History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with
Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious,
Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons
and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,
Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 934, Vermont Township
Granville Wright, agriculturist and stock-raiser, sec. 8; P. O.,
Table Grove; born in Overton Co., Tenn., in 1820. Jonathan Wright, his
father, was a native of North Carolina, a wheelwright at first,
afterwards farmer; he married Jane Berry, a daughter of Wm. Berry, of
Abingdon, Va., and had 6 children, of whom Granville was the eldest.
About 1829 the family moved to Montgomery Co., Ind., and in 1836 to
this tp., purchasing and settling upon 160 acres of land. In 1846 he
was married to Miss Elizabeth M. Curr, daughter of Amaziah Curr, by
whom he had 6 children, 4 now living and in this county. Mrs. W. died
in 1860, and the next year Mr. W. married Miss Amazinda, daughter of
James Fonton, and of this marriage there were two children. His wife
died in 1868, and Mr. W. married Lucy M. Kinney, daughter of R. W.
Upson. They had one child, who died Dec. 16, 1876. Mr. W. now owns 320
acres of valuable land in this tp., and 380 in McDonough Co., and is a
prominent stock-dealer. He has never sought office, but has been School
Trustee.
