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Alice Elizabeth "Betsy" WRIGHT

Alice Elizabeth "Betsy" WRIGHT[1]

Female 1873 - 1940  (66 years)

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  • Name Alice Elizabeth "Betsy" WRIGHT 
    Nickname Betsy 
    Born 3 Oct 1873  Holmes, MS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Name Betsy 
    _UID 2401CF1DD87B4341B74FD429EE33D0AC88AD 
    Died 22 Mar 1940  Chicago, Cook County, Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Rock Creek Cemetary, Washington, D. C. Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I15835  Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 14 Jul 2006 

    Father Thomas Shepherd WRIGHT, Rev.,   b. 22 Jun 1826, Middlesex, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Jun 1893, Pickens, Holmes, Mississippi Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 66 years) 
    Mother Mary Elizabeth WALTON,   b. 7 Sep 1831, Wilkes County, Georgia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Jan 1903, Washington, DC Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years) 
    Married 15 Jun 1847  Holmes, MS Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F7957  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Lincoln Butler SMITH,   b. 1866,   d. 17 Mar 1943  (Age 77 years) 
    Married 17 Sep 1913  Washington, DC Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F7960  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • From Elsdon Maynard:
      Lincoln Butler Smith (1866/1943) was an Assistant Attorney General in Washington D.C in the 1890's and 1900's . His first wife, my grandmother, died in Washington in 1909 Lincoln then came to Chicago, where he began practice as a patent attorney. He returned to Washington to marry his second wife, Alice Elizabeth (Betsy) Wright, on 9-17-1913. Grandma Betsy died in Chicago 3-22-1940. Following services here, her body was taken to Washington for burial in the Wright plot in Rock Creek Cemetery.

      The next year, disregarding the Gilbert and Sullivan concerns about marriage with deceased wife's sister, Lincoln returned east and married Frances Louise (Lulu) Wright on 10-18-1941 in Baltimore. The family was familiar with Aunt Lulu thru her frequent visits to Chicago. We usually entertained her at a Jeanette McDonald - Nelson Eddy movie - there always seemed to be one showing somewhere in town. She had been married to Daniel W. Hopper about 1892, as his second wife, and they lived in Baltimore. They are listed there in the 1920 and 1930 censuses, although I have not been able to find 1900 or 1910 listings. Daniel, born about 1851, apparently died after 1930. On some of her earlier visits to Chicago Aunt Lulu was accompanied by her brother Henry Shepherd (Harry) Wright, and I believe they both lived in St Petersburg.

      Lincoln and Lulu moved to St Petersburg, where Lincoln died 3-17-1943, and Lulu died 11-1-1947.

  • Sources 
    1. [S426] Barbara Westman, Barbara Westman.