Brief Life History of Ella
When Ella Wright was born on 31 January 1872, in Mayfield, Graves, Kentucky, United States, her father, Josiah Thomas Wright, was 30 and her mother, Fredonia Jane "Polly" Wright, was 31. She died on 22 April 1961, in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 89, and was buried in Paducah, McCracken, Kentucky, United States.
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Sources (8)
- Ella Wright in household of Joseph T Wright, "United States Census, 1880"
- Ella Wright, "Kentucky Death Records, 1911-1963"
- Ella Wright, "Kentucky, Vital Record Indexes, 1911-1999"
World Events (8)
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
1892 · The Radio is invented
Kentucky native Nathan Stubblefield invented the radio in 1892
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.
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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