Life History

Notes

• In 1870, Bettie was reported as 11 year old, in the home of her parents Alice and Fendall in King William County, Virginia, on Fendall's estate named Piping Tree..
  
  1870 Federal Census, King William County, Virginia, 2 August, P O West Point, page 74, Hse/Fam#387
  Gregory, Fendall 45 M W Farmer $10,000 Real Estate Value $1700 Personal b Virginia [b abt 1825]
  Gregory, Alice 26 F W Keeping House $2000 Real Estate Value b Virginia [b abt 1844]
  Gregory, Meria 2 F W b Virginia [b abt 1858]
  Gregory, Bettie D 1 M W b Virginia [b abt 1859]
  Hill, Oin [Owen] B 9 M W At Home $2000 Real Estate Value b Virginia [b abt 1851]
  
  Bettie's father died in 1877.  In the 1880 census Bettie was reported with her mother and her three sisters and their mother's brother Oscar Turner.
  
  1880 Federal Census, King William County, Virginia, 30 June, Aquiston Judicial District, District 40, page 59, Hse/Fam #537
  Gregory, Mary  W F 37 Keeping House VA VA VA
  Gregory, Margret [? Maria Alice] W M 12 Dau Single At Home VA VA VA
  Gregory, Bettie W M 12 Dau Single At Home VA VA VA
  Gregory, May D  W F 7 Dau Single At Home VA VA VA
  Gregory, Mary C  W M 5 Dau Single VA VA VA
  Turner, Oscar W M 19 Brother Single Farmer VA VA VA
  Garnett, Mary B F 25 Servant Single Cannot Read or Write VA VA VA
  Garnett, Richard B M 2 Son Single VA VA VA
  For (?), John W M 73 Servant Widowed Cannot Read or Write VA VA VA
  
  In 1953, her sister's obituary reported Bettie as one of three surviving sisters of Dacre Gregory Farrar.  She was reported living in Richmond at that time.
  
  Mrs Dacre Gregory Farrar
  BIRTH 1873 King William County, Virginia, USA
  DEATH 14 Jan 1953 Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, USA
  Mrs. Dacre G. Farrar's obituary appears in the Richmond Times Dispatch, Jan. 15, 1953, Page 9. She died Jan. 14 at the age of 81, at the Home for Confederate Women. The widow of Blair Farrar, she was born at 'Piping Tree,' King William County, where she spent her girlhood. She was survived by three sisters: Mrs. Alice Duvall, of Keswick; Mrs. Betty Dew Swift, of Richmond, and Mrs. Mary Cole Lyon, of St. Paul, Minn. Burial in Hollywood Cemetery.
  Mother Alice Turner Gregory unknown-1927
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 93140191, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93140191

Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014
• 3. 1870 Federal Census, King William County, Virginia
  • 2 August, P O West Point, page 74, Hse/Fam#387
• 4. 1880 Federal Census, King William County, Virginia
  • 30 June, Aquiston Judicial District, District 40, page 59, Hse/Fam #537