Life History

Notes

• Alice's father died in 1877 and her mother was reported as the head of the household in the 1880 census.  The enumerator listed Maria Alice here as Margret.
  
  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
  
  Her sister Dacre's obituary in 1953 reported her as Alice Duvall of Keswick, Virginia.  Her marriage record reports M A Gregory, age 22 (born abt 1868) married J B Duvall in 1890.  This age matches the 1870 census report for the name Meriah (meant to be Mariah, or Maria?), age 2.
  
  The record of John Basford Duvall, in a book about the colonial families of Virgina, reports his wife as Maria Alice Gregory, uniting the two names we have seen and the initials in the marriage record.
  
  It is interesting that her sister Dacre Gregory Farrar's obituary also reports a surviving sister named Mary, one Mary Cole Lyons of St Paul, Minnesota.  This is only somewhat odd, because Mary and Maria are two forms of the same name.  Perhaps the family at times called her Mary in place of Maria.
  
  Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940
  M A Gregory, Age 22, born (abt 1868) King William County, Virginia
  Father Fendall Gregory, Mother A T
  J B Duval, Age 29 born (abt 1861) Maryland
  Father J M Duval, Mother Martha
  Marriage 4 Feb 1890 King William County, Virginia
  
  Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775
  John Basford Duvall, Birth 18 November 1860
  Father James Monroe Duvall, b 25 June 1834, d 9 February 1901
  Mother Martha A, b 1833, d 20 November 1879
  Wife Maria Alice Gregory, Marriage 4 February 1890
  Death Date 24 January 1891
  --  Colonial Families of the United States of America, Volume I: Duvall Family, p 150
  
  U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  St Paul, Minnesota, City Directory, 1906, p 600
  Duvall M Alice (wid John B ) 849 Holly av
  
  In 1953, her sister's obituary reported Alice as one of three surviving sisters of Dacre Gregory Farrar.  She was reported living in Keswick, Virginia, 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
  
  Alice died a year after her sister.
  
  Alice Gregory Duvall
  BIRTH 1868
  DEATH Jan 1954 (aged 85-86)
  BURIAL Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Richmond City, Virginia, Section 26, Lot 133-H
  Inscription:
  Daughter Of Fendall and Alice Turner Gregory
  Wife of John Basford Duvall 1860-1891
  Date Of Burial 21 January 1954, Ref Cemetery Records
  Created by Graves 3 Jul 2012
  --  Find A Grave Memorial 92990811, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92990811/alice-duvall

Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. Colonial Families of the USA, 1607-1775
• 3. U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
  • St Paul, Minnesota, City Directory, 1906, p 600
• 4. 1880 Federal Census, King William County, Virginia
  • 30 June, Aquiston Judicial District, District 40, page 59, Hse/Fam #537
• 5. Virginia, Select Marriages, 1785-1940