Taylor-Bibb County GaArchives Obituaries.....Leonard R. Wright October 29 1912 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Carla Miles cmhistory@mchsi.com February 9, 2004, 8:25 pm The Butler Herald, November 5, 1912 The Butler Herald Tuesday, November 5, 1912 Page Three Mr. L.R. Wright’s Death Shock to Friends Mr. Wright Died At Waynesboro Tuesday Afternoon From Injuries Received By Fall The people of Butler and Taylor County were very much shocked and grieved Wednesday morning last to learn of the death of Mr. L.R. Wright, better known to countless number of friends in this county as Mr. Leonard Wright. Mr. Wright’s death occurred at Waynesboro Tuesday afternoon about 6 o’clock, having received injuries on Saturday before that terminated in his death, although it was thought that he was doing well and fairly on the road to recovery up to the very hour of his death which came almost without warning. Mr. Wright was reared from child to manhood in Butler, and began a successful business career under a bright star in early life, which has led and guided him ever since. In character her was a model gentleman in the highest sense of the term in fact in the experience of a lifetime the writer hereof can of a truth say he never met one who seemed to be more guided by conscience coupled with sincerity of purpose, honesty and integrity. Mr. Wright commanded the respect of all sects and classes of people as the attendance at his funeral at Macon Thursday fully verified, the assemblage from the city and elsewhere being very large. In 1885 Mr. Wright was happily married to Miss Geraldine Tomlin, daughter of the late Hon. R.G. Tomlin of this county, who with four children deeply mourn his death. The Macon Telegraph of Wednesday gives the following account of Mr. Wright’s accident: L.R. Wright, for the past thirty years a prominent railroad builder of Georgia and for the past twenty years a resident of Macon, died yesterday afternoon at 6 o’clock in Waynesboro, where he sustained a broken leg last Saturday and was internally injured. Mrs. Wright was called to Waynesboro immediately after the accident and was with him at the time of his death. Campbell Jones of Macon, a son-in-law of Mr. Wright, went to Waynesboro last night to accompany the body to Macon for funeral and interment Thursday. The construction work on the new extension to the Brinson railroad was being carried out by the Wright & Wadley contracting company, of which Mr. Wright was the president. Last Saturday while superintending the unloading of materials at the Brinson depot he lost his footing when he started to step from the depot platform to a loaded dray falling beneath. His left leg was broken in two places and it developed later that he sustained internal injuries. Surgical attention was given at once and he was carried to the home of Dr. H.C. Cox, who was attending him. His condition was not thought to be serious until yesterday, when complications sent in, showing that his injuries had also been internal. Besides having the contract for the construction of a big railroad in Florida, Mr. Wright and his company have been conspicuous in the building of sections on the Central of Georgia, the Louisville and Nashville, A.B. and A. railroad and others. Mr. Wright, whose home in Macon was 254 College Street is survived by his widow, two daughters, Mrs. Campbell Jones and Miss Estelle Wright; two sons, Robert and Rudolph Wright; one brother, W.H. Wright, all of Macon and three sisters. For more than thirty years Mr. Wright has been prominently identified with the railroad construction of the state and has been president of the Wright & Wadley Company since its organization nearly twelve years ago. He was 56 years of age and was a native of Butler. This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.1 Kb