Obit – Master Cannon Wright

Master Cannon Wright, 8-day old son of Joe and Melissa Wright of Alexandria, went into the arms of Jesus at 3:56 p.m. Saturday afternoon October 24, 2026 at the Vanderbilt Childrens Hospital in Nashville where he was born October 16, 2026.

Master Cannon was at the Carthage Chapel of Sanderson Funeral Home. A large gathering to celebrate the short-lived life of Master Cannon assembled on Thursday evening at 6 p.m. at the family’s Peyton Creek Baptist Church in the Monoville Community. The church pastor, Bro. Josh Gibbs, officiated.

The father, Joe Wesley Wright and the mother Melissa Ann Poston Wright reside on their farm in the New Hope Community just outside the Alexandria City Limits with their daughter Adalyne Wright.

Preceding Master Cannon in death were his paternal grandmother, Melanie Richardson Wright who died July 27, 1991 at the age of 32, paternal grandfather, Ira Mark Wright who died September 8, 2021 at the age of 61, and maternal grandmother, Janice Marie Harville Huntsman who died December 31, 2017 at the age of 58.

Surviving in addition to his parents and sister are his maternal grandfather, Andrew Poston of Murfreesboro, paternal great-grandmother, Mollie Wilkerson Richardson of Carthage; maternal great-grandmother, Judy Morgan of Gallatin; aunt, Christie Steele and husband Chris of South Carthage, uncle, Adam Wright and wife Carrie of Carthage; cousins, Jaydon Poston, Noah Steele, Cooper Wright, and Colton Wright.

The Wright family requests memorials to the Peyton Creek Baptist Church.

SANDERSON of CARTHAGE