Floyd County GaArchives Obituaries.....Wright, Mr. A.R. March 1, 1916
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Rome Tribune-Herald
Thursday, March 2, 1916

Funeral of A.R.Wright, Leading North Alabama Citizen To Be Held Today

The funeral of Mr. A.R.Wright, who died at his home at Farrill, Ala., at 
midnight yesterday, will be held at his late residence at 11 o'clock this 
morning, Rev. Charles Wright of this county officiating, and interment will be 
in the Methodist churchyard at Farrill,where the decedent had lived 35 years 
and of which he was a founder.
Surviving him are his daughters, Mrs. Frank McGhee, of Rome, and Mrs. Lewis 
Tillery, of Parrot, Georgia, and his sons, Dr. Harper Wright, of Granfield, 
Oklahoma, Gus Wright, Jr., of Farrill and M.W. Wright, now a pupil at 
Darlington school. His sisters are Mrs. T.T. Swanson and Mrs. Fannie Willingham 
of Rome, Mrs. Mary Cleveland of Wartrace, Tennessee, and Mrs. Hattie Stone, of 
Farrill.

Mr. Wright was the largest landowner in Cherokee county, Alabama, to which he 
removed from Cave Spring, when a young man. He had become during his life at 
Farrill its leading citizen. Among his numerous enterprises was the building of 
a farm telephone line to Rome, with the other terminus in his own home. He had 
also established telephone connections at various points on his own farms.

All his very large business was transacted in Rome and the people of this city 
came to regard him almost as one of themselves.

Mr. Wright was twice married. His first wife, the mother of all his children, 
was Miss Effie Stewart, a sister of A.T. Stewart, now and for a quarter of a 
century tax collector for Fulton county. His second wife was Miss Bella Webb, 
of Gaylesville, Alabama, to whom he was married last October.

He was a graduate of the Eastman Business College at Poughkeepsie, New York, 
and was a thorough and successful business man of high character, with a very 
large circle of friends who join his immediate family in mourning his death.

Additional Comments:
Augustus Richardson Wright: born May 17, 1858 and died March 1,1916
Marriages; 1st wife Effie L. Stewart m. 24 December 1882, Cherokee, Alabama
2nd wife Della Louise Webb m. 13 Oct 1915 at Broomtown,Cherokee, Alabama 
Burial: Salem Cemetery; Cherokee County, Alabama


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