Jane Thelma Thomas was born May 27, 1902 in Trigg County, Kentucky. She was the fourth of seven children born to Bluford Ira Thomas and Alice Lula Vinson Thomas. Bluford and Lula were both natives of Trigg County. Bluford was a farmer and was a grandson of Starkie Thomas. Lula was a homemaker and was a great-granddaughter of Cullen Thomas.
Jane’s siblings were Clifford William Thomas, born in 1896; Henry Vinson Thomas, born in 1898 and married Artie Hambey; Mary Catherine Thomas, born in 1900 and married John William Stewart; Clyde S. “Sonny” Thomas, born in 1907 and married Mary Lillian Ladd; Inez Thomas, born in 1909 and married Archer Larkins Haydon; and Lula Thomas, born in 1910 and married Marion Bell Ladd.
Jane grew up on her father’s farm in the Gracey community and that is where she met Clifton Elliot Wright who also grew up on his parents’ farm in the Gracey community. Clifton and Grace were married on December 30, 1923. Clifton was born on December 7, 1899 in Trigg County, the son of Marcellus Alexander Wright and Elisebeth Ellen “Bessie” Hughes Wright. Marcellus and Bessie were both natives of Trigg County and Marcellus was a farmer.
After their marriage, Clifton and Jane, like their parents, became farmers. They lived and farmed in the Gracey community in Christian and Trigg Counties throughout their lifetime. Jane became one of the more active members of the Montgomery Homemakers Club.
Clifton and Jane were the parents of two sons, David Thomas Wright, born in 1928 and married Barbara Jean Allen and later married Betty Ann Price and Charles Rex Wright, born in 1930 and married Shirley Anne Barnes.
Clifton died on November 29, 1967 at the age of 67 of an apparent heart attack at his home in Gracey. He was buried in the Green Hill Memorial Gardens in Christian County. Jane died on July 25, 1992 at the age of 90 at the Jennie Stuart Medical Center in Hopkinsville. She was buried in the Green Hill Memorial Gardens next to her husband.
Clifton and Jane tombstone
LINEAGE: (Jane Thelma Thomas was the daughter of Bluford Ira and Alice Lula Vinson Thomas. Bluford was the seventh child of William Bridges and Nancy Jane Rogers Thomas. William was the first child of Starkie and Mary Bridges Thomas. Starkie was the Fourth Child of James and Mary Standley Thomas. Lula was the daughter of Henry Cullen and Mary Catherine Sumner Vinson. Henry was the first child of Thomas Allison and Emeline Thomas Vinson. Emeline was the fifth child of Cullen and Elizabeth Futrell Thomas. Cullen was the first child of James and Mary Standley Thomas.)
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