by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Mar 30, 2019 | The Burright Family
On the first page of The Sun Rides High, Orrin Burright describes how, in 1845, the Burright family left Ohio and headed west. He notes that families traveled together for protection, before mentioning that when they arrived in Illinois, two of the young children in...
by paul.a.ricketts@gmail.com | Mar 8, 2015 | The Burright Family
During the 1920s Reba Burright and Ivy Burright took a train journey to Chicago to meet up with their sister Ora Blanche Burright. Reba documented the trip in one of her notebooks. The notebook has several random sets of handwritten notes in it so it is not clear...