Father: Alton Everett WRIGHT
Mother: Carrie Estelle LEE
Family 1 : Kathryn Genoice
LANIER
_Edward Ausburn WRIGHT ____+
_Robert Lee WRIGHT _|
| |_Sarah Anne CHAPPELL ______+
_Alton Everett WRIGHT _|
| | _Alfred L. DAVIS __________
| |_Ida Gillion DAVIS _|
| |_Mary Jane LANCASTER ______
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|--Lewis Bryant WRIGHT
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| _John Williba Redding LEE _
| _Clint Edward LEE __|
| | |_Sarah Jane RANEY _________+
|_Carrie Estelle LEE ___|
| _Jepthy E. DOUGLAS ________
|_Claudie DOUGLAS ___|
|_Francis Rebecca ENGLISH __
Notes:
| The Lee-Wright Family History, by Carrie Louise Wright (18 July 2004): | ||
| God has richly blessed me with an amazing family.
My daddy, Lewis Bryant Wright, almost didn't make it into this world. He was
actually born dead with the umbilical cord wrapped around his neck. The midwife
refused to give up on him. She took him into the kitchen and switched him from
tubs of cold to hot water massaging him until he started breathing. Then she
took him and laid him with his mother. Daddy was told when the doctor arrived
he said my daddy would not live long and if he did he wouldn't be right. God
had a different plan for my Daddy's life. He is 71 years old now and in full
charge of his faculties. He is first and foremost a faithful servant of God, a
wonderful man, salt of the earth, loved and highly respected by all. He was
most influenced by his mother, Carrie Estelle
(Lee) Wright. She was named after her mother's sister, Carrie Douglas. I
was named after Grandmother Carrie and my Daddy. I consider that to be an
enormous honor because I've been told by all who knew Grandmother Carrie that
she was the kindest, most compassionate woman. She never had a harsh word to
say about anyone. Her mother, Claudie (Douglas) Lee,
was a Bible scholar and a faithful member of the
DeView Methodist Church.
Great Grandmother Lee taught Sunday School there until she couldn't anymore,
then her son, Aubrey Lee, took over her class.
Grandmother Carrie's father, Clint Edward Lee, was a highly respected member of the community. He had 600 acres in DeView that he farmed himself. He accumulated quite a bit of wealth until the market crashed in 1929. He was one of the few people who had an automobile before the depression. Daddy remembers he had a hearty laugh. Grandmother Carrie, her brothers (Douglas, Nathan, and Aubrey) and her sister (Edith) were raised going to the DeView Methodist Church. Later, after she married my granddaddy, Alton Everett Wright, they joined the Baptist Church in McCrory. Grandmother Carrie was a Sunday School teacher and played piano at both churches. She initiated the Girl's Auxiliary (GA's) at the Baptist Church along with Mrs. Patton. One of her favorite hymns was "In the Garden". Daddy gave me a picture of her and asked "Can't you just see the kindness in her face?" Well, yes I can. It's the same kindness I see in his. The Lord called her home in 1952, but her legacy lives on, for her goodness was passed in one form or another to all six of her children. They, in turn passed it to theirs, and so on… Granddaddy Wright was also a wonderful man. He had a small farm (about 120 acres) in DeView where he and Grandmother Carrie raised their children. He built 3 different houses there. The first was a "hall house" where Uncle Donald and Daddy were born. The second house was the largest, where the rest of the children were born. He built the third house after some of the children were grown. He really knew how to work his farm. He was the best producer per acre in the area and he never lost a crop. His main crop was cotton. He also grew patches of watermelon, cantaloupe, and strawberries, which he marketed in Bald Knob. During the war and the depression, he had a sorghum cane patch. He also raised soybeans mostly for animal feed. He bought calves to raise or to make money. He would fatten them up on soybean and take them to the sale barn or to Memphis to sell. Grandmother Carrie had a big garden with tomatoes and such. During cotton pickin' time, 2-3 times a year, they didn't go to school. They picked cotton from sun up to dark thirty till it was all picked. The money from the first pickin' went to pay the bills. The second was for clothing and other necessary items. The third, if there was one, was called scrapin's. The scrapin's was Christmas money and for luxuries. They went to town on Saturday and to Church on Sunday in a steel tired wagon hitched to 2 mules. Later, Granddaddy bought a tractor. He would hitch that wagon to the tractor to go to town and Church. Daddy says they were "walkin' in tall cotton then". Granddaddy bought his first automobile, a black dodge pick up truck, after the war in the late 1940's. In bad weather all 8 of them would pile up in the cab of that truck to go to Church, and that was a site to behold. In addition to many other chores, such as milkin' cows, feedin' chickens, gatherin' eggs, etc., Daddy and his sister, Rebecca Ann Wright (called "Sis"), did the family wash on Wednesdays. They did have a washing machine, however, they had to pump water into buckets and carry it to a big black pot in the back yard. Daddy would build a fire under that pot to heat the water while Sis sorted the clothes. After the water was heated they carried it in buckets to the washing machine. After the washing machine agitated it's cycle, they would wring the clothes and put them into the rinse water. The rinse tub didn't agitate. They had to rinse manually. The wringer would swing out from the washer to the rinse tub. After they rinsed the clothes they put them in the bluing water. Then they would wring them out again and hang them on the line. They started with the whites and ended with the dark clothes. They would have 7-8 loads to do. They had the routine down pat so they only missed about half a day of school. All six children attended school in McCrory. After Daddy graduated he was drafted into the U.S. Army. He did his basic training at Fort Smith, then he was stationed in England. When he got out of the army he made his rounds visiting relatives. By this time Sis had married and moved to Dallas. Daddy came to Dallas to visit her in 1955 and ended up staying. |
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