For John Wright and related families ©Compiled By: Don Wright Submitted by: Judy McMichael Monitor Press of Wellington, KS - 8 May 1929. Mrs Christiana Wright, age 93 years, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs Bob Craig, four miles west of town, at 11:40 o'clock this morning. Details were not available at press time. Funeral services under direction of the Frank Funeral home will be held tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and burial will be in Prairie Lawn Cemetery. Submitted by: Don Wright The Holland, Michigan, Evening Sentinel, page five, Friday, June 6, 1958 Funeral services were held Saturday afernoon at the Calvin Funeral Home for Mr. Perry Wright, a pioneer resident of Ganges township. Mr Wright was 81 years of age. Submitted by: Judy McMichael Monitor Press of Wellington, KS - 23 Nov 1898 John Wright, an old soldier living on North Jefferson avenue, died last Saturday evening and was buried from the Lutheran church at 3o'clock on Sunday afternoon. He was a member of Jas. Shields Post G.A.R. and that order had charge of the funeral services, laying their old comrade to rest with military honors, a detail from Company B firing the last salute over his grave. Mr. Wright was seventy-three years of age and leaves a widow and four children to mourn his loss. He had suffered greatly from asthma of late years and was in very feeble health when stricken down by his last illness. Submitted by: Judy McMichael [Wichita Eagle, Wichita Sed. Co, KS - 9 Nov 1956] Wichita Resident Since 1892 Dies Mrs Ida Craig, 77, died Thursday at the home of her daughter Mrs Nellie Rousseau, 2757 S. Seneca [Wichita, KS] Born Sept 20, 1879, at Kalamazoo, Mich, Mrs Craig came to Wichita from Michigan at the age of 13. She was a member of Hyde Park Evangelical United Brethren Church.[Wichita, KS] Survivors in addition to Mrs Rousseau include three daughters, Mrs Perl Hendron, 5652, S. Jones; [Wichita, KS]; Mrs Margaret Stinnett, 2334 S. Ridgewood Dr[Wichita, KS]; and Mrs Maxine Martin, 1414 Alturas[Wichita, KS]; four sons, Richard, Fayetteville, Ark; James, Kansas City, Kan; Charles, Atlanta, Kan; and LeRoy, 431 S. Knight. 11 Grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Broadway Mortuary with the Rev. Bernard L. Cook, paster of Hyde Park Evangelical United Brethern Church officiating. Burial will be in Wichita Park Cemetery. Submitted by: Judy McMichael [Wichita Eagle, Wichita Sed. Co, KS - 13 Dec 1979]  Please place in the Subject Line: WEBPAGE-CENSUS 
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