Life History

Notes

• Our thanks to Steve Squier for his analysis of the 1840 census listing for the household of Richard Gregory.  another child is listed by Carolyn Cooper, but with no substantiating recor, named Miranda.  A matching Malinda Gregory also appears in a marriage record with Thomas Denson, aboth of whose names are mentoined in a probate record for one William Gregory, for whom Richard Gregory was initially the administrator, but then died, and the new adminstrator appointed was Isaa Rinehart, the husbamnd of Richard's daughter Susan.  Susan and Malinda appear to be sisters.
  
  There is no room, however, for Miranda or Malinda to fit with the names we know for children of Richard and Dorcas Gregory correlated with other records.  Steve Squier has done fairly extensive research into the Gregorys that seem to comprise the family of Richard, which we have also reesarched and found addiotinal records and circumstantial evidence confirming the configuration of Richard's famliy.
  
  Steven's analysis of the 1840 census record for Richard Gregory's household, it seems that Malinda Gregory is also his daughter.  The name Miranda may yet be another child or Richard and Dorcas Fishback who died before 1840.  No record has been found in that name.
  
  1840 Jefferson Co., TN
  male 50-59 = Richard Gregory
  female 50-59 = Dorcas Fishback
  [the unidentified son and Few are now out of the household, Few having been married in 1834]
  male 20-29 = Phillip Gregory (b. ~1817 VA)
  female 20-29 = Lucretia Gregory (b. ~1819 TN)
  female 20-29 = Mary Jane Gregory (b. ~1820 TN)
  female 15-19 = Susan Gregory (b. ~1821 TN)
  male 15-19 = James Henry Gregory (b. Apr 1826 TN)
  female 5-9 = Cynthia Gregory (b. ~1831/32 TN)
  --  Steve Squier, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 23 August 2017
  
  Gregory, Malinda & Denson, Thomas
  Marriage 31 January 1841 Jefferson County, Tennessee
  --  M Guyette Wardlaw research, http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~gregoryc/genealogy/tngregory.htm
  
  Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
  Malinda Gregory
  Thomas Danson [Denson]
  License issued 30 December 1840
  Marriage 31 January 1941 Jefferson County
  Ceremony performed by C C Hoskins, Justice of the Peace
  Recorded Jefferson County Marriage Book, p 3
  
  Thomas Denson's name is among those those who made purchases in the estate sale for William Gregory in Jefferson County, Tennessee, in 1937.

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
• 2. RootsWeb Marriage Records
• 3. Tennessee State Marriages, 1780-2002
• 4. Tennessee State Archives