Laura Emogene Parrish was born to Luther Bundy Parrish and Eva Ruth Teal on November 14, 1918, in rural Dale County, Alabama.  She married Gus Elias Wright, Jr. on December 23, 1939 in Dothan, Alabama.  She died August 19, 1979 in Palatka, Florida, and was buried alongside her mother in Ozark, Alabama.