She was known as May or Meg. She was probably born in Milledgeville as John S. and Mary Isabelle Wright were living in Milledgeville on 27 May 1845. She was a music student of Ernest Sofge, then became his second wife on 15 May 1861. She was a 74 year old retired widow when she died in 1919. 583

She has to have been born in Milledgeville as John S. Wright lived there until at least 27 May 1845. Sofge genealogy says she was born in Georgia. 444

He emigrated on 21 July 1838 in the ship “Cuxhaven” with his brother John. He was from Hamburgh, Edgefield District, which is now Aiken County, South Carolina, just across the Savannah River from Augusta, Georgia.

check Ernest C. Sofge federal census Richmond County, GA Ward 4, Augusta p 179 In the 1852 Census of the City of Augusta, Georgia, E. C. Sofge lives in the Third Ward with one other adult white male and four adult white females. He had no slaves.266 Was his middle name Carl?444