Precious Memories was written out of tragedy, when the couple lost their five year old son, Everett Jackson Wright, in 1922. The author said, “’Precious Memories’ was born in the midnight hours as I bathed by pillow with tears, likewise all my songs came through life’s severest tests.”Precious Memories is credited as having been written by J.B.F. {John Braselton Fillmore} Wright in 1925. J.B.F. Wright was born February 21, 1877. He grew up in Texas and studied music at the eighteen day singing school he attended. On February 13, 1898. he married Fannie Jackson and the couple had seven children.John Wright wrote over 200 songs and poems. He said he began writing when he was fifteen years old. He is quoted with saying the following about writing, “I write by inspiration, only when the mood comes on the words and melody flow from my soul like the water from a babbling brook; without this inspiration I could not write.”