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Podcast 08: Trauma Begets Trauma Series S.2 Ep 6 - Percy Wright's Formative Years
Supplemental and Source Materials
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Secondary Sources and Tertiary Information
Pictures
Documents that assisted in painting a picture of Percy's early life.
Primary Source Documents
Here are some of the primary source documents used in the investigation.
Images owned by Helen, Percy's Wife
Newspaper Articles
Following the trail of Leo and Percy.
Poor Farm Newspapers
Information from Newspapers about Poor Farms from the early 1900s.
Sources, References and External Links
This has all the reference material compiled into one location.
Sources, References and External Links
"116 Cases Docketed for Criminal Court," Beckley Post-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia, 24 Oct 1946, News, Digital Images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/beckley-post-herald/137912452/: accessed 27 Dec 2023), citing original p.9.
"3 Youths Accused of Stealing Cars," The Raleigh Register, Beckley, West Virginia, 21 July 1946, News, Digital Images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-raleigh-register-leo-crime-18/137498673/ : accessed 27 Dec 2023), citing original p.9.
Ancestry.com. 1940 United States Federal Census [database on-line]. Year: 1940; Census Place: Rock, Mercer, West Virginia; Roll: m-t0627-04429; Page: 8A; Enumeration District: 28-51, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1940. T627, 4,643 rolls, Subjects Percy Wright & Leo Wright.
Ancestry.com. U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010 [database on-line]. Record for Percy Wright, Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011, Original data: Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Ancestry.com, U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2014, Original data: Social Security Administration, Social Security Death Index, Master File, Social Security Administration.
"Boys are the Raw Materials from Which Men are Made: Psychology and Hearty Appetites Take Sting from Wrok at Prunytown School," The Raleigh Register, Beckley, W.V., 2 Feb 1950, News, Digital Images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-raleigh-register/137092784/), citing original p.1.
"Boys' Farm, Elview W. VA.," Hinton Daily News, Hinton, W.VA., 13 May 1950, News, Digital Images, Newspapers.com, (https://www.newspapers.com/article/hinton-daily-news/137091589/) citing original p.6.
"Criminal Court Docket Readied, Percy Wright," The Raleigh Register, Beckley, WV, 7 Oct 1953, News. Digital Images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-raleigh-register-criminal-court-dock/136658888/ : Accessed 11 Dec. 2023).
Interview with Rick Wright and Lisa Wright conducted by Nicole Joseph and Melody Colter via Microsoft Teams on 23 December 2023. Automatic Transcript saved via Teams and Sound Recording of Interview with Nicole Joseph.
Interview with Lisa Wright by Nicole Joseph via telephone on 24 December 2023. No recording available. Conversation with Percy and Helen's daughter.
"Junior Women to aid Children's Society," Beckley Post-Herald, Beckley, W.V., 4 February, 1949, News, Digital Images, Newspapers.com, (https://www.newspapers.com/article/beckley-post-herald/137093185/), citing original p.6.
"Leo Wright Jailed in Wyoming; Also Wanted in Mercer, Raleigh," Beckley, West Virginia, 14 November 1948, News, Digital Images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-raleigh-register/137913844/ : accessed 2 Jan. 2024), citing original p. 9.
"Mercer County Poor Farm Cabins," Image publication, Archer, William, Images of America Forestry Sciences Lab in Mercer County," (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina: 2021; imaged at "Mercer County Poor Farm Cabins," Mercer County Gardner Center Website (https://www.gardnercenter.org/farm.html : viewed on 20 Dec 2023).
"Mercer County Poor Farm Larger Cabins," Image publication, Archer, William, Images of America Forestry Sciences Lab in Mercer County," (Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina: 2021; imaged at "Mercer County Poor Farm Cabins," Mercer County Gardner Center Website (https://www.gardnercenter.org/farm.html : viewed on 20 Dec 2023).
“Notice of Bankruptcy,” Bluefield Daily Telegraph, 2 July 1931, News. Digital images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13103070/bluefield_daily_telegraph/?xid=637), citing original p. 10.
"Old Relief Staff winds up 74 Million Business," The Charleston Daily Mail, Charleston, WV, 3 Jan 1937, News, Digital Images, Newspapers.com, (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-charleston-daily-mail/137089046/), citing original p. 13.
"Percy Wright Fined for DD," The Raleigh Register, Beckley, WV, 13 Jan 1956, News. Digital Images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/image/47835884 : accessed 11 Dec 2023), citing original p. 12.
Percy Wright/Helen Wright, photographs, location and date unknown; privately held by Helen Duncan, 27 Dec 2023. Nicole Joseph took a digital image of this photo from Helen Duncan's private photo collection in November 2022.
"Police Believe Escaped Fugitives Traveling in Stolen Automobile," The Raleigh Register, Beckley, West Virginia, 10 January 1949, News, Digital Images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-raleigh-register/137914456/ : accessed 2 Jan 2024), citing original p. 2.
"Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950", FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5HZ-TDY : Accessed 3 Jan. 2024), Entry for Percy Roger Wright and Helen Carol Duncan, 14 Jun 1952, citing original p. 191, marriage entry 1232 in Johnson County, Tennesse from County Court Marriages Vol - T, 6/1950 - 4/1957.
U.S. Congress Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce. 1936. "Vol. 4 Hearings: Seventy-fourth Congress Second Session 1936." Washington, DC: Congress.Westlaw. State v. Wright, 130 W. Va. 336, 43 S.E.2d 295 (1947). Digital Copy. Accessed 5 September 2023.
"U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010," indexed database, Fold3, Fold3.com (https://www.fold3.com/record/619830411/percy-wright-1932-us-veterans-affairs-birls-death-file-1850-2010 : accessed 4 Jan 2024), entry for Percy Wright (1932-1972), SSN 236487817; citing Beneficiary Identification Records Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Warner, J.R., "Group Homes - The early Years, the Later Years Abstract,"U.S. Department of Justice: Office of Justice Programs, National Criminal Justice Reference Service, Washington, D.C., 1980, (https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/group-homes-early-years-later-years : viewed on 27 Dec 2023.
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