George Washington Wright was born 1853 in Letcher 

County, Kentucky, son of Andrew Jackson and Harriet 

Adams, grandson of 

Joel Martin and Susannah (-?-) Wright. 

George married Harriet Addington, a daughter of 

William and Nancy (Kilgore) Addington, in 1876 in 

Letcher County, Kentucky. 

Harriet died in 1932 and George Washington died in 

1936. Both are buried in the Wright Cemetery on 

John Moore's Branch.

	Issue:

	1.  Andrew Jackson Wright

	2.  Thomas Benton Wright

	3.  William Wright 

	4.  Armanda Wright 

	5.  Barbara Wright

	6.  Geneva Wright

	7.  Martha J. Wright

	8.  Franklin Monroe Wright

	9.  Elizabeth Wright

	10. Daniel Boone Wright 

	11. Florence Wright

	12. Booker Wright

	13. Clarissa Wright


	

	According to Phebel Wright, son of 

Franklin Monroe Wright, 

George Washington Wright was born,  grew up 

and married in Letcher County, Kentucky.  The effects 

of the Civil War created much turmoil in Letcher 

County and in 1903 George Washington decided to remove

his family from the area. He sent his son, 

Andrew Jackson (Andy), to the Elkhorn City, Kentucky 

area (John Moore's Branch) to check out the area 

for farm land and timber. Andrew was a young man 

at this time with four small children and he 

discovered there were large tracks of land in the 

area with heavy timber on it. When Andrew (Andy) 

returned to Letcher County 

and told his father what he had found.

George Washington sold his farm in Letcher County 

for $300.00 and came to John Moore's Branch in 1904, 

moving his belongings and family with a wagon and 

a team of horses.  He bought a piece of property on 

John Moore's Branch for 300.00 and later he bought 

his brother,  Lige's (Elijah) property 

which was situated just above the land 

he had purchased.  

"Lige" had bought his land from G.Tom Hawkins who 

at one time was a state representative, an attorney 

and a school teacher.  At the time George Washington 

came to John Moore's Branch there were three 

log buildings on the Creek. He lived in one 

with his family and later he hired a 

Mr. Elswick to move his sawmill to 

John Moore's Branch.  Mr. Elswick cut and sawed 

timber for George Washington 

for a new home. The house burned many years 

later after the death of George Washington and his 

wife and the chimney is still standing (just below 

the Wright Cemetery).  At the same time in 1911 

George Washington built a school house for the 

county on John Moore's Branch from 

the timber he had cut and sawed. George Washington 

eventually owned the majority of property on 

John Moore's Branch, 500 to 600 acres of land.