The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1919-03-28
Death of Marshall Wright, in France.

/ Sergeant MAJOR Wl1llam M
Wright, better know, SIS Marshall
Wright, has made tho supreme sac
rifice and given his his life for his
country His aunt. Mrs. Mamie Pewitt
has received official nosicc from Ad-
! jutsnt General Harris at Washing
/ ton that he died on the Sth Of March
of meningitis. He was located at
TouI, in North France, and was
chief clerk of the Judge Advocate
General of the Second Army, whose
headquarters werc at the city of
Toul in France. He had been pro-
NOTED to the position of regimental
Sergeant Major, very responsible
position, and had charge of the Of
fee and records of tho Judge Advo-
cate General, Col. Morrow. He has
just returned from Italy, where he
had been on a fourteen days leavs
Of absence by permission of GeD> 81
Billiard.
Sergeant Wright left the Lebanon
law School, where he was student
of law, and volunteered for the SER
vice, on Jan. 1, 1918. He was mus
tered in as a member of Co. l, Sth
Field Battalion, Signal Corps, on
about the n of January, at Fort
Leavenworth,@ and was then sent,
with his battalion, to Camp Green
for training. They were sent to
France about June /, and soon there
after went on the firing line, and
were engaged in the severe battles
around Chateau THEORY, and Ser
geant Wright went "over the top"
at Chateau Thierry, with his battal-
ion. He was gassed and also re-
coived a slight wound in the knee,
in this battle. After remaining in
the hospital for about three weeks,
he was ag;in ready for service, and
was then detailed for clerical work
in the End Replacement Army.
About the time of the signing of the
Armistice, he was promoted to the
position of Sergt. Major, and made
chief clerk in the Office of the Judge
Advocate General, which position he
held to the time of his death, having
charge of the records of the Office
with several clerks and stenogra-
piers under him.
Young Wright was bright, intel
ligent, ambitious young man, and
his promotions came to him on his
merits, without any outside assist
ance.
He was reared in Union City by
his aunt, Mrs. Pewitt, and was a
nephew of Judge w. H. Swiggart.
After completing his education and
taking a special business course, he
worked in the office of Judge Swig-
CART as his stenographer for a short
while. He was then rendered the
position of clerk of the Circuit Court
at Union City, by Judge Jones, to fill
a vacancy in that Office, but being
under age, he could not accept the
He was then made |
Deputy Clerk under Esq. Howard,
and discharged the duties of this |
position for nearly two years, in a |
most acceptable manner. In the fall |
of 1917 he resigned this position and |
entered the Lebanon Law School as |
a student of law; but about the first |
of January, 1918, he gave up this |
work, and volunteered for the SER
vice in the army. 1t was his desire |
and purpose to resume the study of |
law, as soon as he was discharged |
frcDi the service. He was ambitious |
to become a member of the bar; and |
his friends anticipated that he
would have a successful career in |
that profession. He he'd an unusual
~ bright, quick mind and gave |
premise of a useful and successful
career in his chosen profession.
The news of Marshall Wright's
death was, so unexpected, and came
so suddenly that his relatives and
friends were greatly shocked. His
death casts a gloom over this COM
He was only % years old,
and his last letter to Judge Swiggart,
written from Genoa, Italy, was full
Of bouyancy and hope, and indicat-
ed that he was enjoying his trip in
italy. His untimcly death is another
Of the costly sacrifices which our
has been called on to
make in the great war for liberty
and right.
The relatives of Scrgt. Wright
have our deepest sympathy, and the
of the entire community,
IN the sad bereavement which they
nave sustained by the death of this