ID: I00211
Name: Martha Magdaline Wright
Sex: F
Birth: 9 Jul 1870 in Royalton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Death: 1 Apr 1963 in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahama
Buried: 3 Apr 1963 Guthrie, Logan, Oklahoma, Summitview Cemetery
Note: Ira Winch was her 4th and last husband. She met him when he came to dine in a restaurant where she was working. Martha's first marriage was an arranged marriage. She came to Oklahoma with her husband, Abner McCollum, when they ran for land in the Oklahoma land rush. Abner worked for the railroad and was killed when their daughter was a year old. She told of an incident when alone on her homestead, holding her daughter in one arm and a rifle in the other, she protected her home from Indians. She later moved to Guthrie, Oklahoma, marrying a Mr. Quick and a Mr. Webster. One of the husbands died, the other she divorced. The one she divorced came to Guthrie and kidnapped their son. Martha didn't see this son for many years. She loved needlework & quilting, making quilts for her children and many grandchildren.
Father: Samuel Evans Wright b: 12 Dec 1837 in Piqua, Miami County, Ohio
Mother: Rebecca Catherine Clark b: 16 Sep 1841 in Royalton, Montgomery County, Ohio
Marriage 1
Mr. Quick
Children
 John "Jack" Quick b: 27 Sep 1899 in Oklahoma
Marriage 2
Webster
Children
- Arthur Bell Webster b: 22 Apr 1894 in OKLAHOMA
Marriage 3
James Abner McCollum b: 14 Mar 1859 in Vandalia, Montgomery, Ohio
- Married:
5 Sep 1888
in Arkansas City, Cowley, Kansas
Children
 Pearl May McCollum b: 9 Jan 1890 in Edmond, Oklahoma, Oklahoma
Marriage 4
Charles Ira Winch b: 19 Dec 1858 in Conneaut, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
- Married:
28 Nov 1904
in Winfield, Cowley County, Kansas
Children
- Raymond Carl Winch b: 23 Mar 1906 in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahama
- Charles Ivan Winch b: 1 May 1911 in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma
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