Born to Robert Watson Peckham
and his 1st wife Valeria Peck in Richland, Oswego, NY in 1855, Jennie was raised
by her maternal aunt Jenny Peck who married her father Robert after he was widowed
in 1858. The family lived in Stillwater, MN and then settled in Chicago. It was
there that Jennie married George Edward Wright, a native of Ohio, in 1879. They
were married until George’s death in 1901; they had no children. I cannot find
Jennie after the 1900 census when her stepmother Jenny was also living with them. Her
stepmother died in Chicago in 1912 (though I cannot find her in the 1910
census) … were Jennie and Jenny living togehter? Why can't I find them?
At first I
thought perhaps
Jennie married Robert P, Smith in 1906, but it was not her. I found
Jennie
M Wright listed as a beneficiary in the 1919 probate notice for her
relative
George P. Elliott in New York. Was she alive? Where? I had found a
possible death reported in San Francisco (where her cousin Helen lived)
for Jennie M Wright born 1855 -- could it be her? If so, why would she
be listed in a probate public notice 12 years later? So confusing!