Captain John Morgan, a Revolutionary soldier, came to Sumner County in 1784 with his father-in-law, Major William Hall, whose eldest daughter, Mary, he had married before leaving North Carolina. He built his for on an eminence in the vicinity of Rogana, on lands now owned by Dr. Jesse Johnson. Some of the logs of which the fort was constructed are now in the walls of a barn on the farm of Dr. Johnson. Captain Morgan's father, Squire John Morgan, came with him and was killed by an Indian warrior while returning from the spring under the hill. The Indian rushed upon him and sank his tommyhawk deeply into his brain, where it was left, being too tightly wedged into the skull to be withdrawn. He also lost a brother, Armistead, a fine young man, and very popular with the settlers. He was killed from an ambush at Southwest Pass, on the route from Knoxville, while piloting a party of emigrants.

Captain Morgan's eldest daughter, Nancy, married James Bright of Kentucky, who was a surveyor, and settled at Fayetteville, Lincoln County, about 1803 and where Captain Morgan also settled about the same time. On the breaking out of the Creek War he raised a company of mounted troops and joined General Jackson at the rendezvous at Huntsville, Ala. He was a large, handsome ma, with noble features and gray hair that hung down on his shoulders and when he rode through Fayetteville at the head of his company his appearance and the occasion were never forgotten by those who witnessed it, and is one of the traditions of the town. He was well advanced in years, but he said: "A man should never get too old to fight the British and Indians."

He died some time in the 30's and was buried near Mulberry. His wife survived him until 1850 and is buried in the old cemetery at Fayetteville. General John Morgan Bright, one of the most honored citizens of Fayetteville, is a grandson of Captain John Morgan. Colonel E. L. Drake of Winchester is his great-grandson. In a letter to the write he says; "I remember my great-grandmother Morgan (Mary) very distinctly-how her black eyes flashed at the mention of the British or Indians."