Life History

Notes

• William Marvin Gregory's death certificate reported his mother as Anna West.
  
  South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1965
  William Marvin Gregory
  Farmer, Age 30 yrs, 9 months
  Birth Nov 6, 1900 South Carolina
  Father S R Gregory, born South Carolina
  ** Mother Anna Gregory, born South Carolina **
  Spouse Sallie H Gregory
  Informant D C Gregory, Pauline, South Carolina
  Death 9 Aug 1931 General Hospital, Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA
  Cause of Death Fractured Skull, left leg fractured above and below knee, internal injuries, auto accident
  Burial 10 August 1931 Bogansville Church, by M W Bobo Co, Spartanburg
  Certificate #14045 filed 13 September 1931
  South Carolina Wills & Probates collection, Volume 24
  
  The death certificate reports that William Marvin was born in November 1900.  But the 1900 census reports a son in as Thompson born in 1888.  The Wilkes History and Genealogy reports his full name as Andrew Thomas (the Thompson of the census).
  
  1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw County, Mississippi, 16 June 1900, Rural Okolona, District 16, page 12B, Hse #196, Fam #211
  Gregory, [Hale] R Head W M Dec 1860  39 Married 2 yrs [first rptd 12, then changed to 2] [mar abt 1889] MS SC SC Farmer Owns
  Gregory, Annie Wife W F May 1868  32 Single [sic] Married [sic] 5 yrs 0 children/0 living MS MS SC
  Gregory, Thompson Son W M Dec 1888 11 Single MS MS MS
  Gregory, Annie M Dau W F Apr 1893  7 Single MS MS MS
  Gregory, Ula Bell Dau W F Aug 1896  3 Single MS MS MS
  
  Marvin's death certificate reports his mother's name as Anna West.  Note also in the 1900 census record for Annie Gregory above that it says she has had no children.  This would make William Marvin her first child.  She must be Hale's second wife.
  
  The Wilkes Family History reports only the three children named in the 1900 census (with Thompson being Thomas) for Anna Crump and Hale Gregory, with Thomas' birth date as 16 December 1888, matching the census.
  
  The Wilkes History, however, reports only one wife for Hale.  But the birth and death date they give for Annie Crump, 18 May 1868 and 14 February 1925, respectively are the dates on the grave for Annie (Anna) West Gregory.  If the enumerator was right in the childless report for Annie in 1900, then Annie Crump and Annie West are two different persons, who have been conflated under the name Annie Crump, or in most genealogies, Annie West.  This would also explain the change in number of years married from Hale, from 12 initially, to only 2 finally, after the birth of the youngest child in 1900.
  
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  States Rights Gregory
  
  States Rights Gregory, son of Andrew Jackson Gregory and Levicia (Wilkes) Gregory, was born 31 December 1860 and died on 19 March 1932.  He married Annie Crump (5-18-1868 - 2-14-1925) and they had the following children born to them:
  Andrew Thomas Gregory, born 16 December 1888
  Annie Mae Gregory, born 9 April 1893
  Eula Bell Gregory
  
  --  Gregory Family from South Carolina in Mississippi, descendants of Andrew Jackson Gregory & Leticia Wilkes, Wilkes Family History and Genealogy, by Ivan Ernest Bass, 1965; reprint by Higginson Book Company, 2011, pp 362-363
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Sources

• 1. South Carolina, Death Records, 1821-1965