Alice Elizabeth "Betsy" WRIGHT^[1]

1873 - 1940  (66 years)

• Name	Alice Elizabeth "Betsy" WRIGHT
  Nickname	Betsy
  Birth	3 Oct 1873	Holmes, MS
  Gender	Female
  Name	Betsy
  _UID	2401CF1DD87B4341B74FD429EE33D0AC88AD
  Death	22 Mar 1940	Chicago, Cook County, Illinois
  Burial	Rock Creek Cemetary, Washington, D. C.
  Person ID	I15835	Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 Jul 2006

  
  

  Father	Thomas Shepherd WRIGHT, Rev.,   b. 22 Jun 1826, Middlesex, Virginia d. 13 Jun 1893, Pickens, Holmes, Mississippi (Age 66 years)
  Mother	Mary Elizabeth WALTON,   b. 7 Sep 1831, Wilkes County, Georgia d. 23 Jan 1903, Washington, DC (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	15 Jun 1847	Holmes, MS
  Family ID	F7957	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Lincoln Butler SMITH,   b. 1866   d. 17 Mar 1943 (Age 77 years)
  Marriage	17 Sep 1913	Washington, DC
  Family ID	F7960	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Aug 2016

  
  

• Notes

  From Elsdon Maynard: Lincoln Butler Smith (1866/1943) was an Assistant Attorney General in Washington D.C in the 1890's and 1900's . His first wife, my grandmother, died in Washington in 1909 Lincoln then came to Chicago, where he began practice as a patent attorney. He returned to Washington to marry his second wife, Alice Elizabeth (Betsy) Wright, on 9-17-1913. Grandma Betsy died in Chicago 3-22-1940. Following services here, her body was taken to Washington for burial in the Wright plot in Rock Creek Cemetery. The next year, disregarding the Gilbert and Sullivan concerns about marriage with deceased wife's sister, Lincoln returned east and married Frances Louise (Lulu) Wright on 10-18-1941 in Baltimore. The family was familiar with Aunt Lulu thru her frequent visits to Chicago. We usually entertained her at a Jeanette McDonald - Nelson Eddy movie - there always seemed to be one showing somewhere in town. She had been married to Daniel W. Hopper about 1892, as his second wife, and they lived in Baltimore. They are listed there in the 1920 and 1930 censuses, although I have not been able to find 1900 or 1910 listings. Daniel, born about 1851, apparently died after 1930. On some of her earlier visits to Chicago Aunt Lulu was accompanied by her brother Henry Shepherd (Harry) Wright, and I believe they both lived in St Petersburg. Lincoln and Lulu moved to St Petersburg, where Lincoln died 3-17-1943, and Lulu died 11-1-1947.

  
  

• Sources

  [S426] Barbara Westman, Barbara Westman.