Rosa's Cousins - Carrie Wright

One of Rosa's 1st cousins on her Shipman side of the family was Carrie Wright. So Carrie was my 1st cousin 3 times removed. She was born in Ohio 24 Nov 1864 to Thompson and Philena (Shipman) Wright.

The family moved to Missouri for awhile and Carrie appeared on the 1870 census as a 5 year old with her parents in Mooresville Township, Livingston County, Missouri. By the 1880 census they had moved back to Ohio, to Perry Township, Lake County. Carrie was now 15 and had completed the 8th grade and was working as a school teacher. She now had a younger sister in the household, Ettie, age 9. The census stated that Ettie was attending school. I wonder if Carrie was her teacher. Their uncle James Wright, their father's brother, was also in the household.

Carrie was married to Charles Reed 3 Nov 1896. She and Charles were living with his brother and mother in 1900, still in Perry Township, Lake County. Carrie and Charles' only daughter, Charlene Elsie Reed was born 30 May 1903 and was listed with them on the 1910 census as a 6 year old.

Before the 1920 census Carrie's widowed mother, Philena, came to live with them. Her mother died in Feb 1922, then Charles died in April of that same year. So Carrie and her daughter moved to the city of Painesville before the 1930 census. They were living at 41 Orchard Grove and C. Elsie was working as a stenographer for a health center. They continued to live there in 1935 and for the 1940 census, when Charlene E. was working as a secretary. It was about 2 months after the census was taken in April that Carrie died 29 Jun 1940. She was buried next to her husband in the Evergreen Cemetery in Painesville.

This is the obituary published in the Painesville Telegraph on 2 Jul 1940.

Her daughter Charlene Elsie Reed never married and died 15 May 1990 in Cuyahoga County Ohio and was buried in the Evergreen Cemetery where her parents were buried.