| Name |
William Thomas 'W.T.' Wright [1] |
| Prefix |
Dr. |
| Suffix |
III |
| Birth |
24 Feb 1891 |
Accomack County, Virginia, USA  [2] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Will |
22 May 1923 |
- Dr. William Thomas Wright wrote his will on 22 May 1923. It was found among his effects on 15 December 1954, and recorded in Accomack County on 18 June 1955 (Wills 27, p. 94). He left his entire estate to his widow, Jean B. Wright.
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| Anecdote |
24 Mar 1944 |
- An article, with his picture, on the front page of the March 24,1944 issue of the Peninsula Enterprise, tells of Rear Admiral William Thomas Wright and his wife, of Baltimore, visiting his mother and sisters of Rue. It states that he was the first Eastern Shoreman to reach the rank of Rear Admiral and was one of only three in the Dental Corp in the United States. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1914, with the degree of Doctor of Dental Surgery. He had served in World War I in the U.S. Army, with the rank of First Lieutenant and later Captain. He was overseas for 15 months, a part of this time with the army of occupation, and had been in the U.S. Public Health Service since 1920. The article continues by stating that Rear Admiral Wright had married Miss Jean Boteler, of Baltimore, and they had two children: Miss Joanne L. Wright, a freshman at Randolph Macon Woman's College, and John B. Wright, Pharmacist Mate, First Class, U.S. Coast Guard, stationed in Baltimore, Maryland.
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| Obituary - Named in Mothers obituary |
2 Jun 1950 |
| Record ID |
27419 |
| Death |
Mar 1954 |
Bethesda, Maryland |
- The March 25,1954 issue of the Peninsula Enterprise gives an account of the sudden death of Rear Admiral Wright, at his home in Bethesda, Maryland, on the previous Sunday. His obituary gives essentially the same information as the article of 1944, but adds that he served in the Navy, in the Dental Corps, during World War II. Family records show that Dr. Wright married Eugenia Boteler, in Baltimore, on 25 October 1919, that he died on 20 March 1954 and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery. The same source adds that Dr. Wright and his wife had had a third child, William Thomas Wright, IV,. who died in March 1924 at two years of age, of scarlet fever.
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Origins  |
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| Patriarch & Matriarch |
Henry Wright, II, b. Abt 1700, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Yes, date unknown (3 x Great Grandfather)  Zipporah G. 'Tippah' Pettitt, b. Abt 1800, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. 1871, Accomack County, Virginia, USA (Age 71 years) (Great Grandmother) |
| Siblings |
2 sisters |
| > | 1. Helen Louise Wright, b. 24 Jan 1887, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. 4 Aug 1945 (Age 58 years)
╚═ A.J. Rew, m. Abt 1930 | | > | 2. Annie May Wright, b. 24 Oct 1888, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Yes, date unknown
╚═ William R. Eggers, m. Bef 1914 | | + | 3. Dr. William Thomas 'W.T.' Wright, III, b. 24 Feb 1891, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. Mar 1954, Bethesda, Maryland (Age 63 years)
╚═ Eugenia 'Jean' Boteler, m. 25 Oct 1919 |
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| Person ID |
I27419 |
MilesFiles23 |
| Last Modified |
15 Mar 2023 |
| Father |
William Thomas Wright, II, b. 1861, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. 3 Dec 1942, Rew, Virginia (Age 81 years) |
| Mother |
Annie Jackson Bundick, b. 1863, Accomack County, Virginia, USA d. 30 May 1950, Bethesda, Maryland (Age 87 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 1886 |
- While no marriage record has been found, it is known from other records that William Thomas Wright, II, married Annie Jackson Bundick circa 1886 (see Bundicks of Accomack County, Virginia). She was a daughter of John A. Bundick by his second wife, Annie W. Hickman, and a sister to John A. Bundick, Jr., who married sister, Willianna C. Wright, in 1895.
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| Family ID |
F8601 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
1891 - 1954 (63 years)
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: Location
: City/Town
: County/Shire
: State/Province
: Country
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