Life History

Notes

• Our thanks to Steve Squier for his analysis of the 1840 census listing for the household of Richard Gregory.
  
  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
  
  Marriage Record
  James A Webb
  Lucretia Gregory
  License issued 22 July 1847
  Solemnized 23 July 1847 by Rev
  Jefferson County Marriage Book, p 54
  
  James and Lucretia moved to Cherokee County, Alabama, after their first three children were born, where other members of Lucretia's Gregory family lived.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama, 31 January, 25th District, p 115, Hse/Fam #799
  James Webb 24 M Farmer $0 Real Estate b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1826]
  Lucretia Webb 31  F b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1819]
  William B Webb 2 M Farmer b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1848]
  Phew A Webb 10mos M b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1849]
  
  Two doors away were two of James Webb's brothers.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama, 31 January, 25th District, p 115, Hse/Fam #801
  Jessee Webb 31 M Farmer $1300 Real Estate b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1819]
  June Webb 20 F b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1830]
  Joseph Webb 31 M Farmer b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1819]
  
  The related neighboring family of Rineharts also moved to Alabama, and were enumerated next door to Jesse Webb's household.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama, 31 January, 25th District, p 115, Hse/Fam #802
  Thomas W Rinehart 38 M Farmer $1300 Real Estate b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1812]
  Mary Rinehart 28 F b Tennessee Cannot read or write [b abt 1822]
  Unreadable) A Rinehart 7 F b Tennessee Attended School [b abt 1843]
  James H Rinehart 7 M Farmer b Tennessee [b abt 1843]
  Thomas W Rinehart 4 M Farmer b Tennessee [b abt 1846]
  John H Rinehart 2 M Farmer b Tennessee [b abt 1848]
  
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  1853
  Theodore I. Bradford & William Evans v. A. S. Mason, et al.
  
  Jefferson County, Tennessee
  
  Estate Dispute/Settlement
  
  William Gregory [son of Richard Gregory and Lucretia Jones of Virginia], died intestate, his estate settled [?]. Richard Gregory [father of William] was made admr of the estate, then he died.
  
  Isaac Rhinehart [husband of Susan Gregory, William's sister] was then made executor of the Gregory estate, which was insolvent.
  Bradford & Evans were security on the estate, sued to settle the estate.
  
  Mentioned: Sarah Gregory [Sarah Ann Gregory, daughter of Richard and his first wife Lucretia Jones], Isaac Rhinehart [husband of Susan Gregory], D. A. Gregory [Darthula A Gregory, daughter of William Gregory and Mary Ann (Bragg)], M. I. Gregory [probably MJ, for Mary Jane, daughter of Richard], Susan Gregory Rhinehart [daughter of Richard Gregory and Dorcas Fishback of Jefferson County, Tennessee], Philip Gregory [son of Richard Gregory], James Webb [husband of Lucretia Gregory], Lucretia [Gregory, Richard's daughter] Webb, James Gregory [James Henry Gregory of Jefferson County, Tennessee, brother of William and son of Richard].
  
  East Range 5, Section A, Shelf 3, Box Number 8a, p 117
  
  --  Tennessee Supreme Court Cases, Tennessee State Library and Archives, https://supreme-court-cases.tennsos.org/search?search=1&search_fields%5B%5D=case_name%2Ccause%2Cnotes&search_fields%5B%5D=case_name&search_fields%5B%5D=cause&search_fields%5B%5D=notes&county=Jefferson&start_year=&end_year=&search_keywords=Gregory
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  Lucretia died some time around 1855.  In the 1860 census, his wife's name is Rosa M Webb (Rosa Mariah Collins according to another researcher).  Lucretia's two sons reported in 1850 are in the household with matching ages.  From the gap in children's ages, the next child, Joseph, age 6, apperars to be Rosa's first child with James,.  From his reported age of 6 here, he was born about 1854.  So we may place Lucretia's death and James' marriage to Rosa in 1855.  It could have been 1854
  
  1860 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama, 7 July, District 3, PO Blue Pond, page 69 (scan 155), Hse/Fam #461
  James A Webb 21 M Farmer $0 Real Estate $200 Personal rptd  born Tenn [b abt 1839]
  Rosa M Webb 26 F Domestic born Tenn [b abt 1834]
  Wm B Webb 16 M born Tenn [b abt 1844]
  Hugh [Few] A Webb 11 M born Tenn [b abt 1849]
  Joseph M Webb 6 M born Alabama [b abt 1854]
  Pernethia J Webb 4 F born Alabama [b abt 1856]
  John W Webb 9mos M born Alabama [b abt Sept 1859]

Sources

• 1. 1830 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee
• 2. 1860 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama
  • 7 July, District 3, PO Blue Pond, page 69 (scan 155), Hse/Fam #461
• 3. Tennessee Marriage Records
• 4. 1850 Federal Census, Cherokee County, Alabama
  • 31 January, 25th District, p 115, Hse/Fam #799
• 5. Steve Squier
• 6. 1840 Federal Census, Jefferson County, Tennessee