Susan Blanch Wright

Brief Life History of Susan Blanch

When Susan Blanch Wright was born on 18 July 1895, in Mount Moriah, Harrison, Missouri, United States, her father, Isaac Henry Wright, was 31 and her mother, Nancy Jane Kinnison, was 19. She married Andrew Sherman Souders in 1911, in Harrison, Missouri, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Harrison, Missouri, United States in 1935 and Sheridan Township, Daviess, Missouri, United States in 1940. She died on 18 January 1985, in Gallatin Township, Clay, Missouri, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Mount Ayr Cemetery, Jefferson Township, Daviess, Missouri, United States.

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Family Time Line

Andrew Sherman Souders
1884–1960
Susan Blanch Wright
1895–1985
Marriage: 1911
Helen Colleen Souders
1914–2010
Garland Grand Souders
1917–1982
Everett Sherman Souders
1918–2004
Emmitt James Souders
1920–1990
Gladys Lucille Souders
1922–1998
Edna Pearl Souders
1926–1983

Sources (10)

  • Susan B Sonders in household of Rosa Olson, "Kansas State Census, 1925"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Blanch Wright - Church record: birth-name: Blanch Wright
  • Blanch Wright Souders, "Find A Grave Index"

World Events (8)

1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson

A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.

1898 · War with the Spanish

After the explosion of the USS Maine in the Havana Harbor in Cuba, the United States engaged the Spanish in war. The war was fought on two fronts, one in Cuba, which helped gain their independence, and in the Philippines, which helped the US gain another territory for a time.

1919 · The Eighteenth Amendment

The Eighteenth Amendment established a prohibition on all intoxicating liquors in the United States. As a result of the Amendment, the Prohibition made way for bootlegging and speakeasies becoming popular in many areas. The Eighteenth Amendment was then repealed by the Twenty-first Amendment. Making it the first and only amendment that has been repealed.

Name Meaning

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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