James and Elizabeth (Lowry) Wright

During a very recent family history research trip to the prairie states, I had a chance to visit with my cousin Edgar Tingley and his wife, Marjorie. Though Tapscotts were a major source of conversation, Edgar and Marjorie did show me a photo of James and Elizabeth (Lowry) Wright (see blogs of 9/27/15, 10/11/15, 9/29/15), predecessors of some Clark County Tapscotts. Here is that photo, which shows James and Elizabeth alongside their home.

Clark County home of James F. and Elizabeth J. (Lowry) Wright c1906. Left to right:

(1) (probably) Mary Elizabeth (Wright) Shields, (2) Elizabeth (Lowry) Wright, (3) Richard

Wright (son), (4) Dewey Oscar Shields (grandson), (5) James F. Wright, (6) John Wright (son).

Photo courtesy of Edgar and Marjorie Tingley.

The youngest person in this photo, Dewey Oscar Shields, was born to Mary Elizabeth Wright and Henry U. Shields on 6 Feb 1899 in Sullivan, Moultrie County, Illinois. Married in 1897, Mary and Henry may have broken up by the time that Mary appears with her son Dewey, but without Henry, in the 1900 census. The marriage was certainly finished by the following year when, on 12 Nov 1901, Henry married Vina B. Grant.

The above photo was taken about ten years before 15 Dec 1915, when Mary Elizabeth (Wright) Shields married her second husband, the widowed Allen Wesley Pennell, a marriage which gave Mary Elizabeth another son, Wayne Andrew Pennell, born 30 Aug 1916.

Earlier, another cousin, Dolores Berbaum, had loaned me the photo shown below of the entire James and Elizabeth (Lowry) Wright family (except for a child that died as an infant)

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James and Elizabeth (Lowry) Wright Framily, c1891. Standing, left to right:
Robert Wright, Mary Wright, Richard Wright, Edna Wright, Orlie
Wright. Seated, left to right: James F. Wright, John Wright, Elizabeth
(Lowry) Wright. Photo courtesy of Dolores Bierbaum.