Lemuel Wright (1825-1873) - Find a Grave Memorial

Lemuel Wright

Birth

8 Feb 1825

Rural Hill, Wilson County, Tennessee, USA

Death

14 Jun 1873 (aged 48)

Rural Hill, Wilson County, Tennessee, USA

Burial

Lemuel Wright Cemetery

Wilson County, Tennessee, USA Add to Map

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Some Family Trees have confused our Lemuel with Lemuel C Wright of Fentress County Tennessee. Lemuel C Wright was the one that fought in War of 1812

my great-grandfather and g-g uncle

The Lebanon Herald records the sudden death of Lemuel Wright, one of the proprietors of Wright's Mills, near Mt. Juliet, in Wilson County, who, in the attempt to throw a band from a driving wheel , broke the band, the end hitting him on the head and knocking him against the wheel from the effects of which he died immediately.

Whig and Tribune, Jackson, TN - Saturday July 5, 1873 page 2

(There was a part of Davidson/Wilson county called Jackson, TN at one time)

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Tennessee, Marriage Records, 1780-2002

Lemuel Wright married Mary Elizabeth Wright on January 4, 1849 in Wilson C TN

Executed by, Wm L Young, J. P. for Wilson CO TN (Issued on Dec 28 1848)

Lemuel Wright and his brother George Wright operated a grist mill and sawmill on George's farm, just north of Suggs Creek, on the north side of Central Pike. George and brother Thomas Wright had purchased the property from their father, Lewis Wright, who had purchased it from the Rutland family. As early as 1804, reference was made to the millworks on the property. By 1870, George and Lemuel were in partnership running the mills. Lemuel was accidentally killed one day when he working at the sawmill. A band slipped and he was killed instantly. After Lemuel's death, the mills were rented out to various millers for a few years, and eventually George's widow Mary signed the property over to Lemuel's widow and children. Some time later, the property was purchased by George and Mary's son, Dr. James Lee Wright.