Addie Lee Wright 1855-1954

WRIGHT, HOOVER, JACKSON, HAGUE, BURKE

Posted By: Georgea Clinton (email)
Date: 6/3/2011 at 09:18:13

May 22, 1954 - Carroll Daily Times - Funeral services will be at 11 a.m. Monday at Trinity Episcopal Church for Mrs. A.L. Wright, 99, widow of Dr. Wright. The Rev. C.B. Bradshaw, vicar, will officiate. A prayer service at the Huffman Funeral Home will precede the church rites. The body is resting at the funeral home, where friends may call after 8 p.m. Saturday. The casket will not be opened at the church. Burial will be beside her husband in the family lot in the Carroll City cemetery.

Death came to Mrs. Wright, Carroll's oldest resident, at her home 707 North Main Street, at 12:10 p.m. Friday. She had been bedfast the last three years and seriously ill the past two weeks.

Her only survivor is her son, Robert A. Wright, owner and manager of Hotel Burke. Mrs. Wright's death brings to a close a life identified with Carroll for nearly 70 years. In her younger days she had taken an active part in the city's social and cultural life. She had joined the Clio Club shortly after it was organized. She was a charter member of Signet Chapter No. 1. Order of the Eastern Star.

Mrs. Wright was a fourth cousin of former President Herbert Hoover, both of whom are lineal descendants of Andrew Hoover Sr. an American colonist who emigrated from Germany in 1740.

Born Addie Lee Hoover Feb, 5, 1855, in Richmond, Ind., Mrs. Wright was a daughter of Allen R. and Maria Louise Jackson Hoover, who brought their family from Richmond to Mt. Vernon, Ia., by covered wagon when Mrs. Wright was a baby. Her father, an architect, was erecting the first building at Cornell College at Mt Vernon, when he died of typhoid fever. Mrs. Wright was three years old at the time. A sister and brother also died during the epidemic. Mrs. Wright was eight years old when her mother was taken by death. Her parents are buried at Mt. Vernon.

After the death of their parents, Mrs. Wright, her twin brother Horace Hoover, and her sister, Mrs Ella M Burke were reared by their grandmother, Mrs Ruth Hague Jackson, Mrs. Wright attended school at Redfield and Dexter, Iowa.

While visiting her sister, Mrs. Burke in Carroll, Mrs. Wright met Dr. Wright, whom she married May 27, 1885, at Hotel Burke. Dr. Wright, Carroll's first surgeon, owned and operated two private hospitals here before St. Anthony Hospital was built. He was widely known as a physician and surgeon. He died July 10, 1913, at Paris, France, while attending a medical meeting.

After his death, Mrs. Wright continued to live in the family home on North Main Street. Widely traveled, Mrs. Wright had been in Europe three times. She had also taken a Caribbean trip. For many years, Mrs. Wright and her sister, Mrs. Burke, spent the winters in California. A frequent visitor in Chicago, Mrs. Wright made a trip there alone when she was 93 years old. Mrs. Burke, who owned and operated Hotel Burke here for many years, died in 1935. Another sister, Emma Hoover, died in infancy. Mrs. Wright's twin brother, Horace Hoover, passed away many years ago. Mrs. Wright was a member of Trinity Episcopal Church.