When Rebecca Wright was born on 15 June 1810, in Montgomery, Ohio, United States, her father, Reynolds Wright, was 30 and her mother, Phebe Ann Parson, was 23. She married Daniel Storm on 13 August 1828, in Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States. They were the parents of at least 8 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Sheffield Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States in 1850. She died on 21 July 1856, in Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States, at the age of 46, and was buried in Stockwell, Lauramie Township, Tippecanoe, Indiana, United States.
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English and Scottish: occupational name for a craftsman or maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Middle English and Older Scots wriht, wright, wricht, writh, write (Old English wyrhta, wryhta) ‘craftsman’, especially ‘carpenter, joiner’. The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright ), but when used in isolation it often referred to a builder of windmills or watermills. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
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