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Martha Ellen Monnett-Wright

1838-1925

Marion Daily Star Monday March 3, 1925

AGED 87, MRS. G.H. WRIGHT DIES SUNDAY

Interesting Personality Victim Of Paralysis At Home Of Son G.A. Wright

LIVED VIRTUALLY ALL HER LIFE IN MARION COUNTY

Funeral Tuesday At Clark Wright Home At 3 P.M., Dr. L.L. Strock, Punxsutawney, PA. Officiating

Mrs. Martha E. Monnette Wright, widow of George H. Wright, died Sunday morning at 2:50 o’clock at the home of her son George A. Wright, south Vine Street when she had been visiting for the past two weeks. Death followed six days of paralysis. At the time she was stricken, Mrs. Wright was planning on attending the wedding celebration of Mr. & Mrs. William Monnette, near Bucyrus, whose wedding she attended.

Mrs. Wright passed practically her whole life in Marion County. She was born November 26, 1838 in Scott Township, this county, the daughter of Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Monnette. Her father at one time owned 11,000 acres¹ of land of land in Marion and Crawford Counties. From the early sixties until his death in 1881, Mr. Monnette was interested in banking, organizing the Marion County Banking institution of which he was president from 1864 until his death.

Mr. & Mrs.Wright were married at noon, December 29, 1857 at the home of Mrs. Wrights parents, two miles west of what is now Kirkpatrick. The marriage was solemnized by Rev. I.N. Sheppard, then pastor at the Presbyterian Church in Marion. They remained in Marion until March 1858 when they went to housekeeping in Wood County near Bowling Green. Their first home was a log cabin until the year that Mr. Wright erected a frame house, said to be the finest in the county.

Interesting History

Mrs. Wright’s early-married life contained an interesting story of early life in the country. During her residence in Wood County she was anxious to make a visit to the home of her parents. She left her home in November, going to Findlay through a two-foot snowstorm. Finding the stage coaches not running, so she hired a horse and started for home on horseback over corduroy roads cut through the timber. She left Findlay at 9 o’clock in the morning and did not arrive home until 11o’clock that night, traveling only a distance of 24 miles. Practically all the way led through timberland and reroute Mrs. Wright met the only human she would encounter on her trip who accompanied her for one mile of the way,

In the spring of 1861 the family moved to Crawford County, purchasing a farm four miles south of Bucyrus. On October 3, 1882 the family moved to Marion, first residing in the A.H. Honefanger home on West Center Street, and later residing in the house occupied by Mrs. W.E. Scofield, Bellefontaine Avenue. For a number of years Mrs. Wright had made her home with her son Clark W. Wright, 527 Girard Avenue.

One of 12 children

Both Mr. & Mrs. Wright were members of large families. Mr. Wright was the ninth child of a family of twelve and Mrs. Wright was the second child of the Monnette family which also numbered twelve children. They were parents of ten children, eight of whom are living. They are Mrs. George B. Scofield, Bellefontaine Avenue; Mrs. W.H. McGee, Cherry Street; Mrs. Gertrude Kling, West Center Street; Clark W. Wright, Girard Avenue; George A. Wright, South Vine Street, this city; Mrs. George Turner, New Lexington; Earl P. Wright, Bucyrus and Charles H. Wright, Boston. Two sisters, Mrs. J.C. Tobias, Los Angeles and Mrs. Linus Ross, Bucyrus; Four brothers, Mr. Ephraim Monnett, Bucyrus; Mervin J. Monnette and Melvin Monnette of Los Angeles and Madison W. Monnette of Indianapolis, Indiana, and 13 grandchildren and two great grandchildren survive.

Mr. & Mrs. Wright celebrated their 60^th wedding anniversary on December 20, 1917. Mr. Wright died on June 18, 1918 at the age of 90.

Mrs. Wright was a member of the Presbyterian Church.

Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday afternoon at 3 o’clock from the Clark Wright home by Dr. L.L. Strock of Punxsutawney Pa., former pastor at the First Presbyterian Church and by Rev. Raymond Smalley of this city. The Internment will be made in the Marion Cemetery.

The remains were moved to the Clark W. Wright home on Sunday evening.

1 - Various sources in obituaries, county histories, newspaper articles list various total acres owned by Abraham Monnett ranging anywhere from 10,000 to 25,000 acres.

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