Life History

Notes

• 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]
  
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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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  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. 1870 Federal Census, Phillips County, Arkansas
  • 5 August, Big Creek Township, P O Helena, page 6, Hse/Fam #38
• 2. 1880 Federal Census, Phillips County, Arkansas
  • 1 June, Big Creek Township, District 239, page 1, Hse/Fam #2. Gregory,
• 3. Google Books