Source: Wayne County News. Friday June 14, 1957 Mrs. Leah Burks Wright, 91, one of the oldest residents of Ceredo, died Wed. at her home. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. at the Ceredo Congregational Church by Dr. L.C. Downey. Burial will be in Springhill cemetery. Mrs. Wright had resided in Ceredo since her marriage to Jesse Wright on Sept. 1, 1886. Mr. Wright, a merchant, died in 1920. Mrs. Wright was born Aug. 27, 1865 near Kenova, a daughter of the late Edward and Margaret Chadwick Burks.