Notes

Note for: Benjamin Laxton Wright, 5 MAR 1878 - 11 MAY 1926 Index

Burial:
     Place:   Lawrenceville, VA in Brunswick County

Individual note:
He and a friend were painting a freight elevator at Old Memorial Hospital in Richmond when the friend hit a button that started the elevator moving. His friend jumped out when the elevator passed the 2nd floor. When the elevator passed the third floor, Benjamin tried to jump out but got caught as the elevator passed by. He was crushed and killed. "He was rolled up like a newspaper," his daughter said of how he died.

In 1910, he lived in Brunswick County. His 73-year-old mother lived with him.
In 1920, he lived in Henrico County at 1223 West Clay Street, Richmond.

Notes

Note for: Lillie Belle Delbridge, - Index

Burial:
     Place:   North Carolina

Individual note:
In a Sept. 30, 1956 article in the Richmond Times Dispatch, the following article ran:

Headline: 'Mom, Meet Grandmother'
Headline: Local Woman Meets Mother After 49 Years

By Bob Preston

Mrs. Nora Ladd, 50, of 1632 Glenfield Avenue, met her mother yesterday.

The introduction was made by Mrs. Ladd's daughter, Mrs. R.J. Eanes of 2304 Pettis Road.

Mrs. Ladd, besides meeting her mother, learned she had six brother and sisters.

Mrs. Ladd's mother, Mrs. Lillie Belle Sherian of Louisburg, N.C. learned she has seven grandchildren she had not know about.

It was Mrs. Eanes police work that led to the discovery of these additional branches on the family tree.

Mrs. Ladd explained that when she was an infant her parents separated and she was brought up by her father.

Eventually, she married and moved to Richmond. She had not seen or heard from her mother during the past 49 years.

Mrs. Ladd's daughter, Mrs. Eanes said that she had always wanted to find her grandmother and, two weeks ago, decided to do something about it.

First, she went to her grandmother's birthplace in Brunswick County. There, she made inquiries among older people in the area.

She found a woman who remembered her grandmother and had corresponded with her.

Last Sunday, armed with the name and addresses of her grandmother, she went to Mrs. Sherian's home in North Carolina.

"It was sort of a shock for her to have an unknown granddaughter drop in," Mrs. Eanes said.

Mrs. Eanes asked Mrs. Sherian to come to Richmond and visit her long-lost daughter.

Plan are now under way for a family reunion so an accurate count of relatives can be made.

Notes

Note for: Hattie Cora Mosely, 23 JUL 1886 - 13 MAR 1950 Index

Burial:
Place: Murry Cemetery, Richmond, VA

Notes

Note for: Jenkins Snow Wright, 24 AUG 1868 - 19 SEP 1936 Index

Burial:
Place: Richmond

Notes

Note for: Peter Strongman Wright, 19 APR 1871 - 8 JUN 1939 Index

"Civil War Soldiers from Brunswick County, Va." calls the Wright farm at 611 and Wrightwood Road the "old home place on Highway 722 in South Brunswick County."

Notes

Note for: Joseph Demello, - Index

He died in a grain elevator in Flory Milling Company in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He fell in and the grain fell on top of him. His Dad tried to save him but was unable to.

Notes

Note for: William Spoor, 22 FEB 1869 - 18 JAN 1930 Index

Occupation:
     Date:   ABT. 1885
     Place:   Worked on railroad in Farnum, Canada
Burial:
     Place:   Sacred Heart Cemetery, New Bedford, Massachusetts

Individual note:
From Rosemary Spoor:

William Spoor, my grandfather and your great great grandfather, was a railroad man. He was a lookout on top of a freight train in West Farnham, Canada. When the train would go, big bullies would throw stones at it for coal.

Very bad winters. Show reached the second floor of their home.

William and his wife, Marie Rose, left Canada and lived for a while in Troy, NY. From New York, they moved to Fall River, Massachusetts and lived with her brother on Easton Avenue across from Lafayette park in the Flint section. Her brother, Frank Gauthier, had two sons. William and his wife both worked in the mills in Fall River. Later, they moved to New Bedford, MA and lived on Ashley Blvd. and Conell Streets. An accident, in a mill, caused William to go blind.

William was 6 feet tall and weighed 210 pounds. Marie Rose was about 5-foot-4 and 105 pounds. (She had what was called a milk leg, developed after their first child was born.)

William was a nice calm man but none to fool around with. He was a big man. He sparred with the champion boxer John L. Sullivan.

We have Manitoba blood in us on William Spoor's side of the family. One day, William invited his father's uncle for a visit from Canada. William and his wife were living on Acushnet Avenue and Cedar Grove Streets in New Bedford over a Chinese laundry.

His uncle couldn't sleep in bed. He put a teepee up in the backyard, causing quite a commotion among the neighbors.

William worked from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. He always went to bed early.

He and his wife loved going to the movie theater. When her mother, Rosalie, became ill and unable to care for herself, Marie Rose brought her from Canada to live with her in New Bedford. Her mother lived to be 104. She died in 1922. William died in 1930 at age 61. Marie Rose died in 1932 at age 65.