When Martha Jane Wright was born on 19 November 1852, in Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, United States, her father, Andrew Wright, was 61 and her mother, Rheuhama Kifer, was 29. She married James Lon Winters on 30 August 1871, in Greeneville, Greene, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Greene, Tennessee, United States in 1860 and Prairie Township, Washington, Arkansas, United States for about 20 years. She died on 10 March 1924, in Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 71, and was buried in Mount Comfort Cemetery, Fayetteville, Washington, Arkansas, United States.
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The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
Yellowstone National Park was given the title of the first national park by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by President Ulysses S. Grant. It is also believed to be the first national park in the world.
English and Scottish: occupational name for a craftsman or maker of machinery, mostly in wood, of any of a wide range of kinds, from Middle English and Older Scots wriht, wright, wricht, writh, write (Old English wyrhta, wryhta) ‘craftsman’, especially ‘carpenter, joiner’. The term is found in various combinations (for example, Cartwright and Wainwright ), but when used in isolation it often referred to a builder of windmills or watermills. This surname is also very common among African Americans.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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