Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Very few individuals have traversed this earth plane and managed to bring about some degree of profound world changing influence aside from the likes of Martin Luther King, C.R. Patterson, Moses Micheal Hayes among others. The men listed below have achieved just as much but lacked the fanfare of their predecessors and contemporaries. One of their many achievements is the legacy on which the Men of Essex is founded. Although we would have preferred that they remained with us longer, our father in heaven needed them more, however, their service and grace will be remembered forever.