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Earl Thomas Poole [Male] b. 19 JUN 1925 Franklin, Simpson Co., KY - d. 6 FEB 2011 Bowling Green, Warren Co., KY
Earl Thomas Poole Sr., 85, of Bowling Green, died Feb. 7, 2011, in Bowling Green. The Franklin native was born June 19, 1925. He was a retired auto body repairman. He was a son of the late Charles Thomas Poole and Florence Emma [Gregory] Poole. He was preceded in death by 12 brothers and sisters. No services are planned. Cremation was chosen. Survivors include a son, Earl B. Poole, of Bowling Green; a daughter, Mary Marlene Lange and her husband, Monte, of Decatur, Ill.; and several nieces and nephews.
Obit courtesy of J.C. Kirby & Son Funeral Home
Beloved Wife of Bob
Mother of Cindy and Scott
Norman E. Gregory, 72 of Gallatin, died July 5, 2003 at Jewish Hospital in Louisville.
Funeral services were July 10, 2003 at Wilkinson & Wiseman Funeral Home with burial in Sulphur Springs Cemetery in Simpson County.
A Simpson County native, Gregory was a graduate of Volunteer State College, a maintenance worker and the husband of the late Barbara Gregory.
Survivors include two daughters; Genevieve Schnieders and Rita Faye Gregory both of Louisville; a son, Mark Allen Gregory of Scottsville; five grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, and a sister, Joan Gore of Franklin.
Obit courtesy of Wilkinson & Wiseman Funeral Home
A native of Logan Co., KY., he is the son of the late Zeek Gregory and Willie Ruth Henson of Franklin, KY. who survives.
He is survived by his wife Marsha K. Bennett Gregory of Franklin, KY.; 3 daughters: Christina Bowling and Courtney Gregory both of Bowling Green, KY. and Robbie Maxfield of Franklin, KY.; 3 sons: Richard Gregory and Jeffrey Gregory both of Bowling Green, KY. and Caleb Gregory of Lafayette, TN.; 2 step-children Jennifer Collins of Munfordville, KY. and Shauna Franklin of GA; a brother Charlie Gregory and a sister Pennie Gregory Oakes both of Franklin, KY.; 13 grandchildren and 4 step-grandchildren.
Mrs. Paulette Lee, age 63, of Franklin, KY., died Tuesday, August 11, 2009 at 2:41 P..M. at her residence.
A native of Robertson Co., TN. she was the daughter of the late Brownie and Zelma Gregory. She was preceded in death by 3 brothers Billie, Dan and Rex Gregory and a sister Carol Dinning.
She is survived by her husband Vernon Lee, 1 Daughter Sandy Holler of Franklin, KY., 2 Sons Terry Higgs of Morgantown, Ky. and Carl Spivey, Jr. of West Plains, MO. 3 step sons Vernon Lee, Jr. of Franklin, KY., George and Billy Wayne Lee both of Russellville, Ky. 1 Sister Penny Phifer of Portland, TN., 3 brothers Steve Kimble of Franklin, Ky., Chip Gregory of Franklin, KY. and Randy "Teddy Bear" Gregory of Auburn, Ky., 29 Grandchildren and several Great Grandchildren.
Mrs. Lee was a member of Fairview Baptist Church and a homemaker.
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Birth: 1756 Granville County, NC, USA
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CENSUS YR: 1850 STATE or TERRITORY: TN COUNTY: Smith DIVISION: Nof Cmbld, E of CF Rive r REEL NO: M432-896 PAGE NO: 278B
REFERENCE: Enumerated 10/15 by A.S. Watkins
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LN HN FN LAST NAME FIRST NAME AGE SEX RACE OCCUP. VAL.BIRTHPLACE MRD . SCH. R/W DDB
4 924 924 Gregory Henry N. 22 M Farmer 250Ten . X
5 924 924 Gregory Matilda 22 F Ten. X
6 924 924 Gregory Jess A. 1 M Ten.
11 926 926 Gregory Bethel J. 25 M Farmer Ten. X
12 926 926 Gregory Eliza 25 F Ten. X
13 926 926 Gregory William J. 7 M Ten.
14 926 926 Gregory Roxlana 5 F Ten.
15 926 926 Gregory Emeline 3 F Ten.
16 926 926 Gregory Mary 2 F Ten.
From Genforum:
Notes for HENRY MILTON GREGORY:
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Henry Milton Gregory
By Calvin GregoryUncle Milton Gregory, one of the wealthiest men in the Pleasant Shade section of the county, died on Thursday afternoon March 4, 1926. He was probably the oldest man in the county at that time, having been born, September 4, 1827.
Uncle Milton was the son of William "Little Bill" Gregory, who came with his parents to Smith Countyin 1791 from North Carolina. "Little Bill" Gregory died the first of November 1872.
Miss Matilda Grissom became Uncle Milton's bride about the year 1846. She passed away around 1865and he never remarried. They were parents of four children, three sons, Wes, Isaac and Alex Gregory, all prominent citizens of the Pleasant Shade area; and a daughter, Mrs. Wade Smith, also of Pleasant Shade.At the time of his death, there were nineteen grandchildren, fifty six great grandchildren, and seventeen great great grandchildren. The oldest of the great great grandchildren, being nine year old Louzell Kittrell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Kittrell.
Milton Gregory was the last surviving member of a large number of brothers and sisters. His funeral was conducted by Revs. C.B.Massey and Calvin Gregory.
Uncle was possessed of many virtues, being honest, frugal, thrifty and upright in his dealings. He workedvery hard nearly all his life, having helped to make a corn crop only two years before his death. He was quite active for one of his years and could mount a horse as easily as men half his age. By means of his thrift, he managed to lay aside a large amount of money which he loaned to hundreds of persons over thisand other counties. He never did any business with a bank and refused to take checks in payment for debts. Since his death it is reported that a flour sack containing $8,000 was found in his home by relatives. His wealth is estimated by some to be as high as $50,000.
Uncle Milton was what might be rightly called a pioneer of the county, as he lived very much like his ancestors of a hundred and forty years ago. He lived in a large log house with the cracks chinked as in olden times. Near the house stood the bee hives once seen around nearly every pioneer home. Instead of the modern feed barn, there still stand the little log stables scattered here and there. The world's modern ways did not disturb the peaceful trend of the life of this old man and he went about his way asdid his father before him. His memory of olden times was now and then good and he told of numeroushappenings of the long ago. He saw all the wars in which our country engaged except the two wars with England, although he was never a soldier. He only had one picture made during his long life and that wasdone to some extent without his knowledge of what was going on.
He was the last person in all this section to engage in what was called in olden times a "pitchedbattle" which really meant a fight between two men in a ring with seconds to see that each man had fair play. They were allowed no weapons and could use only what nature had provided. This was considered great sport in Smith County a hundred years ago, but the tender young men of this day and time would not lastlong in a scrap of this kind.
Uncle Milton fought one battle of this sort about seventy years ago when he was a man of about 28 yearsand weighed about 160. However, he was all muscle and bone and was considered the most active man of his section. In the neighborhood of Dixon Springs there lived a famed bully, by the name of Matt McClanahan who had had numerous fights and had whipped nearly every man he had ever fought. He challenged young Gregory to a combat and Gregory rather tried to get out of the fight as McClanahan had more experience in such struggles and was noted for his strength and endurance. However, when thefight could not be avoided without loss of honor, the two met in the middle of the pike at Dixon Springsand the "battle" began. Back and forth the two men struggled with might and main, the advantages being first with one and then the other. McClanahan was the larger man and might have been a little stronger, but Gregory was the more active and quicker on his feet. Striking each other with all their force, clinching, going down on the ground together the two men wrestled and struggled for some time. FinallyMcClanahan managed to get his opponent down. Gregory struggled with all his power and strength to come out from under the larger man. He was on the point of giving when a bystander urged him to strivea little longer. With a last desperate effort Gregory turned McClanahan and together they rolled into a ditch at the side of the pike with Gregory on top. With one free hand he grabbed a large handful of sand and with all his force rubbed the sand into the eyes of his struggling opponent. This so blinded McClanahanthat he gave up the fight and concede the victory to Gregory.
The fierceness of the struggle may well be imagined by the fact that Gregory entered the scrap wearing abrand new pair of heavy brogan shoes. When the fight was over, the soles were torn off, the seams wereripped up and the shoes torn to pieces. Afterward they met again at Dixon Springs, but this time peacefullyand ate a large watermelon, never afterward holding any malice toward each other. Such things were common in our country in pioneer times, but things of this sort have long since passed away.
(copied from the 1986 "History of Smith County, Tennessee")
Notes: Cal stated that Little Bill came to Tennessee with his parents from North Carolina. In numerous other reports,Cal stated that Little Bill's father, John Gregory, had already died before the family moved to Smith County.
Cal also noted that Milton was the father of three sons and one daughter. However, the 1870 census showsfour sons and two daughters. His oldest daughter was Susan Missouri who married Wade Taylor Smith and they became the parents of my grandmother, Laura Smith Dickerson. Wade Smith was the son of William "Hairy Bill" and Minerva Smith Smith.
Cal's Article April 28, 1949
We closed our last article with a promise to write something of PleasantShade. This town of p erhaps 150 souls lies in Smith County, about 15miles southeast of Lafayette and about 12 mile s northwest of Carthage, atthe juncture of Big Peyton's Creek and a stream that comes in on t he eastside of the main creek, made up of the waters of Sloan Branch, SandersonBranch, and Bo ston Branch. Sloan Bran ch runs into the combined Sandersonand Boston Branches only about 10 0 yards above their juncture with thebig creek. Peyton's Creek was either named for John or E phraim Peyton,who were early settler s at Bledsoe's Lick, later known as CastilianSprings. Th e Indians about 1782 had raided settlement perhaps in Sumneror Robertson County, and had carr ied away a number of horses. Ephraim andJohn Pey ton were in the party that followed the re d men with theirstolen horses. On the waters of what is now called Peyton's Creek, theyoverto ok the thieves, falling upon them decisively and killing a numb erof the horse rogues and rec apturing the missing horses. From thisincident, Peyton's Creek is said to have obtained its n ame. It rises atthe Highland Rim, its western most headwaters being in the vicinity ofthe Mim a Gregory Hill, seven miles east of Lafayette; and the easternmost part of Gibbs' Cross Roads , some twelve miles east of Lafayette.This is a historic stream upon which some of th e earl iest settlers ofwhat is now Smith County built their log cabins in early days.
Our own ancestors were on this creek as early as the autumn of 1791,settling in the Nixon Hol low, as it is now called. These early Gregorysettlers were Thomas Gregory, a Rev. soldier, hi s two sons, Bry andSquire William H Gregory, soldiers in the same war; Thomas Gregory'sbrothe r, John Gregory's widow and children.
John's widow was prior to her marriage Miss Judy Morgan according to thebest information obta inable at this late day. Her sons were JeremiahGregory, our great great grandfather on our fa ther's side of the house;Major Gregory, who went to Robertson Co. perhaps about 1815; Littl e BillGregory and John Gregory, commonly known as Joe Gregory. They had anolder sister, but h er name is not known. Bry 's wife was Elizabeth, buther maiden name is unknown. His brother , Squire William H. Gregory, issaid to have married a Miss Martha Bledsoe. Jeremiah Gregory m arried MissBarbara Rawls. Little Bill a nd John Gregory married sisters, Davisgirls. Jeremia h and Barbara were the parents of a large number of sonsand one daughter, one of the sons bei ng Major Gregory, the father ofStephen Calvin Grego ry, the father of Thomas Morgan Gregory , who wasour father.
Another early family on Peyton's Creek was Christian Boston, whowas of Dutch descent. H is wife's name is unknown, although some believeshe was _____ Jenkins. He had a son, George B oston, born in 1793 and wholived to be nearly a hundred years old. He had also a daughter, Ka te, whowas born probably about 1800. When our great grandfather, Major Gregory,was a young ma n, he married a ___ Nas h, who dearly loved to dance. Thismarriage occurred about 1832. A son , John Gregory, was born. Then onChristmas Day, 1825, she bore him another son, who was name d ThomasGregory. About Jan. 15, 1826 , when this son was three weeks old, thisyoung couple ha d an invitation to an old fashioned, breakdown. dance.With a baby only three weeks old, Mrs . Gregory decided to attend thisdance, wading the creek the next morning to get back home. Sh e sickenedand died from this unusual episode, leaving her husband with two sons,one an infan t of about a month and the other two years old.
Some months later, he married Miss Kate Boston, the wedding taking placeabout 1826. She wa s a fine looking woman, except for a very ugly crookednose. On Oct. 30, 1827, our grandfathe r, Stephen Calv in Gregory, wasborn, and he had a Roman nose. Since that time, there have bee n Romannosed in Gregory's in our line down to the present. The writer gets hishandsome Roma n nose from the Boston woman. We wonder how much longer itwill last.
From Genforum:
John was born December 03, 1725 in Halifax Co, Virginia1, and died 1800 in Chatham Co, North Carolina1. He married JUDAH MORGAN 1750 in Chatham Co, North Carolina1. She was born Aft. 1724.
Judah was a relative of General John Morgan, the Confederate leader in Tennessee during the civil war.
Judy is said to have been a relative of John H. Morgan, the SouthernGeneral and leader in th e time of the Civil Ward. John Gregory died inNorth Carolina, and his widow with her childre n, came to Sm ith Co.between 1791 and 1799.
From Genforum:
She was frequently referred to as Jude Gregory. John Gregory and his wife lived for a number of years in Chatham County, North Carolina. There Judy came near to losing her life when she was struck on the head with a heavy piece of wood in the hands of a Negro slave named "Zip," when our great-great-grandfather, Jeremiah Gregory, was an infant. Jeremiah was born in North Carolina in 1764**, and his wife, Jude Gregory. He died on the waters of Nickojack Branch of Peyton's Creek in November, 1854, at the age of 90 years.
The story of the near fatal blow that Judy received is as follows: When Jerry was perhaps a year old, about 1767, John Gregory left home one day to go to mill, which was perhaps some miles away. He was delayed for perhaps two daughters, whose names we do not know, and little Jerry, were left at home. The faithful wife sat up and waited and waited for hours for her husband's return. He was said to have been, very fond of "mush," an early American food made of meal fried in grease. So the wife had prepared a bowl of the kind of food that her husband enjoyed and had left it sitting on the hearth of the home. She had retired in the little one-room house in which they lived in central North Carolina. About the break of day next morning, she was awakened by the sound of someone eating the "mush." She called out and said, " John, you nearly scared me to death." A voice, that of "Zip," answered in these words, "I will scare you worse than that in a minute." The slave had come down the chimney in the absence of his owner. The frightened wife and mother leaped out of bed, with her infant son, little Jerry, in her arms and flew to a door which she opened and dashed out. "Zip" followed her with a club in his hands. Around and around the house, she ran, clinging to her child until finally the slave felled her with a blow of the club he carried. Thinking he had killed his master's wife, fear took hold of the Negro and he fled from the scene, not doing her any other physical harm than the blow on the woman's head. An older child, a daughter, being aroused by the cries of her mother, seized our great-great-grandfather, Jerry, in her arms and set out to try to locate her father. She soon came to the creek near the home and was on the point of wading into its rolling waters when her father's voice, from the other side of the stream, stopped her. She cried out, "Zip has killed mammy." John Gregory, rushing home with his older daughter and little son, found his wife lying in the "drip of the house," the falling water having somewhat revived her. He secured the services of the best physician in that section, who raised the crushed skull and placed a Spanish silver dollar over the brain. She recovered and bore our great-great-great-grandfather at least three other sons, Little Bill, Major and John, Jr., commonly known as Joe Gregory.
As soon as the injured woman had proper attention, a search was instituted for "Zip," who was tracked to a "clearing" in the forest and located in a huge pile of logs which had been thrown together for the purpose of removing them by burning. He was ordered to come out of the log pile and would not for a time. Finally a fire was built at one end of the logs and "Zip" was "smoked out." He emerged from his log hide-out with a huge knife in his hand. He was quickly overpowered and carried to the Gregory home where he was hanged up by his big toes and left to die. He hanged thus for many hours, during part of which the little girl, our great-great-great-aunt, would stick splinters of wood into the fire, hold them there until they were burning and then stick them into the body of the slave, as she said, "You killed my mammy," the life of Judy hanging in the balance for days. In the seventeen nineties John died, perhaps in 1794. Later his widow and her children came to Nickojack Branch of Peyton's Creek. She is buried on part of the present Lester Earps farm, not far from Piper's school house on Nickojack. A large weeping willow stood for many years on her grave.
Gregory Cemetery, near Sycamore Valley School, Macon Co., TN
One record was: JESSE NOED GREGORY, b. Abt. 1820, Smith County, TN.
Gregory Cemetery, near Sycamore Valley School, Macon Co., TN
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Incription: Gone but no forgotten
Fay C. Leonard states on Findagrave.com
Ambrose married Lucinda Coons on Jan. 16, 1873 in Smith Co., TN. This was his second marriage. It is believed that he was married first to Sarah Susan Cleveland.
Daughter of Mr. & Mrs. J. W. Gillihan
Inscription:
A little bud of love
to bloom with God above
Some researches indicate he was born February 20, 1870 in Smith County, TN.
George W. Gammon, 91, of Bowling Green died Feb 3, 1994 at a local nursing home.
The Macon County, Tennessee native was a cabinet maker retired from Hill Motley Lumber Co. and a member of Fairview Memorial Missionary Baptist Church and Bowling Gree Masonic Lodge No. 73, F&AM.
He was a son of the late Duncan Gammon and Josie Andrews Gammon, and the husband of the late Pagie "Peggy" Shrum Gammon
Survivors include a son, P.W. Gammon of Bowling Green;
three daughters, Olvie Irene Bilbrey, Roxie Nae Craft and Connie Childers, all of Bowling Green;
a brother, Jess Gammon of Hillsdale, TN.;
16 grandchildren, 36 great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren.
Sergeant, Co I, 9th KY (US) Infantry
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Kindel O. Dickens 80 of Loudon passed away January 25, 2014 at his home. Kindel was a member of the New Bethel Baptist Church Goodlettsville, Tn and retired from Department of Defense. Preceded in death by parents, Gradie and Cordell Gregory Dickens. Survivors, wife, Wanda Edwards Dickens daughter and son-in-law, Mary Anne and James Langway of Loudon. Two grandsons, Jonathan Bagwell and wife Katie of Radford Va. Patrick Langway and Audrey Bellman of Loudon. Great-granddaughter Madalynne Langway, brother, Rieble Dickens and wife Irene of Portland Tn. Funeral services 7 p.m. Monday Loudon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Brian Courtney and Rev. Steve Allmon officiating. Interment 11 a.m. Tuesday Robinson Cemetery. family will receive friends from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday at Loudon Funeral Home. www.loudonfuneralhome.net .
Obituary and photo published by Loudon Funeral Home.
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