The founding father of the First Christian Church of West Plains, Adam S. Wright, was my great-great-grandfather. Adam Wright's daughter, Alice Wright, was the mother of Russell Sage Cochran, my paternal grandfather. Because of circumstances of time and geography, our branch of the family here in West Plains knew very little of Adam Wright and his family. Adam Wright died in 1890, before my grandfather, Russell S. Cochran, was born. Additionally, the Wrights and the Cochrans met when the Wrights moved to Evening Shade, Arkansas, where the Cochrans had a general store.
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