Rev. Sela Goodrich Wright

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Title

Rev. Sela Goodrich Wright

Section

Lot

Grave

05A

Name Prefix

First Name

Middle Name

Goodrich

Last Name

Relationship

Husband of Emeline Farnsworth Wright (G-032-06)

Birth Date

1816

Birth: Year

Death Date

1906

Death: Year

Gender

Veteran Y/N

Military Service

Number of Persons on Marker

Composition

Condition

Shape

State

Legibility

Fair

Dimension: Height

48 inches

Dimension: Width

16 inches

Source of Information

Information taken from Westwood Printout and grave marker, if available; check the original burial register at city hall for additional data

Biographical Information

Chaplain, 70th U.S. Colored Infantry. Burton W. Nesbitt, volunteer Lorain County coordinator for the National Graves Registration Project of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War, has no additional information on him. For information on his career as a missionary to the Ojibway Indians in Minnesota, see Westwood: A Historical and Interpretive View of Oberlin's Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio (Oberlin: Oberlin Historical and Improvement Organization, 1997). p. 47.

Burial Date from Printout

07/03/1906

Burial: Month

Burial: Day

3

Burial: Year

Lot Owner

Wright, S. G.

Date Transcribed

08/11/2000

Default Latitude

41.28358826

Default Longitude

-82.23539666

Default Zoom Level

20

Collection

Citation

“Rev. Sela Goodrich Wright,” Westwood Database, accessed April 30, 2024, https://www.oberlinwestwood.org/omeka/items/show/53967.

Output Formats

Geolocation