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Margaret Black 'Peggy' Wright[1]

Female 1800 - 1873  (72 years)


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  • Name Margaret Black 'Peggy' Wright 
    Born 19 Jul 1800  Bourbon Co., Kentucky Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 1873  Sumner, Warren Co., Illinois Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I7007  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 22 Nov 2017 

    Family General John to Ohio McClanahan,   b. 6 Nov 1794, Rockbridge Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Feb 1863, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years) 
    Married 29 Jan 1818  Fall Creek, Highland Co., Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Issue:
      Seventeen Children; Monroe Robentile McClanahan (1843-1923)
      b. Brown Co., Ohio 7 Mar 1844; d. Caldwell, Kansas
    • Daughter of John and Peggy McClanahan:
      Katherine 'Kate' McClanahan Brown was the wife of Rev. John H. Brown
      Children of John & Peggy McClanahan:
      Mary Ann McClanahan Thompson, 1819?1907
      Samuel M McClanahan, 1823?1893
      Joseph P. McClanahan, 1825?1900
      Isabella McClanahan Kinkead, 1826?1895
      Thomas Scott McClanahan, 1827?1909
      Sarah McClanahan, 1828?1846
      Margaret Jane McClanahan Fisher, 1830?1915
      John Porter McClanahan, 1831?1902
      Elizabeth McClanahan Wickens, 1833?1897
      Nancy McClanahan Wallace, 1835?1928
      William Steele McClanahan, 1836?1888
      Susanna McClanahan Thompson, 1838?1917
      Francis Marion McClanahan, 1840?1908
      Katherine McClanahan Brown, 1841?1868
      Monroe Robentile McClanahan, 1844?1923

    Children 
     1. Monroe Robentile McClanahan,   b. 7 Mar 1844, Ripley, Brown Co., Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 3 Dec 1923  (Age 79 years)
    Last Modified 18 Aug 2020 
    Family ID F7199  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • They had 17 Children

  • Sources 
    1. [S100] Internet Source, http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/McClanahan/C1JMCC.htm.
      "General" John McClanahan (1794-1863)
      C1 "General" John McClanahan*, born November 6, 1794 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, died 1863 of wounds received in the battle at Fort Donelson, Tennessee; married January 29, 1818 at Fall Creek in Highland County, Ohio Margaret (Peggy) Black Wright (Marriage Certificate) , by Nicholas Pittenger, Minister of the Gospel. Margaret was born July 19, 1800 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, died 1873/4 in Sumner Township, Warren County, Illinois. Seventeen children.

      John McClanahan was a veteran of the War of 1812, and the Civil War. He enlisted as a Captain on August 11, 1862, and was commissioned in Company B, 83rd Illinois Infantry on August 21, 1862. He was wounded on February 3, 1863 at the Battle of Fort Donelson. He died of his wounds in the hospital at Fort Donelson on February 23, 1863.

      * John McClanahan was a General in the Ohio Militia, and a Captain in the Civil War.

      "General" John McClanahan Chapters & Civil War Documents
      The War of 1812
      Ripley Days
      The Civil War Comes to Monmouth
      Civil War letter written by Gen. John McClanahan to his wife Margaret, August 30, 1862
      Civil War letters written by Corporal Mitchel Andrew Thompson to his wife Eliza
      Claim for Widow's Pension
      Pension Application
      Pension Record
      Muster Roll

    2. [S100] Internet Source, http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/McClanahan/C1JMCC.htm.
      C1 "General" John McClanahan*, born November 6, 1794 in Rockbridge County, Virginia, died 1863 of wounds received in the battle at Fort Donelson, Tennessee; married January 29, 1818 at Fall Creek in Highland County, Ohio Margaret (Peggy) Black Wright (Marriage Certificate) , by Nicholas Pittenger, Minister of the Gospel. Margaret was born July 19, 1800 in Bourbon County, Kentucky, died 1873/4 in Sumner Township, Warren County, Illinois. Seventeen children.

      John McClanahan was a veteran of the War of 1812, and the Civil War. He enlisted as a Captain on August 11, 1862, and was commissioned in Company B, 83rd Illinois Infantry on August 21, 1862. He was wounded on February 3, 1863 at the Battle of Fort Donelson. He died of his wounds in the hospital at Fort Donelson on February 23, 1863.

      * John McClanahan was a General in the Ohio Militia, and a Captain in the Civil War.

      "General" John McClanahan Chapters & Civil War Documents
      The War of 1812
      Ripley Days
      The Civil War Comes to Monmouth
      Civil War letter written by Gen. John McClanahan to his wife Margaret, August 30, 1862
      Civil War letters written by Corporal Mitchel Andrew Thompson to his wife Eliza
      Claim for Widow's Pension
      Pension Application
      Pension Record
      Muster Roll
      Extracted from:
      A Scotch Irish History
      Grace McClanahan
      1944

      THE WAR of 1812
      The Surrender of Detroit
      Painting by John Wycliffe Lowes Forster

      These were stirring times and the Scotch-Irish were a stirring people. They watched with Keen interest the progress of the affairs of their new nation; and they were not alone in crediting their mother country England with covetous designs on her former colonies. The War of 1812 did not surprise them in the least -- they were ready to a man. But the surrender of General Hull [on August 16, 1812] astounded the country. It brought too, the keenest apprehension to the Ohioans as they envisaged Indian war anew under the dreaded Shawnee chief, the famed Tecumseh, who was fighting with the British.

      John McClanahan, now a strong and sturdy lad of 18, was afire with the rest. When a call came for volunteers to defend our northern boundary, he, with most of his young friends, enlisted. John was in Captain Wade's company (view Roster of Capt. Wade's Company). He was required "to provide himself with a good musket or a good rifle, a sufficient bayonet; a knapsack and two spare flints, a pouch with a box therein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges and each cartridge to contain a proper quantity of powder and ball."

      John provided his own equipment and served in his regiment from July 28 to August 28, 1813. Then the war ended for him. We do not know if this young militiaman ever shot a single one of his twenty-four cartridges in battle. But he must have been an acceptable soldier for, in addition to his pay of $8.25, he received the rank of orderly sergeant.

      He seems to have had a natural aptitude for military life and a lively interest in arms, and he remained in the Ohio Militia for twenty-four years. By progressive promotion he was made Major, Brigade Inspector, finally Brigadier General. Hence by this long training, came the title he carried to the end on his life, "General McClanahan."