{"id":11790,"date":"2026-11-14T18:52:05","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/?p=11790"},"modified":"2026-11-14T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T18:52:05","slug":"alice-martha-wright-towne-1886-1974","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/?p=11790","title":{"rendered":"Alice Martha Wright Towne 1886 \u2013 1974"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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William C & Annie Dalton Wright and Alice M Wright Towne Headstone<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Ancestry:<\/strong>  William Chester Wright;  Stillman Wright;  Zadock Wright;  Moses Wright, Rev War, War of 1812;  Ebenezer Wright;  Moses Wright;  Adam Wright;  Richard Wright, \u201cFortune<\/em>\u201c;  William Wright, \u201cFortune<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Born:<\/strong> February 21, 1886 in Chelsea Ma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Father:\u00a0<\/strong>William Chester Wright; (1858 \u2013 1923) (Stillman Wright & Zilpha E. Hammond)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Mother:<\/strong>\u00a0Annie Dalton; (1860 \u2013 1956) (James Dalton & Elizabeth MacDonald)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Died:<\/strong> January 20, 1974 in Bourne Ma. at 88 yrs, 10 mos, 29 d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Buried:<\/strong>\u00a0Pocasset Cemetery; area B\u00a0(with her father & mother)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Married:<\/strong> June 24, 1908 in Bourne Ma. by James P. Hawkes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      • To:<\/strong>\u00a0George William Towne; (1885 \u2013 1965) (George Moody Towne & Annie Wallace Cruckshanks); George married (2) Ruth Caroline (Norris) Harvey (1886 \u2013 1939) (Lucian W. Norris & Effie L. Osgood) in Yucatan Mexico on January 30, 1926 & married (3) Cecile Marie (Byrnes) Holmes (Joseph Byrnes & Winifred McDonnell) in Dauphin Pa. on June 18, 1945.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

        Children: <\/strong>3<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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        • 1.\u00a0<\/strong>Virginia Wright Towne Byrne; (September 23, 1915 \u2013 January 12, 1999); Married Peter Joseph Byrne (1908 \u2013 2002)\u00a0(Thomas Byrne & Anne McHugh) in Brookline Ma. on June 13, 1959; Peter married (1) Mary Murphy (1908 \u2013 1991) (Bartholomew Murphy & Mary (\u2013)) in Bronx N.Y. on February 2, 1932.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 2.\u00a0<\/strong>William Wright Towne, WW ll; (November 19, 1916\u00a0\u2013 March 27, 1990); Married Katherine Agnes Porter (1916 \u2013 1988) (John T. Porter &\u00a0Bridget Agnes\u00a0Sullivan); William & Katherine are buried in Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne Ma..<\/li>\n\n\n\n
        • 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Edward Stickney Towne, WW ll; (October 25, 1918 \u2013 April 22, 1984); Married Veronica Kathleen Dwyer (1917 \u2013 2014) (James Joseph Dwyer & Johanna Madeline Quinlan) on Abt.1942; Edward\u00a0& Veronica are\u00a0buried in Pocasset Cemetery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

          Ancestry:  William Chester Wright;  Stillman Wright;  Zadock Wright;  Moses Wright, Rev War, War of 1812;  Ebenezer Wright;  Moses Wright;  Adam Wright;  Richard Wright, \u201cFortune\u201c;  William Wright, \u201cFortune\u201d Born: February 21, 1886 in Chelsea Ma. Died: January 20, 1974 in Bourne Ma. at 88 yrs, 10 mos, 29 d. Married: June 24, 1908 in Bourne Ma. by James P….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-towne-family"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11791,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11790\/revisions\/11791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pocassetcemetery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}