In 1860, the Wright family lived in Pultney, Belmont, Ohio. All members of the household were born in Ohio. The household included Benjamin Wright, 40, a farm laborer with $100 in personal estate; his wife Caroline, 41; their ten children, Sarah, 19, servant; Loretta J., 17, servant; Mary E., 17, servant; Alexander, 15, in school; George W., 13, in school; John A., 10, in school; Perry O.; Eliza E., 6, in school; Samuel, 4; and Margaret A., 2.[2]
Alice was married first to WILLIAMS.
Perry Oliver Wright married Alice Williams on 29 February 1896 in Belmont, Ohio. Rev. John L. Davis officiated.[3]
In 1900, the Wright family lived in Richland Township, Belmont, Ohio. All were born in Ohio. All could read and write except for the youngest child. The household included Perry O. Wright, 49, born November 1851 (parents b. Ohio), a day laborer who rented their house; his wife of four years, Alice D., 39, b. Jan 1861, who had had two children, both living (father b. Ohio; mother b. California); Hattia S., 12, b. March 1888, in school; and Howard L., 3, b. Dec 1897.[4]
NOTE: Hattia was probably the daughter of Perry’s first wife, Emma, who died in 1888 (the same year Hattia was born).
In 1910, the Wrights lived in a rented house in Richland, Belmont, Ohio. Perry O. Wright was 57, and was a coal mine laborer. His wife Alice was 49. She had had two children, both were living. Perry and Alice had each been married once before.[5]
Perry O. Wright was born 8 November 1852 in Ohio, the son of Benjamin Wright. Perry was 76, widowed and a (retired?) mine worker when he died on 7 January 1929 in Wheeling, West Virginia. He was buried on 9 January in Glencoe, Ohio.[8]
Perry Oliver Wright, 8 November 1852 - 7 January 1929, is buried at Glencoe Cemetery, Glencoe, Belmont, Ohio.[9]
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