Joel Ellis Wright & Eliza Agnes Bates

John Wesley "Devil John" Wright Submitted by Sue Blevins Kovack

Abraham Potter and Wife, Sarah Sallie Wright Potter

Grave Site of Joel Ellis Wright - Tombstone Photos From Karen Mullins Southeast Kentucky Family Website

Grave Site of Eliza Agnes Bates

Gravesite of Solomon Wright, Son of Joel Ellis Wright and Eliza Agnes Bates Wright

Gravesite of Susan Wright Venters Mullins, Daughter of Joel Ellis Wright and Eliza Agnes Bates

Joel Ellis Wright b 7 Jul 1817 Russell Co VA, d 24 Sept 1879 Letcher Co KY buried Potter Family Cemetery, Payne Gap, Pike Co KY; s/o Joel Martin Wright and Susannah Wright. Joel Ellis Wright m. about 1840 to Eliza Agnes Bates b 7 Mar 1819 Russell Co VA d 1 Feb 1892 Letcher Co KY, buried Payne Gap, Pike Co KY; d/o John Wallis Bates and Sarah Walthrop (other spellings Waltrip and Waldrop). (one source states that Eliza Agnes Bates descended from the great cattle breeding Bates family of England). She is buried in the church yard downstream from their home".  (1850 Letcher Co KY Census) (1860 Letcher Co KY Census) Children of Joel Ellis Wright and Eliza Agnes Bates;

 Solomon Wright 1841 b about 1841 Perry Co., KY d 1862 at age 21. Solomon died in the Civil War and is buried with his parents and sister, Susan in the cemetery listed at the bottom of this page.

 John Wesley "Devil John" Wright (aka "Bad John" Wright) b 17 May 1844 Letcher Co, KY d 30 Jun 1931 Pound, Wise Co VA, at 87 years of age; m. (1) Alice Lee Harman b 4 Mar 1818; d/o Robert Graham Harman and Isabelle Waddill Waddell (NOTE: Numbering John's wives does not denote order of marriages). John Wesley "Devil John" Wright m. 14 Oct 1866 Cynthiana, KY to (2) Martha Mattie Humphrey b 12 Mar 1835 Cynthiana, KY d 12 Mar 1924 Jenkins, KY age 89 years, buried Wyatt Cemetery, Wyatt, KY; d/o Jamisson Humphrey. John Wesley "Devil John" Wright m. 8 Sept 1924 Water Gap, KY to (3) Ellen Sanders b 28 Mar 1863 Pike Co KY d 10 Mar 1948 Wise Co VA at 84 years of age, buried John Wright Cemetery, Horse Gap, Pound, Wise Co VA; d/o Levi Greenville Sanders and Matilda Austin (Levi Greenville Sanders s/o Greenville Sanders and Rhoda Potter) (Matilda Austin d/o Jesse Austin and Margaret Douglas). John "Devil John" Wesley Wright m. (4) to Serilda Austin. John "Devil John" Wesley Wright m. (5) Mary Bentley. Devil John Wright m. (6) India Harmon. "Devil John" Wright m. (7) Margaret J Austin. More about Devil John Wright.

Sarah "Sallie" Wright b 10 Mar 1847 d 8 Nov 1925 at 78 years of age buried Potter Family Cemetery, Payne Gap, KY; m. 15 July 1869 Letcher Co KY to Abraham Potter b 13 Aug 1837 Letcher Co KY d 13 May 1913 Pike Co KY buried Potter Family Cemetery, Payne Gap, KY; s/o Isaac Potter 1801 and Mary "Polly" Houston Huston. Abraham Potter m. 15 Jul 1859 to Margaret "Peggy" Newsome b about 1834 d about 1868; d/o Hartwell Newsome and Sarah Sally Tolley

Susan Wright b 1851 Letcher Co KY d 1912; m. (1) to Alexander Venters; m. (2) Joshua Mullins. (Susan is buried beside her parents in the cemetery listed at the bottom of this page).

 Sally Wright b 1851 Letcher Co KY.

 William Jesse Wright b 1 Sept 1853 Letcher Co KY d 1935  buried Potter's Fork, Letcher Co KY; m. (1) to Micheli Vanover b 30 Apr 1878; d/o Daniel Vanover. William Jesse Wright m. (2) to Mary E Brummit Venters. William Jesse Wright m. (3) to Elizabeth Betty Moore. William Jesse Wright m. (4) to Maggie Pardue. Mary Brummett m. (2) to John Venters; s/o James Venters and Emeline Slone.

 Joel Martin Wright b 29 Nov 1856, North Fork Kentucky River, d 1 May 1860 at 3 years of age.

 Joel Martin Wright b 30 Nov 1856 Letcher Co KY d 5 Aug 1933 buried Hammond, KY Broas Wright Cemetery; m. 30 May 1877 Wise Co VA to (1) Jane R Venters b 1857. Joel Martin Wright m. 31 Oct 1884 to (2) Ellen Hall.

 "Kinky Haired" Samuel J Wright b 10 Dec 1859 Letcher Co KY d 7 Aug 1921, buried Reynolds Family Cemetery, Seco, Letcher Co KY; m. 4 Sept 1880 to  Martha Jane Reynolds b 20 Nov 1860 d 26 Jun 1950, Neon, Letcher Co KY age 89 years, buried Reynolds Family Cemetery, Seco, Letcher Co KY; d/o  William Henry Reynolds and Frances Matilda Baker.

The photos of the graves of Joel Ellis Wright and Eliza Agnes Bates are from Karen Mullins "Southeast Kentucky Family" Website. Karen's directions to the cemetery: It is on 119. If you are coming from Kona (Letcher Co KY) and make a left onto 119 going toward Jenkins, (Letcher Co KY), there is a road on the left that is labeled "119 Circle." And it does just that circles around a group of houses along the road and comes back out again to main 119. In about the middle of the circle up behind the first row of houses is a small cemetery. Karen's email address: karenchat@aol.com