Amzi L. Stright and Mary Dodd

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Husband Amzi L. Stright ^{1 2}

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            AKA: Amasa Stright,3 Amzy Stright
           Born: 1789 or 17 Jul 1799 - New Jersey 4
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           Died: 1 Jan 1861 or 1862 1 2 4
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         Father: Lawrence Stright (1751-1812) 5
         Mother: Margaret Roy (1757-1817) 5

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       Marriage: 2 Jan 1816 2

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Wife Mary Dodd ^{2 3}

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           Born:  - New Jersey
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           Died: 1866 1 4
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         Father: Ithiel Dodd (      -      ) 6 7 8
         Mother: Hannah Lindley (      -      ) 9

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Children

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1 F Lovina Stright ⁴

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            AKA: Levina Stright 6
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           Died: Bef 1888
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2 F Teressa Stright ⁴

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            AKA: Terrissa Stright 6
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           Died: Bef 1888
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3 F Sarah Stright ⁶

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           Born: 
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           Died: Aft 1888
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         Spouse: Nathan Axtell (      -Bef 1888) 6

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4 F Marilla Stright ⁶

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            AKA: Merilla Stright 10
           Born: 
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           Died: 3 Jun 1886 6
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         Spouse: Oliver Perry Caldwell (1818-1883) 11
           Marr: 1839 10

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5 M Ithiel Stright ⁶

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6 M Joseph Stright ^{1 3}

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           Born: 11 Mar 1826 - Mercer Co, PA 1 4
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           Died: 22 Jan 1894 1
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         Spouse: Eleanor Myers (      -1894) 1 4
           Marr: 2 Jul 1857 1 4

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General Notes: Husband - Amzi L. Stright

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He left Washington County, Pennsylvania, at an early day, and settled on a farm in Cool Spring Township, Mercer County. He afterward became a resident of Deer Creek Township, and his home was a station of the Underground Railroad. He died three days before Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation took effect, thus being deprived of the realization of the ambi­tion of his earnest life.

He came to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, with his parents and settled in what became Deer Creek Township about 1815. He was a prominent member of the Presbyterian Church of Sheakleyville, of which he was an elder for many years. In politics he was a member of the Free Soil party, and was the first man to vote that ticket in the township, and subsequently became a Repub­lican. [HMC 1888, 1107]

In 1815, when a young man of twenty-six, came to Mercer County, Pennsylvania, with his parents and settled in what is now Deer Creek Township, founding the homestead, which was not allowed to pass from the family until 1909. For many years he was a leading elder in the Sheakleyville Presbyterian Church; was the first voter of the Free Soil ticket in the township, and became an equally earnest Republican at the formation of the party in 1856. [HMC 1909, 989]

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General Notes: Wife - Mary Dodd

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She died March 30, 1845. [SG, 14]

1 J. G. White, A Twentieth Century History of Mercer County Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1909), Pg 989.

2 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 14.

3 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 977, 1107.

4 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1107.

5 Hayden Leroy Stright, A Stright Genealogy (Minneapolis, MN: The Brings Press, 1973), Pg 12.

6 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 977.

7 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 351, 697.

8 —, Proceedings of the Celebration of the First Centennial of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Franklin, PA: The Venango County Bar Association, 1905), Pg 105.

9 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 351.

10 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 1104.

11 —, History of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. Its Past and Present (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk & Co., Publishers, 1888), Pg 977, 1104.