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Mary Amelia/Armelia Wright Chambless
22 Jan 1857 – 25 May 1877
| Birth | 22 Jan 1857 |
| Death | 25 May 1877 |
| Cemetery | Fort Moore Cemetery #16 Fort Benning , Chattahoochee County , Georgia , USA |
| Added by | Punnie RD on 27 Dec 2024 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/65827910 |
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Daughter of Young Frederick Wright and Sarah Elizabeth Morgan. Wife of Christopher C. Chambless. Date: 1877-05-29; Paper: Augusta Chronicle Villainy And Vengeance Horrible Crime In Stewart County, Georgia--A Young and Beautiful Woman Shot Down by Negroes--Her husband decoyed Away From Her and the Premise Robbed.--The Villains Caught and Hung to the Highest Limb--Wretched Depravity of the Murderers Columbus, Ga., May 28--Last Friday morning, before daybreak, Mrs. C.C. Chambless of Stewart County was murdered by three negroes of the neighborhood. They fired the fences and drew her husband away from the house. The negroes then proceeded to the house to rob it, and were met by Mrs. Chambliss, a beautiful woman, aged 18 years, armed with a gun. One of the negroes, Jerry Snead, took the gun from her, lodged its contents in her head, causing her death instantly. The negroes burned the corn crib and fled. They were pursued and captured. Jerry admitted the deed and implicated his companions, Stephen Abram and Wm. Booth. They were brought to the Chambless' house that afternoon and it was unanimously decided by about three hundred whites and blacks present that they should be hanged. A gallows was erected, and the murderers were hanged with three chains. The colored participants in the lynching threw the lifeless bodies into an old field to rot, and it was with great difficlty that the whites cold persuade them to permit a burial. The culprits met their fate jeeringly and sneeringly, glorying in the deed and taunting their executioners. Mrs. Chambless, nee Miss Amelia Wright, daughter of Mr. Y. F. Wright, of Stewart Conty, was a beautiful and promising young woman, and was endowed with many mental graces. She had been married little more then a year, and has been snatched from the devoted hands of a young husband by ruthless murderers and robbers. She was interred Saturday afternoon, at Jamestown, Chattahoochee County.
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- William Abraham Wright 1847–1912
- Texas A Wright McKeithen 1849–1933
- Marzena Wright 1851–1853
- Claudia Missouri Wright Chambless 1853–1894
- Young Alexander Wright 1855–1911
- Sarah Jacob "Jakie" Wright 1859–1881
- Frances George "Fannie" Wright Gates 1861–1921
- Jimmie Ada Wright McLendon 1866–1936
- Minnie Minerva Wright Allen 1869–1951
- Freddie May Wright 1871–1873
- Birdie Estelle Wright Harrell 1874–1923
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