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Tapley Gregory [Male] b. 15 NOV 1793 NC - d. 17 AUG 1857 Smith County, TN

Change: 17 JAN 2013

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Some source indicate the wife's name was Susan Terry rather than SaraPiper.

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Ansil Gregory [Male] b. 1798 - d. 1814 Sycamore Valley, TN

Change: 17 JAN 2013

Ansil was killed at 16 years old, at the cave on the upper Peyton's Creekby a falling tree.

Cal's Column: "...in 1814. This cave had then and perhaps still does have a supply of saltpeter. The Second War with Great Britain was then in progress and gun powder was extremely scarce in the western settlements. Some of the men of the community decided to take out quantities of the saltpeter and to make their own gun powder. Among those helping in this undertaking was Ansil, a 16-year-old son of our great-great-grandfather, Bry Gregory. In cutting down a large tree near the entrance to this cave, to get wood for boiling down the saltpeter, the youth was crushed to death by the falling tree. His father, who lived not a great way off, took his mule and sled, or as it was then called, a "slide," and went to bring the body home. As he lifted his own, dead son, a youth of only 16 tender years, onto the sled, the old man said: "Now’d --n you, I guess you won’t run away any more." "