53.  Martha Eleanor⁶ Simmons () was born March 01, 1832, and died November 03, 1873.  She married John E Wright.  He was born December 25, 1825, and died March 15, 1863.

Children of Martha Simmons and John Wright are:

        116             i.               Jesse Simpson⁷ Wright.  He married (1) Carrie Beber; died March 18, 1888.  He married (2) Anna Edler.

        117            ii.               Joushua F Wright, born August 16, 1849.  He married (1) Mary Reid.  He married (2) Margaret Graves.

        118           iii.               Mary Ann Wright, born March 13, 1857; died March 15, 1865.

        119           iv.               Elizabeth Wright, born 1861.

        120            v.               Hattie Eliza Wright, born March 24, 1863.  She married George Mcdaniel; died 1854.

Notes for Martha Eleanor Simmons:

 Martha Eleanor Simmons  b3-1-1832 Wayne co ky

died .1908 Norton Kansas  married 11-3-1853  john Enoch Wright

John Wright and Samuel Simpson Clark, ran a sawmill together ,1853 ,they married the Simmons and Hardin  cousins in a double ceremonies,  the brides mothers were sisters, the two copulas went into housekeeping in the same log house about 3 miles from Macomb , ill,  Nancy Ann harden married Samuel Simpson Clark

Martha Eleanor Simmons married john Enoch Wright

                                       November    15 th 1853

After the death of john 1863 Martha Eleanor's father moved her from her and john s homestead in Wayne co ill to Macomb ill were her father Joshua built her a house to raise their five children 1 Jesse Simpson Wright 2 Joshua f Wright 3mary Ann Wright 4 Elizabeth n Wright 5 Hattie Eliza Wright

 john Enoch Wright 34 th regiment Iowa infantry mustered in at  Burlington Iowa 10 of 1862

 b 12-25-1863.John died during the War Between the States taking rebel prisoners from south to the union prison camps at rock island ill his body was brought to his finale-resting place in the little graveyard of Simmons some 3 miles from Macomb ill

Bull RUN JULY 21-1861

There is nothing in history quite like the story of bull run It was the fight of AMATEURS,

THE battle were everything went wrong The Great Day Of Awakening for the whole Nation,

North AND South It marked the end of the ninety- day militia, and it also ended the Rosy time in

Which men could dream that the war would be short, Glorious and Bloodless, after Bull Run the nation got down to business,

Manassas Junction area was the prosperous 1,400-acre plantation owned by Wilmer McLean,

The plantation spread along both sides of the large meandering creek known as Bull Run,

McLeans home was used as headquarters by confederate Officers,

The days of old, some what distance past, of bloodshed and war, brother against brother, needlessly

The Civil War,

It was a war fought under false pretense, it wasnt to free slaves and abolishes slavery,

It was fought over land, and industries Lincoln tried to hold together a Nation that wanted segregation from the union, the south was in control of the major export of this country at that time, That Export being the most costly COTTEN,

Even durning the course of the war Union solders returned runaway slaves to their masters,

Till the day the Union solders learned of the use of the slaves.

The slaves were forced to dig the Trenches for the rebel soldiers to hold strongholds against the union, they were returned by Federal Officers who felt obligated to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act.

ALL this changed in late may 1861,

The slaves escaped to Fortress Monroe on the tip of the Virginia Peninsula,

The U, S, officer commanding there a shrewd Massachusetts lawyer and Politician named

BENJAMIN E. BULTER, reasoned that since the owners property- in this case Human property,

Had been used against the union those same slaves should be sized as legitimate contraband- of- war

Federal soldiers thereby had a legal means to offer sanctuary to escaped slaves,

THE Need to choose sides caused deep divisions with in families, communities and states,

Missourians for instance 109,000 wore blue, 40,000 donned gray,

We were a nation divided bye you guessed it MONEY, PROPERTIR CONTROLE, INDUSTRIE,

Not to force the south to give Human Equity to those fellow Human beings of colored skin,

Who had been like animals, been herded breed for sale of offspring, and raped to get lighter skinned

People, beaten into sabmishion, Brought to this country under Absorber conditions in the hauls of clipper ships, most of which died, during the voyage of disease and sue aside,

To the plantation owners A black baby born was no more, then properties, like a calf born in the barn

The calf being prized more valuable then the Human soul.

TO the families of the slaves whom my forefathers owned,

Please for give their Ignorance, for i can only speak for myself in this time and era,

I am very sorry for the pain and suffering caused at the hands of my forefathers,

I do not know whom the familys names of the slaves owned by my forefathers. Nor the conditions in which they lived.

I can only hope they were the best treated Human beings of the duration of slavery,