Charles Easton Wright
1881 - 1933
Charles Easton Wright was born on Beaver Creek, near the town of Bradleyville, Taney County , Missouri on January 27, 1881 . His Uncle Roland Moseley brought him to Rosston, Cooke County , Texas when he was almost nine years old after his mother and father died. He and his younger brother James lived (off and on) with Roland and his wife Mary on a farm in Rosston which is near Gainesville, Texas until his marriage to Martha Emsley Foster on December 9, 1906. Martha was the daughter of John Emsley Foster and Mary Burris Foster. Charles died on Mar 9, 1933 in Bowie, Texas and he and his wife are buried in the Brushy Cemetery in Bowie.
In the 1900 Federal Census Charles was living with Nancy (Moseley) McKinzie (his aunt) in Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory. This town is about 50 miles north of Rosston. His younger brother James is unaccounted during the 1900 census.
The children of Charles and Martha were:
After Charles and Martha married, he became a sharecropper on a small farm in Leo, Cooke County , Texas and they had their first child, Jewell Gladys on October 11, 1907 . A son was born on the same farm on February 18, 1909 . This son was Forrest Nathan Wright, my father.
In late 1909 Charles, Martha and their two children moved from Leo , Texas to Dustin Township , Hughes County , Oklahoma where they began farming, on shares, near Charles' older half-brother, Lewis Nathan Wright's farm. Lewis had moved from Cooke County to Hughes County in about 1901.
Charles & Martha continued to farm in Oklahoma for the next nine years and on this farm were born; Ruby, born 1913; Burney "Bun", born 1915; and Connie, born 1917. In 1911 their son James Barney Wright was born on Jan 14th in Henryetta, Okmulgee Co., OK. It is unknown at this time why they were in Okmulgee County in 1911, but it can be assumed they were farming on shares in that county too.
In about 1919 Charles, Martha and their six children moved on to Gillham, Sevier County, Arkansas where they farmed for the next couple of years. Their son Charles " Wayne " was born here in 1920.
In about 1922 they relocated from Arkansas to Harrold, Wilbarger County, Texas and it was here that their daughter Tina was born in 1923. Tina died when she was five months old and is buried in the Harrold Cemetery . It is not confirmed, but I believe William "Bill" Wright was also born while they were living in Wilbarger County in 1925.
From Wilbarger County they moved, in about 1929, to Montague County, Texas near the town of Bowie . Here they were tenant farmers on a farm located three and one-half miles south of Bowie .
On Thursday, March 9, 1933 when Charles was in the town of Bowie , he became ill and according to tradition, the people who saw him thought he was drunk, so they took him back to his farm. In fact, the strange behavior was determined to be caused by apoplexy (cerebral stroke) and he died about five o'clock that afternoon at the age of 51. He is buried in Brushy Cemetery just outside Bowie, Texas.
Martha and her eight children continued to live in Bowie, and the children began to farm and "make a living" for the family. Martha continued to live in Bowie until she moved to West Texas in the late 1930's where Jewel (her daughter) and husband Ollie had moved and bought a farm.
For the rest of her life Martha moved about North Texas living in rented houses in the Wichita Falls area, being supported by her children until her death on Mary 15, 1963, at the home of her daughter Jewell Lyon in Morton , Texas . Her body was returned and buried next to her husband in Brushy Cemetery , Bowie , TX .