Biographical Sketch of W.G. Bright - Andrew County, Missouri

>From "History of Missouri, Andrew & DeKalb County" Published 1888

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W. G. Bright, a citizen of Savannah, Andrew County, MO., was born in
Sullivan County, TN., on November 12, 1833, and is the son of Ansel
and Susannah (Caruthers) Bright.  They were both natives of Sullivan
County, TN.  The father was a farmer, and removed to Cass County, IN
in 1849, where he died in 1875.  The mother died in 1873.  Our subject
was reared on the farm of his parents, and received his education in
the country schools of Cass County and at Logansport.  In 1856 he left
home, and went to California, where he worked in the gold mines until
the fall of 1860, when he returned to Indiana.  Remaining there till
the spring of 1864, he immigrated to Missouri, and thence to Montana,
in which Territory he engaged in mining and freighting.  He subsequently
drifted through Nevada, Oregon and Utah, and returned to Indiana, where
he remained until 1882, and then came to Savannah.  At this place he
purchased a fine homestead near town, where he has since resided.  He
was united in marriage in 1860 to Margaret Graff, who was born on the
river Rhine, Prussia, in 1832.  They have four children living and one
dead.