Known as "Callie" by the
Wright family. Listed as "Collie T." age 3/12 in 1870 Census for
Woodruff Co. In the 1880 Census, she is listed as Cally T., being
10 years old, and with her parents. In the 1900 Census as wife (a.
30) of James, mother and father born in Tennessee.
Full name obtained
by Pat Bodine from an interview of Mamie Lee Wright Burnam on 7 July 2000. Mrs.
Burnam is the primary source of most of the history on this family.
Callie Wright's Obituary in Magazine, Logan County
newspaper, Booneville Democrat, Thursday, June 24, 1948: |
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Mrs. Callie T. Wright
Mrs. Callie T. Wright, age 78, a resident of Magazine for many years died at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Carl Mikles just west of the city of Booneville
on Highway 10 Wednesday. Mrs. Wright was born at Deview, Arkansas March 16,
1870. Funeral services were held at the Magazine Methodist Church Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 p. m. with Rev. L. R. Ruble and Rev. L. F. Fair officiating.
Committment services were at Old Union Cemetery, with McConnell Funeral Service
in charge of arrangements. She is survived by four sons, Maynard, of
Forrest City; Afton, of Magazine; Vadon and Jimmie of Muskogee, Oklahoma; five
daughters, Mrs. George Elkins of Magazine; Mrs. Raymond Erp of Lubbock, Texas;
Mrs. Dolphus McCrary, Mrs. Edna Mikles of Boonville; Miss Mamie Wright, Little
Rock; one brother, Sam Thompson, Siloam Springs; and one sister, Mrs. E. M.
Weld, McCrory, Ark. Also 15 grand children, 4 great grand
children. |
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