Wright, Mary "Mae" 1886-1914

WRIGHT, MOSS, OLSON, ALLEN

Posted By: Volunteer Transcriber
Date: 2/8/2010 at 09:09:14

Mrs. Arthur Wright Died This Morning of Blood Poison

Young Woman Passes Away After Three Weeks Illness

Blood Poison Develop Out of Tonsillitis

Funeral services will be held Saturday at U. P. Church

At 11:15 o’clock this morning Mrs. Arthur Wright died at her home on West North St. after an illness of over three weeks. The trouble began with a severe case of tonsillitis and later developed into blood poison.

Mrs. Wright is a young woman but twenty-seven years of age and is the mother of three children, one a baby born Feb. 1st. She was formerly Mae Moss and was a Newton girl, having lived in or near the city since she was but a year old.

The deceased was born at Ida Grove, Iowa, in 1886, and about a year later came to Jasper Co. with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Moss. At the age of fifteen the family moved to Newton where Mrs. Wright lived until the time of her death. 7 years ago the 29th of last August she was married to Arthur Wright. Mr. Wright is a carpenter and is at present employed with Eastman & Stines. The three children, Anna Mae, five years old, Theola, four, and the baby but three weeks old.

Of her own family there are left to mourn her, the mother, Mrs. A. E. Moss, Alfred and Mrs. Nettie Olson, all of Seattle, Washington, and Mrs. Lizzie Allen and Sam of this city. The mother will arrive this evening but the other sister and brother in Seattle will be unable to come.

The funeral services will be held sometime Saturday at the U. P. Church. More definite announcements will be made later. Mrs. Wright’s Death a Very Sad One

One of the saddest deaths which has come to a Newton family is that of Mrs. Arthur Wright last week. In the prime of young womanhood, she was only twenty seven, with a loving husband and a little girl five, another three and the baby born the first of February, she had everything before her.

As a girl she was very pleasing and had lots of friends. She possessed admirable traits of character which as she grew older became fixed habits and made her a beautiful young woman. She was a wonderful home woman, was completely wrapped up in the welfare of her husband and children. She was a lovely home keeper and was scrupulously neat. She kept her children so nicely, too and her friends and neighbors frequently commented on the fact and admired her for it.

No one can ever quite take the place of “Mother” but these children will be well cared for in the home of Mr. Wright’s people to which he has already moved. ~ Newspaper unknown.

Transcriber note: Full name (Mary) and birth and death dates from Newton Union Cemetery listing. http://www.newtongov.org/