Known for being a fair and honest man, Isaac Wright is credited with supporting the women and children on the surrounding farms during the Civil War. On December 22, 1865, Isaac Wright made his mark with an “X” on his homestead application at the land office in Booneville, Missouri. His eighty-acre claim in Newton County, Missouri lay adjacent to his former enslaver William Wright’s farm. Isaac signed his own name on the final affidavit for his homestead on December 22, 1870
