Life History

Notes

• 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.
  

Sources

• 1. 1900 Federal Census, Christian County, Illinois
  • 14 June, King Township, District 8, page 6B, Hse/Fam #107
• 2. 1910 Federal Census, Christian County, Illinois
  • 13 May, Southfork Township, District 25, page 12A, Hse/Fam #229
• 3. Illinois, Deaths and Stillbirths Index, 1916-1947