| Note* | | Roy Tahayer;"She was the only child of Andrew Martin and Elizabeth (Souther) Cook. Her mother died when she was only six weeks old, and she was adopted by Hezekiah and Elizabeth (Waterfield) Wright. Her foster father died of consumption while she was yet a child, and she and her foster mother had a hard struggle wrestling a living from the farm soil. Before, the so called “Civil War” the Wrights were in good circumstances for a young couple. Besides the farm home they owned considerable livestock, and also two negroes given to Grandma Wright by her father. Everything of value had been stolen by U.S. Government troops-Federal-State “Home Guards,” and they were left completely destitute. . . . Grandmother Sloan related to me how she as a little girl eight years of age, held the reins of an old broken-down horse, while her foster mother, Elizabeth Wright held the plow, breaking the soil in an effort to produce food and provide for themselves. This one animal, considered worthless, was all the family had left that was not stolen by U.S. Government troops (Home Guards) during the invasion of the Southland 1861-65.2 |