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George Maxam b. 1800 marr Elizabeth Wright b.1802
Wright Family Bible 1800 –Present * will be digital jpg format soon
We have an old Bible in our family Deal of Mt. Carmel , Il. 62863 - this bible was-handed down thru
Elizabeth (Wight)b. 1802--- then James W. Wright b. 1825 family then thru- William Key Wright b.1853 / California (Wheeler) Wright b.1859 family.
* And then 1880 Fred Wright b. 1880 / Edith (Galliher) b. ~ 1891
Last Elsie Geraldine Wright (Deal) family b. 1918 now 86 yrs old

It starts as so: first two entries --- correct is with no (e) or Maxam

George Maxame born 1800 Died Jan. 11 1841 as below e was left off thus Maxam

Elizabeth Maxame born Dec. 12 1802
Elizabeth Wright married George Maxam in 1834 Mar 12 at Gibson Co. Indiana 47670



* I will list WWW sites later as I can do with most doc.s now and hopefully all docs later

This these entries are in English script --by that I mean Fancy-flowing script Good ink
by a very educated scribe- there are other entries in same scripts but not as Fancy -as-below
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Andrew Wright born Aug 14 1822
James Wright born Feb 27 1825
Eliza Phillips Wright born july 24 1828 - D. Feb 13 1912
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James Wright marr. Elizabeth Cunningham before 1842
*and they had 2 children.

George M. Wright born Mar 4 1843
John William Wright born 1849
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** after Elizabeth Cunningham Wrights Death
James Wright marr. Eliza Jane Phillips in 1850
** they had 5- 6 more Children (7-8 total)

Elizabeth - born feb 8 1851
William Key Wright born april 17 1853 - D. Mar 2 1929
Matilda Ellen - born Sept. 6 1855 - D. Feb 9 1907
Sarah M. (Marsalene) - born June 17 1857
Lucinda - born 8 th ? 1860
Laura Alice (Alalis)- born may 8 1861
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William Key Wright marr. California Wheeler Wright
She went by Forney Wright
This union produced 8 or * 9 children
Minnie - born 1878
Fred - born 6 sept 1880
Stella Kate - born mar20 1882
Harry - born mar 11 1885
Frank - born Sept 21 1888
Edna - born April 9 1890
Gladys Pearl - born Jan 13 1895
Lillie - born July 9 1889
* Maria - born 1899
In 1890 census Maria or Muree was listed as 11/12
and because of our bible I relized this was Months.
** Now the dates are right to make her Minnies Daughter ?
*** my mother at 87 can't remember an Aunt Maria ?
Now the entries are in Edith Wright’s hand writing -* she was a good pen- person with great detail
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Fred Wright Married Edith Galliher Wright and Had 4 children
William born
Eddie born
Harold born
Elsie Geraldine born
All these dates are in this bible as are the other 3 Male - Wright children of Fred and Edith
And the Deal family
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Harry Wright had a son Everett in Evansvill ,In Everett Wright - born May 20 1924
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Now there are may more entries in my Grandmothers handwritting (Edith Wright): of our families-Deals and Wrights- Wheelers-
the old bible is too fragile to handle ;
Any way our intrest is to trace The Maxame names
I have ref. several spellings ie Maxime -Mixame
but I believe because of the deliberate style of the scibe It is correct pronounciation.
as Maxame or Maxime
And found out that it was MAXAM but in old script was
Maxame --as history went on from Maxam in marrige ---there are a lot of Maxam names in Gibson County,
In. 47670 history lived full lives there.
any help you could provide would be greatly appreciated --Thanx!!! Roy G Deal
ps if You can't help perhaps you might redirect me.
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at Gibson county site I found the marriage of
George N Maxam and Elizabeth Wright which explaned
the different name at statrt of Bible--this had preplexed me for Quite some time.
Pobably a mystery for 120 years.
We will move on with one other note --It seems that the first two Entries were bigger and more richly written than the next Group down to William Key b. 1857
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Then the names are in even smaller script
After Lucinda the old inks were not used again.
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Now I am putting in all info on gen.s after above Start of bible –plus I will get Burial sites and other info in this
Doc. On WWW As we roll along this winter. ROY G DEAL hotideal@hotmail.com

Note : the digital pictures will point out the start – 1st 120 years of the bible and document it as valid-but the entries after my grand mother Edith took over about 1911 are aged and hard to read but can be extracted. And with the Wright/Deal relatives still living can be improved . So to cut to chase this will be a document
of history with documented improvements and the improvement will be evident and validated by the
jpg pictures. Roy G. Deal hotideal@hotmail.com and contributors some outside family to be listed as
this doc. Evolves.
I know we will have aboard cousins Sandra Wright, Virginia Ann Wright , Billy Wright and Brenda Wright.
They will provide the branches that are specific to their immediate and other important details of memory for inclusion.
Email contacts will be provided with permission only as we go along. For typing purposes. rgd


LINKS TO FAMILIES below on WWW
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Phillips Website: www.familytreedna.com/public/PhillipsWorldwide
E mail info or Questions about Phillips to:
BendsofRiver@aol.com
received from BendsofRiver@aol.com this following email:)
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RECEIVED 11 / 24 /2005 * ( I have made notes on several items )

I have very little on George. He was a son of Adonijah Maxam and Zelpha Whitten - or Whiting.
George was 11th born . He was the 11th of 12 children. *(~ date marr. 1787 & ~ date parents b. ~ 1766--69)

My interest in the first born child, Sylvester B. Maxam --- and I have not researched the others. * (Go back to Sharon)

Circumstances led Sylvester, wife and children to leave Sharon, CT and come to Indiana. *( Note zip 06069)
Brother George came along.
They entered the Ohio River at Pittsburgh and traveled down river to near Evansville. There they took Red Bank Trail north to

Gibson County. They settled between Princeton and Francisco. The original cabin was near Douglas Station which was

known as Maxam Station for years. The railroad took on water and firewood there.

In 1827, George was married in Gibson County to Theodora Woodworth and settled elsewhere. Life was hard at that time and maybe ....Elizabeth Wright was the second wife.

The Bibliography for some of this information can be found in: ??? * * will get info

We Maxams trace back to William Brewster,The Elder of Mayflower fame . *link http://www.feliixplace.com/genealogylists/firstships.html


Also Morris Birbeck , Notes on a journey in America for the Establishment of a colony of English, and Letters from Illinois, Philadelphia 1817

John Bradbury, Travels in the interior of America, 1809-1811. Reprinted in Thwait's Early Western Travels 1748-1846


I remember your name. I E-mailed a couple of years ago giving the Maxam history. You Came back undeliverable !

Tomie Maxam 11/24 2005 E Mail à Tomie34434@aol.com * I was lost then I found no (e)

Late note 11/25/2005
~~~~ on WWW ~~~ WRIGHT MARRIAGES_ GIBSON COUNTY INDIANA 47670 ~~~~~

http://www.rootsquest.com/~jmurphy/gibson/marrt2z.htm

lists marriage of George Maxam and Elizabeth Wright 1834 Mar 12 th
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