Former Kennard Merchant Dies in New York

C. L. Wright dies at age 90, well known in Kennard

Mr. C. L. Wright passed away Mar. 23 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Golda Taylor, at Longranageville, N.Y. He was 90 years of age. Mr. Wright operated a general merchandise store in Kennard a number of years ago.

Obituary #2 Wright Funeral Services Arranged

Final rites will be offered tomorrow for Charles L. Wright, 90, Billings resident, who died Thursday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Golda Wright Taylor.

Services will be held at the Verbank Methodist church at 1 o’clock. The Rev. Herrmann Diekmann, minister, will officiate. Burial will be in Verbank cemetery. Friends may call at the Allen Funeral home, Millbrook, between 7 and 9 o’clock tonight.

Obituary #3

Poughkeepsie Journal, Poughkeepsie, New York 24 March 1950

Charles L. Wright, 90, Retired Merchant

Charles L. Wright, 90, died yesterday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Golda Wright Taylor, Hopewell Junction. He was in failing health the last two years.

Mr. Wright was born in the Town of Beekman, Jan. 21, 1860, the son of the late Thomas L. and Phoebe Rogers Wright. As a young man, he went West and was associated with stores in Omaha, Neb. He subsequently entered the general merchandise business in Washington, Neb., and later continued in that field in Kennard, Neb. for some years. He because a member of the Kennard Methodist church, alter transferring his membership to the Verbank Methodist church. For more than 50 years he was a member of the Woodmen of the World and of Woodmen’s Circle lodge of Omaha.

Returning to LaGrangeville in 1908, Mr. Wright operated a farm there for a few years and later returned to the general merchandise business in Verbank, continuing in that field for 23 years. He was retired since December, 1939.

For several years after his retirement, Mr. Wright resided with his sisters and in recent years had made his home with his daughter. His wife, Mrs. Alfaretta Blazier Wright, died July 3, 1924.

Surviving in addition to Mrs. Taylor are another daughter, Mrs. Caroline P. Kniffen, Coscob, Conn.; three brothers, Louis T., John R. and Arthur Wright, LaOrangeville, six sisters Mrs. John Alley, Mrs. Pauline Hadden, Mrs. Ruhemma Butler and Mrs. Anna Knapp, here, Mrs. Jennie Jackson, Shenandoah and Mrs. Mary Willard, Los Angeles, Cal.; five grandchildren; six great grandchildren; one great-great grandchild and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral arrangements in charge of the Allen Funeral home are incomplete.

Note: Charles parents are buried in Freedom Plains Cemetery, Lagrangeville, Dutchess Cty, NY

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~