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Buffalo (N.Y.) Evening Courier & Republic
Friday, 11 July, 1873

         Death of a Buffalo Sailor - The Milwaukee Sentinel, of
       the 9th, has the following notice of the death of JOSEPH
       WRIGHT, first mate of the Erastus Corning. MR. WRIGHT
       leaves a wife who resides at No. 374 Fourteenth street,
       in this city, to whom the news of his sudden demise will
       be a sad blow. Deceased was about 50 years of age, and
       was counted among the most competent and reliable men in
       his profession: "The propeller Cleveland arrived at this
       port at an early hour yesterday morning with the remains
       of a man named JOSEPH WRIGHT, first mate of the Erastus
       Corning, who died on board his vessel at two o'clock on
       Sunday afternoon, when off the South Manitou Islands,
       from congestion of the lungs. As the Corning was bound
       for Chicago, the captain thought it advisable to trans-
       fer the body to the propeller. The remains were conveyed
       to the morgue wrapped in the stars and stripes, and dur-
       ing the afternoon interred at Forest Home."
       
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