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Anna Burtz Wright
4 May 1797 – 4 Nov 1854
| Birth | 4 May 1797 |
| Death | 4 Nov 1854 |
| Cemetery | Flat Rock Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery Rocky Mount , Meriwether County , Georgia , USA |
| Added by | Sharon Kadlick on 06 Jan 2012 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19423725 |
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Anna Burtz Wright was born on the fourth day of May in the year of our Lord Seventeen hundred and ninety-seven-1797-in Laurens District, South Carolina. She was the daughter of Frederick Burtz and Rachel Inman Burtz and the granddaughter of Joshua and Anna Inman. Her ancestry was Deutsche or German (Burtz) and English (Inman). She married Abraham Wright, son of George Wright and Eaditha "Eady" Shirley Wright, on April 16, 1820, Laurens District, South Carolina. She was the mother of nine children. Anna and Abraham came from Laurens Co., South Carolina settling first in Fayette Co. and then Meriwether Co., Georgia with Abraham's brother, John, between 1825 - 28. They were living in Meriwether Co. by 1828, Abraham and Anna own land adjoining the Flat Rock Primitive Baptist Church near Greenville while John settled at Chalybeate Springs. Many of Anna's Burtz relatives also appear to have moved to Georgia in the early 1820's and 1830's. Anna died November 8, 1854 near Greenville, Meriwether Co., Georgia. She is buried beside Abraham at the Flat Rock Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery, near Greenville. Her tombstone reads: In Memory Of Anna Wright Consort of Abraham Wright Born May 4 A.D. 1797 Died Nov 8 A.D. 1854 Aged 57 years 6 months and 4 days Inscription: Perfect Woman, Serene and Calm Beneath this tomb thy body embalmed In spotless gems, they spirit hath flown To Jesus for an eternal home. The family story that Anna Burtz Wright is of Dutch descent is wrong. She is actually German. Her father being from the Lower Saxony area of Germany. I believe this misconception came into being much like the Germans in Pennsylvania are known as Pennsylvania Dutch. The family referred to themselves as Deutsche, their word for German people. There was an area in Lexington, South Carolina in the mid-1700s, which was settled by a group of Germans, many of them armed with land grants from the English crown. They laid claim to the land between the forks of the Saluda and Broad Rivers. It came to be known as the Dutch Fork, the "Dutch" being an Anglicized form of Deutsche (referring to the German language and people.) Thus the confusion between their origin being German (Deutsche) or Dutch (Holland). Anna's parents, Frederick and Rachel, lived in the area know as Dutch Fork before moving to Laurens Co., South Carolina.
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- PVT George Washington Wright 1820–1864
- Rachel Perry Wright Bartlett 1823–1891
- Deborah Wright Morgan 1825–1889
- COL Young Frederick Wright 1827–1898
- Manerva Ann Wright Jarrell 1829–1902
- Abraham B. Wright 1832–1862
- 1SGT Abraham B. Wright 1832–1862
- Isaac Newton Wright 1834–1895
- Dr Jacob Bowman Wright 1836–1885
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