OBIT: Rev. Leslie Thomas Wright, Jefferson Co., Ky

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Submitted by:  Pat45324@aol.com
Date: 12 June 2001
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Subject: obit - Wright (no year shown in article)

Rev. L.T. Wright Dies Ending Long Pastorate
Jeffersontown Baptist Minister succumbs after recent stroke mourned by all.

       Heaven's clouded canopy appeared in step and in sympathy Sunday afternoon with the 
several hundreds of parishioners, friends and neighbors, over which a pall of gloom was 
resting as they came to pay final tributes of respect to the departed pastor of the 
Jeffersontown Baptist Church. For twenty-three years he had labored among the people here 
where he was loved and respected among those of all faiths and creeds.
       The earthly journey and the very active and fruitful ministry of the Rev. Leslie 
thomas Wright came to a close at 9:40 Friday night, February 18.  Two weeks before he had 
suffered a stroke, from which he never rallied, although at times his condition would become 
a bit hopeful.
       Rev. Mr. Wright was born at Cox's Creek, Ky., a son of Q. J. and Elmira King Wright. 
 He was a graduate of Georgetown College and attended Crozier Seminary, Chester, Pa., and 
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in Louisville.  He was ordained to ministry by the 
Centenial Baptist Church, Washington, D.C., in 1906.  Before coming to Jeffersontown in 
1921, he had held pastorates in Washington, D.C., and in Kentucky at Frankfort, Little 
Mount, Elk Creek and Ghent.  Concurrently with his Jeffersontown ministry during 1921 to 
1934 he was pastor of the Hopewell Baptist Church.
       In 1939-40 he served as moderator of the Long Run Association, and was at his death a 
member of the Kentucky State Board of Missions.  In 1913 he married Miss Eva Mae Brock, of 
Wheatley, Ky.  Mrs. Wright survives with the two daughters, Mrs. R.G. Shelton, Danville, and 
Miss Mabelle Clare Wright, Jeffersontown.  Other survivors are three grandchildren, Thomas 
Leslie, Marilyn and Janice Shelton; three brothers, Rev. A.K. Wright, Louisville; 
Prof. D.J. Wright, Jacksonville, Ala.; Ray M. Wright, Cox's Creek; and nine nieces and 
nephews.
       In charge of the funeral rites was the Rev. J.W. Black, Baptist State mission 
secretary and longtime friend of the deceased.  Active pallbearers were deacons of the local 
church, while honorary pall bearers included; Revs. T.V. Wells, W.E. Pound, Forrest Sparks, 
W.M. Blackwell, R.H. Dills, Raymond Kolb, W.L. Aspy, Jean Stephens, and J.A. McCaleb.