Nott and Wright Family History

Death records:

John Bee Wright died 25 June 1894 (note his obituary states he died 16 June), at his home at Hamburgh in New York State, after what appears to have been a stroke resulting in a long period of paralysis (ie. for 2 years 3 months) before succumbing. On the death record, John’s father was named as John Bee Wright (not John Bee), mother as Ellen (Eleanor) Elizabeth Wright.

Record from the Town Clerk, Town of Hamburg, NY:

John Bee Wright

Died-June 25, 1894

Age: 66

Occupation: preacher

Father: John Bee Wright born England

Mother: Ellen Elizabeth Wright

Cause of death: Paralysis (condition existed for 2 years 3 months)

The 1900 US Census has Martha described as ‘widow’, living with daughter Plessie Carpp, also a widow, in the village of Hamburg, Parish of Erie.

1900 Census New York State

Martha died 12 December 1902, at Hamburgh after a short illness (pneumonia). Her father is named as William Rowling, mother Mary Rowling.

Record from the Town Clerk, Town Of Hamburg, NY:

Martha Wright

Died: December 12, 1902

Age: 83

Occupation: Housewife

Father: William Rowling born in England

Mother: Mary Rowling born in England

Cause of Death: pneumonia (condition existed for 5 days)

The Hamburg, New York, Prospect Cemetery Index 1850-1950 (Ancestry.com) contains the burial records of several members of this family. On one of the records, the information is given-

Plot Purchaser: JB Wright,
Purchase date: 25 Oct 1883,
Purchaser address: Buffalo,
Purchase Price $36.85,
No. of Graves: 8;
Lot Size 14.5X18X18:
Section: C-50 -East Cemetery, Plots 3 to 10 (4 graves in front and 4 behind central family marker)

J.B. Wright, age 66, birth-date 10 Apr 1828, death-date 26 Jun 1894, Grave Section Lot: C50-9, Notes: FM (ie. Family Marker- usually in centre of the plot)

Martha Wright, age 83, birth-date 10 Mar 1819, death-date 12 Dec 1902, burial-date 15 Dec 1902, Grave Section Lot: C50-10, Notes FM

John W. Wright (son), age 86, birth-date 1850, death-date 8 Jun 1936, Grave Section Lot: C50-6

Hannah Lane Wright (wife of John William), age 87, birth-date 1847, death-date 11 Nov 1934, Grave Section Lot: C50-5, Notes FM.SLANT

William S G Wright (son of John William and Hannah), age 96, birth-date 1874, death date 2 May 1970, burial-date 6 May 1970, Grave Section Lot: C50-4, Notes: FM.SLANT

Lottie S Wright (wife of William SG Wright), age 90, birth-date 1875, death-date 17 Feb 1966, burial-date 21 Feb 1966, Grave Section Lot: C50-3; Notes: FM.SLANT
Plessie Carpp Hoag (married 1. Edward Carpp, married 2. Allen K. Hoag), age 67, birth date 1856, death date 17 July 1923, Grave Section Lot: C50-8, Notes: MON (ie. Monument, a larger stone than a marker)

Edward J Carpp (first husband of John and Martha’s daughter Plessie), age 26 yrs 0 months, birth date abt 1857, death date 24 Oct 1883, Grave Section Lot: C50-7M, Notes: IN MEMORY, MON

From the above, it would appear that John Bee Wright bought the large family plot following the death of his son-in-law Edward Carpp.

The plot does not include Ellen/Nellie Wright’s grave. She had married Allen K Hoag circa 1878/79 and they had a daughter Mattie L. Hoag in 1880 (Census) who became a school teacher before 1905. They lived at Orchard Park about 7 kms NE of Hamburg, and are buried at Woodlawn Cemetery Orchard Park. Nellie died in 1908; the 1910 Census revealing that Allen was living with his sister-in-law Plessie Carpp, as his housekeeper. A newspaper article reveals that Allen and Plessie were married before April 1911.

Map of Prospect East Cemetery Hamburg
showing positions of graves in C-50, marked *:

Photos of the graves in Prospect Cemetery, Hamburg, NY:

John Bee Wright and Martha Wright nee Rowling

daughter Plessie Hoag nee Carpp nee Wright

Plessie's first husband Edward Carpp

son John William Wright and wife Hannah Wright nee Lane

William S.G. Wright, son of John William and Hannah, and wife Lottie

John and Martha's youngest daughter Ellen Elizabeth known as Nellie, married Allen K. Hoag in circa 1878/79 (according to Census records). They had a daughter Mattie L. Hoag in 1880 (Census) who became a school teacher before 1905. In the 1880 Census for Hamburg, Allen Hoag is a farmer, but by the 1892 Census, Allen Hoag is listed as a teacher which he continues to be until at least 1900.

The Hamburg NY Erie County Independent (1882-85) confirms that Nellie Hoag/Mrs A.K. Hoag is Ellen Wright, the sister of Plessy Wright/Mrs E. J. Carpp:

Another article in the same Hamburg newspaper, dated April 1885:
Mrs Plessie Carpp of Port Allegany, spent several days this week visiting friends in Hamburg. She will remain during the summer with her sister, Mrs A.K. Hoag of Eden. Mr Hoag is traveling in the south and west on business.
And:
Mrs Plessie Carp is visiting her sister Mrs A.K. Hoag. A.K. Hoag was quite badly hurt last week by falling from a ladder.

Nellie died in 1908 and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Orchard Park. Allen remarried to Nellie's sister Plessie who was living with him as his housekeeper following the death of Nellie- they were living in Quaker Street East Hamburg. Allen died in 1922 and was buried with his first wife Nellie, while Plessie died the following year and was buried in the Wright family plot with her first husband and parents.

Woodlawn Cemetery, Orchard Park, about 10kms NE of Hamburg, NY

daughter Nellie Hoag nee Wright and husband Allen K Hoag

OBITUARIES

On their deaths, John and Martha's obituaries appeared in the “Genesee Conference Methodist Episcopal Church Annual Minutes. Ref : Official Minutes and Journal of the … session of the Genesee Conference 1894”, page 148-149

New York Public Library

The obituaries give us a great insight into their lives, although some information has been omitted such as his first occupation as a shoemaker:

REV. J. B. WRIGHT

Rev. John Bee Wright was born Alderby, Norfolk, England April 10, 1828 and entered eternal rest from Hamburgh New York on June 16, 1894.

In early life, he was left without parental guidance. His earliest friend was a Miss Becket who took him two miles to Sunday School with dinner in her basket for both. She knew not that by the humble act she was giving the first propulsion toward a life of successful ministerial work. Under her influence he very early gave his heart to God. At 10 years of age, he began to speak and pray in public, and at 17 to call sinners to repentance.

Henceforth soul-saving became his ruling passion.

Few were the facilities for his intellectual culture, and he spent but 5 months in school. Yet he possessed a keen hunger for knowledge. Being appointed school librarian he seemed to devour every book he handled. In later years he visited the book stalls of London gathering a rare collection of books, many of which he gave to the Syracuse University. (see below for list of books)

After travelling the Alford circuit for several years, he was invited to London and became Secretary of the Lord’s Day Observance Association. Into this dangerous work he threw all his energies. His duties required him to be conspicuous in the prosecution of whiskey sellers and other Sabbath-breakers. A conclave of these men swore never to rest until he should be forever silenced. Day and night they tracked him, and after barely escaping their vengeance he fled to America in July 1871, his family soon following.

He was received into the Genesee Conference on his credentials and appointed to Clarence. Soon after the parsonage took fire and with the church was reduced to ashes, little being saved except his books.

At once he set about the work of rebuilding, lecturing and soliciting funds amid great deprivations. The present beautiful Clarence church stands a monument to his prayerful and persistent toil.

His appointments were – 1871 Clarence; 1873 Williamsville; 1875 Hamburgh; 1878 Elma; 1880 Yorkshire; 1882 Port Allegany; 1885 Woodside, Buffalo; 1887 to ’92 Pekin.

Near the close of his fifth year at Pekin, he was smitten with paralysis and removed to his home in Hamburgh, where after lingering in helplessness, but with marvellous patience for several months, he passed away in great peace.

He was an industrious worker. His few vacations taken at Silver Lake, were filled with study and work.

His sermons preached at camp meetings and other places were replete with original thought, presented in that unique and quaint dress in which he clothed his discourses. They will long be remembered by thousands who listened to them. Bible study and Methodist theology were his favourite exercise. The poor loved him, for he was their friend. His benevolence was systematic and uniform, a tenth being the minimum of his giving. His humility was such that the lowest place was never too mean if only he might serve his Lord and his loved church therein. His faith was beautiful in its simplicity. When asked in reference to certain painful experiences what he would do, he quietly replied “I have taken it to the Lord.” Because of this childlike trust he was always self-possessed and unruffled in mind and spirit.

“He being dead yet speaketh” and his memory is embalmed in the hearts of his bereaved wife and children who walk in communion with the church he loved so well.

Eight years later, Martha passed away.

Obituary:

Genesee Conference 1903- P151-152:

MRS JOHN B. WRIGHT

Martha, widow of Rev. John B. Wright, of sainted memory, was born in Norwich, England, March 20, 1819 and died at Hamburgh, New York, December 12, 1902. She was married in 1848 and became the mother of four children- one son and three daughters, all of whom survived her to perpetuate her work and spirit, for they are all active workers in the Church of God.

In 1871 she left her native land and with three of her children joined Brother Wright at Clarence NY where he had just been appointed pastor.

During the 23 following years she was a most efficient laborer with her husband in his arduous and successful pastorates.

Converted in her girlhood, she began at once to serve the Lord by engaging in the work of Sunday School teaching; later in life she acquired an aptitude for other forms of Christian work, which she prosecuted with diligence to the close of her life; but being of a cheerful disposition, she was pre-eminently successful in her work among the young.

At her death she had almost rounded out threescore and ten years of membership in the Methodist church and of Christian service.

Sister Wright exemplified in her life, and that to an eminent degree, the three primary graces of our holy religion- faith, hope and love, and as a result, her life was rich with the fruitage of good deeds. She served her day and generation to the full limit of her possibilities.

Up to the last, she displayed an unflagging interest in all the public services of the Church, and especially in the prayer and class meeting services, where her presence was an inspiration; and being in the enjoyment of remarkable health and vigor, she was able to be present in the prayer meeting services till within a fortnight of her decease. She was gifted in prayer and exhortation, and her translation to the service of the skies is a sore bereavement to the local Church.

‘Servant to God, well done;

Thy glorious warfare past;

The battle’s fought, the race is run,

And thou art crowned at last.”

(Written by Peter Thompson)

The Hamburg NY Erie County Independent, and the Buffalo NY Courier. (New York Public Library- Fultonhistory.com ) also contained obituaries for Rev. John Wright, Martha Wright, and Plessie, and for Plessie's husbands Edward Carpp and Allen K Hoag:

Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1891-94- pdf 1165

Buffalo NY Courier 1894- pdf 2177

Buffalo NY Courier 1901- pdf 4724- Dec 14 1902, p.41

Hamburg NY Erie County Independent, 1923-25- pdf 013, dated 26 July 1923

(NB Mrs Carlton Hambleton was her sister Nellie and Allen Hoag's daughter Mattie)

Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1882-85 pdf 0616- Oct 26, 1883-

Obituary for Edward Carpp

Funeral service for Edward Carpp:

Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1882-1885, pdf 0623

Following the death of Edward Carpp, his wife Plessie, who was devastated by her loss, was strongly supported by her family who were reported making frequent visits to her home in Hamburg- Rev Wright and his wife from Pekin where they were living at the time, and Nellie Hoag from Orchard Park. Plessie received a substantial life insurance payout to help her.

The following articles concern Plessie:

Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1882-1885, pdf 0674

Hamburg NY SUN, 1950-1952, pdf 0231

reprinting early issues- dated Dec 7, 1883

A few years later, Rev. Wright built his house in Hamburg next to Plessie's home. This would be where he would spend his last days:

Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1885-88, pdf 1052

The obituary for Allen K. Hoag was also impressive:

Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1920-23- pdf 0355

Buffalo NY Evening News 1922 (10 March)- pdf 4773

Hamburg NY Erie County Independent 1920-23- pdf 1110-- Orchard Park

(NB. Mrs Karl Hambleton was Allen Hoag's daughter Mattie by his first wife Nellie Wright)

John Bee Wright and Martha Rowling had four issue:

1. Martha Jane Wright b.1849 Norwich, Norfolk, UK -d.1911 Brisbane Qld Australia, married Philip Nott in London 1870; emigrated to Brisbane Qld in 1873; issue 11- see Nott chapter 8

2. John William Wright b.1850 Norwich, Norfolk UK- d.1936 Buffalo, Erie County, New York State, USA; married Hannah Lane in London Dec. 1871; emigrated to NY in Jan 1872-
in the census records, he was a printer (see obituary and photos below)
Two issue- (a) William S.G. Wright 1874-1970 (married Lottie S.- no issue), both buried with parents in Wright burial plot in Prospect Cemetery
(b) Hannah May Wright b. May 1882, married John R Neal (b.1883) before 1905. John Neal, a floor layer, and his wife lived in the village of Kenmore (a few miles north of Buffalo) for all of their lives (Census records). John died in 1953 and Hannah May died in 1977, both buried at Forest Lawn Cemetery Buffalo (see below). They had three daughters, Margaret E. Neal b. 1905 d.1991 (buried Forest Lawn cemetery with parents; married __ Sherry); Dorothy M. Neal b.c.1907, married Robert Weisenberg; Elizabeth M. Neal b.c.1916 married Charles Tiffany. (1920 US Federal Census records and father's death notice- see below)

3. Plessie Wright b.1857 Navenby Lincolnshire UK- d.1923 Orchard Park, Erie Co. NY, USA; married 1. Edward J. Carpp (d.1883) bef. 1880 Hamburg, Erie Co.NY, married 2. Allen K. Hoag c.1911 (brother-in-law- d.1922); emigrated to NY with mother 1871; no issue

4. Ellen/Nellie Elizabeth Wright b.1859 Navenby Lincolnshire UK- d.1908 Orchard Park, Erie Co. NY, USA; married Allen K. Hoag c.1878 ; emigrated to NY with mother in 1871; one issue- Martha/Mattie L. Hoag b.1880 East Hamburg, Erie Co. (living with parents in 1905 Census- a school teacher). On 9 July 1905, Mattie married Carlton E. Hambleton (1880-1937), son of Pember E. Hambleton and Minerva Atterbury. Carlton died 8 September 1937. Mattie died in 1955 and they are buried together in Woodlawn Cemetery Orchard Park.
No issue of Carlton and Mattie Hambleton are recorded in any of the Census records.

Buffalo NY Courier 1905, 9 July- pdf 1063

Buffalo NY Evening News 1928- pdf 3324

(parents of Carlton Hambleton)

Buffalo NY Courier 1912 (April 13)- pdf 1968-

Deeds exchanged between Allen K Hoag and his son-in-law Carlton Hambleton and daughter Mattie L. Hambleton

Buffalo NY Evening News 1922 (January 12)- pdf 0685

Buffalo NY Courier Express 1937, September 10- pdf 7320

Woodlawn Cemetery- graves of Mattie L. and Carlton Hambleton

Buffalo NY Courrier 1937, pdf 7944

Records for John William Wright (known as J. William Wright) and wife Hannah Lane, and Hannah May Neal nee Wright (known as H. May Neal), daughter of John William and Hannah Wright:

Buffalo NY Courier Express 1928 pdf 0080

Buffalo Evening News 1928

Buffalo NY Courier Express 1931- pdf 3413

Buffalo NY Courier Express Dec 2 1931- pdf 8658

Buffalo NY Courier Express- pdf 8034

Buffalo NY Courier Express 1953, pdf 1147

death of husband of Hannah May Wright

Burials in Forest Lawn Cemetery Buffalo- John and Hannah May Neal and daughter Margaret

daughter Margaret Neal

Reference for the above newspapers:

http://www.fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html

and the original newspaper PDFs are at:

http://www.fultonhistory.com/my%20photo%20albums/all%20newspapers/page4.html

LIST OF BOOKS DONATED TO SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

(my grateful thanks to Mary Zerner who contacted the Syracuse University Special Collections Research Centre and they kindly supplied information on their collection of books donated by John Bee Wright in his Will following his death in 1892.)

1. "The gospel-mystery of santification, opened in sundry practical directions: suited especially to the case of those who labour under the guilt and power of in-dwelling sins: to which is added a sermon on justification", by Walter Marshall 1628-1680, Pub London 1735. (Provenance: Rev. J. B. Wright [donor]; T.[?] J.[?] Lemage [?] inscription)
2. "Kehilath Jahacob: being a vocabulary of words in the Hewbrew language..." selected and compiled by Jacob Rodriques Moreira 1772 (Provenance: J. B. Wright, Wesleyan Reform Minister)
3. "Discourses on various subjects" by Thomas Rennell, 1754-1840, pub. London 1801 (Provenance: Rev. J. B. Wright [donor 1892] )
4. "The Constancy of Israel: an unprejudiced illustration of some of the most important texts of the Bible, or, A polemical, critical, and theological reply to a public letter, by Lord Crawford, addressed to the Hebrew nation" written without prejudice by Solomon Bennett, pub London 1809 (Gift of Rev. J. B. Wright, 1892)
5. "Annotations, philological, historical and geographical upon the Acts of the Apostles: selected from the best authorities" by a member of the university, pub Cambridge 1831 (Gift of Rev. J. B., Wright)
6. " He Kaine Diatheke= Novum Testamentum: accedunt parallela S. Scripturae loca necnon vetus capitulorum notatio et canones Eusebii" pub Oxonii: E Typographeo Clarendoniano, 1828 (Gift of Rev. J. B. Wright, 1892- annotated in unknown hand)
7. "The Scripture lexicon, or, A dictionary of above four thousand proper names of persons and places, mentioned in the Old and New Testament, divided into syllables, with their proper accents, with the description of the greater part of them: also the explanation of many words and things in the Bible which are not generally understood", by Peter oliver 1731-1791 compiler, pub Oxford 1818 (Provenance: Rev. J.B. Wright [donor 1892]; This is a valuable book but- not always to be relied upon [inscription] )
8. " Letters to Wesleyan ministers, on ministerial duty; with an address to the members of the Connection, an account of the trial and excommunication of the author, and an answer to the reply of a Chelsea member", by a lover of Zion, pub. London 1844, 2nd ed (Provenance: Martha Grover [autograph]; Rev. J.B. Wright, Aug 17, 1892)
9. "A companion to the minutes: being a report of the debates and proceedings of the Wesleyan Conference, MDCCCXLIX, compiled from the most authentic sources, and consecutively arranged...", pub London 1849 (Gift of Rev. J.B. Wright, Genesee Conference- paper label)
10. "Wesleyan delegate takings, or, Short sketches of personal and intellectual character as exhibited in the Wesleyan delegate meeting, held in Albion Street, Chapel, London, in 1850", pub Manchester 1850 (Presentation bookplate: Presented to Syracuse University by the Rev. J.B. Wright- Genesee Conference)
11. "Annotations, philological, historical and geographical upon the Acts of the Apostles: selected from the best authorities", by a member of the university, pub Cambridge 1831 (Gift of Rev. J. B. Wright)
12. "Bible. Psalms. English. Paraphrases. 1680. The book of Psalms paraphras'd: with arguments to each Psalm" by Simon Patrick..., pub London 1680
(Provenance: John Wright (bookplate))

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Nott and Wright Family History

25 April 2013

Ch:13- Deaths and Obituaries of John Bee Wright and Martha, and issue