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were buried in Myrtle Springs Cemetery, six miles
northwest of Quitman.
Submitted by Mrs. Buena Wright White
DOCTOR WILLIAM EPAPHRODITUS
HIGHTOWER WRIGHT, born 27 April 1826 in
Georgia, and his wife, Fannie Aycock Wright, came to
Wood County in the early 1850's. The Wrights settled
about 2 miles east of Quitman near the present location
of Shiloh Cemetery.
The Wright's first child born in Georgia, died in
infancy. Later a son, Joe Wright, was born, and a
daughter, Fannie, who married W. E. DuPree.
After the death of Fannie Aycock Wright, Dr.
Wright married Miss Lucy Quarles of Wood County.
The children of this marriage who survived were:
Ernest, who married Mollie Malone; Alice, married
James Turner, and Katie who remained single. Alice
and James Turner were the parents of ten children,
nine sons and one daughter, Ella Maye Turner
Blaylock.
Dr. William E. H. Wright was married the third
time to a widow with two children, Mrs. Lydia Frances.
Her children were Ida May and Mark Frances. One
son, Reuben, was born to Dr. W. E. H. and Lydia
Frances Wright. Reubin Wright married Viola Smart.
Dr. Wright was a physician, a Baptist minister,
an industrialist and a politician of strong convictions.
In the early days he erected a water-powered grist mill
and cotton gin on his farm, utilizing the water from the
big glade south of his home. Wheat and corn were
brought from many parts of the county to be ground at
Dr. Wright's mill. Many of his customers came from
Smith County. One of his daughters reported having
counted more than 100 wagons waiting in line to have
grain ground into meal or flour or to have cotton
ginned.
H. Y. Lively and Ambrose Fitzgerald were co-
workers with Dr. Wright in the Baptist ministerial
work of Wood County. The three were active in this
field as long as they were physically able.It was a familiar sight to see Dr. Wright riding his
horse to visit his patients, his saddlebag filled with
such medicine as could be packed into it. He often took
short cuts, fording streams and working his way
through dense woods. Later, the doctor bought a gig in
which to make his calls.
Dr. Wright died 20 May 1897 and was buried in the
Ebenezer Cemetery.
Source: Ona Wood
GEORGE REYNOLDS YANTIS came to Wood
County in the early 1880's. He was born in Kentucky,
son of Enoch and Ruth Christman Yantis, 20 February
1820. He married Nancy Caldwell, also of Kentucky.
Yantis sold his Kentucky property in 1851, and
leaving his family behind, came with a group of 12 or 14
families by boat toward the West. They were delayed
in Tennessee where ice had formed on the Cumberland
River. The party came by way of New Orleans, landing
at Shreveport in February 1852.
Finally arriving in Rusk, Texas, Yantis began
scouting for a place to settle. He rode a mule to Austin
and returned by way of Waco then made further ex-
plorations in a northerly direction. Liking what he had
found, George Yantis returned to Kentucky to Bring
his wife and seven children to Texas. On the 20 June
1862, the Yantis family set out by wagon train. Within
the year, several members of the party died of typhoid
fever.
In the early 1880's, the George R. Yantis family
settled in the western part of Wood County and erected
a grist mill and gin. The community was called Yantis
in his honor, and he became the first postmaster. He
was appointed 28 January 1885.
The children of George R. and Nancy Yantis were
John W., Harriet E., Ruth Jane, Mary Ann, James
Lapsley, Emily C., William O., Jesse B., Amanda Jane
and Elizabeth Margaret.
George Yantis died in 1907.
Source: Gipsy Yantis Howard164
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