Life History

Notes

• In the 1850 census John was enumerated as John W Gregory, but his later records have John B Gregory.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Bath County, Kentucky, 26 July, District 1, page 121 (scan 61) & 16 (different # series), Hse ##106
  Nathaniel Gregory 27 M Farmer $800 Real Estate b Tennessee [b abt 1822]
  Mahala Gregory 25 F b Bath County Kentucky [b abt 1825]
  John W Gregory 7 M b Bath County Kentucky [b abt 1843]
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  Almaranda Gregory 5 F b Bath County Kentucky [b abt 1845]
  Mary A Gregory 3 F b Bath County Kentucky [b abt 1847]
  James R Gregory 1 M b Bath County Kentucky [b abt 1849]
  
  Kentucky Death Certificate
  John B Gregory
  Birth 2 October 1847 Fleming County, Kentucky
  Age 63 years
  [Note that the certificate reports his birth date as 2 October 1847, but then reports his age as 63, which would match birth in 1951. This is likely where the recent gravestone gets the birth date as 2 October 1851, as this death certificate transcription on Ancestry also reports.  It is just as likely, however, that it is the age that is wrong here.  In the 1850 census, John, reported as John W, was reported as 7 years old.]
  Father's Name Nathan Gregory, born Kentucky
  Mother's Name Unknown, Birthplace Unknown
  Informant Frank Thompson, Triplett (Rowan Co), Kentucky
  Death 21 April 1914 Pine Grove, Rowan County, Kentucky
  Cause of death Bronchitis
  Burial 22 April 1914 in Enox Graveyard [Enix-Sloan Cemetery] by John R Thompson
  Certificate #11993 filed 22 April 1914
  
  His death certificate death date is 2 October 1847, but the 1950 census reported him already 7 yrs old (born about 1843).  The stone reported as his in Enix cemetery, laid later by descendants for his unmarked grave, has the birth date as 2 October 1851.  Perhaps his facts have been confused with John W Gregory, reported inteh 1860 census as the son of Jameson Gregory.  We should note that in the 1850 census, John B Gregory, son of Nathan Gregory, was also reported as John W Gregory.
  
  This date more closely matches John W Gregory, reported in the 1860 census as the son of Jameson Gregory, a cousin of Nathan, also living in Rowan County.  The age reported for John W in that census would make birth about 1852, mnatching the date on the marker reported to have been palced for John B Gregory in Enix Cemetery.  Death and bural information for John W Gregory, son of Jameson, is not known.
  
  Researcher Nathan Gregory suggsts these two are the same person, the son of one brother who was raised by the other.  Just why is not clear, since Jameson Gregory did not die until 1870 and Nathan not till 1873, when John B would have been 30, according to the birth date on his death certificate, and the matching age in the 1850 census.
  
  Where they lived became Rowan County in 1856.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Rowan County, Kentucky, [no date], Pine Grove Precinct 5, District 114, page 23 (scan 452), Hse #173, Fam #187
  Gregory, John B  W M 30 Farmer cannot read or write KY VA VA
  Gregory, Ann E  W F 22 Wife Keeping House KY VA VA
  Gregory, Chas Tilden  W M 1  Son Single KY VA VA
  
  Note the birth places reported for Charles' parents.  That cannot be right, unless John and Anna are not his parents.  It should have been KY KY KY.  It looks like the enumerated just got carried away and put the same thing for him as for his parents.
  
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  John B Gregory
  Birth Oct 2, 1851 Fleming County, Kentucky, USA
  Death Apr 21, 1914 [Pine Grove,] Rowan County, Kentucky, USA
  
  John B Gregory married Anna E[lizabeth] Ham in 1876.  They had five children, including one unnamed child who died at birth.  Those who lived were Charles b1876, Mary Elizabeth b1879, Arthur M. b1883, and James Henry, b1885.  Anna died in childbirth with James Henry, and her sister Caroline came to live with John and help take care of her sisters kids.  Caroline married John in 1886, and they lived together with no additional children until her death before abt 1910.  John is listed as widowed in the 1910 census.  John died in 1914.  John and Caroline are buried together in the Enix-Sloan Cemetery.
  
  Spouses:
  Ann Elizabeth Ham Gregory (1856 - 1886)
  Caroline H Ham Gregory (1865 - ____)
  
  Children:
  Charles Tilden Gregory (1876 - 1938)
  Mary Elizabeth Gregory Salyer (1881 - 1908)
  Arthur Mack Gregory (1883 - 1973)
  James Henry Gregory (1885 - 1975)
  
  Burial Enix Cemetery, Gregoryville, Carter County, Kentucky, USA
  Created by Nathan Gregory Jan 21, 2009
  
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #33099833, https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=33099833
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  John lies in an unmarked grave.  Here is the story of a grave maker laid later my relatives.
  
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  John B Gregory
  
  My Aunt Aileen Gregory Richards purchased this stone sometime in the 1990's. One early fall day My Mother Della Gregory White and I met her where the road forks to go to Holly and She went with us. We went on Holly road turning left on Campbell Branch until we came to Masters Cemetery Road.
  
  We took that road to the top of the hill and on out to that cemetery. We then took another road out to the Enix Cemetery to place this stone. I had brought a large bucket of rock that I had picked up beside the old railroad bed. I was driving our truck with 4wheel drive and I needed it to go out the road to the cemetery. There were deep ditches cut in the road and it was very overgrown with large bushes but we forged ahead.
  
  We placed this stone in this very remote area as he was in an unmarked grave and it was very important to us. Later my husband ask me where I had taken the truck as it was really scratched from all the bushes and briars. The road is much better now.
  
  Avanelle White Eldridge
  --  Comment on a photo of the grave maker by Clint Hamm, posted on his Ancestry genealogy
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Sources

• 1. Kentucky, Death Records, 1852-1964
• 2. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 3. 1850 Federal Census, Bath County, Kentucky
  • 26 July, District 1, page 121 (scan 61), Hse #106
• 4. 1880 Federal Census, Rowan County, Kentucky
  • [no date], Pine Grove Precinct 5, District 114, page 23 (scan 452), Hse #173, Fam #187
• 5. Kentucky Death Certificates
• 6. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1852-1914
• 7. 1900 Federal Census, Carter County, Kentucky
  • 16 June, Magisterial District 4, page 16A, Hse #264, Fam #272
• 8. 1910 Federal Census, Rowan County, Kentucky
  • 8 June, Pearcy [Pearce] Precinct, District 155, page 3B, Hse #42, Fam #45
• 9. Obituaries from Ohio
• 10. U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942