... My grandfather's name on my father's side was Moses Wright. I am inclined to think he was born and ever lived in North Carolina. His father came from Ireland. Moses Wright married Margaret Edmondson. I do not know where she was raised, perhaps in North Carolina. Some time after their marriage my grandfather became a local preacher in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and traveled some circuits as supply under Bishop Asbury. He and grandmother reared nine children. Some may have died in infancy; I do not know. ... My Grandfather Wright died before my father was fully grown, leaving some small children on grandmother's hands to rear. They lived by farming. Grandmother was a very devoted Christian woman, praying in her family when grandfather was not at home to pray. ...
