Mary Wright obituary, 1906

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From the Trenton Times,2 Feb 1906

FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AS S.S. TEACHER

Burlington Woman Honored by Reception at First Baptist

Burlington, Feb 2. - A reception was given here last night in honor of Mrs. Mary A. Wright, who for more than fifty-eight years has been a teacher in the First Baptist Sunday School, of this city. The reception was held in the First Baptist Church and was attended by the members of Mrs. Wright's Bible class and the officers and teachers of the Sunday school. Mrs. Wright has a remarkable record as a Sunday school worker. She first joined the Sunday school when a child, 8 years of age, and when 16 years old she became a teacher. Mrs. Wright's first class was composed of half a dozen small girls and the membership of the school was then scarcely 200. Her class now has a membership of 50 and the enrollment of the entire school numbers 600.

Despite her years, Mrs. Wright is one of the most faithful teachers in the school, and this winter she has not been absent a single Sunday from her place in the class. After so many years spent in the study of the Bible one might suppose it would grow old and uninteresting, but every time I read it I find something new that I had never thought of before. When I started as a Sunday school teacher I little thought that I would spend so long a time in the work, but had I my life to live over again I would still teach a Bible class. Mrs. Wright comes of a family many of the members of which were distinguished for their active interest in Bible teaching.

Her father was a minister and her mother, Mrs. Sarah Allen, was one of the first teachers in the Baptist Sunday school of which Mrs. Wright is now a member, when it was organized here in 1825. Her husband, the late Noah E. Wright, was also a veteran Sunday school worker and for forty years he labored in the same school with his wife, first as teacher and later as superintendent. Many persons attended the reception given in the church last night. A pleasing musical and literary entertainment was given early in the evening and later a collation was served.

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