If anyone has any information about this man and/or either one of his wives, please share it. I have 6 pages of DNA matches to him. Every time I turn around I am finding his name or one of his wives. There are only two places he can be related to me that I know of. Both are dead ends that no one has even a clue who they are or where they came from. One is my 3rd great grandparents James Russell Coplen and Sarah Ann Elizabeth Eady. The other is my 2nd great grandparents John Johnson Butler and Sarah Rebecca Webb. I believe this man is related to John Johnson Butler. It is possible that John Johnson’s mother is also Asa Elijah’s sister. John Johnson was born in North Carolina, married in Lowndes County, Alabama and ended up in Union Parish.
Asa Elijah Wright was born on November 28, 1795, the child of Johnson and Frances. He married Elizabeth ‘Betsy’ Taylor and they had 16 children together. He then married Nancy Schuler Clowers on September 22, 1867. He died on March 3, 1873, in Prairie Lea, Texas.
To make things even more confusing Nancy Schuler Clowers (1803-1870) and her first husband Jarrett/Jerard Miers/Myers (it seems there is a little confusion on how to spell his names) 1802-? are both showing up in my circles but I do not have any matches to either one.
Asa Elijah Wright’s children with Betsy are:
- Asa 1818-1875
- Frances (female) 1820-1912
- Johnson Vitringer 1821-1891
- William Taylor 1821-1888
- George Washington 1824-1900
- Samuel J. 1825-1868
- Catherine Taylor 1827-1913
- Isophena 1828-1893
- Matilda Ann Adique 1830-1923
- James Lafayette 1832-1911
- Owen C. 1834-1834
- Elizabeth S. 1836-1891
- Ewell M. 1837-1868
- Charles Pleasant 1839-1891
- Emily Amanda 1843-1864
- Olivia Frazier 1843-1849
John Johnson Butler’s children are:
- Mary C. Lafayette 1838-1868 (some believe Lafayette is another child who is male)
- Owen Cassandra 1839-1880 She was married to William Winley Wright 1832-1879
- Catherine R 1840
- Mineria Caledonia 1841
- Saphronia V 1843-1922
- Alice Ann 1845-1865
- John Johnson Jr. 1845-1917
- Sidney C. Hartlie “Sidie” 1848-1933
- Robert Clinton 1853-1906
- Eldridge P 1854-1860
- William Pratt 1854-1860
- George Algernon 1858-1911
- Josephine A 1860-1911
It is thought John Johnson Butler and Sarah Rebecca Webb had 3 sets of twins.
Please comment if you know anything about any of these people.
Shiloh to Canaan 
I have found that an Asa Wright was a witness to the marriage of William Taylor and Catherine Gray’s son (my 3rd great grandfather) Alexander Marion Taylor and Winifred Matthews. They later moved to Union Parish. William did not have a daughter named Frances that I know of but there is most likely a connection.
On my dad’s side through his mother:
1. My 4th Great Grandparents are William Taylor and Catherine Gray.
2. Catherine Gray was the granddaughter of William Bullock and Unity Wright.
3. Unity was the daughter of Ebenezer Wright and Sarah Butler, daughter or William and Hannah Hills Butler.
4. Ebenezer Wright was the son of Samuel Wright and Mary Butler.
Alexander Marion Taylor lived in Lowndes County, Alabama for a while and he came to Union Parish in the early 1840’s.
I know that John Johnson Butler came to Union Parish in the group that came back with Matthew Wood in late 1830’s. I have always wondered if he had a connection to someone in that group. It may be the Taylor’s.
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Isophenia and Matilda Adigue Miears were not Asa’s daughters, they were his step-daughters (their mother was Nancy Shuler Clower Miears) but they married his sons George and James. Sooooo Asa was their step father and father in law.
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I am trying to prove that Asa L. Wright (my gr-gr-gr-grandfather) was the son of Asa Elijah Wright. My grandfather was William L. Wright; his father was also William L. Wright.
Thanks.
Ann Wright Morris
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My great grandfather was Loman Clell Wright. I met a man though Ancestry named Byron Randall Wright whos grandfather was my great grandfathers brother, his name was Ollie Vernon Wright. Their great grandfather was Asa Elijah Wright. I’m not sure what the name for my great grandfather’s great grandfather is, but that’s to Asa Elijah Wright to me.
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