Marriage - Lewis Wright & Edna Gregory

    
    They say "when you stop looking for something, you'll find it!" While I was recently perusing ancestry.com on no particular mission, I unexpectedly found the Marriage Record for my paternal Great-Grandparents Lewis & Edna Wright. Prior to this discovery, I only knew they were married  "somewhere" in Canada. Otherwise I did have knowledge of the pertinent information found in this record. Yet it is interesting to actually see the journal entry, and serves as a vital document of proof. Kudos to the folks at ancestry.com who are diligently adding scads of records online daily. 
      

 MARRIAGES (p. 68)
 County of Essex - Division of Windsor

 Name of Groom: Wright Lewis L
 Rank or Profession: Farmer
 Bachelor, Widowed, Divorced: B
 Age: 28
 Religious Denomination: Quaker
 Usual Residence: Mt. Victory, O
 Name & Surname of Father: Wright S L
 Rank or Profession of Father: Farmer
 Name & Maiden Name of Mother: Bennett Eliza J
 Name of Bride: Gregory Edna O
 Spinster, Widowed, Divorced: S
 Age: 16
 Religious Denomination: Methodist
 Usual Residence: Marysville, O
 Name & Surname of Father: Gregory G
 Rank or Profession of Father: Laborer
 Name & Maiden Name of Mother: Cross Mary
 When, Where, & How Married: 
   24 Jan 1910 
   Windsor, Essex 
   By License
 Witnesses:
   Hughson Bertha, Windsor
   Hughson Ruth, Windsor
 Date of Return: 4 Feb1910
 Signature of Person Solemnizing Marriage:
   Hughson L.S., Windsor   
  
Source: Archives of Ontario, Series MS932, Reel 147 
Source Information: Ancestry.com and Genealogical Research Library (Brampton, Ontario, Canada).

Ontario, Canada Marriages, 1801-1928 [database online], Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. 



Wagon "Wheelers" to Ohio

      In the year 1817, my newly wed paternal 4th-Great-Grandparents Ezeriah and Rachel (Lyon) Wheeler, ventured from New York to Ohio. Married the previous year, they set out to build a life for themselves in the rolling hills of Athens County, raising a family of seven children: Deborah, Lucinda, Edmund, William, Lois, Charles, and Dorus.  
     Of my direct lineage, the eldest Deborah married Samuel Wright in 1839.   
     Sadly Ezeriah died in 1841, leaving behind his widow Rachel with children still living at home. Four years later Rachel married widower Nicholas Border, who was a father of eleven children. And for the remainder of their days they enjoyed a happy life together with their blended family. 
     An article was written in the The Athens Messenger (2 Oct 1879), reporting detailed events of a family reunion. Here is a vivid excerpt telling how the young Wheelers traveled to Ohio: 

    ...Mrs. Border, whose maiden name was Rachel Lyon, was born in 1800, near Albany, New York. Married Ezekiah Wheeler in 1816 and the following year emigrated to Ohio, (making the trip in a big wagon. They subsequently returned to New York again journeying in a wagon, thus across the mountains three times--not so easy a task in these days of railroads) settling in Alexander Township, Athens County, then a wilderness hitherto undisturbed by sound of ringing ax or echoing shout of the sturdy tiller of the soil, the howling wolves and the mingled cries of the feathered denizens of the forest alone breaking in upon the settler...  
    
     Rachel (Lyon) Wheeler Border died at her residence in New England, Athens County, OH, on February, 1882. By all those who loved and respected her, she was fondly known as Mother Border.  

Tombstone Tuesday - Lewis & Edna (Gregory) Wright

My paternal Great-Grandparents

Lewis Leora Wright

Born: 31 Jan 1879 in Union County, OH

Died: 7 Jan 1940 in Union County, OH

Edna Opal Gregory

Born: 23 Feb 1893 in Union County, OH

Died: 25 Apr 1976 in Union County, OH

Married on 24 Jan 1910 in Canada

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Byhalia Cemetery

Byhalia, Union County, OH

Located on both sides of Lingrell Road (CR344);

less than 1-1/2 mi. west of SR31