	, Vida, Phelps County, Missouri, USA [13, 14]
	Cause: murder
Buried	19 Aug 1865	King Cemetery, Cold Spring Twp., Phelps County, Missouri, USA [15]
	Judge Wright and his four sons were all buried, one on top of the other, in an unmarked grave in King Cemetery. King Cemetery is on land now owned by Claudia Mathis on Little Piney River
		Gravestone for WRIGHT, Judge Lewis Fields
News Item	24 Aug 1865	, Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri, USA
	source: The Howard Union, Glasgow, Missouri 24 Aug 1865, p3, 1st column, "Terrible Affair in Phelps County." NEWS-WRIGHT-Murders-GlasgowMO-1865 Thu, Aug 24, 1865 – Page 3 · The Howard Union (Glasgow, Missouri) · Newspapers.com
Occupation	store owner
Probate	John Jackson was the administrator of the Lewis Wright estate. The 15 June 1867 deed records of St. Louis filed 19 August 1867, show that Anthony Wright and John Jackson met in St. Louis and finalized the land transaction for Lewis F. Wright's estate. The sum of $800 was given to Anthony Wright for his 1/5 share of all lands in the estate. Of Lewis Wright's children only one son, Anthony, and 3 daughters were left as heirs of the Lewis Wright estate. John Jackson came back from St. Louis and recorded the St. Louis transaction at the Phelps County courthouse. At his death Lewis Wright owned 1150 acres of land in Phelps County and 570 acres in Dent County.
FamilySearch ID	FamilySearch.org, ID KVJ1-DSF
FindAGrave	FindAGrave.com, Memorial #24278648
Notes	Lewis F. Wright was a judge who was murdered along with his four sons, Tartan, Isaac, Lewis and Gilbert, on 17 Aug 1865.
Person ID	I4162	Kult-Lawhorn-Case-Collier Family Tree \| Collier Branch
Last Modified	9 Oct 2021

Father	Isaac WRIGHT, b. 6 Jul 1786, Crooked Run Friends Meeting House, Front Royal, Frederick [now Warren] County, Virginia, USA , d. Abt 1864 (Age 77 years)
Mother	Agnes SMITH, b. 1785, , , , Virginia, USA , d. Between 1 Jun 1850 and Apr 1857, , , , Missouri, USA (Age 65 years)
Married	27 Dec 1813	, St. Thomas' Parish, Orange County, Virginia, USA
Family ID	F151	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1 Frances KITCHEN, b. Abt 1813, , , Washington County, Kentucky, USA , d. Between 1860 and Feb 1865, , , Phelps County, Missouri, USA (Age ~ 47 years)

Married 1 Oct 1835 , , Crawford [later Pulaski then Phelps] County, Missouri, USA [17, 18, 19]

Marriage Record for WRIGHT, Lewis and KITCHEN, Frances
Transcription:

State of Misouri }
County of Crawford }

I do hereby Certify that I did join in matrimony Lewis Right and Frances Kitchen on the 1st day of October A.D. 1835

G.H. Coppedge J.P.
Truly Recorded Nov 4th 1835

Carter T Wood, Clerk

Children

	1. Tartan Smith WRIGHT, b. 1838, , Yancy Mills, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 17 Aug 1865, , Vida, Phelps County, Missouri, USA (Age 27 years)
	2. Isaac N. WRIGHT, b. 1840, , Yancy Mills, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 7 Mar 1862, Battle of Pea Ridge, Elkhorn, Benton County, Arkansas, USA (Age 22 years)
+	3. Anthony Kitchen WRIGHT, b. Oct 1841, , Yancy Mills, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 1926 (Age ~ 84 years)
	4. Elias Davidson WRIGHT, b. 1843, , Yancy Mills, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 17 Aug 1865, , Vida, Phelps County, Missouri, USA (Age 22 years)
	5. Lewis F. WRIGHT, Jr., b. 1845, , Yancy Mills, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 17 Aug 1865, , Vida, Phelps County, Missouri, USA (Age 20 years)
	6. Gilbert Benjamin WRIGHT, b. 1848, , Yancy Mills, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 17 Aug 1865, , Vida, Phelps County, Missouri, USA (Age 17 years)
+	7. Agnes Ann WRIGHT, b. 21 Jan 1850, , Yancy Mills, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 6 Jan 1915, Oak St. between 6th & 7th, Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, USA (Age 64 years)
+	8. Margaret Ann WRIGHT, b. 26 Feb 1851, , , Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 1 Aug 1909, , , Phelps County, Missouri, USA (Age 58 years)
+	9. Susan Elizabeth WRIGHT, b. 1855, , Yancy Mills, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA , d. 1934, , , Benton County, Arkansas, USA (Age 79 years)

Last Modified 4 May 2021

Family ID F607 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Family 2	Mary NEWPORT, b. 16 Apr 1824, d. 26 Oct 1869 (Age 45 years)
Married	9 Feb 1865	, , Phelps County, Missouri, USA [20, 21, 22]
Married		Marriage Record for WRIGHT, Lewis F. and KESTER, Mary Transcription: State of Misouri } SS County of Phelps } L.F. Wright and Mary Kester I do hereby certify that I Solomnized the rites of Matrimony between L.F. Wright and Mary Kester both of Phelps County Mo this February 9th 1865. J.D. Marsh Justice of the Peace Filed and Recorded March 2nd AD 1865 CP Walker clerk By W. H. Hazard, DC
Last Modified	4 May 2021
Family ID	F154	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

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	Born - 1815 - , , , Kentucky, USA
	Married - 1 Oct 1835 - , , Crawford [later Pulaski then Phelps] County, Missouri, USA
	1840 US Census - Age: <30y - 1 Jun 1840 - , , Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA
	Land Purchase - 10 Aug 1841 - , , Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA
	Land Purchase - 1 Feb 1848 - , , Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA
	1850 US Census - Age: 35y - 1 Jun 1850 - , District #72, Pulaski [later Phelps] County, Missouri, USA
	Land Purchase - 1 Apr 1858 - , , Phelps County, Missouri, USA
	Land Purchase - 1 Dec 1858 - , , Phelps County, Missouri, USA
	1860 US Census - Age: 45y - 1 Jun 1860 - , Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, USA
	1860 US Census - Age: 45y - 1 Jun 1860 - , Little Piney Twp., Phelps County, Missouri, USA
	Land Purchase - 10 Sep 1860 - , , Texas County, Missouri, USA
	Married - 9 Feb 1865 - , , Phelps County, Missouri, USA
	Died - Cause: murder - 17 Aug 1865 - , Vida, Phelps County, Missouri, USA
	Buried - 19 Aug 1865 - King Cemetery, Cold Spring Twp., Phelps County, Missouri, USA

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Home of WRIGHT, Judge Lewis Fields Sr.
Judge Lewis Fields Wright Sr. built this house at the interesection of the Little Piney River and what is now Rt. 63

Reference Kathy Kult, KKs Family History (https://kks-fam.net/getperson.php?personID=I4162&tree=1: accessed 28 June 2022), "Judge Lewis Fields WRIGHT, Sr.."

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[S1183] 1850 U.S. census, Pulaski County, Missouri, population schedule, District #72, p. 109, dwelling 522, family 532, Lewis F. Wright household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 August 2006); citing National Archives microfilm publication M432, roll 411. (Quality Assessment: 2).
[S716] 1860 U.S. census, Phelps County, Missouri, population schedule, Rolla, p. 4 (penned), dwelling 26, family 26, E.D. Kitchen household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 7 August 2006); citing National Archives microfilm publication M653, roll 639. (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S693] 1840 U.S. census, Pulaski County, Missouri, no township, p. 216 (stamped), line 21, Lewis F. Wright household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 4 July 2006); citing National Archives microfilm publication M704, roll 229. (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S578] Bureau of Land Management, "Land Patent Search," database with images, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 4 November 2008), Louis F. Wright (Phelps County, Missouri), cash patent no. 7351; (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S578] Bureau of Land Management, "Land Patent Search," database with images, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 4 November 2008), Lewis F. Wright (Phelps County, Missouri), cash patent no. 8964; (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S1183] 1850 U.S. census, Pulaski County, Missouri, population schedule, District #72, p. 109, dwelling 522, family 532, Lewis F. Wright household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 2 July 2016); citing National Archives microfilm publication M432, roll 411. (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S578] Bureau of Land Management, "Land Patent Search," database with images, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 4 November 2008), Lewis F. Wright (Phelps County, Missouri), cash patent no. 17035; (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S578] Bureau of Land Management, "Land Patent Search," database with images, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 4 November 2008), Lewis F. Wright (Phelps County, Missouri), cash patent no. 25193; (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S223] Cecil King, History of Yancy Mills, Phelps Co., Missouri, (Ozark, MissourivDogwood Printing, 1996), p. 138.
[S272] 1860 U.S. census, Phelps County, Missouri, population schedule, Little Piney Township, p. 83 (penned), dwelling 539, family 539, L.F. Wright household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 July 2006); citing National Archives microfilm publication M653, roll 639. (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S578] Bureau of Land Management, "Land Patent Search," database with images, General Land Office Records (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/PatentSearch : accessed 4 November 2008), Lewis F. Wright (Phelps County, Missouri), military patent no. 30750; (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S194] Lois Stanley, George F. Wilson and Mary Helen Wilson, compilers, "Death Records from Missouri Newspapers: The Civil War Years, January 1861-December 1865", (Greenville, South Carolina : Southern Historical Press, 1990) page 189, entry for WRIGHT, Judge Lewis F. and four sons (1865); citing Liberty Tribune (Liberty, Missouri), 1 Sep 1865, n.p., and Missouri Republican (St. Louis, Missouri) 21 Aug 1865, n.p. (Quality Assessment: 2).
[S223] Cecil King, History of Yancy Mills, Phelps Co., Missouri, (Ozark, MissourivDogwood Printing, 1996), Chapter 4, pp. 123-139. (Quality Assessment: 2).
[S787] Primary Source unavailable, Phelps County started recording deaths in 1883, therefore no death record is available from Phelps County records..
[S567] King Cemetery (Liberty Twp., Phelps County, Missouri; LAT/LON 37.812007N, -91.858304W; take Rt. 63 south from Rolla to Vida area; turn west on County Road 7240 (aka Vessie Rd.) Take this road all the way until you get to a T in the road (approx. 3.5 miles). Turn left (still Vessie Road/CR7240) and drive approx. 1/2 mile until you get to the crossing of Little Piney creek, cross the creek, turn a corner, and Claudie Mathis farm is the first gate on the left. You will need to contact Claudie Mathis at --- to get into the gate. Once in, go 1/2 mile to her farm (she'll probably meet you) then keep following the gravel road for another 1/2 mile until it runs out into a clearing. The King Cemetery is just south of the clearing. It should be fenced in, it was cleaned out by Kevin Karnes in 2018. New military gravestones were installed in 2018. Stones for Judge Wright and his two youngest sons who were murdered will be installed the Fall of 2018. For an escort to the cemetery, contact the Phelps County Genealogical Society), Judge Lewis Fields Wright Sr. marker; personally read and photographed, personally read and photographed, 16 September 2018. (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S223] Cecil King, History of Yancy Mills, Phelps Co., Missouri, (Ozark, MissourivDogwood Printing, 1996), p. 125.
[S796] Crawford County, Missouri, "Marriages," (1831-1871), A:28, entry for Lewis RIGHT and Frances KITCHEN, 1 October 1835; MSA microfilm C2044, Missouri State Archives, Jefferson City; MSA microfilm C2044, Missouri State Archive, Jefferson City. (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S34] Mary Ruth Case, "The Case/Collier Family Genealogy," compiled 10 Dec 1990, supplied 2004 by Case, Rolla, Missouri; no specific documentation for any piece of data. (Quality Assessment: 2).
[S223] Cecil King, History of Yancy Mills, Phelps Co., Missouri, (Ozark, MissourivDogwood Printing, 1996), p. 128.
[S788] Phelps County, Missouri, "Marriages," (1857-1867), A:166, L.F. Wright and Mary Kester, 9 February 1865; MSA microfilm C20225, Missouri State Archive, Jefferson City. (Quality Assessment: 3).
[S174] Homer Crowell and John Usry, compilers, Phelps County, Missouri Marriages, Book "A", 4 September 1857-17 February 1867, (Rolla, Missouri : Phelps County Genealogical Society, 1983), (Quality Assessment: 2).
[S635] Robert M. Doerr, Phelps County (Mo.) Marriages, 1857-1910, (Rolla, Missouri : Phelps County Genealogical Society, 2000), (Quality Assessment: 2).

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