Thursday, May 2, 2013
You Are Invited...
Join us for the 89th Wright Family Reunion! We will be gathering at the Cedar Community Beach House once again, 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, WI 53095 July 14th 2013 at 10:00 in the morning.
We will gather, have a meal (bring a dish to pass!) have our family business meeting and hang out together at Beautiful Cedar Lake. You can find a map at our blog:
www.wrightsofoldrayne.blogspot.com
or if you need further instructions feel free to contact me, Mary Bubenzer (your secretary) at bubenzers@att.net
If you are unable to come this year please send us a note via email to share with us "doings" in your family! You can send a reply to this email, or if you want you can post an update to our Wright Family Reunion Facebook page at www.facebook.com/#!/groups/wrightsofoldrayne/.
This is the first year we are sending the invitations by email only, and not the paper mailing. If you know someone who was getting the mailing and not the email, please encourage them to send us their email addresses and let them know about the reunion date.
Hope you can come in July! We'd love to see you there!
Cheers,
Mary Bubenzer
Wright Family Secretary
Monday, July 9, 2012
Minutes of the 88th Wright Reunion
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Snapshot: Abbie Wright Austin
"Abbie Wright was born in the town of Elba Dodge County Wisconsin on December 15th 1868. Abbie died at her home in Waterloo Wisconsin on March 21, 1927. Insulin was discovered in {1923} but Abbie was not going to be a [guinea pig]. Abbie died a year before Gloria Abbie Austin Karow 1928.
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We are saddened with the passing of Alberta Wright Kickbush, the daughter of Albert Wright, who died just last week. Here is a link to her beautiful obituary:
http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/jsonline/obituary.aspx?n=alberta-wright-kickbush-bert&pid=158148893
Cedar Community Beach House once again, 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, WI 53095
July 8th 2012 at 10:00 in the morning. We will gather, have a meal (bring
a dish to pass!) have our family business meeting and hang out together at
Beautiful Cedar Lake. You can find a map at our blog:
http://www.wrightsofoldrayne.blogspot.com/
or if you need futher instructions feel free to contact me, Mary Bubenzer
(your secretary) at
bubenzer@charter.net
If you are unable to come this year please send us a note via email to
share with us "doings" in your family!
Due to cost and ease of use after this year we will be sending email only,
and not the paper mailing. If you know someone who is still getting the
mailing, please encourage them to send us their email addresses.
Hope you can come in July! We'd love to see you there!
Cheers,
Mary Bubenzer
Wright Family Secretary
Monday, June 18, 2012
Snapshot: Albert Wright
Albert Wright was and is my grandfather…the father of my mom, Kathrine Wright Atwood. He had the strong, stocky build and lovely mustache of many of his brothers.
He died of the heart disease that plagued so many of the Wright males and my mom could remember him popping nitroglycerine pills for many years for angina. My mom was 18 when he died; her only sibling Alberta was 16.
Albert was trained as a veterinarian in Canada as were 2 of his brothers. The Scots love their animals and he was a rural, large animal vet with his Wright's Clinic in Campbellsport, Wisconsin. He was compassionate and capable and the farmers knew they could call on Doc Wright anytime day and night. He was not a business man and often was paid in eggs and apples from the orchards and potatoes from the field. He never made much money and his relaxed attitude about money was cause of heated disagreements with Gramma.
He was a Scot in his love of music, and poetry and all things "bright and beautiful". He could sing and quote poetry - especially Bobbie Burns with the best of them.
Our gramma Kathrine was grandpa's second wife and at the Wright Reunions my mom and Aunty Bert were the youngest of the first generation past the original 12 Wright siblings. That made us direct grandchildren and I was always so proud to write on my name tag KC Atwood Granddaughter of Albert Wright!!
I never met my grandpa Albert but always felt I knew him through the clan gatherings every year.”
Monday, June 11, 2012
Snapshot: Leslie Allyn Wright
Leslie married Caroline Rhodes January 10, 1893. They lived in Columbus, where he had a veterinary practice, following the Wright preferred profession! Caroline and Leslie had two children, Allyn Lee born in 1894, and Elizabeth, born in 1906.
Leslie died in 1930, and Caroline moved to Minnesota to live with her son Allyn, a banker, and his family. She died in 1958 at the ripe age of 86, outliving both of her children.
Just two Wright kiddos left! Next week we will visit Albert Wright (from whom I am descended). Send any info!
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Snapshot: Alexander H. Wright
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Snapshot: May Wright Bleecker
Next week we visit Alexander Wright! As ever, please send us any info you have.
wrightreunion@sbcglobal.net
By the way, since our first snapshot on April 14th we have had over 540 page views for our little blog here! Thanks to all of you!
Don't forget: Join us for the 88th Wright Family Reunion! We will be gathering at the
Cedar Community Beach House once again, (5595 County Road Z, West Bend, WI 53095) July 8th 2012 at 10:00 in the morning. We will gather, have a meal (bring a dish to pass!) have our family business meeting and hang out together at Beautiful Cedar Lake. You can find a map at our blog from the April 4th post.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Snapshot: Jessie Wright
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Snapshot: William Wright
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Mary Elizabeth Bleecker Mystery Update
Sunday, May 6, 2012
Snapshot: George L. Wright
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Snapshot: Elizabeth (aka Eliza or Lizzie) Wright Bleecker
Stay tuned! Next week belongs to George L. Wright. If any descendants of George are out there and have information about him we would love to have it. Also, if you have any information on any of the folks we already did a snapshot of, feel free to send it to us! wrightreunion@sbcglobal.net
Sunday, April 22, 2012
Snapshot: Mary Wright Bleecker Randall
Mary A. Wright was born in Scotland in 1849, the oldest child of Leslie and Mary Ann Wright. She travelled with them across the Atlantic to settle in Ohio, then moved with them to Wisconsin.
Mary Wright married her first husband, Henry Bleecker in Columbia County Wisconsin. We don’t know when Henry was born, but he died in the year 1874, the same year that their daughter, Nellie, was born. We assume that Mary and Nellie lived with her folks until 1880 when she married Eugene A. Randall.
Eugene was born 1851 in Dodge C. Wisconsin. He enlisted in the US Army and was stationed
during the 1870’s at Fort Sanders, Albany, Wyoming Territory, 4th Infantry Company C. He married Mary sometime shortly before the 1880 census. Mary is on the 1880 census as Mary Randall, living with Leslie and Mary Ann, along with Nellie. We think maybe Eugene was out sussing out a place to live during that year, and they settled in Hetland Township, Kingsbury County, South Dakota. Mary and Eugene had six kids, George, Jessie, L. Maud, Mary, Amos, and Lizzie.
Mary died in 1933 in Hetland Township, Kingsbury County, South Dakota. She is buried in Hetland Cemetery.
Saturday, April 14, 2012
Snapshot: Leslie and Mary Ann, Jeannie, and Charles Wright
The Wright family has roots in Old Rayne, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The children of James and Elizabeth (Hay) Wright were christened in St. Nicholas Church near Old Rayne and the family births marriages, and deaths are recorded in the Old Parish registers. Wright family graves still exist in the Kirkyard. One of James and Elizabeth's children was Leslie Wright. Here is a small exerpt of how Leslie got his name:
Copied from the back of a postcard showing Leslie Castle c.1900 - brought to
the Wright Family Reunion 2001 by Harry Wright - William Leslie, who owned this
estate, was a friend of Leslie Wright (dad's father) & it was from him the
name "Leslie" originally came. Leslie Wright was a tenant in the
estate at one time. Dad and Mother brought home a piece of slate from the roof.
It was here Dad met an old lady who remembered carrying him in her arms. She
said she wouldn't have recognized him.
On 28 Dec 1848 Leslie Wright married Mary Ann Lowe, who was born in 1825, also in Old Rayne. They had four children born in Scotland; Mary, Jeannie, Eliza, and George. Sometime between 1854 and 1855 they came to the United States and settled in Harrisville Township in the County of Medina in Ohio where Leslie made his living as a farmer. While in Ohio they had six more Children, William, Jessie, May, Charles, Alexander and Leslie. Sometime between Leslie’s birth in Ohio it 1863., and Albert’s birth in 1865 the growing family moved to Elba in Dodge County, Wisconsin. After Albert was born in Wisconsin came the couple’s last child, Abbie, also in Wisconsin. Leslie died 4 Jan 1905 one year after the death of his wife in 1904.
This paragraph, copied from the typewritten Leslie Wright obit, gives us more information about Leslie's life. "Being an early settler, he was well known and highly respected for his sterling Scotch qualities and business integrity. He was a consistent member of the Presbyterian church in
Scotland and Ohio, but when he came to Wisconsin, he united with the Methodist Episcopal church of which he was an active member until promoted to the church triumphant. A greal [sic] lover of God's word, much of which he had committed to memory, a good singer and a lover of good music, and a splendid conversationalist, his company was eagerly sought by all who knew him and his presence was always an inspiration and benediction and no words seem so fitting
to the close of such a full rounded life as the words of St. Paul: 'I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness.'"
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Not much is known about Jeannie or Jane Wright, Leslie and Mary Ann’s second child who was born 1850 in Scotland. Tragically she died in 1866, in Wisconsin, at only 16 years of age.
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Charles Wright, Leslie and Mary Ann’s 8th son had no living descendants. He was born in
1860 in Ohio. In 1889 he married Eula Snow, and they had one son, Allen Wright, who died only thirteen days after he was born. Eula died in 1917 and in 1921 Charles married his second wife, Grace Freitag. Charles lived until 1937. Grace died in 1960.
If you have any other tidbits of information about these
folks, put them in the comments are send them to wrightreunion@sbcglobal.net
Next week: Mary Wright Bleeker
Snapshots Introduction
Nathan) we have decided to do a little genealogy project for your enjoyment and
edification. Each week we will take one of the twelve and write a little
"snapshot" of each, with basic genealogical research, and, we hope, input from
you. It will be posted to our blog, http://www.wrightsofoldrayne.blogspot.com/ .
Our first week is dedicated to Leslie and Mary Ann, the mother and father of the
twelve, and Jeannie (AKA Jane) (who died young) and Charles Wright, who had no
living descendants. If you have more information about these folks PLEASE write
them in as comments on the blog or send them to wrightreunion@sbcglobal.net. If
you send info about any of Leslie and Mary Ann's 12 children, please send it to
us before we post the "snapshot" then we can incorporate the information which
will be so much fun. So please send us stories or information about your "12"
family member! Except for Jeannie and Charles we will go in chronological
order, so the second snapshot will be Mary Wright Bleecker, then Eliza Wright Bleecker, followed by George L. Wright, William Wright, Jessie Wright Newton, May Wright Bleecker, Alexander H. Wright, Leslie Allyn Wright, Albert L. Wright, Abbie Wright Austin.
Have fun and enjoy, and we will see you in July!
Cheers,
Mary Bubenzer
Secretary
and
Nathan Bubenzer
Secretary's genealogist
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
88th Reunion
Join us for the 88th Wright Family Reunion! We will be gathering at the
Cedar Community Beach House once again, 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, WI 53095
July 8th 2012 at 10:00 in the morning. We will gather, have a meal (bring
a dish to pass!) have our family business meeting and hang out together at
Beautiful Cedar Lake. You can find a map at our blog:
http://www.wrightsofoldrayne.blogspot.com/
or if you need futher instructions feel free to contact me, Mary Bubenzer
(your secretary) at
bubenzer@charter.net
If you are unable to come this year please send us a note via email to
share with us "doings" in your family!
Due to cost and ease of use after this year we will be sending email only,
and not the paper mailing. If you know someone who is still getting the
mailing, please encourage them to send us their email addresses.
Hope you can come in July! We'd love to see you there!
Cheers,
Mary Bubenzer
Wright Family Secretary
Monday, July 11, 2011
87th Wright Family Reunion
87th Wright Family Reunion minutes
Big Cedar Lake- July 10, 2011
The Sunday dawned warm, sunny and humid, with rainy periods all day. Members started arriving at 10 am to enjoy Racine kringle and coffee. We took family pictures before dinner.
Rex Dachenbach offered prayer and at noon we feasted on our potluck meal.
Promptly at 1:00 pm, John Stofflet began the family meeting. He welcomed everyone and thanked the Laycocks for reserving Cedar Community Beach House, arranging for the golf cart to aid in transportation from the parking area, and asking a local skipper to take us for a pontoon boat tour of the lake. Great fun! We said “Goodbye, and see you next year” by 3:00 pm.
Statistics:
24 persons at the reunion
Youngest: Kaia Stofflet
Wisest: Alberta Kickbush at 93
Longest trip: Douglas Rory Kickbush, who came from Portugal to visit his mom and attend the reunion.
Letters and e-mails received:
Dorothy Tempel, from New Zealand
Katie and Harlan Sutton
Jim and Jeanette Wright
Gloria Austin Karow
John Wright
Sharing from attending members:
Frank A. Laycock
Frank E. Laycock (brought greetings from the Bubenzers)
Jo Gross
Alberta Wright Kickbush
Judy Stubbe
Phil Atwood
Judy Bishop
Rex Dachenbach
Nancy West Martin
Bonnie Stofflet
Rita Stofflet
Douglas Kickbush
John Stofflet
Members attending:
Frank E. Laycock
KC Laycock
Frank A. Laycock
Judy Stubbe
Phil Atwood
Nancy Wright
Woody Wright
John Stofflet
Kaia Stofflet
Cole Wohler
Judy Bishop
Jo A. Gross
Thomas Gross
Rex N. Dachenbach
JoAnn Dachenbach
Lisa Dachenbach
Nancy Martin
Shan Martin
Alberta Kickbush
Douglas Kickbush
Tabatha Feerick
Bonnie Anderson
Steve Anderson
Rita Stofflet
Further Business:
With John leading the conversation we discussed the future reunions. Most attending have positive feelings about the reunion, but attendance has fallen over the years. We have tried to maintain a valid mailing list, but it has been difficult to keep new addresses, moves, dispersing family all straight. More of the family can use electronic mail and an up-to-date website is very useful. The leadership of the reunion has been carried by a small group. With declining involvement this is frustrating. We elected leadership for one more year, decided location and agreed to do some research and make a decision at the 88th Reunion.
Leadership for 2012:
President Rex Dachenbach
Secretary Mary Laycock Bubenzer
Treasurer KC Laycock
Location of the 88th Wright Reunion:
Cedar Community Beach House
July 8, 2012
Respectfully submitted,
KC Laycock, for Mary Bubenzer
Friday, May 6, 2011
Come to the 87th Wright Family Reunion!
When: Sunday, July 10, 2011
The 2011 reunion will begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday July 11th at the Cedar Community Lake Front Beach House, 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, Wisconsin 53095.
The morning is set aside to permit family members of all ages to get acquainted. Coffee and Kringle will be served as usual. We will have the traditional pot luck dinner at noon. This will be followed by activities and the family meeting.
We encourage all of you to come and enjoy the friendship and renew the family ties. Even if you haven't been for awhile (or ever), we'd be delighted to see you and your family. Family historical documents and memorabilia will be on display. If you have photos or anything to share with the Clan, bring them.
Please bring your address books to update the mailing list!
You will need to bring dishes, silverware, and beverages for your family, and a dish to pass (hot dish, salad or dessert, with emphasis on hot dishes) in sufficient quantity to enable us to leave complaining about how much we overate.
Plus! Lots of fun activites on the shores of gorgeous Big Cedar Lake - Bring your swimsuit!
Directions:
If you bring up your favorite map website and request the map for 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, Wisconsin 53095, the location of the Community is shown.
Once you arrive there will be signs to guide you to the Beach House.
For more information about Cedar Community and directions, please check out their website: http://www.cedarcommunity.org/
Where to stay:
For the families that want a place to sleep over near West Bend, here are several choices:
Country Inn and Suites by Carlson
2000 Gateway Ct
West Bend, WI 53095
Phone: 262-334-9400
Website: http://www.countryinns.com/westbendwi
Hampton Inn and Suites
1975 South 18th Avenue
West Bend, WI 53095
Phone: 262-438-1500
Website: http://www.blogger.com/www.westbendsuites.hamptoninn.com
Questions? Email Mary: bubenzer@charter.net
Thursday, April 28, 2011
86th reunion minutes
Attendance:
Harry Wright, KC and Frank Laycock, Frank A. Laycock, Mary Nathan and Sam Bubenzer, Lowell Wright, Russ Kickbush, Matt Kickbush, Colleen G. Curtis, Jim Cosgrove, Tom Cosgrove, Nancy and Woody Wright, Alexa Austin and Dylan Wright, John Taylor and Kaia Stofflet, Judy Stubbe, Phil Atwood, Roxanne Otto, Dave Atwood, Judy Bishop, Rex Joanne Lisa Dachenbach, Bonnie Anderson, Rita Stofflet, Ryan Anderson, Alberta Kickbush, Peggy Cosgrove, Tabatha Feerick, Jo Tom and Justice Gross
Minutes from 86th Wright Family Reunion, Sunday July 11, 2010
Longest travelled: David Atwood from Albany New York
Wisest Member: Alberta Kickbush 92,
Youngest: Austin and Dylan Wright at 13.
Farthest: David Atwood, Albany NY
Closest: Alberta Kickbush, Cedar Community
We did not have any reports of anyone in the clan who passed away this past year.
Letter from Jim and Jeanette Wright.
Letter from Gloria Austin and Wes Karow.
Bud Harry Moertl sent note.
Treasurer's report: Mary Bubenzer:
post reunion balance from last year $307.88
This year had expenses of $98 for flyers and postage.
Additional expenses $83.70
pre-2010 reunion balance is $126.18
$2 contribution or whatever you can give.
2010 money collected: $125.00
2010 post $251.30
John Stofflet and Mary Bubenzer will serve for one more year as President and Secretary-Treasurer. Unanimous.
It was agreed to meet next year at Big Cedar Lake again; the 87th Wright Family Reunion, July 10, 2011
Family Sharing:
Harry Wright
Lowell Wright
Peggy Cosgrove
Russ Kickbush
Matt Kickbush
Woody Wright
Rex Dachenbach
Judy Bishop
Frank A. Laycock
Frank E. Laycock
Judy Stubbe
Joanne Atwood
Phil Atwood
Mary Bubenzer
Rita Stofflet
John Stofflet
Tabby Feerick
Next Reunion: Cedar Community: July 10th 2011
1 fish was caught
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Come to the 86th Wright Family Reunion!
When: Sunday, July 11, 2010
The 2010 reunion will begin at 10 a.m. on Sunday July 11th at the Cedar Community Lake Front Beach House, 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, Wisconsin 53095.
The morning is set aside to permit family members of all ages to get acquainted. Coffee and Kringle will be served as usual. We will have the traditional pot luck dinner at noon. This will be followed by activities and the family meeting.
We encourage all of you to come and enjoy the friendship and renew the family ties. Even if you haven't been for awhile (or ever), we'd be delighted to see you and your family. Family historical documents and memorabilia will be on display. If you have photos or anything to share with the Clan, bring them.
Please bring your address books to update the mailing list!
You will need to bring dishes, silverware, and beverages for your family, and a dish to pass (hot dish, salad or dessert, with emphasis on hot dishes) in sufficient quantity to enable us to leave complaining about how much we overate.
Plus! Lots of fun activites on the shores of gorgeous Big Cedar Lake - Bring your swimsuit!
Directions:
If you bring up your favorite map website and request the map for 5595 County Road Z, West Bend, Wisconsin 53095, the location of the Community is shown.
Once you arrive there will be signs to guide you to the Beach House.
For more information about Cedar Community and directions, please check out their website: http://www.cedarcommunity.org/
Where to stay:
For the families that want a place to sleep over near West Bend, here are several choices:
Country Inn and Suites by Carlson
2000 Gateway Ct
West Bend, WI 53095
Phone: 262-334-9400
Website: http://www.countryinns.com/westbendwi
Hampton Inn and Suites
1975 South 18th Avenue
West Bend, WI 53095
Phone: 262-438-1500
Website: www.westbendsuites.hamptoninn.com