John GREGORY12,6

22nd Jun 18901 - 18th Mar 199311

Farming, Garvin County, Oklahoma

Parents

22nd Jun 1890	Born in Newport, Cocke, Tennessee.1
1900	Resident in Township 4, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.6
1910	Residence2 in Richland, Stephens, Oklahoma.8
between 25th May 1918 and 17th Apr 1919	Military in WWI, 142nd US Infantry, batle of Etienne, overcome by mustard gas.5
between 1919 and 1941	Occupation Farming, Garvin County, Oklahoma.5
between 1919 and 1941	Residence3 in Garvin County, Oklahoma.5,9
between 1941 and 1980	Occupation2 in Shipyard Worker (and farm work), California.5
1975	Residence4 in Tulare, California.10
between 1980 and 1989	Residence5 in Lindsay, Garvin, Oklahoma.5
between Feb 1989 and Mar 1993	Residence6 in Oklahoma Veterans Centre, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma.5
22nd Jun 1990	Honored in 100th Birthday Party, Oklahoma Veterans Centre, Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma.5
18th Mar 1993	Died in Ardmore, Carter, Oklahoma.11
20th Mar 1993	Buried in Green Hill Cemetery, McClain County, Oklahoma.2,3,4

Married in Never Married.7

Uncle John lived his last several years in the Oklahoma Veterans Center in Ardmore, Oklahoma. During those years and a long while before he moved from Lindsay, Oklahoma, to Ardmore, his niece Gladys Loretta Gregory Gay managed his busienss affairs and was his primary care giver.

Neither his gravestone nor family information give a second name or initial for John.

John's funeral service was held at the B G Boydston Funeral Chapel inLindsay, Oklahoma, with Bro Grace and Bro Elkins of the Church of Godofficiating. Burial followed in Greenhill Cemetery, McClain County, north of Lindsay.

1. Loretta Gregory Gay Genealogical Research
- Dock Patrick Gregory Family Sheet
2. Gravestone of John Gregory, Green Hill Cemetery, Lindsay, Oklahoma
3. Obituaries -- Funeral Remembrance Card, John Gregory
4. Greenhill Cemetery (Lindsay, Oklahoma) listings
- http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgarvin/greenhillsurnamesg.htm
5. John Gregory Celebrates 100th Birthday, newspaper unknown
6. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
- 4 July, Township 4 South Range 4E, District 145, page 27A, Hse/Fam #40
7. Jenkins Family information
8. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
- 25 April, Richland Township, District 243, page 6B, no hse/fam numbers
9. 1930 Federal Census, Garvin County, Oklahoma
- 18 April, Elmore Twnshp, District 25-8, page 10B, Hse #183, Fam #192
10. Obituary of A Gregory, Lindsay (Oklahoma) News, 28 January 1975
11. Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, personal communication
12. Loretta Gregory Gay Genealogical Research