Grounds, Leslie Raymond, Jack Ray­mond, Roscoe Dison, Fred Mulkey, Dean Young, Wayne Young, Howard Young, Charles Evans, Bert Lemmons, Hazel Brown, Louise Brown, Ruth Dison, Estelle Grounds, Pauline Grounds, Winnie Grounds, Lucile Raymond, Thelma Lemmons. Cecil Evans, John Hendricks, Ralph Hendricks, Ray Hen­dricks, Claude Hendricks, Lola Evans, Ruth Dison, Mildred Watkins, Georgia Evans, Versa Evans and Vera Hendricks.

WRIGHT COMMUNITY
Wright was a small community in the south­ern part of Swisher County, located 2 miles east and 1 mile north of the present town of Kress, Texas. It seems there was a Baptist minister that herded cattle all week, and preached on Sunday, by the name of Wright. Thus the name Wright. Wright was on the stage line from Canyon to Plainview. The fol­lowing is taken from an interview from the late E. O. Bass, that moved here with his parents in 1900. "In those days

the stage and mail hack ran from Canyon, east of the cemetery there, through old Happy, which was three miles east of present Happy, through Tulia, Wright and on into Plainview. Bob Montgom­ery had the mail route and the passenger bus­iness, and a man named Webster drove the mail hack. He went to Canyon one day and back the next. T. A. Ross was the post master at Wright.

The stage might have been called a spring wagon except for the heavy canvas top and curtains. It could be closed up and was snug enough in cold weather. The stage changed teams at Happy, Tulia and Wright. They used four mules, two in the lead and two back, at the tongue. A fresh team was harnessed and tied up at a post. When the stage came in all they had to do was take the old team out, hook fresh teams on, and they would leave in a dead run. These were small Spanish mules."

It seems Wright was started in 1890, which consisted of a post office, general mercantile

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