When Lucinda Wright was born on 8 May 1857, in Kentucky, United States, her father, William Wright, was 25 and her mother, Elizabeth Owens, was 21. She married Marion P. Cline on 27 November 1926, in Decatur, Indiana, United States. She lived in Jackson Township, Decatur, Indiana, United States in 1880 and Clinton Township, Decatur, Indiana, United States in 1900. She died about 1944, in Greensburg, Washington Township, Decatur, Indiana, United States, at the age of 88.
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Kentucky sided with the Union during the Civil War, even though it is a southern state.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
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.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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