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Wayne Wright Johnson
Long time resident of Nigton and teacher/principal at Nigton (Pine Grove) School for over 40 years
| Submitter: Pam Johnson Gaskin, October, 2015 |
| Husband: Wayne Wright Johnson |
| Born: 16Sept1879, Weldon, Houston County, Texas |
| Married: 28April1912, Trinity County Marriage Record, Vol. 9 pg 37 |
| Died: June, 1968, Crosby, Texas |
| Cemetery: Nigton Cemetery, Nigton, Trinity County, Texas |
| Father: Solomon Johnson |
| Mother: Susan |
| Other Spouses: |
| Wife: Elsie Mark |
| Born: 12April1893, Nigton, Texas |
| Died: 10August1979, Houston, Texas |
| Cemetery: Nigton Cemetery, Nigton, Trinity County, Texas |
| Father: Monroe Mark |
| Mother: Leah McClendon |
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Children |
| 1 Name: Elvis Cleon |
| Born: 7November1912, Weldon, Texas |
| Died: 30June1987, Lufkin, Angelina County, Texas |
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| Spouse 1: Odell Sweats |
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| 2 Name: Eleanor Elsie |
| Born: 19May1914 |
| Died: Date Unknown, Harris County, Texas |
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| Spouse 1: Brilliant Sylvester Griffin |
| Married: 28December1941 |
| 3 Name: Helen Dorcus |
| Born: 07October 1907, Weldon, Texas |
| Died: 28October2000, Crosby, Texas |
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| Spouse 1: Foncey D. Duncan, 1944, Houston, Texas |
| Spouse 2: Cleveland Bluitt |
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| 4 Name: Wayne Wright, Jr. |
| Born: 11September1918, Weldon, Texas |
| Died: 15August1985, La Marque, Texas |
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| Spouse 1: Willie Velma Drake |
| Married: 24October1945, Galveston, Texas |
| 5 Name: Herbert Hemphrey |
| Born: 15January1921, Weldon, Texas |
| Died: 02January1954, Houston, Texas |
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| Spouse 1: Selma Turner |
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| 6 Name: Langston Crawford |
| Born: 15March1924, Nigton, Texas |
| Died: 24October2007, Livingston, Texas |
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| Spouse 1: Dorothy Watkins |
| Married: 30December1941, Palestine, Texas |
| 7 Name: Versa Vena |
| Born: 04January1927, Nigton, Texas |
| Died: 30March2010, Houston, Texas |
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| Spouse 1: Oscar Tatum |
| Spouse 2: Robert Barnes |
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| 8 Name: Opal Jerene Gwendolyn |
| Born: Living |
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| Sources: "Descendants of Monroe "Buck" Mark", submitted by Pamiel Johnson Gaskin, October 2015 |
| Notes: |
| Notes for Wayne Wright Johnson Sr. Wayne Wright Johnson, Sr. is listed in the 1880 Us Census as Winwright. He later changed his name to Wayne Wright. Professor Johnson, as he was known, graduated from Prairie View A&M College. While at Prairie View, he played on the first football team. He went to work with Dr. Carver at Tuskegee Institute. He returned to Texas and he and Elsie started several schools for black youth in east Texas in Corrigan, Apple Springs, etc.. He later taught at Texas College, Tyler, Texas. |