MS 94
Wright Family Papers
1861-1996

 

The Wright family resided in Obion County, Tennessee in the communities of Troy and Union City from 1857 to 1892 and then in Chicago, Illinois from 1893 to the late 1920's. Charles Wright was a private school educator, Civil War Veteran and court reporter. The collection contains correspondence, deeds, wills, receipts, notebooks, newspaper clippings and other financial and legal documents of the Wright Family of Obion County, Tennessee and Chicago, Illinois from 1861 to 1996. The bulk of the letters are written to or from Charles M. Wright and Fannie Ann Wright while in Obion County (1884-1892) and Chicago (1893-1925). Included are a genealogy, Civil War prison photographs, a description and history of a chair Charles Wright received while imprisoned at Rock Island, Illinois (1864-1865), now on permanent display at the Paul Meek Library on the campus of the University of Tennessee at Martin,documents relating to his career as a criminal court reporter in Chicago (1893-1904) and family letters and photographs.

Box 1 of 3
Correspondence

File No. Title Date

1 Correspondence 1881-1889
2 Correspondence 1891-1894
3 Correspondence 1895
4 Correspondence 1896
5 Correspondence 1897-1899
6 Correspondence 1900-1905
7 Correspondence 1906-1907
8 Correspondence 1908-1909
9 Correspondence 1911
10 Correspondence 1910
11 Correspondence 1912-1914
12 Correspondence 1915-1919
13 Correspondence 1920-1924
14 Correspondence 1925
15 Correspondence 1926-1928
16 Correspondence 1929-1939
17 Correspondence 1940-1944
18 Correspondence 1945-1949
19 Correspondence 1950-1996
20 Correspondence Unknown

Box 2 of 3
Records

File No. Title Date

1 Description and History of Chair  
2 Ephemera  
3 Soldier Furlough Dr. Tate Blair's Request for Furlough 1864
4 Genealogy Information  
5 Last Will and Testament Fannie A. Wright  
6 Last Will and Testament Martha E. Wright  
7 Last Will and Testament Nettie Blair Wright  
8 Legal Documents 1871-1890
9 Legal Document 1890-1896
10 Map of Missouri Farm 1915-1925
11 Newspaper Clippings and Death Notices  
12 Nettie Blair Wright Memoirs 1950's
13 School Notebook 1893
14 Southern Historical Society Papers Vol. I 281-192  

Box 3 of 3
Photographs

File No. Title Date

1 Civil War  
2 Group Photographs  
3 Relatives  
4 Charles Wright  
5 Charles J. Wright  
6 Edward Monroe Wright  
7 Fannie A. Wright  
8 James Wright  
9 James Mathews Wright  
10 Martha Emeranda Wright  
11 Wright Sisters (E.M. Wright)  
12 Unknown  
13 Miscellaneous