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Surnames: GEORGE, KIRK, PARHAM, PRICE, ROBERTS, WRIGHT
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THE BLOOMFIELD NEWS, Bloomfield, Greene County, Indiana, Thursday, August 16, 1934,Volume
LVIII, Number 42, Page 6, Columns 2 & 3, “DEATH’S HARVEST—WRIGHT.” [Transcribed March
1, 2005 by RLJ from microfilm of the original newspaper on file in the Bloomfield-Eastern
Greene County Public Library.]
Rebecca WRIGHT, daughter of Allen and Lucy PARHAM, was born in Monroe County, {Indiana,}
May 16, 1843, and died at Sullivan, {Moultrie County}, Illinois, August 9, 1934, being
ninety-one years, two months and twenty-three days old. Of a family of fourteen, she was
the last to go.
On January 23, 1862, she was married to Samuel WRIGHT, who died May 8, 1925. To this
union eight children were born, two dying in childhood and one, Mrs. Sarah ROBERTS, in
1929. The surviving children are, namely: Mrs. Lucy PRICE, of Sullivan, Illinois; Allen,
of Owensburg; Albert, of Robison, and Mrs. Martha KIRK, and Lewis WRIGHT, of Koleen. She
leaves also twenty-two grandchildren and forty-two great-grandchildren besides a number of
other relatives and friends. In addition to rearing her own family, she mothered several
orphan children at different intervals and reared a granddaughter, Mrs. Elsie GEORGE, to
womanhood. She united with the Christian Church at an early age, and her entire life will
attest to her belief in Christian principles. Her life was truly one worth emulating.
Sixty-three years she and her good husband traveled together life’s pathway, sharing joys
and sorrows alike. Their home was enriched with the deepest experience and glorified with
their steadfast love. Trials and triumphs, births and deaths were all a part of the
experiences, yet through it all they moved in one harmonious accord. When Death came and
claimed the companion of over half a century, life was never the same, yet she bore it all
with a patience born of an inner guidance.
As the feebleness of age came on, she was obliged to make her home with a daughter, Mrs.
Lucy PRICE, at whose home she died. Although crippled in body, her mind was ever alert
and she took the keenest interest in all those she was unable to no longer visit.
Relatives can but eulogize the daughter and family who so tenderly and faithfully cared
for her in her last days.
Christ has made of death a starlit path between the companionships of yesterday and the
reunions of tomorrow, so she has gone smiling into the Great Beyond—looking upon the
silence as release—looking upon the darkness as a dream—looking upon the great unknown as
rest.
Funeral services were conducted at Ashcraft Chapel Saturday, August 11, by Rev. Quince
FERGUSON, of Kirby.
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The family wish to thank all that helped in any way during the last illness and death of
our mother; especially the singers and those that gave the floral offerings.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira PRICE and Family,
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis WRIGHT and Family,
Mr. and Mrs. Homer KIRK,
Allen WRIGHT,
Albert WRIGHT.
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Link to the Obituary of her husband, Samuel WRIGHT [1840OH—1925IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to the Obituary of her son, Allen WRIGHT [1862IN—1950IN]:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/localities.northam.usa.state...
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Link to Photo Album of ASHCRAFT Chapel and Cemetery:
http://www.imagestation.com/album/pictures.html?id=4292716359
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