Warren Talbert Wright was born in Rehoboth Hundred, Sussex Co., DE. around 1869. He died in Millsboro, DE in 1965. He was the son of David Wright and Emily Johnson.

Warren was married to Ida Patience Johnson and/or Bertha Ida Johnson Bertha was born on 30 October, 1872 and died on 1 April, 1950.

Warren had the following children:

• Marie Wright
  
• Lillie Mae Wright- married a HALL and lived in Preston, MD
  
• Bertha Wright married Charles Mosley
  
• Robert C. Wright
  
• Roy Wright
  
• William A. Wright married Sarah
  
  Children:
  
  • Lottie Wright who married Nelson Johnson
    
  • Alden Wright
    
  • Return Wright
    
  • Alberta Wright who married a Miller
  • Harry Wright
    
  • Howard J. Wright
    
  • Elizabeth Patience Wright
    
  Marie, Lillie, Bertha, Warren, Ida, Robert, Roy and William Wright
  photo from: "A Photographic Survey of Indian River Community"
  by Frank W. Porter III Around 1952, Warren appeared as an informant in a study of the Nanticoke Indian speech patterns. An excerpt follows:

  Warren Talbert Wright...is 83 years old. He lives in a large, weathered house on the Millsboro-Oak Orchard Road in Indian River Hundred, Sussex County, Delaware. The settlement in which he lives used to be called Warwick and had its own post office. Old Warren lost his wife two years ago. Since her death he has kept house for himself, his daughters looking in from time to time to do special housecleaning and cooking for their father. The house is spacious, neat and clean. The furnishings are simple. Until recently, Warren told me, the garret was filled with "old truck". A short time ago he gave the last of three spinning wheels to Patience Harmon, his daughter. The house is set back from the road under a huge willow tree. The grass is uncut and waves in the wind which sweeps up from the Indian River. The front porch is a pleasant place to sit on a hot summer's day. Old Warren is a tall, strong man. His hair is grizzled and his skin light in color. He has blue eyes and pronounced features. In manner he is diffident until he gets carried away by his subject, and then he shows a keen sense of humor and laughs with merriment. His speech is strongly archaic and seldom characterized by jocular expressions. Warren Wright's father was David Wright and his mother, Emily Johnson. He claims to be a descendant of Lydia Clark, the last member of the Nanticoke tribe to speak the Nanticoke language. Warren was born in Rehoboth Hundred, bordering the Indian River and two miles south of Lewes, Delaware. His father was "borned" there, too, but his mother was "borned" at the present site of Phillip's Camping ground near Angola. Warren went to school only one month in his life, an August when he was a little boy. He learned to read and write, however, and to "cipher pretty good". His wife always read to him "a good bit" from the newspaper. Warren himself reads only his bible. Warren has never traveled much, but he has been to Wilmington, Dover, Philadelphia, Richmond and once to an Indian pow-wow held in Roxboro, Virginia. He is a charter member of the Nanticoke Indian Association, a trustee of the Nanticoke Indian School, and a trustee of the Indian Mission Church. When the Nanticoke Indian Association received its charter from the state of Delaware in 1921, Warren was one of the delegates who went to Dover to receive it. He is the patriarch of his people and beloved and respected by all of them. Since the people of this insular community have married most often among themselves, Warren is claimed as a kinsman by most of the neighborhood. He has three daughters; Lily Mae Hall, Patience Harmon and Bertha Mosley. Patience and Bertha live close by. Lily Mae is married to a Negro minister and lives in Preston, Maryland. Lily Mae is not a member of the Nanticoke Indian Association. She arrived at her father's house with her husband one day while I was interviewing him. Her attitude to me was hostile. I was able to understand and sympathize with her point of view when Patience, her sister, later explained to me that it is considered a calamity for one of their people to marry a negro. Warren has one son, Robert C. Wright, Assistant Chief of the Nanticoke Indian Association.

  Warren died on 19 December, 1965. He and Bertha are both buried at the Indian Mission United Methodist Church cemetery in Millsboro, DE.