Let me introduce ya'll to my great grandma: Marie Bradshaw Wright

Marie Bradshaw Wright. Holding my eldest sister, Rosalind Ramirez

 Marie Bradshaw Wright. She was born on September 10th, 1910, and she lived a pretty normal life for an African American young women during this time. She was born in raised on the outskirts of a small town called Bishopvile in South Carolina.

She grew up in a small house on Eden street with her parents, and her four siblings (two boys, two girls). Marie was the baby of the family, and she attended school up until the eighth grade. She grew up during segregation, and attended a small one room school with one big boy wood heater.

After school, young Maria did not play with toys or even do homework. Instead she changed out of her school clothes, put on her field clothes, and ether pick or hold the cotton depending on the season.  At the end of the day, her father would collect all the cotton the family picked, present it the foremen who would then weigh the cotton and record it. The cotton was worth only one or two cent a pound.

Entering the early ages of her adulthood, she married a young sol
ider who served in World War II named James Roberson Sr, and they had one son together, named James Roberson Jr. The two were not married long, due to James being murder. Later, she married a John Wright Jr and together they had three boys and two girls.

Marie, in addition to picking cotton, she also became a maid working in a "big house", and only made $25 a week. During the last few years of her life, Marie and John were well known throughout the town as the first black family to own a car, a T.V, and a house phone. She raised two of her grandchildren, making it a total of six people living under one roof. After John passed away in March of 1989, Marie passed away in June of the same year. The cause of her death, according to doctors, was a broken heart from her one true love.