Maggie Wright
1893*-July 27, 1944
Niles Daily Star, Friday, July 28, 1944, page 2, col. 5, microfilm Niles District Library
Maggie Wright, 68, Dies Thursday After Five Month's Illness
Mrs. Maggie Wright, 68, of Pucker Street, Route 3, died at 4 Thursday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Minnie Seawood, after an illness of five months.
Mrs. Wright was born in Forest, Ark., and moved here from Missouri six months ago.
Surviving are her husband, James; two sons, Otto Ellison, Chicago, and Willie Weston, Corondiet, Ill.; a daughter, Mrs. Seawood; a step-daughter, Mrs. Alberta Wright, St. Louis, Mo.; two grandchildren, and two brothers, Will Jasper, St. Louis, Mo., and John Weston, Yarbo, Mo.
The body is at the Pifer funeral home.
Niles Daily Star, Saturday, July 29, 1944, page 2, col. 2, microfilm Niles District Library
WRIGHT RITES
Services for Mrs. Maggie Wright, 68, of Pucker street, Route 3, will be conducted Monday at 2 at the Pifer funeral home by the Rev. Emory G. Davis, pastor of the Franklin A.M.E. church. Burial will be in Silverbrook. Mrs. Wright, who died Thursday, was a member of the Eastern Star in Missouri.
*Cemetery record has dob as 1893; which would have made dod approximately 51 years not 68 as stated in obit. We do not have verification as to the correct date.