Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1922-01-04
GEN. WRIGHT DIES
IN WASHINGTON DIG.
BODY WILL BE LAID TO REST IN
ARLINGTON.
WAS A FORMER MEMPHIAN
lII-HeaIth Caused Retirement Several
Years Ago-FuneraI at Capital,
With Burial In Arlington
Cemetery.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in years and
rich in the rewards that bless anu
sweeten the partimony Of the patri-
arch, Gen. Marcus Joseph Wright,
aged 81, has been gathered to his
fathers. The moving finger of time
wrote "finis" to the last chapter Of
his family life at the family resi-
dence, 1743. Corcoran Street. The
weary traveller laid down the burden
Of the years of teeming experience
amid the sobs and tears and consol-
ing ministrations of his wife, a SON,
an only daughter and grandchildren.
Only one Of the surviving sons was
present at the end, which, while not
unexpected, came beforer the other
Immediate members of the family
who had been summoned could reach
Washington. Hardening Of the AFTER
les was stated as the immediate
cause OF his death, though General
Wright had been declining very per-
ceptibly for six months OF more.
Under joint Masonic and Confed-
crate auspices the body was buried
In the United Confederate Veterans
section Of beautiful Arlington Nation
al Cemetery, which was once the
home Of that matchless hero and
peerless leader, Robert e. Lee. Gen.
Wright will be laid at rest on the
side of the grave-dotted hill which
slopes gently toward Virginia, whose
heart-throbs for the Confederacy
thrilled him and spurred him to make
its fine cause his own, even to the
last drop Of his Hfe's blood IL need
be, 81 years ago. Desires his wife,
Gen. Wright is survived by four chill
dren, three sons and a daughter,
namely: Marcus j. Wright, only
child of former marriage, now liv.
ing in California; Col. John v. Wright
of the United States army, stationed
in Washington; Howard Paul Wright.
a special agent for the Department
of Justice, stationed in Jacksonville,
Fla, and Mrs. Pauline Casey Din.
widdie.
There are four grandchildren. Gen.
Wright's first wife, who was Miss
Spencer Elcan, Of Memphis, died in
1873. One son, Marcus J. Wright,
blessed that union. In 1873 General
Wright was married at Columbia.
Tenn, to Miss Pauline Womack, Of
Alabama, of distinguished southern
ancestry. Three children were born
to them. Gen. Wright was the last
of the two only remaining generals
of the Cnofederacy, the other one be-
ing Gen, Felix Robinson, of Wacu,
Texas.
Brig.-Gen. Marcus Joseph Wright
was born at Purdy, McNairy County,
Tenn, June s, 1881. His grandfather,
John Wright, was a native of Savan-
nah, Ca, and was captain Of the
Georgia line in the Revolutionary
war. Gen. Wright's father, Benjamin,
was also native Of Savannah, and
was an officer of the Thirty-ninth In
fantry, United States army, serving
under Gen. Andrew jackson in the
Greek war and subsequently in the
war with Mexico. His brother, Judge
John v. Wright, colonel of the Thir-
teenth Tennessee Infantry, was in the
battle Of Belmont, KY, in which he
commanded his regiment, and was
afterwards elected a member of the
Confederate Congress, serving two
terms. Gen. Wright was educated
in the schools at Purdy and after
wards studied law and removed to
Memphis, where he became clerk Of
the common law and chancery court
of that city. He was Meutenant-col.
onel Of the One Hundred and Fifty.
fourth Regiment Of Tennessee militia,
which was armed and equipped Rev.
eral years before the Civil War.
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