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John Edward “Jack” Wright

Birth: 3 Feb 1895
Athens County, Ohio, USA
Death: 3 May 1944 (aged 49)
Cherryvale, Montgomery County, Kansas, USA
Burial: Medway Cemetery

Medway, Clark County, Ohio, USA Add to Map
Memorial ID: 76912666 View Source

Born in Floodwood, Ohio, to John William and Nancy Alice Spires Wright. By the age of 15, Jack was already working as a coal miner and later took up blacksmithing. In 1930 he was a machinist in Dayton, Ohio. Sometime later he moved his family to nearby Osborn to work at Patterson Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). In 1942, he took an assignment to Coffeyville Army Air Field and moved his family to Cherryvale, Kansas. There he supported WW2 pilot training as a machine shop foreman until his death in 1944. He was married to Addie Mae Wilson and they had three children: Edith Elaine, Samuel Earl, and Eldene Fay.

Born in Floodwood, Ohio, to John William and Nancy Alice Spires Wright. By the age of 15, Jack was already working as a coal miner and later took up blacksmithing. In 1930 he was a machinist in Dayton, Ohio. Sometime later he moved his family to nearby Osborn to work at Patterson Field (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base). In 1942, he took an assignment to Coffeyville Army Air Field and moved his family to Cherryvale, Kansas. There he supported WW2 pilot training as a machine shop foreman until his death in 1944. He was married to Addie Mae Wilson and they had three children: Edith Elaine, Samuel Earl, and Eldene Fay.

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1898–1978

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Created by: Gary Siler
Added: Sep 22, 2011
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76912666/john_edward-wright: accessed ), memorial page for John Edward “Jack” Wright (3 Feb 1895–3 May 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 76912666, citing Medway Cemetery, Medway, Clark County, Ohio, USA; Maintained by Gary Siler (contributor 47339239).

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