THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, VOL. XXXV, NO 8 Page 1 Column 3, Green County, Indiana. Thursday, Jan 5, 1911,

"OWEN WRIGHT DEAD: Former Well Known Soldier Citizen of Taylor Township Passes On."

No citizen of Taylor Township was better known from the close of the war until he left Green County about twenty-five years ago than Owen Thomas WRIGHT, who died in Kansas on Dec. 21. The Dodge City Journal recently contained the following notice of his death:

Owen Thomas WRIGHT for twenty years a resident of Dodge City, Kansas, died at the home of his daughter MRS. Harry DEWAR, Wednesday, December 21. Mr. WRIGHT was the son of a Methodist minister. He was born in Marion County Kentucky, Nov 21, 1842. He was married to Julia Ann O'Donald, November 15, 1865. His widow with four daughters born to the union survive. The daughters are Mrs. Edward J. RINEY, Mrs. Harry DEWAR, Dodge City, Mrs. Avin J. BERG, Kansas City, Mrs. Florence Josephine FITZGERALD, McAlester, Oklahoma, another daughter died in infancy.

The deceased enlisted in the cause of the Union in Company D, 14th INFANTRY, June 7, 1863, and served four years. He was captured by the South at the Battle of the Wilderness and taken to Andersonville Prison, where he was held for nine months. He also served as a captive in the Florence Prison. He made his escape while being taken from one prison to another, by tearing the floor out of a boxcar. In the swamps, he contracted fever and was recaptured and taken to the military hospital. He was released from there by Sherman's advance guard and taken back to the Union lines.

He was promoted Sargent at the battle of Fredericksburg, taking the colors amid a hail of bullets after three color bearers had been shot. Mr. WRIGHT came to Meade County, Kansas, with his family in 1886. There he proved up on a homestead and served four years as undersheriff. The family came to Dodge City in 1891, and this has since been their home.

For the last five years, Mr. WRIGHT has been a sufferer from heart trouble. Last July he went to Battle Mountain Sanitarium at Hot Springs, North Dakota. He was an enthusiastic Republican, was a Mason, and himself and wife were members of the Methodist Church.