MARTHA EMSLEY FOSTER

1882 - 1963

Photo taken in Gainesville, Texas, date unknown

 

MARTHA EMSLEY FOSTER was born in Greenwood , Wise County , Texas on Aug 5, 1883 and married Charles Easton Wright of Leo, Cooke County , Texas on Dec 9, 1906 . They were married in the home of Martha's mother in Rosston , Texas .

 

Preacher Bert Goldston married them, and the witnesses were Wallace Parkhill (Martha’s brother-in-law) and Evert Fortenberry.

 

 

Wedding photo of

Charles Easton Wright & Martha Emsley Foster Wright

Dec 9, 1906

 

  

Children of MARTHA FOSTER and CHARLES WRIGHT are:

  1. JEWELL GLADYS WRIGHT, b. 11 Oct 1907, Leo, Cooke Co., TX; d. 19 Nov 1996, Morton, TX
  2. FORREST NATHAN WRIGHT, b. 18 Feb 1909, Leo, Cooke Co., TX; d. 02 Jul 1977, Wichita Falls, TX
  3. JAMES BARNEY WRIGHT, b. 14 Jan 1911, Henryetta, Okmulgee Co., OK; d. 10 Sep 1994, Wichita Falls, TX
  4. RUBY MARY WRIGHT, b. 24 Dec 1913, Lamar, Hughes Co., OK; d. 21 Sep 2003, Bowie, Montague Co., TX
  5. BURNEY HULEN WRIGHT, b. 07 Jun 1915, Lamar, Hughes Co., OK; d. 04 Dec 2007, Clyde, Callahan Co., TX
  6. CONNIE LESTER WRIGHT, b. 20 May 1917, Lamar, Hughes Co., OK; d. 02 Jan 2003, Wichita Falls, TX
  7. CHARLES WAIN WRIGHT, b. 26 Mar 1920, Gilliam, Sevier Co., AR; d 19 Feb 1987, Westhoff, DeWitt Co, TX
  8. TINA DISHIELD WRIGHT, b. 27 Dec 1923, Wilbarger Co., TX; d. 25 May 1924, buried Harold Cemetery, Wilbarger Co., TX
  9. WILLIAM KENNETH WRIGHT, b. 27 Dec 1923, Wilbarger Co., TX; d. Nov 7, 2006, Wichita Falls, TX

Martha E. Foster died on May 15, 1963 of heart failure while visiting her daughter Jewell Lyon in Morton, Texas.  Her body was returned to Wichita Falls for the funeral and she was buried in the Brushy Cemetery, Bowie, Texas alongside her husband in the Wright family plot. (These are the only two graves in this plot).

 

Martha Emsley Foster Wright obit

Martha Emsley Foster Wright's death certificate

The informant, Jewell Lyon (indicated as Mrs. G.O. Lyon), daughter of Martha,

provided incorrect information regarding the parents of Martha.  Martha's father's

was John Emsley Foster, and her mother was Nancy Ann Cunnius.

 

Brushy Cemetery

Bowie, Texas