GG Grandparents George and Nancy (Jones) Wright

I know very little of my Grandmother Somers family, except what she recorded in her Family Bible and the tidbits of information I've found scouring the internet. But, I am curious to learn more as I believe there might be a Scots Irish connection through the Wright family.

From what I've been able to discern, my GG Grandfather is the son of George Washington Wright as documented at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ajobebrown/wright/phil/gw.html

George Washington Wright Jr. 

--b. June 22, 1857 Paragould, Greene Co., AR
--d. April 29, 1937 Corning, Clay Co., AR
----buried Williams Cemetery, Corning, Clay Co., Arkansas
--m. Nancy Elizabeth JONES
--February 18, 1875 Little Black Twp, Randolph Co., AR
----b. February 7, 1860 Mill Spring, Wayne Co., MO
----d. August 18, 1934 Corning, Clay Co., AR
------buried Williams Cemetery, Corning, Clay Co., Arkansas

This is their headstone where they are buried at Williams Cemetery (image courtesy of George Washington Wright Page at Rootsweb).

This obituary for George W. Wright is also posted at the Rootsweb page:

PIONEER PASSED AWAY HERE LAST WEDNESDAY - 30 Apr 1937 

George W. Wright, aged 79, highly respected pioneer citizen of Clay Co., passed away here last Wednesday at 6:20 p.m., at the home of his daugher, Mrs. W. F. Barnes. 

Mr. Wright was born on 22 June 1857 near Paragould, and removed to Randolph county when he was two years of age. He had resided in Clay county during the past 35 years. 

His funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon by Rev. R. L. Powell and internment was made in Williams cemetery. Mr. Wright was devout christian & a member of the Methodist church. 

Surviving are six children, Mrs. W. I. Weaver, Mrs. W. F. Barnes, William Wright, Ollie Wright, Corning; Jess and Hubert Wright, Kennett, Missouri; brother Philmore Wright, Walcott; sisters Mrs. Nancy Leavens, Paragould; Mrs. Fanny Myers, St. Louis, Missouri, 41 grandchildren and 34 great-granchildren.

While researching the Wright family name, I came across this information at the Wright Stuff Here website:

Some Notes about Wright Historical Roots

"William Wright (1707-1776), the original immigrant of our twig on the massive Wright genealogical tree, was a well established presence in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia by the 1740s. The Beverly Manor Patent was officially confirmed in 1732 and by 1749 William owned 425 acres land within that land grant. He was a charter member in the historic Tinkling Springs Presbyterian Church, which was formed in 1740-41 (picture of monument). In 1741 William, with 32 other citizens, signed a document appointing a committee to choose land for the First Tinkling Springs Church. So we may assume that William arrived in the Shenandoah Valley sometime prior to 1741, possibly around 1735 during the first great wave of Scotch-Irish immigration. Family tradition states that he was from Northern Ireland. It is probable,that, with the vast majority of Scotch-Irish, he came from Northern Ireland and landed in Pennsylvania or Maryland and migrated into Virginia. However, it is also possible that he could have come through some other port in Virginia. During this time period, Captain James Patten made numerous trips from Virginia to Northern Ireland and back, bringing to Virginia numerous Ulstermen of Northern Ireland. William may have come on his ship. In any event, he arrived before 1741 as a young man in his late twenties or early thirties with, as tradition asserts, seven maiden sisters. What prompted him to emigrate from N. Ireland was probably a combination of factors. The linen trade, a mainstay of Irish economy collapsed. Landlords were demanding increasingly exorbitant rents. And famine and hardship was never far from the lot of the Irish/Scottish farmer. Stories of the greater opportunities and abundant land in the colonies may have stirred the imagination of William and his sisters. Whatever it was that prompted William to emigrate, he, and seven unmarried sisters, followed a horde of Scotch-Irish to the American colonies and into the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he settled. William and his wife "Margaret" (probably "Malcolm"), worked the rich farmland. He taught school and raised a family of at least five sons and four daughters. William's will names his five living sons; Samuel, John, Williams, James, and Alexander and mentions four unnamed daughters. 

"Who were William Wright's ancestors? We don't know them as individuals. However, being of a strict Presbyterian persuasion, his ancestors are identified with that ethnic group now called "Scotch-Irish," or, more properly "Scots-Irish." Northern Ireland was largely colonized by Lowland Scots in the early 17th century at the urging of the King James I (King James VI of Scotland) who wanted a British presence in Ireland to counterbalance the dominant Irish Catholic population. So, by historical extrapolation, one can infer that our "Wright" roots are in Scotland. Saying more than that about the Wrights is pure speculation. However, for what it's worth, there is a Scottish Clan called the "MacIntyres", who claim the Wrights as a sept of their clan. In fact the Gaelic form of MacIntryre, "an-t-Saoir", is translated "son of the wright or carpenter." It is possible that, as some of these Scottish MacIntyres dispersed into English territory (whether to England, Wales, N. Ireland, or the Colonies), many of them Anglicized their MacIntyre name into Wright. The Scottish "MacLean Clan" also claims a "Wright" sept. ...

"Of course we know much more about William Wright's descendants than we do of his ancestors. We know, for example, that the five male children of William and Margaret migrated with their families over the mountains into Kentucky sometime after the Revolutionary War, probably about 1787. After a stay of 10-12 years in Bourbon Co., Kentucky, they went north into Ohio, settling in present day Brown, Adams, and Highland County by around 1799-1800. At the time they moved into present day Ohio, it was land claimed by Virginia and known as the Virginia Military District. These were bounty lands that were set aside to reward Revolutionary War veterans for their service. Since several, if not all of the five brothers, served in the Revolutionary War, they may have claimed lands in the Virginia Military District as their due for serving in the war.

So, while I'm not certain if we are from this branch of the Wright family tree, I would love to know more about George and Nancy Wright and the possibility of George being a descendant of Scots Irish  heritage.