Father: William Walter CARIKER
Mother: Fannie Jane WATSON
Family
1 : Martin Taylor WRIGHT
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_William Walter CARIKER___|
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|--Henrietta CARIKER
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| _Frederick W. WATSON _+
| _William Pinkney WATSON _|
| | |_Jane SCOTT ___
|_Fannie Jane WATSON _|
| Samuel ADAMS
|_Henrietta Reid ADAMS ___|
| Francis REID
Notes:
| Also known as Etta Cariker
Wright. Ennumerated as Henrietta Cariker living with her uncle, Sam F. Watson, in the 1910 Census for DeView Township, Woodruff Co., AR. From a listing in Cemetery Records of Woodruff County, Arkansas Volume II by Curtis A. Houston, for Odd Fellows Cemetery: South Half, p. 244: |
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| Wright, Etta Cariker, b. Aug. 23, 1891, d. Apr. 25,
1916. |
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In Woodruff County Marriage Records 1864-1967 there is this listing: |
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| Wright, W. T., 43, Logan; Ella Carriker, 23, Woodruff, 2 10 1915,
Book P Page 169. |
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| Etta Cariker
Wright would have been 23 in 1915. It was first reasoned that W. T.
Wright could be from an unrelated Logan Co. Wright family, particularly since
the Woodruff County sources indicated that her Wright was from a different
family. However, this could also possibly be Martin Taylor Wright who
would have been about 45 in 1915. Taylor Wright was living in Magazine, Logan
County in 1937 at the time of his half-sister's
funeral. |
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| Terrie Treadway recently found a letter from Ettie to her grandmother, which was from Magazine, Logan Co. and dated 1915. Etta Cariker Wright died (hemmoraging to death according to her half sister) in childbirth of their first child in April of 1916, and this is believed to be the last letter which she wrote to Minnie: | ||
| Magazine, Arkansas
Oct 20, 1915 |
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| Miss Minnie Cariker
Dear Sweet Sister, |
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| After so long time, I will try to write to you. We are all ways glad to get a letter from our little sis, if I don't look out it will be big sis for you may get to weigh more than I do. I weigh 101. I weighed two months ago, so I have not weighted since, so if you keep on growing. When I come back home I will be the little sis, ha ha, won't I? | ||
| I was so glad to get your sweet letter, it brought tears though to think how will you still loved me and we could not be together. Dear, I just love all you children just the same love as when I was at home, I have a Darling Husband, but don't think because I'm married my love for you all will decrease. | ||
| I was so glad you had such a nice time the first of school. How do you like your teacher? Are your lessons hard for you? Study hard, dear and don't get to studying the boys. Make something out of yourself so you will be independent. And then there will be time enough for the boys. But I know you don't study the boys and I'm so glad of it. | ||
| Is Ray going to start to school after Christmas? Tell him I said to study with you every night if he is not too tired and keep up so he can pass, and Maynard, too if he can go to school, if he can not go, it will be noble of him to stay and look after Grandmother and the things for you all to go. And you all will thank him for it, I know. How is Freddie and Ora getting along in school, just fine I know, for Freddie is smart and Ora, too? I have been intending to write to them all, but I just have to write so much and it worries me so much to write, I know that you can tell them how I am, but when I get stout I'm going to write to them. Tell them I said my love has never ceased a mite for them. If I don't write often, for I love them all, and them Dear Children seem all most to me like Brothers and Sisters, and Aunt Ora's baby, too. | ||
| Izetta was over yesterday and she was telling about you owing her a letter. Izetta's cousin and her husband is offering her a good chance, they have been married and haven't any children. Her cousin's husband is a mechanic and can fix any kind of machinery, so he gets big wages, and he has promised Izetta if she will come and stay with them and go to school till June they will buy her a lovely ring and bracelet just as soon as she comes, all kind of nice clothes and hat and shoes to match every Sunday dress and a fine long coat, and when she comes home in June they would buy her a trunk and fill it with clothes and take her to Texas, before, she comes home. Her mother and father has given their consent for her to go if she wants too. But, I think she will back out. They live in Oklahoma. Minnie, have you still go Darkey? | ||
| Oh, say my bracelet got lost or stolen I don't know which. Belle Wright and Izetta came over to wash about two months ago, and I had let Izetta and Willlie wear the bracelet. But they never would let Belle have it to wear, and she is the oldest girl, too. So after Belle finished washing and ironing for me, I told her she might wear the bracelet herself, so she took it home and wore it a while and Izetta got a hold of it and wore it one Sunday and slept in it that night. She put on her work dress the next morn and forgot and went to the field to pick peas, so she noticed it, and said to John W. before he ever started to pick peas, say here John take this bracelet and put it in your pocket, so he took it and put it in his inside jumper pocket and felt to see if it was there all right and hung his jumper on a fence post. But that night when he looked in his jumper pocket the bracelet was gone. So they have looked and looked for that bracelet for hours at time and it can not be found. | ||
| I believe that someone took it. I was going to give it to you when I come home, I thought it would do you till you could get a nicer one or we could get you one some time. | ||
| Minnie, dear, excuse this letter being written on both sides, for I had to write that way to get it in Grandmother's letter. Tell them big Boys of ours I said I was going to pinch them good if they don't write to me. They could write a few lines some Sunday to let me know they had not forgotten us. | ||
| Well, dearie, I will close for this time. Write when you can, Sweet heart is all ways glad to hear from our little Sis | ||
| Love to Everyone, Your Loving Sister, Etta Wright |
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| P.S. What kind of work is
Uncle Ben doing? I was sorrowed to hear of Mr.
Roads. What kind of coat did you get? Yes, I saved the peach sacks. Sweetheart
held the sack of peaches and I sewed them. I was afraid they would get too much fresh air and take the croup to go so far. |
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| Not only does this letter mention Benjamin
Watson and two of his daughters (who were probably still living in DeView at
that time), but also three daughters of James
Ausborn and Carolina Tennessee Wright who
were also living in Magazine. It would seem very likely that Etta was indeed
married to James' brother, Taylor. Terrie Treadway has suggested that the
John W. mentioned in the letter, might be John Wesley Wright, however there is no evidence
that he or his siblings ever lived in Magazine. |
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| Further commentary on the above letter to Minnie Cariker, by her granddaughter, Terrie Treadway (19 Apr 2003): | ||
| ...the letter was one of grandma's prize possessions. I did not find any other letter from Etta, so I assume this may be her last communication from her to my grandma. Grandma had it in a little brown purse with a couple of letters from her grandmother, Henrietta Watson and two very nice tatted pieces that looked like collars. Grandma did a lot of crocheting, tatting, and quilting and my mom thinks either Grandma Watson or Aunt Ora taught my grandmother how. | ||
| From 20 Apr 2003: | ||
| ...I know my grandmother must have had a fondest for her uncles Ben and Sam. Early in her life, she lived with Samuel and her grandmother with Samuel being head of household, then I assume after his death, Henrietta Watson, my grandmother and her siblings moved in with her Aunt Ora and Dr Huff's family until reaching their majority age. Grandmother and my mom went to see your Uncle Ben shortly before his death. The family was pretty close knit. Still is, but not to the extent that it was when my grandmother was alive. I think because she lost her parents when she was so young, she had a very special place in her heart for her grandmother that raised her, along with her uncles, the Huffs and her Aunt Ora and Lena. I even remember as a child in the 60's going to James Milton Huff's for a fourth of July family reunion of sorts. I was too young to pay much attention to the adults, but remember playing with a lot of youngsters. | ||
There is additional census information on the association between the Watson's and the Cariker's in the notes for Samuel F. Watson. Recently (1 June 2003) in a telephone conversation with Pat Bodine, Mamie Lee Wright Burnham of Logan County, who had known her half uncle as a child, confirmed that Martin Taylor Wright was indeed married to Henrietta Cariker, and had never got over the death of his wife in childbirth. Though we have yet to find any public documentation which confirms this, it appears that this is so. |
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This page created on 02/26/2003 11:46:21. Updated on 06/01/03 18:02.
