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02 January 2023

David March © 2014

ROBERT JOHN WRIGHT and MARGARET ISADORA HICKOK

Robert John Wright was born on 28 March 1885 in Mono, Ontario to Noble Wright (1835-1911) and Margaret Campbell Leitch (1848-1889). His siblings were Jane (Jennie) (1869-1962), Elizabeth (1871-1957), George (1873-1922), Noble Henry (1875-1962), Margaret (1878-1912), William Alexander (1880-1960), Ruby (1882-1964) and James Douglas (1886-1963).

Robert was raised in Ontario, but came to homestead on the SE-2-35-7-W3 near Vanscoy, Saskatchewan in 1905. By 1911, he was married to Lena May (1878 – 1921). He subsequently married Rose Wilhelmina Irvine 28 October 1923 and they had the following children: Dorinne Enid (1922-2010), Winton Robert (1924-2007), Orville Douglas (1926-2013), Eugene Eldon (1928-1928) and Mervyn.

Robert died in Saskatoon on 11 February 1961 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery. His wife, Rose who was born on 13 May 1886 in Saskatchewan, died on 30 August 1955 in Saskatoon. Vanscoy is very close to Saskatoon and anyone living there would undoubtedly make frequent trips to Saskatoon to shop. Also, Robert had a sister, Jane Sandy living in Saskatoon in 1918, so it was likely on a trip to Saskatoon that he signed the quilt. He and his niece, Margaret Hickok signed the same square of the quilt, suggesting that they were likely together at the time.

Margaret Isadora Hickok was born on 8 August 1899 in Chicago, Illinois to Walter Wilson Hickok (1868-1902) and Jane (Jennie) Wright (1869-1962). Her mother was the sister of Robert John Wright. Margaret had one brother who died as a baby, Walter Frederick (1902-1903).

Her family immigrated to Canada in 1904 and by 1906 her mother was a widow who was living with seven year old Margaret in Winnipeg, Manitoba. By 1911, her mother had remarried to Charles Louis Sandy and they were living on and farming land in 33-8-W3 Meridian, Montrose RM (near the town of Delisle), Saskatchewan, but Margaret was not with them.

By 1916 Margaret had joined them and remained with them till at least 1921 on the same piece of land. The 1918 Saskatoon Henderson Directory lists Charles Sandy (farmer) and Hicok [sic] Sandy (student) living at 412 8th St, Saskatoon. Montrose RM is not far from Saskatoon and it would be very easy for someone to farm land located there from Saskatoon or to have a winter home in Saskatoon.

On August 18 1953, Margaret married Conrad Edmund Linden (b 1905) and in 1954 there is a record of them living in Burnaby, British Columbia. Margaret died in Burnaby 14 April 1987 and was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.

This family tree can be found on Ancestry under the title 3rd Ave Hickok/Wright Tree.