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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. Mary Wainwright: Birth: 2 APR 1854. Death: JUN 1912

  2. Sally Wainright: Birth: 20 OCT 1857. Death: 13 JUN 1934

  3. John Wainright: Birth: 2 APR 1860. Death: 30 JUN 1930

  4. William Henry Wainwright: Birth: 1862. Death: 1915


Notes
a. Note:   1899 Lucinda Wainright agreed at the August 1899 term of court in Greene County to pay the sum of $200.00 for William Wainright appearance for the Nov. 1899 term of court or all her land where she resided, 63 acres more or less at public auction , to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Greene County for house burning and larceny. Recorded in book T 6, page 255.L.R. Moore Register of Deeds, Pitt County, NC. John Nobles was a witness to this. He is the father of the Sally Nobles that married Mary Wainright's son John Quincy Smith. 1904, February, 16 Daily Reflector as quoted in Articles of Civil War Interest. Mrs. Lucinda Wainright, a pension widow aged 72 years, is sick with heart disease. She is a good, hard working woman. Her husband,Jim Wainright, fell in defense of his country. She put her own hands to the plow and raised a large family. When young she was a strong woman, but that strong heart is soon to beat no more. A Sketch of Lucinda Vincent Wainright's Life as written by Viginia S. Wainright in the year 1997 "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:18 In 1829, the year of Lucinda's birth, Andrew Jackson was the seventh president of the United Sates. Lucinda was the daughter of _______ and John Vincent. John was a prominent citizen of Pitt County and lived on Nobles Road. Lucinda married James Wainright of Greene County. He was the son of Dorcas Moore and Kincheon Wainright. Lucinda and James lived during the time that the comforts of modern times were scarcely heard of. The life of the people on Nobles Road was a plain style and many of whom were illiterate. They had similar backgrounds with a high regard for the Bible and their own independence. A few of Lucinda and James' neighbors were John Moore, Silas Avery, Francis Nobles, John Nobles, Joe Anderson, Elias Nobles,James Henry Avery, Henry Sermons and across the Miry Branch lived A.O. Tucker, L.F. Worthington and Dr. Charles Blount. Some if the men married the girl across the road, up the road or down the road. Of course, some of these homes were a mile or more apart, but still considered within "neighboring" distance. Home remedies were important in that day. Sassafras tea provided a tasty spring tonic and blood thinner. Mustard was plastered on the chest for bronchitis and croup. With the scarcity of doctors, it was essential that each family have its supply of home remedies. Swine were left to roam the fields and woods during the fall and winter months for food. In Autumn, after harvest, there were opportunities for social events in connection with their work. There were yearly chores made enjoyable because neighbors were involved at the same time. One of these fall socials resulted when several families or neighbors would join in helping with hog killins. This took place after the weather had turned crisp and cold so the meat would not spoil. Another fall event was wood cutting for the yearly supply, for cooking and heating. This social resulted when the men would join together for cutting wood. It always ended in a fun time. The annual chore for the women was their quilting parties. This was an all day job and a time to learn the latest gossip. These were good times, however, were few, each usually once a year. All in all, the Nobles Road pleasures were simple. Lucinda and James started their family in the spring of 1854. Their children were as follows: Mary was born April 2, 1854. Mary never married and she died June 1912. Sally was born October 20, 1857 and married Henry Elmore on October 7, 1877, by Rev. J.T. Phillips. Witnesses were Francis Nobles and Eliza Nobles. She died June 12, 1934. William H. was born _____ and Married Cordelia Wilson on January 11, 1888, by J.P. Joyner of Farmville, NC. William H. married second Dollie Stocks on April 10, 1910, witnessed by J.E.Cobb, L.F. Worthington and Arthur Tucker. William died about 1911. John was born April 2, 1860 and married Dorcus Elizabeth "Lizzie" Phillips on December 23, 1885. They were married at the home of the bride in Greene County by D.A. Sugg, Justice of the Peace. John died June 30, 1930. Learning about James Wainright has been a difficult task. It is not known by me at this time when James died. kincheon Wainwright, Sr.(his father) wrote his will February 14, 1873 and he states that William is deceased at that time. On January 28, 1879, Lucinda purchased a tract of land, 32 acres more or less from Joseph L. Ballard. This land was known as the John Vincent land. Not all the news on Nobles Road was uplifting, unfortunately. Being a normal neighborhood they had their problem. Silas Avery was shot after dark, in his house, by someone outside through an aperture between the logs of which his house was built. He was sitting by the fire, with his side near the aperture, and he was shot in the side. Edward Williams was indicted for the murder of Silas and Mary Ann (Silas' wife) was indicted for being an accessory before the fact. They were tried at the Spring term of court in Pitt County. They were found guilty and were sentenced to hang. The gallows in Pitt County was located where the Town Common in Greenville is today. Lucinda was a state witness to the trial and was permitted to state the declarations of the deceased, "That he knew who shot him." In one Sense, Lucinda's own life attests to the life struggle and local success pattern of the people in Pitt County in those days. God called Lucinda June 12, 1903 from the earthly toil to a heavenly reward. We are thankful that God was pleased to prolong her life for seventy-four years and that it was not until her life's work was fairly finished that he gathered her home as a shock of corn cometh in "season". She was interred in the family cemetery on Nobles Road,SR#1124, Pitt County, with all of her children.


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