OBIT: Rev. Abner K. Wright, Jefferson Co., Ky?

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Transcribed by: Pat45324@aol.com
Date: 5 Nov 2000
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Donated by Marion Small (smallrichm@aol.com) from "Aunt Mary's Scrapbook.

The Rev. Abner K. Wright, pastor of the Baptist Tabernacle for 24 years until his 
retirement in 1943, died at 4 a.m. yesterday in Syracuse, N.Y., where he was visiting 
his daughter and son-in-law.  He was 78.

He retired from the active ministry because of ill health.  Early last year he 
suffered a heart attack.  He felt well enough, however, to spend the holidays with Lt. 
Col. and Mrs. Gilbert W. Curl in syracuse.

After Dr. Wright became pastor in 1919, the Baptist Tabernacle, 26th and Market, added 
2,300 new members.

Since 1943, he and his wife, Mrs. Janet Walton Wright, had lived with their son, James 
A. Wright, at 39-1 Garfield.

Finished Seminary Here

Dr. Wright, a native of Coxs Creek, Ky., was a graduate of Georgetown College and 
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.  He received his doctor of divinity degree from 
Georgetown College in 1926 and was trice elected to the Georgetown board of trustees.

He came to Louisville from Birmingham, where had had been pastor of Ensley Baptist 
Church for 10 years.  He also had been pastor of Centenial Baptish church, Washington, 
from 1904 to 1909, and of the First Baptist Church, Lexington, N.C. in 1909-1910.

He was past president of the Louisville Council of Churches, past secretary of the 
Louisville Ministerial Association, and had been a trustee of the Kentucky Anti-Saloon 
League.

He is also survived by another son, Leslie S. Wright, Washington, secretary to Senator 
Lister Hill of Alabama; two brothers, Professor Denton J. Wright, Jacksonville, Ala., 
and Ray M. Wright, Coxs Creek, and six grandchildren.

The body will arrive at 11:30 a.m. today at Schoppenhorst Funeral Home, 1832 W. 
Market, and remain there until 11 a.m., Tuesday, from 11 a.m., until the funeral at 2 
p.m., Tuesday the body will lie in state at Baptist Tabernacle. Burial willbe in 
Resthaven MemorialPark.

The funeral will be conduced by the Rev. Lewis C. Ray, pastor of Baptist Tabernacle; 
the Rev. E.F. Estes, pastor of West Broadway Baptist Church and a lifelong friend of 
Dr. Wright, and Dr. W.O. Carver, professor emeritus of Southern Baptist Theological 
Seminary.