Beckham County, OK - Obits: Mary Alice Wright, 1940
Sunday, 22 February 2009
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

 ************************************************
 Copyright. All rights reserved.
 http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm
 ************************************************

WRIGHT, MARY ALICE
(13 Jun 1940, Thursday, Beckham County Democrat, Erick, Beckham Co, OK):
Mrs. Mary Alice Wright
The following obituary was published, January 1919, and by request we are
republishing it.
Our dear Mother was born in Barnsley, Yorkshire, England, July 1, 1856,
and died January 8, 1919, at the age of sixty-three years, five months and
eight days.  Her remains now lie at rest in the cemetery at Texola,
Oklahoma.
Her parents came to Crawford, Villiage, Lancashire, England, when she was
quite young.  From there they moved to Skelmersdale, Lancashire, England. 
At the age of seven years she was converted and lived a consecrated life. 
At the Skelmersdale Methodist Sunday School she met for the first time
John Wright, and after two years courtship, they were married October 21,
1873, by their pastor, the Rev. Wm. Hale.
John and Mary A. Wright were the parents of four children in England, of
this number, three died and were buried in the Skelmersdale Church
cemetery.  Margary Hannah Powell, now in Kentucky, is the only survivor of
the four.
In 1881 they came to America to make their home.  In America nine children
were born to them, they being as follows:  John Wright, born in
Phillipsburn, Pa., died in Alabama; Mary Ellen Taylor, born in
Pierceville, Ala., now in Wheeler, Tex.; Elizabeth Ann Counts, born in
Pierceville, Ala., now in Hollis, Okla.; John Robert Wright, born in
Paradise, Ky., now in Altus, Okla.; Edith Beatrice Fountain, born in
Drakesborough, Ky., now in Lindsay, Calif.; Jane Alice Frye, born in
Drakesborough, Ky., now in Wheeler, Tex.; May Gertrude McNatt, born in
Drakesborough, Ky., now in Lindsay, Calif.; Mabel Ruth Biggs, born in
Corydon, Ky., now in Plymouth, Tex.; Grace Valentine Wright, born in
Corydon, Ky., now in Plymouth, Tex.
About twenty-one years ago, Mother Wight was wholly sanctified in the
Methodist Church at Corydon, Kentucky.  Mother and Father Wright came to
Oklahoma in 1901 and settled near Mangum.  While in this country Mother
Wright gave a great deal of her time to singing the Gospel songs.  Her
songs and powerful prayers have been the means of saving many souls.  She
was a powerful worker at the altar and of the Sixty-three years of her
life she led a fully consecrated life for fifty-six years.

---------------------------------------------------------
Return to Beckham County Archives:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/beckham/beckham.htm