Great grand-niece Amanda Wright Lane was born in 1953,five years after Orville died and she used to listen intently to family stories, especially the ones told by her great aunt Ivonette Wright Miller who knew the brothers well and in 1911 became one of the first female airplane passengers.
Neither of the brothers ever married and Wilbur died in 1912 of typhoid fever at age 45. Wilbur was the older of the two and took things more seriously. Orville was more of a cut up and never graduated from high school.
The brothers would discuss each others' ideas and change them for flight. Many changes came about from these sessions.
--Fly-Boy Cooter
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