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From: Pat <>
Subject: Re: [TXBELL] Dallas Cemetery burial (Mrs. Wright)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 07:02:20 -0600
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Thanks Joan, for the reply on Mrs. Wright. Noty mine but one never knows
:) My Wrights were from Youngsport, 2nd GGF was Joshua Haworth Wright,
Baptist minister at Gravel Hill, Williamson Co. Pat

Walter Mundell wrote:
>
> Pat, Mrs. Wright was Texana Ford who married Joe L. Wright Oct. 8, 1862 in
> Holland, Tx. He was born in Ala. in Dec. 1860 and father was Hugh Wright
> born in Georgia. Joan
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pat" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 6:16 AM
> Subject: Re: [TXBELL] Dallas Cemetery burial (Mrs. Wright)
>
> > I don't have a Mrs. Ford in my family (at least not that I know of) but
> > I have many Wrights from Bell Co and surrounding counties. Is there
> > anyone who knows the Mrs. Wright mentioned?
> >
> > Thanks, Pat in OK
> >
> > Kathy Jones wrote:
> > >
> > > For those researching the Dallas Cemetery, the following obit appeared
> in the Bartlett Tribune and News on Friday, December 12, 1913.
> > >
> > > Grandma Ford Dead
> > >
> > > Yesterday afternoon, about
> > > 1:30 o'clock, Mrs. Ford, familiar-
> > > ly known as Grandma Ford, sud-
> > > denly expired at her home in
> > > this city. She had been sick for
> > > the past week, confined to her
> > > bed, but her condition was not
> > > considered serious. While the
> > > family were at dinner she at-
> > > tempted to rise from her bed and
> > > fell---never regaining conscious-
> > > ness, and soon her spirit was
> > > called where "the weary are at
> > > rest."
> > > Mrs. Ford was 82 years of age,
> > > and was among the oldest set-
> > > tlers of this section, ahving re-
> > > sided in Bartlett with her son,
> > > Ed Ford, and her daughter, Mrs.
> > > Wright, for many years. She
> > > was a member of the Christian
> > > church, a good neighbor, a lov-
> > > ing mother, who will be greatly
> > > missed. Her husband preceeded
> > > her to the grave several years
> > > ago. She leaves one son and
> > > two daughters to mourn her
> > > death. They are: Ed Ford,
> > > Mrs. Wright, Bartlett, and Mrs.
> > > J. D. Jackson, Alpine.
> > > To the bereaved we extend our
> > > sympathy. May a kind Provi-
> > > dence be over them, and may
> > > they so live that when the sum-
> > > mons shall come, they will be re-
> > > united iwth the one for whom
> > > they now mourn.
> > > Mrs. Ford's remains will be
> > > laid to rest in the Dallas ceme-
> > > tery, near Holland tomorrow.
> > >
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