REV. JACKSON H. WRIGHT.

EV. JACKSON EL WRIGHT was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, November 24, 1837, and died at his home two miles south of Asheboro in Randolph county, North Carolina, March 20, 1907. His funeral was conducted from the M. E. Church in Asheboro, Friday afternoon, the 22nd of March. He had lived in Indiana from which state he came to North Carolina in 1886. He was twice married. He was, survived by a widow, and three children, Ollie, Ruby, and Mildred Wright; also by three children by his first wife, William T. Wright and Eva Wright of Indianapolis, Indiana, and Mrs. Dora T. Brown of Center Falls, North Carolina.

      At the Deep River (now Western North Carolina) Conference at Union Grove in Randolph county, November 10, 1892, Rev. J. H. Wright appeared before the committee on Education, and the committee recommended that he "be licensed to preach the gospel as a probationer." In 1898, he was present as a licentiate and served on the committee on Temperance and on that of Peace and Arbitration. The Conference met this year at Parks' Cross Roads. And in 1894, the Conference met at Shiloh, and he submitted the two reports of which committees he was chairman. The report on Peace and Arbitration [398] urges it to be the "duty of the proper authorities to create official boards of arbitration, before whom just decision may be had," and urges more strongly the subject of temperance. In 1896, he attended the Conference at Asheboro. At the Conference at Center Grove in Chatham county, in 1898, he served on the committee on Religious Literature. In 1899, at Liberty Christian church in Randolph county, he was elected secretary of the Conference. He was appointed chairman of the committee on Foreign Missions. At this Conference the committee on Education recommended the ordination of Rev. J. H. Wright. The following were appointed the ordaining presbytery: Revs. J. U. Newman, D. A. Long, and C. C. Peel. In 1900, he was at the Conference at St. John's church in Randleman. He was a delegate from the Western North Carolina Conference to the Southern Christian Convention at Asheboro, North Carolina, in 1902.

      At the Conference at Brown's chapel in Moore county, in 1902, he was chairman of the committee on Foreign Missions, and of the committee on District Meetings. He attended the Conference at Ramseur, in 1903, and served on several committees. In 1904, at Shiloh, in addition to serving on the committee on Foreign Missions, he was on a committee to recommend the establishing of "Mission Societies."

      At the Conference at Zion church in Chatham county, in 1906, he served as chairman of several committees. His ministerial report to Conference shows churches served: "Keyser, Mt. Pleasant, Sage Garden, and Shady Grove; sermons 128; baptized 9; lectures 20; marriages 2; prayer meetings 12." He was a Christian minister, true to his calling and faithful in his task. He was held in high esteem by his brethren with whom he sustained warm and loving fellowship. They recognized in him a loyal and devoted co-worker, and at the [399] time of his death he was actively engaged in the Master's work.

      Ever zealous in good works, he lost no opportunity of advocating the cause he had espoused. He loved the Christian Church, and was a bold and fearless advocate of its interests and enterprizes. As chairman of Foreign Missions for many years, he proved himself most worthy of the position, and a ready, able and willing supporter of the missionary cause. He was never more eloquent and convincing than when pleading, on the Conference floor, the cause of those in foreign lands without Christ and the gospel.

[LCM 398-400]