Notes for Arvel GREGORY

Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1963
Arvel Gregory
Male, stillborn
Birth 28 June 1926 Triplet, Rowan County, Kentucky
Father Arthur Gregory, Kentucky
Mother Alice Ham, Kentucky
Informant Arthur Gregory (father), Triplet, Kentucky
Death 28 June 1926 Pine Grove, Triplet, Rowan County, Kentucky
Cause of Death Stillborn
Burial 29 June 1926 Masters Graveyard, by J N Ferguson, Triplet, Kentucky
Certificate #24059 filed 13 August 1926

Arvel Gregory
Birth Jun 28, 1926 Rowan County, Kentucky, USA
Death Jun 28, 1926 Rowan County, Kentucky, USA
Parents:
Arthur Mack Gregory (1883 - 1973)
Mary Alice Hamm Gregory (1890 - 1987)
Siblings:
Hubert Gregory (1909 - 1990)
Lena Gregory Estep (1911 - 1987)
Ima Mae Gregory McQuary (1930 - 2014)
Kenneth Ray Gregory (1934 - 1979)
Burial Masters Cemetery, Rowan County, Kentucky, USA
Created by Brenda Caudill Middleton Mar 12, 2015
--  Find A Grave Memorial #143632543,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143632543/arvel-gregory

Notes for Aswin Starks GREGORY

1850 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina, 1 November, page 188,
Hse/Fam #70
Starke Gregory 35 M Planter $12,000 Real Estate b South Carolina [b abt 1815]
Margaret Gregory 24 F b South Carolina [b abt 1826]
Adrin [or Adwian] Gregory 7 M b South Carolina [b abt 1843]
Mary Gregory 6 b South Carolina [b abt 1844]
William Gregory 3 M b South Carolina [b abt 1847]
Sarah Gregory 1 M b South Carolina [b abt March 1849]

Starkes' father wrote his will in 1851, added a codicil in 1852 and died in
1853.

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General Introduction

BENJAMIN J. GREGORY (12 December 1786-7 June 1853), son of Gerard and Freelove
Gregory, married Elizabeth Crosby Jeter (2 January 1794-18 May 1851), daughter
of James and Mary Crosby Jeter, on 11 June 1811. Both Elizabeth and Benjamin
were lifelong residents of Union County.

.....Beniamin's will (which is presented in full on the pages following) is an
interesting document in many ways. He willed 1547 acres of land specifically
and made reference to other acreage. There is evidence of his having bought
1262 acres during his life and having sold 808.5 acres, plus his share of the
100 acres of his parent's estate.

.....The explanation for this is fairly simple. Very often, in the early years
of our country, deeds were not even recorded until the buyer was ready to
dispose of the land. Inherited land was quite often not recorded.

.....David Sims Jeter, Elizabeth's unmarried brother, remembered his Gregory
nephews in his will and also set aside land for the Jeter Family Cemetery. He
went a step farther and provided funds for tombstones for his family members.
It is ironic that his is one of the smaller stones in the cemetery.

.....Benjamin and Elizabeth were the parents of ten known children - nine sons
and one daughter. They were: William Harrison; Aswin Starks; James Thompson;
Benjamin Franklin; John J.E.; Andrew Jackson; Argulass; Sarah Elvira; Berry J.
Adolphus; and Pickens Butler.

Will of Benjamin J Gregory
The State of South Carolina

.....I, Benjamin J. Gregory of Union District in the State aforesaid, being of
sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, and taking into
consideration the uncertainty of human life, do constitute and ordain this my
last Will and Testament.

.....It is my will and desire that all of my just debts should be paid and for
this purpose I authorize my executors, hereinafter named, to make sale of such
cotton or other produce as may be on hand at the time of my death, the
proceeds o which, together with my cash on hand, I set apart for the payment
of my debts and funeral expenses.

.....To William Harrison Gregory, my eldest son, I will and bequeath all that
tract of land whereon he now lives containing two hundred and sixty-one acres
more or less, being one-half of the DeGraffenreidt tract bounded by A.S.
Gregory, James Jeter and others; valued to him at Seven dollars ($7.00) per
acre, together with all and singular: the rights, hereditaments thereto
belonging or in any use incident or appertaining, in fee simple. I also will
and bequeath to the said William Harrison Gregory, one Negro man slave named
Buck and one Negro woman slave named Hariet, together with the issue and
increase of the said slave Hariet; which said slaves I have valued to him at
the sum of thirteen hundred dollars ($1300). I also will and bequeath to the
said William Harrison Gregory, one horse, saddle and bridle with various
articles of household furniture and other things which are named and valued in
my Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my second son, A. Starks Gregory, I will and bequeath all that piece,
parcel and tract of land containing two hundred and sixty-one acres, being the
remaining half of the DeGraffenreidt tract above referred to; valued to him at
seven dollars ($7.00) per acre, together with all and singular: rights,
members, hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or in any use
incident to appertaining, in fee simple. I also will and bequeath to the said
A. Starks Gregory, two Negro men slaves named Harper and Gaines; which said
slaves I have valued to him at the sum of one thousand, three hundred dollars
($1300). I also will and bequeath to the said A. Starks Gregory, one horse,
saddle and bridle, together with various other things which are charged in my
Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my third son, J. Thompson Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract or
parcel of land lying, being and situated in - County in the State Of Arkansas,
containing one hundred and sixty acres, purchased from Samuel Pearson; valued
to him at seven hundred, sixty-eight dollars ($768), together with all and
singular: the rights, members and hereditaments, and appurtenances thereto
belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining, in fee simple. I also will
and bequeath to the said J. Thompson Gregory, the four following named Negro
slaves, to wit: Charles, a Negro man valued at seven hundred dollars ($700);
one Negro woman, Lucy, valued at six hundred, nine dollars ($609); one Negro
woman, Hannah, valued at six hundred, fifty dollars ($650); and one Negro girl
child valued at three hundred dollars ($300); together with the issue and
increase of the aforesaid female slaves. I also will and bequeath to the said
J. Thompson Gregory, one horse, saddle and bridle with other articles named
and charged in my Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my fourth son, B. Franklin Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract of
land containing one hundred, nineteen (119) acres bounded by Harper Farr,
Widow Paulk and myself, valued at seven hundred dollars ($700); also, one
other tract of land containing one hundred, twenty-three (123) acres, bought
of Rochester, adjoining the first named tract, valued at six hundred, fifteen
dollars ($615); together with all and singular: the rights, members,
hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or in any wise incident or
appertaining to the said B. Franklin Gregory, his heirs and assigns, in fee
simple. I also will and bequeath to the said B. Franklin Gregory, the two
following named Negro slaves, to wit: Phil, a man, and Violet, a woman,
together with the issue and increase of the said Negro woman, Violet; which
said slaves I have valued at the sum of thirteen hundred dollars ($1300).

.....To my fifth son, John J.E. Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract or
parcel of land containing three hundred, ninety-four (394) acres, known as the
Ashby Land, valued at __ dollars; together with all and singular: the rights,
members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
incident or appertaining to the said John J.E. Gregory, his heirs and assigns,
in fee simple. I also will and bequeath to the said John J.E. Gregory, the
three following named slaves, to wit: Cato, a Negro man slave, valued at seven
hundred dollars ($700); and one Negro woman slave, called Farr, and child,
valued at seven hundred dollars ($700); together with the issue and increase
of said slaves. I also will and bequeath to the said John J.E. Gregory, one
horse, saddle and bridle with other things charged on my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....To my sixth son, Andrew J. Gregory, I will and bequeath all that parcel
or tract of land whereon he now lives which has been already conveyed to him
by John Mann, I having paid the money therefor, containing two hundred,
thirty-one and a half (2311/2) acres more or less, known as the "John Mann
Place," valued at the sum of fourteen hundred, twenty-eight dollars ($1428);
together with all and singular: the rights, members and hereditaments and
appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise incident or
appertaining. I also will and bequeath to the said Andrew J. Gregory, two
Negro slaves: one named Isaac, a man, valued at seven hundred dollars ($700);
one woman slave, named Dicey, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); one horse,
saddle and bridle with various other articles charged on my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....To my seventh son, B.J. Adolphus Gregory, I will and bequeath the
following named Negro slaves, six in number: George, a male, valued at seven
hundred dollars ($700); Horace, a male, valued at three hundred dollars
($300); Henry, a male, valued at four hundred dollars ($400); Catherine, a
female, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); Juliana, a female, valued at
five hundred dollars ($500); and Josephine, a female, valued at two hundred,
fifty dollars ($250); together with the future issue and increase of the said
female slaves to B.J. Adolphus Gregory and his lawful heirs. The above named
slaves are not to be liable for the debts or subject to the contracts of the
said B.J. Adolphus Gregory, he is merely to have the use of them during his
natural life; and, at his death, the said slaves, together with their issue
and increase, are to go into possession of the legal heirs of him the said
B.J. Adolphus; and, in case the said B.J. Adolphus should die without lawful
heirs, then the said Negroes, together with their issue and increase, are to
revert to my estate and be disposed of in the same manner as the residue of my
property not herein specially devised. In case any of the above named Negroes
should die before I put them in possession of the said B.J. Adolphus Gregory,
it is not to be his loss, but such loss shall fall upon my estate. I also will
and bequeath to my said son, B.J. Adolphus Gregory, one horse, saddle and
bridle valued at one hundred dollars ($100) which I have delivered to him.

.....To my eighth son, Pickens Butler Gregory, I will and bequeath the six
following named slaves, to wit: Gilbert, valued at seven hundred dollars
($700); Prince, valued at five hundred dollars ($500); Jo, valued at four
hundred dollars ($400); Manerva, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); Mariah,
valued at three hundred dollars ($300); and Charlotte valued at four hundred
dollars ($400); together with the future issue and increase of the said female
slaves. The said last named slaves, together with their issue and increase,
are to be subject to precisely the same conditions and restriction as those
slaves herein before bequeathed to B.J. Adolphus Gregory.

.....To my daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory, I will and bequeath one bed and
furniture, one gold watch, one bureau (marble top), and one hundred dollars
($100) in cash to be paid to her as soon as practicable after my death. My
said daughter has already received about four hundred dollars more than any
other of my children by way of tuition and she has married contrary to my
will. I desire that she shall be excluded from any portion of my estate except
such articles as are devised to her.

.....To my son, B. Franklin Gregory, I also will and bequeath one horse,
saddle and bridle with various other articles charged to my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....The residue of my estate, both real and personal, I wish valued by three
disinterested persons, to be chosen by my executors, and to be divided into
lots and apportioned amongst my eight sons herein before named. If, however,
my said executors should think it best for the interest to be sold, they may,
after giving the usual notice, put it up at auction and sell it to the highest
bidder, dividing the proceeds as herein directed; and I hereby authorize and
empower my said executors to make, execute and deliver titles to my said
lands, the whole or any portion thereof, to such person or persons as may
comply with the terms of the sale.

.....The property herein before devised to my six first named sons has been
put into their possession by me and, in the settlement of my estate, is to be
received by them at the prices charged in this, my last Will and Testament, in
my Book of Accounts against them without interest.

.....I will and desire that my eight sons above named receive an equal share
of my whole estate and, to this end, I direct that the residue of my estate be
divided in such a way as to accomplish this object.

.....I further will and desire that the residue of my Negro property and other
personal property not herein specially disposed should be held by my said sons
for their use and benefit during their lives. It is not to be subject to their
debts or contracts, but is to descend to their lawful heirs in the manner as
is prescribed for the Negroes of B.J. Adolphus, and Pickens Butler Gregory
herein specially devised.

.....I will and desire that my sons Wm. Harrison Gregory and J. Thompson
Gregory act as my executors to this, my last Will and Testament.

.....In witness whereof I have hereinto subscribed my name and affixed my
seal, this Fifth day of December in the Year of our Lord, One thousand, eight
hundred and fifty-one; and in the Seventy-fifth Year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States of America.

B.J. Gregory

Signed and Sealed, Published and Declared by the said Benjamin J. Gregory as
his last Will and Testament in the presence of each other and in the presence
of the said B.J. Gregory have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

W.J. Kennan
J.T.E. Brandon
J.W. McLure

(CODICIL to the Will)

The State of South Carolina
Union District

.....I, Benjamin J. Gregory, of the District and State aforesaid, do hereby
make this the following codicil to my last Will and Testament which is to be
taken for a part and parcel of the same, to wit:

.....To my daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory, I will and bequeath the six slaves
more particularly described in a Deed of Gift made by me to the said Sarah
Elvira, subject to the conditions and reversions mentioned in said deed.

.....I will and bequeath to the said Sarah Elvira Gregory, an equal proportion
of my whole estate, both real and personal, which is to be distributed after
my death as is herein before prescribed. She is to be charged in the said
distribution to the six slaves named in the said Deed of Gift at the prices
named in my Book of Accounts against my children. It is my desire that the
said Sarah Elvira shall not be charged with any advancements whatever that
have been heretofore made with the exception of the six slaves aforesaid.

.....It is further my will and desire that such property, either real or
personal, as my said daughter may be entitled to receive by virtue of this
codicil may be delivered by my executors to my sons, J. Thompson Gregory and
William Harrison Gregory, who are hereby requested to receive the same on the
same condition and trusts as is named in the Deeds of Gift herein before
referred to, and to form a portion of the trust estate confided to them. I
hereby revoke so much of my last Well and Testament as makes a special bequest
of one hundred dollars in cash to my said daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory.

.....In witness whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed my
seal, this Thirty-first day of January, Anno Domini One thousand, eight
hundred, fifty-two, and in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States of America.
B.J. Gregory

Signed, sealed and delivered by the said B J Gregory in the presence of us who
have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses at the request of the
testator, and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto
subscribed our names the day and year aforesaid. "To receive" interlined
before signed.
JK Brandon
WM Kennan
JW McLure
...

Children of ELIZABETH JETER and BENJAMIN GREGORY are:
.....i.....WILLIAM HARRISON GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina; d. March
17, 1874, Chickasaw County, Mississippi.

Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON GREGORY:
.....William Harrison Gregory (ca. 1813-17 March 1874), eldest son of Benjamin
J. and Elizabeth C. Jeter Gregory, was born in Union County, South Carolina
and died in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, where he had moved after his
father's death. He was thrice married.

354.....ii.....ASWIN STARKS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina; d. 1862.
355.....iii.....JAMES THOMPSON GREGORY, b. October 21, 1816, Union County,
South Carolina; d. November 06, 1869.
356.....iv.....BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GREGORY, b. November 16, 1819, Union County,
South Carolina; d. June 14, 1875.
.....v.....JOHN J. E. GREGORY.
.....vi.....ANDREW JACKSON GREGORY.
.....vii.....ARGULASS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....viii.....SARAH ELVIRA GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....ix.....BERRY J. GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....x.....ADOLPHUS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....xi.....PICKENS BUTLER GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.

--  Leavells, http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/LeavellFam3.html
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1860 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina, 14 June, P O Unionville,
page 29-30, Hse #248, Fam #206
A S Gregory 43 M Farmer $0 Real Estate $1000 Personal born South Carolina [b
abt 1817]
Margaret Gregory 35 F Wife born South Carolina [b abt 1825]
-- page 30 --
Adwin Gregory 17 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1843]
Elizabeth Gregory 15 F Student born South Carolina [b abt 1845]
Harrison Gregory 13 F Student born South Carolina [b abt 1847]
Sally Gregory 11 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1849]
James Gregory 9 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1851]
Brooks Gregory 6 M born South Carolina [b abt 1854]
Benjamin Gregory 5 M born South Carolina [b abt 1855]
Alice Gregory 2 F born South Carolina [b abt 1858]

1870 Federal Census, Phillips County, Arkansas, 5 August, Big Creek Township,
P O Helena, page 6, Hse/Fam #38
Scaife, William J 41 M Farmer born South Carolina [b abt 1829]
Scaife, Carrie 12 F Keeping House born South Carolina [b abt 1858]
Scaife, Josie 10 F At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1860]
Scaife, William 7 M At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1863]
Scaife, James 4 F At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1866]
Wilkes, Lydia 35 F Keeping House born South Carolina [b abt 1835]
Gregory, Margaret 44 F Keeping House born South Carolina [b abt 1826]
Gregory, Brooks 16 M At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1854]
Gregory, James 19 F At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1851]
Gregory, Sallie 21 F At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1849]
Gregory, Susan 8 M born South Carolina [b abt 1862]
Gregory, Caroline 14 F Domestic Srvt born South Carolina [b abt 1856]

Note that Caroline is reported as Mulatto.  The Wilkes history and Genealogy
refers to her as Margaret Scaife, Gregory's "colored nurse" who moved to
Arkansas with her and the four children still at home.

A S Gregory
BIRTH unknown
DEATH unknown
BURIAL Gregory Family Cemetery, Santuc, Union County, South Carolina
Age 47 years
Created by dora brown 27 Jun 2013
--  Find A Grave Memorial 112967006,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112967006

Notes for Barnett GREGORY

Several genealogies have no parents for Barnett, but some have his mother as
Mary Apperson and his father John Gregory.

Barnett Gregory
Birth 1791 Clarksville, Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Death Aft 1860 Missouri
Father John Gregory
Birth 1762 Mecklenburg, Virginia
Death 16 NOV 1812  Clarksville, Mecklenburg, Virginia
Mother Mary Polly Apperson
Birth 1763 Clarksville, Mecklenburg, Virginia
Death 1824 Washington, Kentucky
--  Genealogy Trails,
http://person.ancestry.com/tree/1530377/person/-1925777723/facts

Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850
Barnett Gregory
Spouse Susannah Owen
Marriage 20 Mar 1815 Mecklenburg County, Virginia

U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
Barnet Gregory
1 Apr 1839
80 Acres, 5th Prime Meridian, Ralls County, Missouri, Township 56-N, Range
4-W, Section 21
Palmyra Land Office
Authority April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document #16046

1850 Federal Census, Ralls County, Missouri, 23 October, District 73, Hse
#629, Fam #636
Barnet Gregory 58 M Farmer $400 Real Estate Value b Virginia
Susannah Gregory 52 F b Virginia
Thomas S Gregory 17 M Laborer b Virginia
Asa F Gregory 14 M b Kentucky
Paulina A Gregory 12 F b Missouri
Sandy J Gregory 7 M b Missouri

1860 Federal Census, Ralls County, Missouri, 21 September, Saverton Township,
P O Saverton, page 170, Hse/Fam #166
Barnard Gregory 68 M Farmer $869 Real Estate $460 Pesonal Estate b Virginia
Susan A Gregory 62 F b Virginia
Paulina A Gregory 22 F b Missouri
Sandy L Gregory 17 M b
Missouri

Notes for Barry Wayne GREGORY

Fred Huston Gregory
Male 1924 - 1985  (60 years)
Born 1 Sep 1924
Died 23 Mar 1985
Father Charlie Gregory
Mother Queenie Victoria Shultz, b 6 Sep 1901
Married 23 Feb 1924 Cocke County, Tennessee to Beulah Gilliland b 22 Aug 1938
Cocke County, Tennessee
Children:
1. Katy Sue Gregory
2. Teresa Gail Gregory
3. Fred Huston Gregory, Jr b 7 Dec 1966  (Age 49 years)
4. Barry Wayne Gregory
--  Smoky Kin Genealogy,
https://www.smokykin.com/tng/getperson.php?personID=I92790

U.S. Public Records Index, 1950-1993, Volume 1
Barry Wayne Gregory
Birth Date 1 Sep 1967
Phone Number 625-0878
410 Johnson St, Newport, TN, 37821-7724
1372 Wallace St, Newport, TN, 37821-7832 (1996)
2909 Point Pleasant Rd, Newport, TN, 37821-8667
(1995)

Notes for Benjamin GREGORY

Researcher Nathan Gregory, whose work I was referred to only in August 2017,
has presented many important clues and provided some helpful records for
reconstructing the Gregory lineage.  Most of his connections are tentative and
suppositional, while presenting some records that offer possibilities for
further investigation of the Gregory presence in northern Virginia,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Tennessee.

In a self-description on his revised Gregory genealogy, published in 2017,
Nathan presents his summary of his lineage and the state of documentation on
the early Gregory generations.

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I believe my direct line stems from Isaac Gregory and wife Jemima, to their
son Benjamin Gregory and wife Mary Jameson, to their son Jesse Tyler Gregory
and wife Mary Argenbright, to his son Nathaniel Gregory and wife Sarah Tribby,
to Joseph Hampton Gregory and wife Lina Summers Ham, to Nathan Thomas Gregory,
my father.

From Jesse forward, the lines are fairly well documented, but Isaac and
Benjamin's connections are tenuous, with very little proof. We document herein
what data we have, and the basis of our assumptions. The tales are told as
nearly in chronological order as possible, with only a few necessary steps out
of the timeline in which they occurred.
--  Nathan Gregory, Gregory Family Origins,
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Nathan_Gregory_Gregory_Family_Origins?id=bBW8BAAAQBAJ&ftm=1
(withdrawn by Google pending new version)
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Connections between the Gregory line descended from Benjamin Gregory of
Pennsylvania & Prince William Co, Virginia, with descendants in northern
Kentucky & eastern Tennessee and the Gregory of Rappahannock or King William
counties has not been determined.

Nathan reports Benjamin's father as Isaac Gregory, only the name Jemima for
Isaac's wife.  Pamela Ajarn, likewise, has basic information, but no
documentation, for Benjamin's parents, Isaac Gregory and his wife Jemima. 
Nathan comments that the common date 1700 is a good round estimate, based on
generally known facts, but is not substantiated by any records.  He uses the
date of 1690 for Isaac's birth.

Isaac Gregory 1700-1752
Spouse Jemima 1700-1788
Son Benjamin Gregory 1723-1798
--  Pamela Ajarn, Gregory Family,
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/41693802/person/19739521734/facts?ftm=1

Benjamin and other sons of Isaac Gregory are found in areas of north central
Virginia (now northwestern Virgina), and their names are found in old records
for Frederick County, which covered an area now administered by several
counties of Virginia and West Virginia.

Winchester, the county seat of old Frederick County and current Frederick
County, is reported by several historical sources as the headquarters for
General George Washington during the American War of Independence.

Other Gregory records fit a family configuration for Gregory lineage movement
from Pennsylvania into Virginia, then into areas of Virginia farther west.  A
record for Benjamin Gregory that matches this individual is found in Prince
William County, Virginia, to the southwest of Philadelphia, across the Potomac
River from what later became Washington, DC.

Two proposed children of Benjamin Gregory are found in Virginia counties near
Pennsylvania along the southwestward migration route followed by many
generations.  A George Washington Gregory is found in Berkeley County in later
generations, with a marriage record in 1847.  Berkeley County, Virgina (now
West Virgina) is at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, south of
Hagerstown, Maryland and just north of Winchester, Virginia.

Benjamin's daughter Susannah Lucretia Gregory, married Joseph McAndrew, who
was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, today on the northern border of
Virginia with Maryland, only a few miles from Berkeley County, which seceded
from Virginia during the US Civil War as part of the new Union state of West
Virginia.  They moved from there along the Shenandoah Valley into Jefferson
County, Tennessee, a big area for the Gregory clan.  The Wilson-Greer
genealogy gives some information about the family.

George W Gregory
Birth 1760 Brailes, Warwickshire, England
Death JUL 24 1828
Parents:
Benjamin Gregory Birth 1723 Pennsylvania, Death SEP 1798 Prince William
County, Virginia
Mother Unknown
Wife Mary Hawkins, no details known
Wife Susannah Few, Birth BEF 1760, Death ABT 1808
Children Reported:
Susannah Lucretia Gregory, Birth 1775 Virginia, Death 1840 Bradley County,
Tennessee
Married Joseph McAndrew, Birth 11 FEB 1777 Fauquier County, Virginia, Death 20
FEB 1855 Bradley County, Tennessee
Few Hall Gregory
George Gregory
Richard Gregory
--  Wilson, Greer, etal, 
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/105649421/person/410062351687/facts?ftm=1

The son Richard reported in the Wilson genealogy also lived in Fauquier
County, and moved from there to Tennessee.  Gregory records are also found in
nearby Culpeper County, Virginia.  Following this line of movement to the west
leads into Ohio and Indiana, which connect to Kentucky.  One branch of the
Gregorys moved that direction and then south across the Ohio River into
Kentucky.

The location of possible members of the same Gregory lineage fit the common
pattern of migration over the centuries of European settlement of North
America.  The connection between Prince William County to Fauquier, Berkeley
and Culpeper Counties matches a common route of travel even today.  These
counties are in or near the famous Shenandoah Valley, which provides an easy
curving route curving southwestward along the east edge of the Appalachian
Mountains.

This leads directly to East Tennessee, where Gregorys became well-established
in Jefferson and Cocke Counties and neighboring areas, and on along the curve
into Cherokee County, Alabama.  Along this route we also find families of the
Few lineage, who have intermarried with the Gregorys in more than one
generation.  Some migrants along that southwestward route could have branched
north west from East Tennessee, or westward a little farther north into
Kentucky, where Gregorys and Fews are also found, and also intermarried.

Some Gregorys and Fews are found in North Carolina also, and the North
Carolina Fews, at least, are linked with the Gregorys in both Jefferson
County, Tennessee, and Jefferson County, Kentucky, documented in this
genealogy.

Benjamin Gregory
BIRTH 1723 Pennsylvania
DEATH SEP 1798 Prince William County, Virginia
Wife Charlotte died 1785
First child reported Jemima Gregory, BIRTH APR 27 1740 New Canaan, Fairfield
County, Connecticut, USA, DEATH Unknown
Wife Mary Jameson
BIRTH 1761 Prince William, Virginia, USA
DEATH ABT 1828 Bath, Kentucky
First child reported Jesse Tyler Gregory, BIRTH SEP 1791 Virginia, DEATH FEB
1863 Bath County, Kentucky
--  Gregory Family Tree,
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/7554069/person/5059140563/facts

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Mary Jameson (1761-1828) and Benjamin Gregory (1723-1798)
Marriage abt 1784 Dettingen, Prince William Co. Virginia

"We do NOT know when Benjamin and Mary married.  We only know that in March of
1788 she was referred to as Mary Gregory in her father's Will.  So we know
they were married by then.  We have 1791 as the date of Jesse's birth, also
supporting assumptions."
--  Nathan Gregory, Description comment on the marriage fact for Benjamin
Gregory, Ancestry.com,
https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/7554069/person/5059140563/facts
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Prince William County, Virginia Wills, Part 2, 1734-1920
Benjamin Gregory
Year 1798 (no more specific date)
Will Book H, p #289
Inventory Book H, p #329

Will of Benjamin Gregory

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Mary Gregory lease of land whereon I now live, also negro girl NANCY and stock
& etc to be disposed of as they think write for the support and raising of my
younger children, but in case my wife should dec. before my youngest child is
21 and any property should remain under-posed [?] of that such property shall
be keep [kept ?] for the support of my children and if any property shall
remain it to be divided amongst all my children when youngest is of age if my
wife is not living.

Dated 13 June 1798
Proven 1 October 1798
Witnesses William Jameson, Lewis Gregory, James Jameson
Wife Mary

--  Prince William County Will Book H 1792-1803, pp. 289-290, abstracted by
Jane Whitehurst Johnson, courtesy of Nathan Gregory, Posted 18 Jun 2011,
accessed 15 September 2017
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Note that this abstract/transcription states that the will was "probated" on
13 June 1798 but that it was "proven" 1 October 1798.  The terms probated and
proven normally mean the same thing, that is, to open court proceedings on the
estate of the deceased to determine authenticity and set up court supervision
of the process of handling the estate to distribute properties and fulfill
obligations remaining.

Gregory researcher Nathan Gregory reports that Nathan Benjamin Gregory died in
Sept 1798.  This would fit with a probating of the will on 1 October, which
would be done soon after the death and burial of the individual.  No
documentation of the death in September has been found.

Nathan reports from research as well as family information.  So we may take
his date seriously, lacking any public record source.  The probate date of 1
October would support a death in late September, at least the latter half of
the month,

The will was witnessed  November 29, 1752

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Gregorys and Fews in Migration Patterns from the 1700s
By Orville Boyd Jenkins
Posted on Ancestry.com 16 October 2017

One factor in reconstructing a family lineage are patterns of movement and
migration.  These migration paths are helpful in finding and evaluating
records in our Gregory and related Few line.  We see Gregory records in a
generational pattern along the migration streams along the tidewater area or
valleys southwards and westward.

Westward
Records are being discovered in the westward line from Philadelphia through
Frederick and Hagerstown, Maryland, through what is now West Virginia, still
part of Virginia in the era we are looking at, and on to Ohio and Indiana. 
Brothers John, Richard and Benjamin Gregory, thought to be sons of Isaac
Gregory of Pennsylvania, are mentioned several times in lists of residents of
old Frederick County, Virginia, a large area at the northern end of the
Shenandoah Valley, also on a common east-west migration route.

Records for a younger Richard Gregory are found in Culpeper County and
Fauquier County, Virginia, on this westward path south of the Pennsylvania
border.  These two counties were established in 1749, cut out of Orange
County, the original huge area from which Frederick County was originally
established in 1743.  These counties bordered Frederick County on the east.

Dates and locations of various records match a line of movement from the
residence of Richard's likely grandfather Benjamin Gregory of Pennsylvania,
into Frederick County, and later back to eastern Virginia in Prince William
County, across the Potomac from Washington, DC.  This westward line of
migration connects with the great Shenandoah Valley running southwestward
along the eastern edge of the Appalachian Mountains in what is now West
Virginia.

Records for a Lewis Gregory, who appears to be a son of Benjamin, son of
Isaac, are found along this Shenadoah Valley route then across into the part
of Virginia that later became Kentucky, one of the areas where Fews and
Gregorys come into contact.  This matches the pattern of residence and
Gregory-Few marriages in some of these areas along this southward line of
migration.  Details are found in individual notes for the Fews and Gregorys. 
Gregorys from this lineage moved westward a bit to the part of Virginia that
is now northern Kentucky.

Southward
Gregorys are found along the Shenandoah Valley which runs southwestward from
Hagerstown to Bristol, Virginia/Tennessee, on the border, on through Jefferson
and Cocke County, which were all one area of North Carolina, then East
Tennessee (current I-81 to I-40 to Knoxville) in the 1700s and early 1800s and
on toward Cherokee and contiguous counties in Alabama.

We find Gregorys that appear to be from two different lineages who followed
the Shenandoah or similar route from Philadelphia-Baltimore through Virginia
into Tennessee, our line through the easterly route of the named east
Tennessee counties, the other a bit more westerly, with members of both lines
in Kentucky.

These two lines seem to be connected to the same line from Pennsylvania and
northern Virginia.  But there are indication of one or two separate migration
streams in the same areas.  Early sources are not clear on these lines, and
similar names in what may be different lineages seem to have been confused in
some genealogies.

I have been through all these areas and explored these lines of migration so
have these in mind as I read through records and watch for connections and
clues.

Westward Ho
Gregorys in the line of James Henry Gregory and Rachel Lewis are found in
those counties of Tennessee from Jefferson-Cocke on to Knox, McMinn (where we
find both these Gregorys, with apparently no crossover), Franklin, etc, in the
westward migration route.  Gregorys of our lineage also seem to have moved
northwestward through the mountain passes toward Louisville.

Fews and Gregorys are connected in the states of Virginia, Kentucky (which was
originally part of Virginia colony), North Carolina and Tennessee (which was
originally part of North Carolina Colony) in several generations.  The Fews in
North Carolina apparently followed the westerly route over the Smokies into
Tennessee into Jefferson County, Tennessee, and surrounding counties where
they connected again with the Gregory lineage.  We find them in the family of
Francis Marion Few from North Carolina Jefferson County, Tennessee, where his
daughter Letha married Andrew Jackson Gregory, my great great grandfather's
brother.

Crossflow
Traffic went both ways along those Midwestern routes over a period of two
centuries.  Fews moved into the Louisville, Kentucky, area from Indiana
(across the Ohio River.  Gregorys and Fews also moved from eastern Tennessee
into Kentucky.

Great migrations northward occurred in the 1920s and later because of
extensive floods along the Mississippi, destroying much of the Delta South. 
The depression added to this exodus northward.  Midwestern droughts
accelerated movement to California.  Further industrialization in the next two
decades and after WWII accelerated this migration northward and westward.

The geographical indicators are not only contiguous counties, but similarly in
the counties along these common natural migration routes, which also reveal
patterns of the same family decade to decade and generation to generation. 
These patterns match the same kinds of patterns we find in ethnic
investigations all over the world.
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Early Virginia Gregory Records
Orville Boyd Jenkins

Focus on Gregorys
Three Gregorys reported to be sons of Isaac Gregory are referred to in several
county administrative documents in 1744 and later in Frederick County,
Virginia, concerning road repair.  The residents required to work it include
John Gregory, Richard. Gregory and Benjamin Gregory.

The son Benjamin Gregory is reported to have been born in Pennsylvania, and
later moved to Prince William County, Virginia, across the border from the
Maryland area that would become Washington, DC, where Benjamin died in 1798. 
Prince William County is a few miles to the east or southeast of Frederick
County, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley of what is now western Virginia.

The document states that the starting point of the road to be repaired was
Gregory's Ford, attesting to the early presence of Gregorys in this region. 
The exact location of this place has not been determined.  It does not appear
on the later map of old Frederick County by John Wood (ca 1775-1822)

A whole list of residents required to assist in the repair, including the
Gregory brothers, were all named as tenants of the "tithables" owned by Thomas
Lord Fairfax.

Frederick County
Frederick County, Virginia, was formed out of old Orange County in 1743.  The
original and current county seat of current Frederick County is Winchester. 
This is at the northern end of the Shenandoah Valley, a major north to south
(southwest) migration route, where US Interstate Highway 81 runs today. 
Winchester is on the east to west migration route from Philadelphia and
Frederick, Maryland, to the west.

A few miles north of Winchester is through Hagerstown, Maryland, where US
Interstate Highway 70 runs today through that east-west corridor.  From
today's Frederick County, many people commute daily to Fairfax County,
Virginia, across the Potomac River form Washington, DC.

The county of Frederick, when it was first created in 1743 from the original
Orange County, Virginia, included a huge area:
"'Old Frederick County' encompassed all or part of four counties in
present-day Virginia - Shenandoah, Clarke, Warren, and Frederick - and five in
present-day West Virginia - Hardy, Hampshire, Berkeley, Jefferson and Morgan. 
The Virginia Assembly named the new county for Frederick Louis, Prince of
Wales (1707-1751), the eldest son of King George II of Great Britain."
--  "Frederick County, Virginia," Wikipedia, 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_County,_Virginia

The Records
Note:  the word "tithables" in the following records is used approximately
equivalent to taxpayer, or land upon which the resident pays taxes in the
county.  One landmark repeatedly mentioned in description of roads is
Gregory's Ford.  No record has been found to definitely locate this old place
in Frederick County.

The standard format for building or maintaining a road was for all tithables
living within 10 miles of the road to work on it.  One or two overseers were
appointed for each job or road section.

The header paging numbers for each entry is the original page in the original
Frederick County administrative records.
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The following information comes from:
Frederick County (Virginia) Road 1743-1772
G Luckman and A B Miller, published in 2005
Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2006360247/

Frederick County Virginia

13 July 1744 O. S., FOB 1, p. 137
On the motion of SAMUEL EARLE, it is Ordered that John Rout[t] be Overseer of
the Road from Gregorys Ford to the Top of the Ridge & that all the male
labouring Tithables belonging to the Honble Thomas Lord Fairfax's Quarter,
James Seabern, Widow Borden, William Remy, Edward Rogers, Jacob Peck, Edwd
Corder, Thos Postgate, John Painter, James Burn, Thomas Hooper, John Gregory,
Richd Gregory, Benjn Gregory, Saml Earle & John Oldrages work on the same &
Observe the said Overseers Order & Directions in Clearing the same And its
further Ordered that the said Rout keep the said Road in Good Repair According
to Law [commas added between names to assist modern readability]
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, June 2005, p 6

10 August 1744 O. S., FOB 1, p. 165
On the Petition of David Vance Gent & Others its Ordered that a Road be
Cleared from John Hites Mill into the Road that Comes from John Funks Mill to
John Gregory’s & John Niswanger & Robert Warth are hereby Appointed
Overseers of the same & its Ordered that they cause the  8 same to be Cleared
& when cleared that they keep the same in good repair According to Law & its
further Ordered that the Tithables living within two Miles of the said Road
work on the same.
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, pp 7-8

11 August 1744 O. S., FOB 1, p. 170
Thomas Postgate & John Gregory are hereby Appointed to View Mark and lay Off a
Road from the said Postgate’s Islands into the Road that comes from Thos
Chesters Gent. & make return of their proceeding to the next Court.
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, pp 7-8

2 April 1745 O. S., FOB 1, p. 316
On the Petition of Thomas Branson Thomas Thorntown Thomas Sharp Junr,  John
Downton, Edward Churchman, John Branson, Robert McKay Junr,  Thomas Sharp
Senr,  Thomas Hankins, Joseph Hankins, Marmaduke Vickory, Spencer Jones,
William Smith, Bathany Haines, William Ramor, John Duckworth, John Painter,
Thomas Postgate, William Fearnley, Hugh Caneday, John Arledge, James Sadin,
Thomas Alexander, Edward Cordit, John Gregory, Abraham Crandon, Robert
Catlett, William Remy, James Kempes, Benja Gregory, Christopher Nation, John
Nation, for a Road from the Courthouse to Gregory’s ford Its Ordered that
the Petitioners Clear & Work on the same, And Samuel Earle is hereby Appointed
Surveyor thereof And its further Ordered that he keep the said Road in good
repair According to Law. [commas added between names to assist modern
readability]
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, p 12

6 August 1745 O. S., FOB 1, p. 402
Thomas Postgate & John Gregory having Viewed the Road from the said Thomas
Postgate’s Island into the Road that comes from Thomas Chesters Gent
according to an Order of this Court made their report in these Words, Viewed
and Marked the Road within Mentioned Whereupon it is Ordered that the said
Road be from henceforth Established a public Road & Samuel Earle is hereby
Appointed Surveyor thereof & that the Tithables belonging to Thomas Postgate,
Robert Halfpenny, James Burn, John Painter John Gregory & Thomas Alexander
work on the same And it is further Ordered that the said Samuel Earle cause
the said Road to be Cleared & when Cleared that he keep the same in good
repair according to Law.
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, p 13

2 August 1748 O. S., FOB 2, p. 450
On the Petition of Thomas Ashby Junr for a road from Howels ford to
Gregory’s Waggon Road It is Ordered that the Tithables from Thomas Hoopers
to Mark Hardins on both sides of the River Clear & Work on the same under
Thomas Ashby Junr who is hereby Appointed Overseer thereof And it is further
Ordered that the said Thomas Ashby cause the said Road to be cleared & make
Bridges thereon where it is requisite according to Law.
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, p 32

2 September 1761, FOB 9, p. 336
James Seaburn is Appointed Overseer of the road from Gregory’s ford to the
Top of the Blue ridge at the head of Menasses run Ordered that the Tithables
five miles above & two miles below the Ford work on the same.
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, p 109

4 March 1762, FOB 9, p. 398
John Routt is Appointed Overseer of the Road from Gregorys ford to Menasses
run at the County Line in the room of Thomas Cooper. Ordered that the
Tithables formerly Appointed work under him and Keep the same in Repair
According to Law.
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, p 110

2 August 1768, FOB 14 Part 1, p. 295
James Burns is appointed overseer of the Road from McKay’s Chappel to
Gregorys Ford in the Room [in the place] of Robert McKay Ordered that the
usael [usual] Tithables work thereon under him.
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, p 138

7 March 1770, FOB 14 Part 2, p. 591
William Ashby is appointed overseer of the Road from Gregorys Ford to the Top
of the blue Ridge in the Room [in the place] of Joseph King Ordered that the
Tithables Two Miles up & down the River Including those in the forks Work on
the same under him.
--  Frederick County Virginia Road Projects, p 148

We have cited only the references mentioning the Gregorys.  Other insights
into the areas and residents are found in the collection of original
administrative acts of the old Frederick County, Virginia.

Gregory's Ford was again mentioned several times as a location in the area in
various road discussions.  One reference mentions other prominent land areas
in the county.
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Notes for Benjamin GREGORY

Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution, p 386
Gregorys listed in the roster:
(The following appear to be a family, Isaac and his sons)
Isaac, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, horseman and infantry,
during 1782 and 1783
Jeremiah, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, from 1779 to 1781
alternatively
Jerrel (Jarrod), militia under Col Brandon, before and after the fall of
Charleston
Benjamin, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, from 1782 to 1783
alternatively
John, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, from 1780 to 1782
alternatively
Robert, militia under Capt Hughes and Col Brandon, from 1781 to 1782
alternatively
(These appear to be from other families)
Henry, Third Regiment, 10 February 1779 to 1 February 1780
John, Fifth Regiment, enlisted on 16 April 1776
John, Ediston Island Volunteer Militia, under Capt Joseph Jenkins and Col
Joseph Glover
Thomas, Second Dragoons under Capt Isaac Ross, Col Myddleton and Gen Sumter
and was dead about September 1781

Benjamin's children were named in his father's will, naming Salley Gordan
[sic] and William, and their mother Margaret.

"Equally among my grandchildren Viz Sally Gordan and William being Children of
my Son Benjamin deceased ... and her mother Margaret ...."
--  Will of Isaac Gregory, written 13 August 1796 in Union County, South
Carolina, probated 3 April 1797

Information on other Gregorys in the region, and members of the clan that
moved to North Carolina and Tennessee indicates that Benjamin may be the
cousin of Thomas Bry Gregory, who was born in about 1738, moved from Virginia
to North Carolina, then Tennessee.  Benjamin is reported to be the son of
Isaac Gregory and Alse Gerard.  Isaac's parents were reported to be Isaac
Gregory and Jemima Fullens.

Benjamin's father Isaac was born in 1734, and Thomas in 1738.  Thomas parents
are reported to be James Gregory and Patience Gregory.  Both families were
originally form Pennsylvania, so are likely part of the same clan that settled
there with William Penn.  There is likely a family connection at the next
generation or two.

Notes for Benjamin GREGORY

1860 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina, 14 June, P O Unionville,
page 29-30, Hse #248, Fam #206
A S Gregory 43 M Farmer $0 Real Estate $1000 Personal born South Carolina [b
abt 1817]
Margaret Gregory 35 F Wife born South Carolina [b abt 1825]
-- page 30 --
Adwin [Adrian] Gregory 17 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1843]
Elizabeth Gregory 15 F Student born South Carolina [b abt 1845]
Harrison Gregory 13 F Student born South Carolina [b abt 1847]
Sally Gregory 11 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1849]
James Gregory 9 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1851]
Brooks Gregory 6 M born South Carolina [b abt 1854]
Benjamin Gregory 5 M born South Carolina [b abt 1855]
Alice Gregory 2 F born South Carolina [b abt
1858]

Notes for Benjamin A GREGORY

1920 Federal Census, Saline County, Arkansas, 24 January, Bryant, District 187,
page 7B, Unnamed Local Road, Hse #135, Fam #145
Gregory, Ben  Head  Owns/Mortgage M W 32 AR AL AL Farmer (abt 1888)
Gregory, Lula C  Wife F W 28 AR AL AL No occupation (abt 1882)
Gregory, Antonia Dau F W 4yrs5mos Single AR AR AR (abt July 1915)
Gregory, Ben  Son M W 11mos Single AR AR AR (abt 1918)

1930 Federal Census, Saline County, Arkansas, 10 April, Salem Township,
District 63-20, page 6A, Hse #114, Fam #117
Gregory, Ben A Head Owns No Radio M W 43 Married at age 27 [mar abt 1906] AR
AR AR General Farmer [b abt 1887]
Gregory, Lula Wife Owns F W 40 Married at age 24 [mar abt 1906] AR AR AR [b
abt 1890]
Gregory, Antonia Dau F W 14 AR AR AR [b abt 1916]
Gregory, Benjamin Son M W 11 AR AR AR [b abt 1929]
Gregory, Robert Son M W 3yrs11mos AR AR AR [b abt Feb 1906]

1940 Federal Census, Saline County, Arkansas, 5 April, Salem, District 63-22,
page 3B, Chigo-Collegeville, Hse #45, Owns $200
Gregory, Ben A Head M W 53 M Married Grade 8 b Arkansas same house in 1935
Farmer [b abt 1887]
Gregory, Lula Wife F W 50 Married Grade 8 b Arkansas same house in 1935 [b abt
1890]
Gregory,  B A Son M W 21 Single Grade H2 b Arkansas same house in 1935 Farmer
[b abt 1919]
Gregory, Robert Son M W 13 Single Grade 6 b Arkansas same house in 1935 [b abt
1927]

Notes for Benjamin Arthur GREGORY

1900 Federal Census, Saline County, Arkansas, 29 June, Owen Township, District
145, page 12A, Hse #201, Fam #204
Gregory, John B Head W M Aug 1853  46 Married 19 yrs [mar abt 1881] AL SC SC
Farmer Owns
Gregory, Jane Wife W F Oct 1854  55 Married 19 yrs 9 children/7 living AL TN
TN
Gregory, Evie Dau W F Aug 1882 17 Single AR AL AL
Gregory, Martha E Dau W F Nov 1884 14 Single AR AL AL Farm Labor
Gregory, Ben A son W M Feby 1886 14 Single AR AL AL Farm Labor
Gregory, Robt E Son W M June 1888 11 Single AR AL AL
Gregory, Alex Son W M Sept 1893 6 Single AR AL AL
Gregory, Stella Dau W F June 1895  4 Single AR AL AL

U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
Benjamin A Gregory
Birth 15 February 1887 Alexander [Saline County], Arkansas
Residence Alexander, Arkansas
Farmer, Supports wife & child
Medium Build & Height, Light Blue Eyes, Red Hair, partially bald
Registered 5 June 1917 Benton, Saline County, Arkansas
Signed Benjamin A Gregory

1920 Federal Census, Saline County, Arkansas, 24 January, Bryant, District
187, page 7B, Unnamed Local Road, Hse #135, Fam #145
Gregory, Ben  Head  Owns/Mortgage M W 32 AR AL AL Farmer (abt 1888)
Gregory, Lula C  Wife F W 28 AR AL AL No occupation (abt 1882)
Gregory, Antonia Dau F W 4yrs5mos Single AR AR AR (abt July 1915)
Gregory, Ben  Son M W 11mos Single AR AR AR (abt 1918)

Living next door to Ben and Lula were his brothers Sumpter Alexander Gregory
anmd Robert Irvin Gregory.

1920 Federal Census, Saline County, Arkansas, 24 January, Bryant, District
187, page 7B, Unnamed Local Road, Hse #136, Fam #146
Gregory, Sumpter Head  Owns/Mortgage M W 26 AR AL AL Teamster (abt 1894)
Gregory, Arkie Wife F W 18 AR AL AL (abt 1902)
Gregory, Irvin Brother M W 30 Single AR AR AR Farmer (abt July 1890)
Fuller, Muni-- (?) Wife's Brother M W 10 Single AR AR AR (abt 1910)

1930 Federal Census, Saline County, Arkansas, 10 April, Salem Township,
District 63-20, page 6A, Hse #114, Fam #117
Gregory, Ben A Head Owns No Radio M W 43 Married at age 27 [mar abt 1906] AR
AR AR General Farmer [b abt 1887]
Gregory, Lula Wife Owns F W 40 Married at age 24 [mar abt 1906] AR AR AR [b
abt 1890]
Gregory, Antonia Dau F W 14 AR AR AR [b abt 1916]
Gregory, Benjamin Son M W 11 AR AR AR [b abt 1929]
Gregory, Robert Son M W 3yrs11mos AR AR AR [b abt Feb 1906]

1940 Federal Census, Saline County, Arkansas, 5 April, Salem, District 63-22,
page 3B, Chigo-Collegeville, Hse #45, Owns $200
Gregory, Ben A Head M W 53 M Married Grade 8 b Arkansas same house in 1935
Farmer [b abt 1887]
Gregory, Lula Wife F W 50 Married Grade 8 b Arkansas same house in 1935 [b abt
1890]
Gregory,  B A Son M W 21 Single Grade H2 b Arkansas same house in 1935 Farmer
[b abt 1919]
Gregory, Robert Son M W 13 Single Grade 6 b Arkansas same house in 1935 [b abt
1927]

U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942
Benjaman [sic] Arthur Gregory
Age 55
Birth 15 Feb 1887 Saline County, Arkansas, USA
Residence Rt 1, Benton, Saline County, Arkansas, USA
contact Mrs B A Gregory, Rt 1, Benton
Self-Employed
(back)
5'7" 130 lbs, Blue Eyes, Red Hair, Ruddy Complexion
Small scar under right eye
Registered 27 April 1942 Benton, Saline County, Arkansas
Signed B A Gregory

Social Security Death Index
Benjamin Gregory
Benton, 72015, Saline, Arkansas, USA
Born 15 Feb 1887
Died Jun 1978
Last Residence & Benefit Benton, Saline, Arkansas 72015
SSN 430-70-8770 issued Arkansas -
1955

Notes for Benjamin Bry GREGORY

Family Data Collection - Births
Bry Bray Gregory
Father Thomas Gregory
Mother Sarah Elizabeth Gregory
Birth 1761 NC

U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Bry Gregory
Male
Birth 1761 VA
Spouse Name Elizabeth
Marriage 1799 NC

Bri Gregory
25 acres in Smith County, Tennessee
Grant issued 17 October 1832
Refers to survey date 16 June 1835
Signed by Governor Newton Cannon 30 November 1835
Certificate #13282 recorded 11 February 1836, Smith County Land Records, page
196

This listing under the name Berry Gregory appears to be Bry, also found listed
as Bray in some records.

Tennessee, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1891
1840 Tennessee Pensioners List, Page 157
Berry Gregory
Age 79 No Township Listed
Smith County TN

Tennessee Land Grants

Family Data Collection - Deaths
Bry Gregory
Death 8 Jan 1846, Pleasant Shade, Smith County, TN USA

"Two of Thomas' children died before he made his will in 1811, Thomas Jr and
Lou.  Bry outlived his father by 28 years, dying January 9, 1846.  William
lived 6 years longer that Bry, dying September 30, 1852.  We do not know when
the other children died."
--  Source publication unknown, p 69; posted on the Genealogy "Early American
Pioneers" without credit,
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/69539398/person/46254196606/mediax/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7CpgNum&ftm=1

Notes for Benjamin F GREGORY

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Benjamin F. Gregory 3 (1804-4 March 1847), was the last known child of Isaac
and Elizabeth.  His tombstone has been located in the Cane Creek Quaker
Cemetery, thanks to Michael Crocker.

A Deed of Gift, executed 8 January 1838 and recorded 20 March of that year
(Union County Deed Book Y, p. 370) from Isaac to son Benjamine (sic) Gregory,
bestows upon that son 179 acres adjoining Mary Cotten (Cotter), Gideon Steen,
Messer Fuller and Jehu Gregory.

Benjamin married first: Lucyan.  She must have died about 1835-36, because
their youngest daughter, Jane, is listed in the 1850 census with her
grandfather, Isaac, and her twelve year old half-sister, Mary.  [In the 1850
census, Mary was reported as 17 years old, not 12, and Jane was 19.  Thus was
born about 1831, Mary about 1833.  So Benjamin married Mary Van Lew about
1832, meaning Lucyann must ahve died in 1832, perhaps in childbirth, or early
1832.]

More than likely, Lucyan was a Steen and niece of Lucy Ann (Louisa Ann)
Townsend, who died in 1841.  Gideon Steen was administrator of Mrs.
Townsend’s estate, which indicates she died without issue.  Her heirs, with
Benjamin shown as guardian in right, where his and Lucyan’s five children:
Robert; Elizabeth; William; Jane; and Mary C. Gregory.

Benjamin married, second: Mary S. Van Lew (15 May 1795) in 1838.  She was the
daughter of John and Margaret Cox Van Lew.  A prenuptial agreement between the
two appears in Deed Book Y, p. 357.  A later trust deed for infant daughter,
Mary E.J. Gregory, executed 28 June 1839, indicates that baby Mary was three
months old.  Within this document, Benjamin lists Joseph H. Crawford as the
baby’s grandfather.  A mulatto girl, Julia, is to be held in trust for Mary
E.J.  Mary S. Van Lew Gregory died in 1861 at about 66 years of age.

Much information regarding this family can be gleaned from Robert Gregory’s
petition to be granted Letters of Administration for Benjamin’s estate (8
January 1848).  A transcript follows.

To John J. Pratt Ordinary of Union District

The humble petitioner, Robert Gregory, would shew unto your Court that his
father, Benjamin Gregory, late of the District and State aforesaid, departed
this life intestate on or about the fourth day of March 1847, leaving a widow,
Mary S. Gregory, with who there was a prenuptual contract barring her from any
portion of his estate, and the following named children from a former
marriage, him surviving, to wit: your petitioner; and Elizabeth, who has
inter-married with John C. McJunkin; William Gregory; Jane Gregory; and Mary
C. Gregory; his sole heirs him surviving.

Your petitioner would further show unto your Court that the said intestate at
the time of his death was possessed of a small personal estate of a value not
exceeding $600 that no administration has been granted therein.  He therefore
prays your Court to grant unto him Letters of Administration on the said
estate upon the usual terms and conditions as in duty bound he will ever pray
and so forth.

Signed: Robert Gregory
Filed 8 January 1848
--  Gregory Family Genealogy, http://gregoryfamilygenealogy.org/?page_id=387
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Notes for Benjamin Franklin GREGORY

1850 Federal Census, Morgan County, Kentucky, 13 August, no page #, Hse/Fam
#256
Jamison Gregory 30 M Farmer $519 Real Estate b Tennessee
Henrietta Gregory 30 F b Kentucky
James Gregory 5 M b Kentucky
Jesse Gregory 4 M b Kentucky
Benjn Gregory 1 M b Kentucky
Amanda Hardin 19 F b Kentucky

1860 Federal Census, Rowan County, Kentucky, 12 July, PO Morehead, page 14,
Hse #98, Fam #99
J J Gregory 41 M Farmer $800 Real Estate $100 Personal born Kentucky [b abt
1819]
Kitty H Gregory 42 F Housewife born Kentucky [b abt 1818]
James H Gregory 16 M born Kentucky [b abt 1844]
Jesse Gregory 14 M born Kentucky [b abt 1846]
Ben F Gregory 12 M born Kentucky [b abt 1848]
John W Gregory 8 F born Kentucky [b abt 1852]
Artemissa Gregory 6 F born Kentucky [b abt 1854]
Lucretia Gregory 5 F born Kentucky [b abt 1855]
Lucinda Gregory 9mos F born Kentucky [b abt Sept 1849]

Benjamin's father John Jameson Gregory died before the 1871 census.  His
mother was reported as the hed of the household.  In that year Ben was
enumerated under his middle name Frank.  He continued to use this name.

1870 Federal Census, Rowan County, Kentucky, 14 June, Pearces Precinct, PO
Gills Mills, page 1 (scan 122), Hse/Fam #1
Gregory, Harriet 48 F W Farmer $175 Real Estate $250 Personal Estate born KY
Cannot write [b abt 1824]
Gregory, Frank 21 M W Farm Laborer b KY Cannot read or write [b abt 1849]
Gregory, Artemissa 16 F W At Home born KY Cannot write [b abt 1854]
Gregory, Lucretia 14 F W At Home born KY Cannot read or write [b abt 1856]
Gregory, Ellen 10 F W At Home born KY Cannot read or write (b abt 1860)

In 1880, Frank was enumerated in the same location, and in his househld was
also his older brother Henry (James Henry) and his large family.  On the same
page was their brother Jesse and his family.

1880 Federal Census, Rowan County, Kentucky, 14 June, Pearces Precinct,
District 113, page 26 (scan 433B), Hse #201, Fam #230
Gregory, Frank  W M 30 Head Married Farmer KY KY KY Cannot read or write [b
abt 1850]
Gregory, Fairlina W F 18 Wife Married Keeping House KY KY KY [b abt 1862]
Gregory, James W  W M 2 Son Single KY KY KY [b abt 1878]
- Hse #201, Fam #231 -
Gregory, Henry  W M 40 Head Married Farmer KY KY KY Cannot read or write [b
abt 1840]
Gregory, Sarah A  W F 30 Wife Married Keeping House KY KY KY Cannot read or
write [b abt 1850]
Gregory, Elizabeth W F 11 Dau Single at Home KY KY KY [b abt 1869]
Gregory, John  W M 9 Son Single KY KY KY [b abt 1871]
Gregory, Miranda W F 8 Dau Single KY KY KY [b abt 1872]
Gregory, Robert W M 6 Son Single KY KY KY [b abt 1874]
Gregory, Nancy J  W F 4 Dau Single KY KY KY [b abt 1876]
Gregory, Mary S  W F 2 Dau Single KY KY KY [b abt 1878]
Gregory, Isabel  W F 5mos b Jan 1880 Dau Single KY KY KY

1880 Federal Census, Rowan County, Kentucky, 14 June, Pearces Precinct,
District 113, pages 26-27 (scans 433B-434C), Hse #205, Fam #235
Gregory, Jesse  W M 32 Head Married Farmer KY KY KY Cannot read or write [b
abt 1848]
Gregory, Elizabeth  W F 26 Wife Married Keeping House KY KY KY Cannot read or
write [b abt 1854]
Gregory, Ellen W F 11 Dau Single At Home KY KY KY Cannot read or write [b abt
1869]
Gregory, Joseph W M 9 Son Single KY KY KY [b abt 1871]
Gregory, George W M 8 Son Single KY KY KY [b abt 1872]
- page 27 -
Gregory, Taylor W M 4 Son Single KY KY KY [b abt 1876]
Gregory, Mary F  W F 1 Dau Single KY KY KY [b abt
1879]

Notes for Benjamin Franklin GREGORY

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General Introduction

BENJAMIN J. GREGORY (12 December 1786-7 June 1853), son of Gerard and Freelove
Gregory, married Elizabeth Crosby Jeter (2 January 1794-18 May 1851), daughter
of James and Mary Crosby Jeter, on 11 June 1811. Both Elizabeth and Benjamin
were lifelong residents of Union County.

.....Beniamin's will (which is presented in full on the pages following) is an
interesting document in many ways. He willed 1547 acres of land specifically
and made reference to other acreage. There is evidence of his having bought
1262 acres during his life and having sold 808.5 acres, plus his share of the
100 acres of his parent's estate.

.....The explanation for this is fairly simple. Very often, in the early years
of our country, deeds were not even recorded until the buyer was ready to
dispose of the land. Inherited land was quite often not recorded.

.....David Sims Jeter, Elizabeth's unmarried brother, remembered his Gregory
nephews in his will and also set aside land for the Jeter Family Cemetery. He
went a step farther and provided funds for tombstones for his family members.
It is ironic that his is one of the smaller stones in the cemetery.

.....Benjamin and Elizabeth were the parents of ten known children - nine sons
and one daughter. They were: William Harrison; Aswin Starks; James Thompson;
Benjamin Franklin; John J.E.; Andrew Jackson; Argulass; Sarah Elvira; Berry J.
Adolphus; and Pickens Butler.

Will of Benjamin J Gregory
The State of South Carolina

.....I, Benjamin J. Gregory of Union District in the State aforesaid, being of
sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, and taking into
consideration the uncertainty of human life, do constitute and ordain this my
last Will and Testament.

.....It is my will and desire that all of my just debts should be paid and for
this purpose I authorize my executors, hereinafter named, to make sale of such
cotton or other produce as may be on hand at the time of my death, the
proceeds o which, together with my cash on hand, I set apart for the payment
of my debts and funeral expenses.

.....To William Harrison Gregory, my eldest son, I will and bequeath all that
tract of land whereon he now lives containing two hundred and sixty-one acres
more or less, being one-half of the DeGraffenreidt tract bounded by A.S.
Gregory, James Jeter and others; valued to him at Seven dollars ($7.00) per
acre, together with all and singular: the rights, hereditaments thereto
belonging or in any use incident or appertaining, in fee simple. I also will
and bequeath to the said William Harrison Gregory, one Negro man slave named
Buck and one Negro woman slave named Hariet, together with the issue and
increase of the said slave Hariet; which said slaves I have valued to him at
the sum of thirteen hundred dollars ($1300). I also will and bequeath to the
said William Harrison Gregory, one horse, saddle and bridle with various
articles of household furniture and other things which are named and valued in
my Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my second son, A. Starks Gregory, I will and bequeath all that piece,
parcel and tract of land containing two hundred and sixty-one acres, being the
remaining half of the DeGraffenreidt tract above referred to; valued to him at
seven dollars ($7.00) per acre, together with all and singular: rights,
members, hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or in any use
incident to appertaining, in fee simple. I also will and bequeath to the said
A. Starks Gregory, two Negro men slaves named Harper and Gaines; which said
slaves I have valued to him at the sum of one thousand, three hundred dollars
($1300). I also will and bequeath to the said A. Starks Gregory, one horse,
saddle and bridle, together with various other things which are charged in my
Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my third son, J. Thompson Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract or
parcel of land lying, being and situated in - County in the State Of Arkansas,
containing one hundred and sixty acres, purchased from Samuel Pearson; valued
to him at seven hundred, sixty-eight dollars ($768), together with all and
singular: the rights, members and hereditaments, and appurtenances thereto
belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining, in fee simple. I also will
and bequeath to the said J. Thompson Gregory, the four following named Negro
slaves, to wit: Charles, a Negro man valued at seven hundred dollars ($700);
one Negro woman, Lucy, valued at six hundred, nine dollars ($609); one Negro
woman, Hannah, valued at six hundred, fifty dollars ($650); and one Negro girl
child valued at three hundred dollars ($300); together with the issue and
increase of the aforesaid female slaves. I also will and bequeath to the said
J. Thompson Gregory, one horse, saddle and bridle with other articles named
and charged in my Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my fourth son, B. Franklin Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract of
land containing one hundred, nineteen (119) acres bounded by Harper Farr,
Widow Paulk and myself, valued at seven hundred dollars ($700); also, one
other tract of land containing one hundred, twenty-three (123) acres, bought
of Rochester, adjoining the first named tract, valued at six hundred, fifteen
dollars ($615); together with all and singular: the rights, members,
hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or in any wise incident or
appertaining to the said B. Franklin Gregory, his heirs and assigns, in fee
simple. I also will and bequeath to the said B. Franklin Gregory, the two
following named Negro slaves, to wit: Phil, a man, and Violet, a woman,
together with the issue and increase of the said Negro woman, Violet; which
said slaves I have valued at the sum of thirteen hundred dollars ($1300).

.....To my fifth son, John J.E. Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract or
parcel of land containing three hundred, ninety-four (394) acres, known as the
Ashby Land, valued at __ dollars; together with all and singular: the rights,
members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
incident or appertaining to the said John J.E. Gregory, his heirs and assigns,
in fee simple. I also will and bequeath to the said John J.E. Gregory, the
three following named slaves, to wit: Cato, a Negro man slave, valued at seven
hundred dollars ($700); and one Negro woman slave, called Farr, and child,
valued at seven hundred dollars ($700); together with the issue and increase
of said slaves. I also will and bequeath to the said John J.E. Gregory, one
horse, saddle and bridle with other things charged on my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....To my sixth son, Andrew J. Gregory, I will and bequeath all that parcel
or tract of land whereon he now lives which has been already conveyed to him
by John Mann, I having paid the money therefor, containing two hundred,
thirty-one and a half (2311/2) acres more or less, known as the "John Mann
Place," valued at the sum of fourteen hundred, twenty-eight dollars ($1428);
together with all and singular: the rights, members and hereditaments and
appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise incident or
appertaining. I also will and bequeath to the said Andrew J. Gregory, two
Negro slaves: one named Isaac, a man, valued at seven hundred dollars ($700);
one woman slave, named Dicey, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); one horse,
saddle and bridle with various other articles charged on my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....To my seventh son, B.J. Adolphus Gregory, I will and bequeath the
following named Negro slaves, six in number: George, a male, valued at seven
hundred dollars ($700); Horace, a male, valued at three hundred dollars
($300); Henry, a male, valued at four hundred dollars ($400); Catherine, a
female, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); Juliana, a female, valued at
five hundred dollars ($500); and Josephine, a female, valued at two hundred,
fifty dollars ($250); together with the future issue and increase of the said
female slaves to B.J. Adolphus Gregory and his lawful heirs. The above named
slaves are not to be liable for the debts or subject to the contracts of the
said B.J. Adolphus Gregory, he is merely to have the use of them during his
natural life; and, at his death, the said slaves, together with their issue
and increase, are to go into possession of the legal heirs of him the said
B.J. Adolphus; and, in case the said B.J. Adolphus should die without lawful
heirs, then the said Negroes, together with their issue and increase, are to
revert to my estate and be disposed of in the same manner as the residue of my
property not herein specially devised. In case any of the above named Negroes
should die before I put them in possession of the said B.J. Adolphus Gregory,
it is not to be his loss, but such loss shall fall upon my estate. I also will
and bequeath to my said son, B.J. Adolphus Gregory, one horse, saddle and
bridle valued at one hundred dollars ($100) which I have delivered to him.

.....To my eighth son, Pickens Butler Gregory, I will and bequeath the six
following named slaves, to wit: Gilbert, valued at seven hundred dollars
($700); Prince, valued at five hundred dollars ($500); Jo, valued at four
hundred dollars ($400); Manerva, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); Mariah,
valued at three hundred dollars ($300); and Charlotte valued at four hundred
dollars ($400); together with the future issue and increase of the said female
slaves. The said last named slaves, together with their issue and increase,
are to be subject to precisely the same conditions and restriction as those
slaves herein before bequeathed to B.J. Adolphus Gregory.

.....To my daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory, I will and bequeath one bed and
furniture, one gold watch, one bureau (marble top), and one hundred dollars
($100) in cash to be paid to her as soon as practicable after my death. My
said daughter has already received about four hundred dollars more than any
other of my children by way of tuition and she has married contrary to my
will. I desire that she shall be excluded from any portion of my estate except
such articles as are devised to her.

.....To my son, B. Franklin Gregory, I also will and bequeath one horse,
saddle and bridle with various other articles charged to my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....The residue of my estate, both real and personal, I wish valued by three
disinterested persons, to be chosen by my executors, and to be divided into
lots and apportioned amongst my eight sons herein before named. If, however,
my said executors should think it best for the interest to be sold, they may,
after giving the usual notice, put it up at auction and sell it to the highest
bidder, dividing the proceeds as herein directed; and I hereby authorize and
empower my said executors to make, execute and deliver titles to my said
lands, the whole or any portion thereof, to such person or persons as may
comply with the terms of the sale.

.....The property herein before devised to my six first named sons has been
put into their possession by me and, in the settlement of my estate, is to be
received by them at the prices charged in this, my last Will and Testament, in
my Book of Accounts against them without interest.

.....I will and desire that my eight sons above named receive an equal share
of my whole estate and, to this end, I direct that the residue of my estate be
divided in such a way as to accomplish this object.

.....I further will and desire that the residue of my Negro property and other
personal property not herein specially disposed should be held by my said sons
for their use and benefit during their lives. It is not to be subject to their
debts or contracts, but is to descend to their lawful heirs in the manner as
is prescribed for the Negroes of B.J. Adolphus, and Pickens Butler Gregory
herein specially devised.

.....I will and desire that my sons Wm. Harrison Gregory and J. Thompson
Gregory act as my executors to this, my last Will and Testament.

.....In witness whereof I have hereinto subscribed my name and affixed my
seal, this Fifth day of December in the Year of our Lord, One thousand, eight
hundred and fifty-one; and in the Seventy-fifth Year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States of America.

B.J. Gregory

Signed and Sealed, Published and Declared by the said Benjamin J. Gregory as
his last Will and Testament in the presence of each other and in the presence
of the said B.J. Gregory have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

W.J. Kennan
J.T.E. Brandon
J.W. McLure

(CODICIL to the Will)

The State of South Carolina
Union District

.....I, Benjamin J. Gregory, of the District and State aforesaid, do hereby
make this the following codicil to my last Will and Testament which is to be
taken for a part and parcel of the same, to wit:

.....To my daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory, I will and bequeath the six slaves
more particularly described in a Deed of Gift made by me to the said Sarah
Elvira, subject to the conditions and reversions mentioned in said deed.

.....I will and bequeath to the said Sarah Elvira Gregory, an equal proportion
of my whole estate, both real and personal, which is to be distributed after
my death as is herein before prescribed. She is to be charged in the said
distribution to the six slaves named in the said Deed of Gift at the prices
named in my Book of Accounts against my children. It is my desire that the
said Sarah Elvira shall not be charged with any advancements whatever that
have been heretofore made with the exception of the six slaves aforesaid.

.....It is further my will and desire that such property, either real or
personal, as my said daughter may be entitled to receive by virtue of this
codicil may be delivered by my executors to my sons, J. Thompson Gregory and
William Harrison Gregory, who are hereby requested to receive the same on the
same condition and trusts as is named in the Deeds of Gift herein before
referred to, and to form a portion of the trust estate confided to them. I
hereby revoke so much of my last Well and Testament as makes a special bequest
of one hundred dollars in cash to my said daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory.

.....In witness whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed my
seal, this Thirty-first day of January, Anno Domini One thousand, eight
hundred, fifty-two, and in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States of America.
B.J. Gregory

Signed, sealed and delivered by the said B.J. Gregory in the presence of us
who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses at the request of the
testator, and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto
subscribed our names the day and year aforesaid. "To receive" interlined
before signed.
J.K. Brandon
W.M. Kennan
J.W. McLure

...

Children of ELIZABETH JETER and BENJAMIN GREGORY are:
.....i.....WILLIAM HARRISON GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina; d. March
17, 1874, Chickasaw County, Mississippi.

Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON GREGORY:
.....William Harrison Gregory (ca. 1813-17 March 1874), eldest son of Benjamin
J. and Elizabeth C. Jeter Gregory, was born in Union County, South Carolina
and died in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, where he had moved after his
father's death. He was thrice married.

354.....ii.....ASWIN STARKS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina; d. 1862.
355.....iii.....JAMES THOMPSON GREGORY, b. October 21, 1816, Union County,
South Carolina; d. November 06, 1869.
356.....iv.....BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GREGORY, b. November 16, 1819, Union County,
South Carolina; d. June 14, 1875.
.....v.....JOHN J. E. GREGORY.
.....vi.....ANDREW JACKSON GREGORY.
.....vii.....ARGULASS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....viii.....SARAH ELVIRA GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....ix.....BERRY J. GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....x.....ADOLPHUS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....xi.....PICKENS BUTLER GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.

--  Leavells, http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/LeavellFam3.html
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Benjamin Franklin Gregory
Birth Nov 16, 1819
Death Jun 14, 1875
Parents:
Benjamin J Gregory (1786 - 1853)
Elizabeth Crosby Jeter Gregory (1791 - 1851)
Spouse Leah Levicia Wilkes Gregory (1822 - 1879)
Children:
Benjamin Pickens Gregory (1843 - 1911)
Henrietta Gregory Carter (1851 - 1915)
Starks Adolphus Gregory (1853 - 1904)
Joseph Franklin Gregory (1856 - 1925)
Siblings:
Andrew Jackson Gregory (1825 - 1890)
Sarah Elvira Gregory Gregory (1827 - 1875)
Argulass Gregory (1829 - 1846)
Pickens Butler Gregory (1835 - 1897)
Burial Gregory Family Cemetery, Union County, South Carolina, USA
Created by angela Dec 03, 2010
--  Find A Grave Memorial #62495838,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62495838/benjamin-franklin-gregory

Notes for Benjamin Franklin GREGORY

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Benjaman F Gregory
BIRTH 20 Jun 1868
DEATH 7 May 1917 (aged 48)
BURIAL Boguefala Cemetery, Mooreville, Lee County, Mississippi, USA

Tupelo Daily Journal, May 11th, 1917
B F Gregory

Died, at his home near Ballardsville on Monday evening, May 7th, after a
lingering illness, Ben F. Gregory in his 49th year.

Early in the year, Mr. Gregory was taken ill and went to Memphis where he was
operated on for appendicitis. Returning home, complications set up and he
again returned to Memphis where he remained several weeks under the care of
expert physicians of that city. Not improving he came home and since that time
he was been under the treatment of local physicians and the family have been
untiring in their efforts to relieve him. He gradually grew worse and the end
came peacefully Monday afternoon with this sorrowful family and many friends
weeping at this beside.

B. F. Gregory was the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Gregory, his mother having
died a few years ago. He was educated in the schools of his neighborhood and
when a young man he was married to Miss Leslie and settled on a farm in the
Fourth district. He was a man of great energy and soon acquired a competency
by his energy and business fore sight. Six children were born to the union,
three boys and three girls, all of whom survive him.

His father, two brothers and Several sisters also survive Him. During his last
illness his devoted wife and brother Anderson, were his constant attendants
and at no time did they fail to do every thing in their power to relieve his
suffering. Their attentions were prompted by the deepest feelings of love and
sympathy and their entire time was given over to ministering to his wants.

In his suffering he bore it with patience and each day prayed that God’s
will should be done. Since early life he was a consecrated Christian and had
implicit faith in the mercy and wisdom of an all-wise Providence. He was a
member of the Baptist church and took an active part in all of the affairs of
his church.

Two years ago he was elected Supervisor from the Fourth district and he took
great interest in the affairs of the people that he decided to serve and the
affairs of the county were as care fully guarded as were his own private
business. He believed that the public trust should be held as sacred and his
labors for the District and county were always marked by a strict attention to
duty

In his family life he was devoted to the wife of his bosom and his children
were the recipients of every attention that a father could give. It was a
special pride for him to give each of his children the best in education and
from a business standpoint. By his family he was loved with that warmth of
devotion which comes from perfect confidence.

In his intercourse with his neighbors, no man was more generous and
accommodating. It was always a pleasure to him to help a neighbor and friend
and his neighbors who knew him best were his most ardent friends and admirers.
His deeds of kindness stand as a lasting monument to his memory, as a man, a
neighbor and a citizen.

The funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Mooresville, the remains
being laid to rest in the cemetery there. The funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Clayton, his pastor and Rev. Jeff Rogers of Amory.

Following the funeral sermon, the Woodmen of the World of the Mooresville camp
took charge and buried the remains with the Woodmen ritual. Many friends from
Tupelo and the adjoining county were present. The church could not hold the
large crowd that assembled to pay their last tribute to the memory of their
beloved friend. Many beautiful floral offerings were carried and laid upon his
last resting place. To the bereaved family the sympathy of all goes out in
this dark hour of their loss and the write feels a personal loss in the death
of his good, true friend.

Resolutions Upon the Death of B. F. Gregory

Whereas, death has called from us our friend, associate and fellow official,
B. F. Gregory, supervisor from the Fourth District and..

Whereas, we feel a keen sense of our loss and the loss to the people of this
county; therefore as an expression of our regret in his loss and in expression
of our sympathy with his family, be it Resolved by the Board of Supervisors of
Lee county, Miss, that in the death of our associate we have lost an officer
who was always true and faithful in the performance of every duty imposed upon
him. We feel that his district has not only lost a worthy, competent and
faithful official but also a noble and Christian citizen. We shall miss him
around our council board and in our deliberations where his wise counsel and
good judgment were always helpful.

We extend to the bereaved loved ones our most heartfelt sympathy in their
bereavement, and as a further mark of our sympathy and respect we direct the
clerk of this board to spread this resolution upon the minutes and furnish a
copy thereof to the widow of the deceased, and have a copy of same published
in a county newspaper.

Ordered by the board this the 9th day of May, 1917.
A S. Parham, Pres
JnoM Witt, Clerk

Contributor: Hal Plunkett (49944036)

Father William H Gregory 1839-1919
Spouse Priscilla Leslie Gregory 1871-1952

Siblings:
Susan La Eunie Gregory Cason 1866-1935
William Anderson Gregory 1870-1951
Essie Issaguena Gregory Williams 1872-1939
Mary Elizabeth Gregory 1875-1963
James Thomas Gregory 1877-1929
Muzettie Gregory Caldwell 1879-1956
Florence Gregory Trapp 1881-1958
Nancy Ann Gregory Williams 1883-1972

Children:
Nim Addison Gregory 1890-1954

Myrtis Gregory Ruff 1894-1971
Calvin L Gregory 1900-1941
Lois E Gregory 1904-1904

Maintained by James Bodily
Originally Created by Anonymous 13 Apr 2004
--  Find a Grave Memorial 66449443,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/66449443/benjaman-f-gregory
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Notes for Benjamin J GREGORY

The Leavell Genealogy has extensive information and transcription of documents
on the Gregorys.  Eliabeth C Jeter was a Leavell descendant.  One item
included in the notes on Benjamin J Gregory is a transcription of his will,
which has several differences in names from those on their burial memorials on
Find a Grave.

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General Introduction to Benjamin J Gregory

BENJAMIN J. GREGORY (12 December 1786-7 June 1853), son of Gerard and Freelove
Gregory, married Elizabeth Crosby Jeter (2 January 1794-18 May 1851), daughter
of James and Mary Crosby Jeter, on 11 June 1811. Both Elizabeth and Benjamin
were lifelong residents of Union County.

.....It should be noted that Benjamin married well. Elizabeth's father was a
Revolutionary War hero and a prosperous Union County planter. Benjamin gained
much in land and personal estate upon his marriage. Of course, the property
became Benjamin's in right of his wife. There were few laws to protect the
rights of women at that time.

.....Benjamin was a prosperous planter and real estate trader in his own
right. He also served as Magistrate and Justice of the Peace in Union County
at various times. He was in the money lending business in his younger years.

.....The first documents of record on Benjamin in Union County were for four
chattel mortgages held by him. The first for $25, executed 17 March 1810 and
recorded 18 May of that year (Deed Book K, p. 138).

.....The second (Deed Book K, pp. 301-2) was for $44.92. The mortgagee, Thomas
Bell, promised to pay by 25 December 1810. The collateral on this loan was
Bell's corn and cotton crop, two beds, a mare and services. Benjamin
apparently did not believe in taking chances!

.....The third mortgage (Deed Book K, pp. 300-1) was more explicit in regard
to services: Thomas Sandage agreed to indent himself to Benjamin for two
years, along with the mortgage of his cows, horses, etc. -all this for a loan
of $60. The fourth chattel mortage, for $62, was pretty much the same.
Benjamin must have been very shrewd indeed to take advantage of these
opportunities!

.....He bought, traded and sold several thousand acres of land during his
lifetime. He reported ownership of 1160 acres in the 1850 Census of
Agriculture. He valued his "farm" at $11,600. He also reported ownership of 8
horses, 4 asses/mules, 12 milch cows, 2 bulls, 4 working oxen, 6 sheep and 63
pigs. He valued his livestock at $1,461.

.....Little is known of his and Elizabeth's early religious life, but records
of Cane Creek Baptist Church (now known as Salem) indicate that Benjamin,
Elizabeth, William Harrison, Aswin Starks, James Thompson and Benjamin
Franklin joined that congregation in 1835.

.....Transcripts of their tombstone inscriptions are recorded on the following
pages because they poetically express the love of their family for them. Note
that Benjamin's tombstone records nine living children. He and Elizabeth were
the parents of ten known children. A son, Argulass, preceded them in death.

.....Beniamin's will (which is presented in full on the pages following) is an
interesting document in many ways. He willed 1547 acres of land specifically
and made reference to other acreage. There is evidence of his having bought
1262 acres during his life and having sold 808.5 acres, plus his share of the
100 acres of his parent's estate.

.....The explanation for this is fairly simple. Very often, in the early years
of our country, deeds were not even recorded until the buyer was ready to
dispose of the land. Inherited land was quite often not recorded.

.....David Sims Jeter, Elizabeth's unmarried brother, remembered his Gregory
nephews in his will and also set aside land for the Jeter Family Cemetery. He
went a step farther and provided funds for tombstones for his family members.
It is ironic that his is one of the smaller stones in the cemetery.

.....Benjamin and Elizabeth were the parents of ten known children - nine sons
and one daughter. They were: William Harrison; Aswin Starks; James Thompson;
Benjamin Franklin; John J.E.; Andrew Jackson; Argulass; Sarah Elvira; Berry J.
Adolphus; and Pickens Butler.

Will of Benjamin J Gregory
The State of South Carolina

.....I, Benjamin J. Gregory of Union District in the State aforesaid, being of
sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, and taking into
consideration the uncertainty of human life, do constitute and ordain this my
last Will and Testament.

.....It is my will and desire that all of my just debts should be paid and for
this purpose I authorize my executors, hereinafter named, to make sale of such
cotton or other produce as may be on hand at the time of my death, the
proceeds o which, together with my cash on hand, I set apart for the payment
of my debts and funeral expenses.

.....To William Harrison Gregory, my eldest son, I will and bequeath all that
tract of land whereon he now lives containing two hundred and sixty-one acres
more or less, being one-half of the DeGraffenreidt tract bounded by A.S.
Gregory, James Jeter and others; valued to him at Seven dollars ($7.00) per
acre, together with all and singular: the rights, hereditaments thereto
belonging or in any use incident or appertaining, in fee simple. I also will
and bequeath to the said William Harrison Gregory, one Negro man slave named
Buck and one Negro woman slave named Hariet, together with the issue and
increase of the said slave Hariet; which said slaves I have valued to him at
the sum of thirteen hundred dollars ($1300). I also will and bequeath to the
said William Harrison Gregory, one horse, saddle and bridle with various
articles of household furniture and other things which are named and valued in
my Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my second son, A. Starks Gregory, I will and bequeath all that piece,
parcel and tract of land containing two hundred and sixty-one acres, being the
remaining half of the DeGraffenreidt tract above referred to; valued to him at
seven dollars ($7.00) per acre, together with all and singular: rights,
members, hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or in any use
incident to appertaining, in fee simple. I also will and bequeath to the said
A. Starks Gregory, two Negro men slaves named Harper and Gaines; which said
slaves I have valued to him at the sum of one thousand, three hundred dollars
($1300). I also will and bequeath to the said A. Starks Gregory, one horse,
saddle and bridle, together with various other things which are charged in my
Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my third son, J. Thompson Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract or
parcel of land lying, being and situated in - County in the State Of Arkansas,
containing one hundred and sixty acres, purchased from Samuel Pearson; valued
to him at seven hundred, sixty-eight dollars ($768), together with all and
singular: the rights, members and hereditaments, and appurtenances thereto
belonging or in any wise incident or appertaining, in fee simple. I also will
and bequeath to the said J. Thompson Gregory, the four following named Negro
slaves, to wit: Charles, a Negro man valued at seven hundred dollars ($700);
one Negro woman, Lucy, valued at six hundred, nine dollars ($609); one Negro
woman, Hannah, valued at six hundred, fifty dollars ($650); and one Negro girl
child valued at three hundred dollars ($300); together with the issue and
increase of the aforesaid female slaves. I also will and bequeath to the said
J. Thompson Gregory, one horse, saddle and bridle with other articles named
and charged in my Book of Accounts against my children.

.....To my fourth son, B. Franklin Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract of
land containing one hundred, nineteen (119) acres bounded by Harper Farr,
Widow Paulk and myself, valued at seven hundred dollars ($700); also, one
other tract of land containing one hundred, twenty-three (123) acres, bought
of Rochester, adjoining the first named tract, valued at six hundred, fifteen
dollars ($615); together with all and singular: the rights, members,
hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging or in any wise incident or
appertaining to the said B. Franklin Gregory, his heirs and assigns, in fee
simple. I also will and bequeath to the said B. Franklin Gregory, the two
following named Negro slaves, to wit: Phil, a man, and Violet, a woman,
together with the issue and increase of the said Negro woman, Violet; which
said slaves I have valued at the sum of thirteen hundred dollars ($1300).

.....To my fifth son, John J.E. Gregory, I will and bequeath one tract or
parcel of land containing three hundred, ninety-four (394) acres, known as the
Ashby Land, valued at __ dollars; together with all and singular: the rights,
members, hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise
incident or appertaining to the said John J.E. Gregory, his heirs and assigns,
in fee simple. I also will and bequeath to the said John J.E. Gregory, the
three following named slaves, to wit: Cato, a Negro man slave, valued at seven
hundred dollars ($700); and one Negro woman slave, called Farr, and child,
valued at seven hundred dollars ($700); together with the issue and increase
of said slaves. I also will and bequeath to the said John J.E. Gregory, one
horse, saddle and bridle with other things charged on my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....To my sixth son, Andrew J. Gregory, I will and bequeath all that parcel
or tract of land whereon he now lives which has been already conveyed to him
by John Mann, I having paid the money therefor, containing two hundred,
thirty-one and a half (2311/2) acres more or less, known as the "John Mann
Place," valued at the sum of fourteen hundred, twenty-eight dollars ($1428);
together with all and singular: the rights, members and hereditaments and
appurtenances to the said premises belonging or in any wise incident or
appertaining. I also will and bequeath to the said Andrew J. Gregory, two
Negro slaves: one named Isaac, a man, valued at seven hundred dollars ($700);
one woman slave, named Dicey, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); one horse,
saddle and bridle with various other articles charged on my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....To my seventh son, B.J. Adolphus Gregory, I will and bequeath the
following named Negro slaves, six in number: George, a male, valued at seven
hundred dollars ($700); Horace, a male, valued at three hundred dollars
($300); Henry, a male, valued at four hundred dollars ($400); Catherine, a
female, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); Juliana, a female, valued at
five hundred dollars ($500); and Josephine, a female, valued at two hundred,
fifty dollars ($250); together with the future issue and increase of the said
female slaves to B.J. Adolphus Gregory and his lawful heirs. The above named
slaves are not to be liable for the debts or subject to the contracts of the
said B.J. Adolphus Gregory, he is merely to have the use of them during his
natural life; and, at his death, the said slaves, together with their issue
and increase, are to go into possession of the legal heirs of him the said
B.J. Adolphus; and, in case the said B.J. Adolphus should die without lawful
heirs, then the said Negroes, together with their issue and increase, are to
revert to my estate and be disposed of in the same manner as the residue of my
property not herein specially devised. In case any of the above named Negroes
should die before I put them in possession of the said B.J. Adolphus Gregory,
it is not to be his loss, but such loss shall fall upon my estate. I also will
and bequeath to my said son, B.J. Adolphus Gregory, one horse, saddle and
bridle valued at one hundred dollars ($100) which I have delivered to him.

.....To my eighth son, Pickens Butler Gregory, I will and bequeath the six
following named slaves, to wit: Gilbert, valued at seven hundred dollars
($700); Prince, valued at five hundred dollars ($500); Jo, valued at four
hundred dollars ($400); Manerva, valued at six hundred dollars ($600); Mariah,
valued at three hundred dollars ($300); and Charlotte valued at four hundred
dollars ($400); together with the future issue and increase of the said female
slaves. The said last named slaves, together with their issue and increase,
are to be subject to precisely the same conditions and restriction as those
slaves herein before bequeathed to B.J. Adolphus Gregory.

.....To my daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory, I will and bequeath one bed and
furniture, one gold watch, one bureau (marble top), and one hundred dollars
($100) in cash to be paid to her as soon as practicable after my death. My
said daughter has already received about four hundred dollars more than any
other of my children by way of tuition and she has married contrary to my
will. I desire that she shall be excluded from any portion of my estate except
such articles as are devised to her.

.....To my son, B. Franklin Gregory, I also will and bequeath one horse,
saddle and bridle with various other articles charged to my Book of Accounts
against my children.

.....The residue of my estate, both real and personal, I wish valued by three
disinterested persons, to be chosen by my executors, and to be divided into
lots and apportioned amongst my eight sons herein before named. If, however,
my said executors should think it best for the interest to be sold, they may,
after giving the usual notice, put it up at auction and sell it to the highest
bidder, dividing the proceeds as herein directed; and I hereby authorize and
empower my said executors to make, execute and deliver titles to my said
lands, the whole or any portion thereof, to such person or persons as may
comply with the terms of the sale.

.....The property herein before devised to my six first named sons has been
put into their possession by me and, in the settlement of my estate, is to be
received by them at the prices charged in this, my last Will and Testament, in
my Book of Accounts against them without interest.

.....I will and desire that my eight sons above named receive an equal share
of my whole estate and, to this end, I direct that the residue of my estate be
divided in such a way as to accomplish this object.

.....I further will and desire that the residue of my Negro property and other
personal property not herein specially disposed should be held by my said sons
for their use and benefit during their lives. It is not to be subject to their
debts or contracts, but is to descend to their lawful heirs in the manner as
is prescribed for the Negroes of B.J. Adolphus, and Pickens Butler Gregory
herein specially devised.

.....I will and desire that my sons Wm. Harrison Gregory and J. Thompson
Gregory act as my executors to this, my last Will and Testament.

.....In witness whereof I have hereinto subscribed my name and affixed my
seal, this Fifth day of December in the Year of our Lord, One thousand, eight
hundred and fifty-one; and in the Seventy-fifth Year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States of America.

B.J. Gregory

Signed and Sealed, Published and Declared by the said Benjamin J. Gregory as
his last Will and Testament in the presence of each other and in the presence
of the said B.J. Gregory have hereinto subscribed our names as witnesses.

W.J. Kennan
J.T.E. Brandon
J.W. McLure

(CODICIL to the Will)

The State of South Carolina
Union District

.....I, Benjamin J. Gregory, of the District and State aforesaid, do hereby
make this the following codicil to my last Will and Testament which is to be
taken for a part and parcel of the same, to wit:

.....To my daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory, I will and bequeath the six slaves
more particularly described in a Deed of Gift made by me to the said Sarah
Elvira, subject to the conditions and reversions mentioned in said deed.

.....I will and bequeath to the said Sarah Elvira Gregory, an equal proportion
of my whole estate, both real and personal, which is to be distributed after
my death as is herein before prescribed. She is to be charged in the said
distribution to the six slaves named in the said Deed of Gift at the prices
named in my Book of Accounts against my children. It is my desire that the
said Sarah Elvira shall not be charged with any advancements whatever that
have been heretofore made with the exception of the six slaves aforesaid.

.....It is further my will and desire that such property, either real or
personal, as my said daughter may be entitled to receive by virtue of this
codicil may be delivered by my executors to my sons, J. Thompson Gregory and
William Harrison Gregory, who are hereby requested to receive the same on the
same condition and trusts as is named in the Deeds of Gift herein before
referred to, and to form a portion of the trust estate confided to them. I
hereby revoke so much of my last Well and Testament as makes a special bequest
of one hundred dollars in cash to my said daughter, Sarah Elvira Gregory.

.....In witness whereof I have herewith subscribed my name and affixed my
seal, this Thirty-first day of January, Anno Domini One thousand, eight
hundred, fifty-two, and in the Seventy-sixth Year of the Sovereignty and
Independence of the United States of America.
B.J. Gregory

Signed, sealed and delivered by the said B.J. Gregory in the presence of us
who have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses at the request of the
testator, and in his presence and in the presence of each other have hereunto
subscribed our names the day and year aforesaid. "To receive" interlined
before signed.
J.K. Brandon
W.M. Kennan
J.W. McLure

...

Children of ELIZABETH JETER and BENJAMIN GREGORY are:
.....i.....WILLIAM HARRISON GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina; d. March
17, 1874, Chickasaw County, Mississippi.

Notes for WILLIAM HARRISON GREGORY:
.....William Harrison Gregory (ca. 1813-17 March 1874), eldest son of Benjamin
J. and Elizabeth C. Jeter Gregory, was born in Union County, South Carolina
and died in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, where he had moved after his
father's death. He was thrice married.

.....His first wife, Sarah -?- (12 March 1818-21 June 1842), died apparently
in or as a result of childbirth (tombstone inscription follows). She is buried
in the Gregory Family Cemetery on a hill behind the A. Starks Gregory house
near Santuc. Nothing further is known about the child referred to.

In memory of
Sarah Gregory wife of W.H. Gregory
who died June 21, 1842
aged 24 years, 3 months and 9 days.
"Amiable through life, she had the love of
all who knew her, and at her death had the
comfortable assurance of the love of God in Christ,
which the world can neither give nor take away

She left a husband and an infant child to
mourn her early departure."

'Alone, dear husband, here I sleep,
Though you must never, never weep
Take care of our sweet little babe
Whilst I am here in death's dark shade.'

.....His second wife was Emily -?-. She appears with him on the 1850 census of
Union County, aged 22 years. She, too, must have died because William married
his third wife in 1856.

.....The third wife, Margaret Wilson Bedel (19 November 1829-3 July 1872), was
the widow of B.G. Bedell. They were married 18 November 1856 at the home of
Austin Wilson in Union County. Margaret was the daughter of Clinton Wilson. It
is within his estate packet in Union County (Box 43, Pkg. 29, filed in 1860)
that her first husband is mentioned. Margaret rests with William at Friendship
Church Cemetery in Van Vleet, Chickasaw County. As with the two previous
marriages, no issue is known.

.....Andrew Jackson Gregory, brother of William Harrison, allowed his brother
and his brother's wife, Margaret, to care for - as their own daughter - his
child, Sarah E. Gregory (17 June 1862-28 August 1868). It was apparently a
custom of the era to give a child to a childless relative as a token of love
and family bond. Sarah is buried with William and Margaret.

.....Another estate located in Union County (Box 65, Pkg. 10) filed in 1877
with Charles Bolt as administrator, references the residence of the late W.
Harrison Gregory. The record refers to an undivided interest in the estate of
Clinton Wilson.
http://www.gregoryfamily.com/chapter6-125.htm

354.....ii.....ASWIN STARKS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina; d. 1862.
355.....iii.....JAMES THOMPSON GREGORY, b. October 21, 1816, Union County,
South Carolina; d. November 06, 1869.
356.....iv.....BENJAMIN FRANKLIN GREGORY, b. November 16, 1819, Union County,
South Carolina; d. June 14, 1875.
.....v.....JOHN J. E. GREGORY.
.....vi.....ANDREW JACKSON GREGORY.
.....vii.....ARGULASS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....viii.....SARAH ELVIRA GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....ix.....BERRY J. GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
.....x.....ADOLPHUS GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.
[Note that here Berry J and Adolphus are listed as two separate sons, but in
the will above, Benjamin himself had one entry for a son named B J Adolphus.]
.....xi.....PICKENS BUTLER GREGORY, b. Union County, South Carolina.

--  Leavells, http://littlecalamity.tripod.com/Genealogy/LeavellFam3.html
----------------------------

Benjamin J Gregory
Birth Dec 12, 1786
Death Jun 7, 1853
Tombstone reads as follows; "B J GREGORY, ESQ. leaving 8 sons and 1 daughter."
Father Gerard Gregory (1763 - 1803)
Spouse Elizabeth Crosby Jeter Gregory (1791 - 1851)
Children:
Benjamin Franklin Gregory (1819 - 1875)
Andrew Jackson Gregory (1825 - 1890)
Sarah Elvira Gregory Gregory (1827 - 1875)
Argulass Gregory (1829 - 1846)
Pickens Butler Gregory (1835 - 1897)
Siblings:
David W Gregory (1787 - 1850)
Mary Ann Gregory (1788 - 1858)
Jehu Gregory (1798 - 1852)
Curtis Gerald Gregory (1800 - 1882)
Burial Jeter Cemetery, Santuc, Union County, South Carolina, GPS (lat/lon):
34.62834, -81.48912
Created by Record Hunter Aug 24, 2009
--  Find A Grave Memorial #41104067,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/41104067/benjamin-gregory

Notes for Benjamin Pickens GREGORY

Benjamin Franklin Gregory
Birth Nov 16, 1819
Death Jun 14, 1875
Parents:
Benjamin J Gregory (1786 - 1853)
Elizabeth Crosby Jeter Gregory (1791 - 1851)
Spouse Leah Levicia Wilkes Gregory (1822 - 1879)
Children:
** Benjamin Pickens Gregory (1843 - 1911) **
Henrietta Gregory Carter (1851 - 1915)
Starks Adolphus Gregory (1853 - 1904)
Joseph Franklin Gregory (1856 - 1925)
Siblings:
Andrew Jackson Gregory (1825 - 1890)
Sarah Elvira Gregory Gregory (1827 - 1875)
Argulass Gregory (1829 - 1846)
Pickens Butler Gregory (1835 - 1897)
Burial Gregory Family Cemetery, Union County, South Carolina, USA
Created by angela Dec 03, 2010
--  Find A Grave Memorial #62495838,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62495838/benjamin-franklin-gregory

Benjamin Pickens Gregory
Birth Dec 22, 1843 Union County, South Carolina, USA
Death Jun 28, 1911 Union County, South Carolina, USA,
Parents:
Benjamin Franklin Gregory (1819 - 1875)
Leah Levicia Wilkes Gregory (1822 - 1879)
Spouse Elmira Alice Smith Gregory (1847 - 1928)
Children:
Eugene Howe Gregory (1868 - 1936)
Augustus Mobley Gregory (1876 - 1922)
Benjamin Pickens Gregory (1883 - 1932)
Siblings:
Henrietta Gregory Carter (1851 - 1915)
Starks Adolphus Gregory (1853 - 1904)
Joseph Franklin Gregory (1856 - 1925)
Burial Calvary Baptist Church Cemetery, Leeds, Chester County, South Carolina,
USA
Created by SAFberry Apr 11, 2010
--  Find A Grave Memorial #50963846,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50963846/benjamin-gregory

Notes for Benjamin Simpson GREGORY

1850 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina, 4 November, page 14 (scan
190), Hse/Fam #108
Andrew Gregory 24 M Planter $2300 Real Estate b South Carolina [b abt 1826]
Levisa Gregory 20 F b South Carolina [b abt 1830]
Simpson Gregory 3 M b South Carolina [b abt 1847]
Eusebius Gregory 1 M b South Carolina [b abt 1849]

1860 Federal Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, 29 July, Division 1, page
72, Hse #558, Fam #572
Andrew Gregory 35 M Farmer $8000 Real Estate $23,000 Personal born South
Carolina [b abt 1825]
Levitia Gregory 30 F Housewife born South Carolina [b abt 1830]
Simpson Gregory 13 M born South Carolina [b abt 1847]
Eucebias Gregory 11 M born South Carolina [b abt 1849]
Harrison Gregory 3 M born Mississippi [b abt 1857]

-------------------------
Benjamin Simpson Gregory, son of Andrew Jackson and Levicia (Wilkes) Gregory,
married Mary Skinner in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, where he lived and
farmed.  He is buried in an unmarked grave near his mother and father in the
Gregory family graveyard.  The following children were born of this union:
Levicia Gregory	Edna Gregory
Sallie Gregory	Rosa Gregory
Maude Gregory	Andrew Gregory
Mary Y Gregory, b 24 Jan 1831, d 4 Sept 1886

--  Gregory Family from South Carolina in Mississippi, descendants of Andrew
Jackson Gregory & Leticia Wilkes,  Wilkes Family History and Genealogy, by
Ivan Ernest Bass, 1965; reprint Higginson Book Company, 2011, p 362
-------------------------

1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, 16 June 1900, Rural
Okolona, District 16, page 12B, Hse #196, Fam #211
Gregory, Benjamin S Head W M Feb 1847  53 Married 31 yrs [mar abt 1889] SC SC
SC Farmer Owns
Gregory, Mollie E Wife W F Apr 1847  53 Married 31 yrs 8 children/7 living AL
AL AL
Gregory, Sallie Dau W F Apr 1876 24 Single MS SC AL
Gregory, Maud Dau W F Nov 1885  14 Single MS SC AL
Gregory, Andrew Son W M Nov 1887 12 Single MS SC AL
Gregory, Edwin Cousin W M Apr 1825  75 Single SC SC SC

-------------------
Benjamin Simpson Gregory
BIRTH 1847
DEATH 1913 (aged 65-66)
BURIAL Grange Hall Cemetery, Okolona, Chickasaw County, Mississippi

Mr. B.S. Gregory, an old and highly respected citizen, died at the home of his
son here Saturday morning. Deceased had been in failing health for some time
but was not thought to be dangerously ill until death came.

He was an honored confederate soldier and his old age was a large factor in
his demise. Funeral services were conducted from the residence Sunday morning
by Rev. A.L. O'Briant, and interment took place later in the day at the Grange
Hall cemetery.

Okolona Messenger, July 19, 1917

Parents
Photo
Andrew Jackson Gregory
1825-1890

Spouse
Photo
Mary Ewing Skinner Gregory
unknown-1921

Siblings:
Andrew Eusebus Gregory 1849-1900
Sarah E Gregory 1852-1858
William Harrison Gregory 1857-1929
Hale R Gregory 1860-1932

Children:
Ola Gregory Hobson 1870-1920
Anna L Gregory Wirtz 1874-1958
Edna Gregory Elliott 1874-1961

Created by FamilyResearcher 6 Jan 2009
--  Find A Grave Memorial 32692663,
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/32692663/benjamin-simpson-gregory
-------------------

Notes for Berley G GREGORY

1900 Federal Census, Christian County, Illinois, 14 June, King Township,
District 8, page 6A (scan 93A), Hse/Fam #107
Grigory, Daniel M Head  W M June ay 1856  43 Married 3 yrs KY KY KY Farmer
Rents
Williams, Eva L Wife W F May 1866  34 Married 3 yrs 3 children/3 living IL IL
IL
- page 6B -
Shipley, Walter F Stepson W M June 1888  11 IL IL IL At School
Grigory, May D  Dau W F May 1898  2 IL IL [KY] IL
Grigory, Berley G Son W M Feb 1900  3mos IL IL [KY] IL

The two younger children were given the same report of parents' birth places
as Walter Shipley, Evaline's son from her first marriage.  May and Berley's
father was Daniel Gregory so it should have said Kentucky for their father.

In 1910, Berley's half-brother was living next door to his family in 1910.

1910 Federal Census, Christian County, Illinois, 13 May, Southfork Township,
District 25, page 12A, Hse/Fam #229
Gregory, Daniel Head  M W  37  1st Marriage Married 14 yrs KY KY KY Farmer
Rents
Gregory, Laura Wife F W 32 2nd Marriage Married 14 yrs 6 children/6 living IL
IL IL
Gregory, Dana Dau F W 12 IL KY IL
Gregory, Burley C Son M W 10 IL KY IL
Gregory, Edith L Dau F W 8 IL KY IL
Gregory, Edgar Son M W 4 IL KY IL
Gregory, Ettie (Nettie?) E Dau F W 3 IL KY IL

1910 Federal Census, Christian County, Illinois, 13 May, Southfork Township,
District 25, page 12A, Hse/Fam #230
Shipley, Walter Head  M W 21  Married 0 yrs IL IL IL Farm Laborer Rents
Shipley, Eugenia Wife F W 25 Married 0 yrs 0 children IL NY NJ

Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947
Burley C Gregory
Birth 16 Feb 1900 Illinois
Death 1 May 1916 Lincoln, Logan, Illinois
Burial 2 May 1916 Taylorville, Ill
Death Age 16
Occupation none, inmate L S S & C (?)
Single White Male
Residence Taylorville, Ill
Father born Kentucky
Mother Laura Sargent [Largent], born Illinois

No image of the document was available for comparison.  Berley's mother's name
was transcribed as an S, which often happens with modern transcriptoins of the
form of an L in some handwriting from that era.

He was only 16 when he died. The full name of this facility L S S & C was
found on the 1940 census for his sister Edith, who as here at that time. 
Edith was reported as an inmate at the Lincoln State School and Colony (for
the Febble Minded).  Their mother died in 1934, and this was probably when her
sister Nettie and her hsuband Arthur Knave decided they needed to place her in
the home for proper care.

Notes for Bernice L GREGORY

1930 Federal Census, DeKalb County, Alabama, 24 April, Lydia, District 25-34,
page 11B, Guest Rd, Hse #230, Fam #224
Gregory, John A Head Owns Has Radio M W 38 Married at age 24 [mar abt 1916] AL
AL AL Farmer [b abt 1892]
Gregory, Ruby M Wife Owns F W 29 Married at age 15 [mar abt 1915] AL AL AL [b
abt 1901]
Gregory, Roy W Son M W 12 AL AL AL [b abt 1918]
Gregory, Evelyn A Dau F W 10 AL AL AL [b abt 1920]
Gregory, Lenard E Son M W 9 AL AL AL [b abt 1921]
Gregory, Claud C Son M W 7 AL AL AL [b abt 1923]
Gregory, Burnice L Dau F W 5 AL AL AL [b abt 1925]

1940 Federal Census, DeKalb County, Alabama, 9 April, District 25-41, page 3B,
Ends Towns Creek Rd, Hse #49, Owned, Value $250, Farm
Gregory, John A Head M W 48  Grade 5 b Alabama Same House, DeKalb Co, in 1935
Farming
Gregory, Ruby M Wife F W 39  Grade 7 b Alabama Same House, DeKalb Co, in 1935
Farm Laborer
Gregory, Evelyn A Dau F W 20 Single 8 b Alabama Same House, DeKalb Co, in 1935
Farm Laborer
Gregory, Claud C Son M W 17 Single Grade 7 b Alabama Same House, DeKalb Co,
Same Place in 1935 Farm Laborer
Gregory, Bernice L Dau F W 15 Single Grade 6 b Alabama Same House, DeKalb Co,
in 1935 Farm Laborer
Gregory, Ruby R Dau F W 7 Single Grade 1 b Alabama Same House, DeKalb Co, in
1935 [b 1933]