{"id":221,"date":"2012-06-23T00:08:59","date_gmt":"2012-06-23T05:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/?p=221"},"modified":"2012-06-23T00:08:59","modified_gmt":"2012-06-23T05:08:59","slug":"wright-jr-claude-elbert-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wright-jr-claude-elbert-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"WRIGHT Jr., Claude Elbert (Biography)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Claude was born in Memphis, TN, on December 11, 1925 to:\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Claude Elbert Wright, Sr<\/strong>. (born 03-24-1885 and died 01-07-1948) and\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong>Verdie Richey Wright<\/strong> (born 12-17-1889 and died 04-18-1952).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">Claude&#8217;s siblings were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Hollis Wilson Wright<\/strong> (born 03-15-1909, died 01-02-2000)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Floy Mae Wright Larkin<\/strong> (born 11-24-1911)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Elsie Wright Collins<\/strong> (born 04-11-1915, died 04-08-2000)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Elizabeth Wright Hall<\/strong> (born 06-15-1918, died 05-01-1998)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Mildred Wright Young<\/strong> (born 02-28-1922, died 10-23-1987)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Nancy Rosalyn Wright Brockert<\/strong> (born 05-08-1924)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Edward Amos Wright<\/strong> (born 08-05-1927, died 10-02-1987)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Jo Ann Wright Siler<\/strong> (born 09-12-1931, died 02-07-1990)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Barbara Jean Wright<\/strong> (born 11-13-1932, died 01-29-1934)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Claude was in active duty in World War II and served in the United States Marines. \u00a0He was on Iwo Jima when the American flag was raised. He was awarded the purple\u00a0heart. Claude went into the home building industry.\u00a0In 1920 Census, before Claude, Jr. was born the family lived in Coldwater,\u00a0Tate County, MS. \u00a0Claude married <strong>Margaret &#8220;Peggy&#8221; Nancy Dickson<\/strong> on November 7, 1952 at\u00a0Calvary Baptist Church in Memphis, TN and they had three children\u00a0born in Memphis, Shelby, TN.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The children were:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Charles Edward Wright, Sr<\/strong>, born September 24, 1953<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>James Lawrence Wright<\/strong>, born February 17, 1956<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Nancy Marie Wright<\/strong>, born September 23, 1960<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Claude died on March 12, 2001 and is buried in Forest Hill Cemetery East in\u00a0Memphis, TN.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Submitted by<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:secureDecryptAndNavigate('d4CiGf11pxu9ix2JpcbYwmnoNRDaUcA+hxYFNOIKqqnhdqh43JQiiLpuwl\/Yad1aNbSvPrcf5xqtMoeLNvqS+N6+Eqo8xzNO4g==', '88ad5e8dc84f69003bf4618cdb4c7d1c14c2e367c6110d1875c1543cefdac950')\">Peggy Wright Rhinerson<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claude was born in Memphis, TN, on December 11, 1925 to:\u00a0 Claude Elbert Wright, Sr. (born 03-24-1885 and died 01-07-1948) and\u00a0 Verdie Richey Wright (born 12-17-1889 and died 04-18-1952). Claude&#8217;s siblings were: Hollis Wilson Wright (born 03-15-1909, died 01-02-2000) Floy Mae Wright Larkin (born 11-24-1911) Elsie Wright Collins (born 04-11-1915, died 04-08-2000) Elizabeth Wright Hall &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wright-jr-claude-elbert-biography\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WRIGHT Jr., Claude Elbert (Biography)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[68,47,70,66,65,69,64,67],"class_list":["post-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography","tag-brockert","tag-collins","tag-dickson","tag-hall","tag-larkin","tag-siler","tag-wright","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/shelby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}