Life History

Notes

• 1850 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina, 1 November, page 188, Hse/Fam #70
  Starke Gregory 35 M Planter $12,000 Real Estate b South Carolina [b abt 1815]
  Margaret Gregory 24 F b South Carolina [b abt 1826]
  Adrin [sic, for Adrian] Gregory 7 M b South Carolina [b abt 1843]
  Mary Gregory 6 b South Carolina [b abt 1844]
  William Gregory 3 M b South Carolina [b abt 1847]
  Sarah Gregory 1 M b South Carolina [b abt March 1849]
  
  1860 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina, 14 June, P O Unionville, page 29-30, Hse #248, Fam #206
  A S Gregory 43 M Farmer $0 Real Estate $1000 Personal born South Carolina [b abt 1817]
  Margaret Gregory 35 F Wife born South Carolina [b abt 1825]
  -- page 30 --
  Adwin [Adrian] Gregory 17 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1843]
  Elizabeth Gregory 15 F Student born South Carolina [b abt 1845]
  Harrison Gregory 13 F Student born South Carolina [b abt 1847]
  Sally Gregory 11 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1849]
  James Gregory 9 M Student born South Carolina [b abt 1851]
  Brooks Gregory 6 M born South Carolina [b abt 1854]
  Benjamin Gregory 5 M born South Carolina [b abt 1855]
  Alice Gregory 2 F born South Carolina [b abt 1858]
  
  Starks died some time after 1862, when their last child was born, and before the 1870 census, when Margaret was enumerated in Phillips Copunty, Arkansas in one of her brothers' household, with their younger children.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Phillips County, Arkansas, 5 August, Big Creek Township, P O Helena, page 6, Hse/Fam #38
  Scaife, William J 41 W M Farmer born South Carolina [b abt 1829]
  Scaife, Carrie 12 F W Keeping House born South Carolina [b abt 1858]
  Scaife, Josie 10 F W At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1860]
  Scaife, William 7 M W At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1863]
  Scaife, James 4 F W At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1866]
  Wilkes, Lydia 35 F W Keeping House born South Carolina [b abt 1835]
  Gregory, Margaret 44 F W Keeping House born South Carolina [b abt 1826]
  Gregory, Brooks 16 M W At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1854]
  Gregory, James 19 F WAt Home born South Carolina [b abt 1851]
  Gregory, Sallie 21 F W At Home born South Carolina [b abt 1849]
  Gregory, Susan 8 M W born South Carolina [b abt 1862]
  Gregory, Caroline 14 F M Domestic Srvt born South Carolina [b abt 1856]
  
  Note that Caroline is reported as Mulatto.  The Wilkes History and Genealogy refers to her as Margaret Scaife Gregory's "colored nurse" who moved to Arkansas with her and the four children still at home.
  
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  Margaret Scaife, daughter of Ferdinand Dugraphanel and Mary (Wilkes) Scaife, was born in Chester County, South Carolina in 1826.  She married A S Gregory of Union County in that county in 1846.  They lived in Union County, where Mr Gregory was a farmer.  He died in the early 1860s and was buried in Union County.
  
  After the War Between the States was over and the Scaife men had returned home and decided to move to Arkansas, the widow Gregory took her four children and her colored nurse in her carriage and moved to Arkansas.  In the 1880 U S census of Phillips County, Arkansas, she is listed as head of household and 54 yerars of age.  Three of her sons were living with her at that time.  The children of Mr and Mrs Gregory were:
  Sarah Gregory   James Gregory
  Brooks H Gregory        Margaret Susan Gregory
  [They actually had 9 children.  These 4 were those still at home with her when she moved. Sarah was reported as Sallie in the censuses.]
  
  --  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 Higginson Book Company, 2011, p 370
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  In 1880, three of her grown children are stil in her household, unmarried.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Phillips County, Arkansas, 1 June, Big Creek Township, District 239, page 1, Hse/Fam #2
  Gregory, Margaret T  W F 54 Widow Keeping House SC SC SC [b abt 1826]
  Gregory, Sarah W F 30 Single SC SC SC [b abt 1850]
  Gregory, Brooks H 26 W M Single Retail Grocer SC SC SC [b abt 1854]
  Gregory, Margaret S 19 W F Single SC SC SC [b abt 1861]
  Pendergrass, Alice Lee 3 W M [sic] Single AR SC SC [b abt 1877]
  (no relationships were reported in this family's record)

Sources

• 1. 1860 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina
  • 14 June, P O Unionville, page 29-30, Hse #248, Fam #206
• 2. 1870 Federal Census, Phillips County, Arkansas
  • 5 August, Big Creek Township, P O Helena, page 6, Hse/Fam #38
• 3. Google Books
• 4. 1850 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina
  • 1 November, page 188, Hse/Fam #70
• 5. 1880 Federal Census, Phillips County, Arkansas
  • 1 June, Big Creek Township, District 239, page 1, Hse/Fam #2
• 6. 1860 Federal Census, Union County, South Carolina
  • 14 June, P O Unionville, page 30, Hse #248, Fam #206
• 7. 1880 Federal Census, Phillips County, Arkansas
  • 1 June, Big Creek Township, District 239, page 1, Hse/Fam #2. Gregory,
• 8. Tripod Trees