The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-06-27
The Carthage Gate City
Carthage, ILL.,, June ~, 1916

i age OF seven years, the others still
living and being: Mrs. Frank Kreig
of this city; Henry D., of Fountain
Green; Frank of east Carthage, and
Flora (Mrs. G. A. Thompson of Kan
sas City, MOI, who are twins; Mrs
Mary G. Ogilvie of near Burnside,
and Arthur s., of east Carthage.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wright purchased a
farm of 800 acres four miles east Of
Carthage, upon which they lived for
thirty-seyen years, when they decided
to retire from actual farming opera
tions, and purchased nice home in
Fountain Green, having lived there
about seven years, Mr. Wright still
owning the farm near Carthage and
also owns other lands in this county,
and has been prosperous farmer,
tilling the soil as In his judgment he
thought best, reaping bouLteous crops
therefrom and even with the present
day method of farming, where ex-
perts are employed to advise the
farmer how best to proceed with the
soil, there is no farmer more sue
cessful than was Chas. G. Wright.
Mr.. Wright inherited only small
sum of money from his parents, but
by his Industrious habits and thrift,
has acquired his large holdings Of
lands in this county, which are now
very valuable.
When a lad Mr.. Wright and three
of his brothers got the gold fever
and went to California, leaving their
father and mother behind, and Mr..
Wright also leaving his sweetheart,
Miss Marie Antoinette Hobart. The
trip to California in those days was
somewhat different to the present day
method OF travelling, it requiring
three months to make the trip across
the country by wagon. Mr.. Wrights
brother Tom, was captain of wagon
train in 1849, and conducted three
different trains over the country. This
train consisted Of long string OF
covered wagons, carrying from 500 to
700 passengers, and the captain was
in charge of all these wagons, and
had the right to receive or reject
passengers, as he saw f1t. Scouts rode
in front and at the sides of the
wagons, and whenever the alarm was
given that Indians were coming, this
train was stopped, the head wagon
turning the tongue in and the next
wagon would stop beside it, and so
on until all the wagons had formed a
circle, the women, children and horses
being placed in the enclosure, and
every man and boy large enough to
handle rife laid on the ground un-
der the outer edge of this circle of
wagons AMI when the Indians en-
deavored to close in on them, these
fellows would lay there on the
ground and fire at them.
This was also their custom Ut
camping az night and after supper
was over the men would take spades
and making clearing for dance,
which was their evening amusement
The Wright brothers operated and
owned mining camp and supply
store in California and ut that time
offered Mr.. c. C. Tyler, who is now
living in Fountain Green, the oppor-
tunity of conducting their supply
store, but he declined the offer. How
ever, the gentleman who did accept
this offer made 100000 in short
time. This mine was worked by
these brothers for many years, one
brother living and dying in Califor-
mia, always having worked in the
mines, but Mr.. Wright had someone
waiting back in Illinois for him. and