Troy Times

January 8, 1863

WRIGHT, ROBERT - Robert Wright was born Dec. 28th, 1834, and died at his residence in Troy, Ohio at 12 o'clock and 5 minutes on the morning of Jan. 1st, 1856.　 He removed from his native place with his parents in his ninth year, and settled in Hamilton, Canada West.　 Here his boyhood was spent, and here under the prayers and instructions of God fearing parents was laid the foundation in elements of character, which were now fully ripened and shone out conspicuously in his maturity.　 About ten years since, he came to Troy as clerk of Richard Brandriff, afterward succeeding him in business.　 His character as a business man is better known to the community of which he was a member than any words of the writer can describe. With an interval of a year spent in Canada he has remained identified with the interests of this village since he first came among us.  He was married to Miss Callie V. Brandriff, Dec. 24, 1857.　 One who is competent to judge of this matter describes this union "as a short but very happy life, so quickly have these years rolled away."　 He was confirmed in Saint Johns (Prot. Episcopal) Church, Cincinnati, O., Rev. W. R. Nichols, D. D. Rector, in his eighteenth year by Rt. Rev. C. P. McIlvaine Bishop of the Diocese of Ohio, since which time he has been an acceptable communicant of the church.　 His religious character was not showy and demonstrative, but quiet.　 For several months failing health has quite unfitted him for business.--Throughout his affliction a grand characteristic has been very great patience.　 Recently when conversation with him shut him up to the inference that his friends despaired of his recovery it brought no alarm.　It was manifest that his soul had been communing with the Great Head of the church--he had been drawing near to God and already he stood upon the rock.  To direct inquiry, he gave assurance of much religious consolation--peace and resignation to the will of God.　 He expressed much enjoyment in prayer offered by the church Litany on last Sabbath by a friend he was greatly blessed.　 On Monday at his request he was permitted to enjoy the Communion of the Lord's Supper with his wife, mother and other kindred and friends.　On Wednesday evening it was manifest to all he was approaching the great change, but was too feeble to make expression to his friends--even that of recognition.  To express his recognition of his wife so soon to be bereaved was the employment of his last and dying breath.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　 T.

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