Wright, Alice Olivia Ashwick (Allison) (Perkins)
1) Albion Everett Perkins (1879-1931)
2) John Edward Wright (1898-1979)
Sons: John Lee (1915-1923); Claudius Albion (1917-1918); Albion Allison (1917-1945); Roderick Lewis (1920-1987)
Daughters: Evadne (Perkins) MacKenzie (1912-2004); Claudia 1918-1920; Elvie Ariel Rodessia (Perkins) Sisson (1923-1991); Susan Louisa Livinia (Perkins) MacGregor “Sue” (1926-2019)
Alice Olivia Ashwick Allison was born at the Allison homestead on August 28, 1892. She was baptized at St. Paul’s Church in Lytton on September 12, 1897. She was the youngest daughter of John Fall Allison and Susan Louisa (Moir) Allison. She married Albion Perkins in Vancouver on October 2, 1911. At the time of their marriage, Albion was a widower living in Princeton. After the wedding, they intended to live on the Allison homesite west of the Tulameen Bridge. Her second marriage was to John Edward Wright (in 1950). She died on August 1, 1971 at home in Summerland. She is buried at Castle Rock Cemetery (Allison Family Cemetery).
As a child, she recited “The Similkameen” (1900) at the Princeton Christmas Tree entertainment. And, at the same event four years later, she sang “Over the Harbor Bar” on December 23, 1904.
In 1909, she applied for a license to prospect for coal and petroleum near Princeton.
At the Red Cross Tea fund-raiser in September 1916, she “gave readings in palmistry.”
She also supported the Ladies’ Hospital Auxiliary (1922).
The Perkins family left Princeton to reside in Vancouver in the early 1930s. Albion Perkins died (also: death registration here) in a logging accident in Mission, BC, on July 18, 1931.
Birth, baptism, marriage, and death registrations (BC Archives); Similkameen Star October 18, 1911, page 1; December 20, 1912, page 4; January 2, 1904, page 4; December 8, 1909, page 3; September 22, 1916, page 1; Princeton Star, April 21, 1922, page 1; July 23, 1931, page 1; Similkameen Star, April 9, 1942, page 1