Andrews, Willis Elijah (b. , d. ?)

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23319

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23320

Note: from Larry Chesebro records.

Death: 10 FEB 1964

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23325

Death: UNKNOWN

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23326

Death: UNKNOWN

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23327

Death: UNKNOWN

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23329

Note: Place of burial is unknown. She died at the age of 79 at her home in the Gap of the Ridge Community about 6 o'clock on Friday morning.

Obituary:

Mrs. Vina Andrews Dies At the Gap of the Ridge

After having been ill for some time from a heart ailment and complications, Mrs. Vina Andrews, aged 79 years, died at the home of her son, Will Andrews, in the Gap of the Ridge section, at six o’clock Friday morning. She was the widow of the late Elijah Andrews, who died 16 years ago. Surviving are four sons, Elder Aubrey Andrews, of the Campitt Hollow; Will, with who she made here home; Jack Andrews of the Echo section; and Bud Andrews of Rocky Mount; three daughters, Mrs. Maggie Sanders of Westmoreland; Mrs. Lonie Higdon of near Lafayette; and Mrs. Mary Hudson, of R. 1, Dixon Springs; one brother, Wade Woods, of R. 1, Lafayette; and a large number of grandchildren.
The remains were laid to rest Saturday afternoon a Meadorville, following funeral services conducted by Elder W. T. Taylor. She was a good woman and had been a member of the Meadorville Baptist church for many years.

Note: Emogene/Imogene was given the Jamison Family Bible that originally belonged to Minnie Shipp Jamison.

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23332

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23337

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23338

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23339

Death: 24 NOV 1970 Roark Cemetery, Lafayette, TN

Source: (Name)
Title: Cothern Records
Media: Other

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Oct 2, 2001

Death: 14 FEB 1945 Butler Cemetery

Note: Cause of Death: Myocardial infarction Christening: buried in Haysville Cemetery, Macon County, TN
Steogen was a baptist minister, publisher of the Macon County Times and buried Haysville Cemetery, Macon County, TN

Stephen Calvin Gregory - minister, educator, genealogist, newspaper publisher, civic and political leader. Cal was born July 8, 1891,the son of Thomas Morgan (Dopher) and Marietta Ballou Gregory. He was the eldest of ten children - three boys and seven girls.The family lived in the Mace’s Hill community of northwestern Smith County between Dixon Springs and Pleasant Shade, Tennessee.

He was the great-great-great grandson of Thomas Gregory, who with his sons, William and Bry settled in the Nixon Hollow between Carthage and Pleasant Shade in the 1790s. Calvin Gregory also descended from John Gregory, a brother to the above mentioned, Thomas Gregory. These Gregory's all migrated from Chatham County, North Carolina. Another of Calvin Gregory’s ancestors was Leonard Ballou (his great-great grandfather), who settled near the confluence of Big and Little Peyton’s Creek near Pleasant Shade in 1808.

Calvin, as he preferred to be called, rarely used his first name. He was named in honor of his paternal grandfather, Stephen Calvin Gregory. Calvin was an extraordinary individual having unusual scholarship abilities. ( In 1957, he was nominated and selected to appear on the television series, "The $64,000 Question", but died prior to his scheduled appearance.)

He began his education at Mace’s Hill school in about 1898 and later recieved outstanding scholastic success at Bowling Green Business university, in Kentucky. After returning home, he taught school at Dean Hill (Defeated Creek area), Mace’s Hill, Scanty Branch (near Dixon Springs), Kittrell’s (near Pleasant Shade) and perhaps other locations. He was a mail carrier from Pleasant Shade for about three years starting in 1916.

In 1912, Calvin was married to Miss Mai Gammon and they became the parents of two children, Lawrence and Meddie. Shortly thereafter, Calvin lost both of his parents and in 1914 assumed the awesome responsibility of rearing and caring for four of his sisters ranging in age from seven to sixteen. These sisters all remained with him until they married with the last one leaving in 1929. During this time, Calvin endured the pain of losing his wife Mai to cancer in 1926. Later, he married Miss Ethel Gann but she also died (along with a newborn son) as a result of childbirth complications in 1928.In 1930, Calvin was married for the third time to Miss Betty Jenkins who presently lives at Lafayette, Tn. From this marriage, they became the parents of three children, Leonard, Charles and Sue Gregory. Two of Calvin’s children still survive, Meddie Wilburn of Indianapolis, Indiana and Leonard Gregory of Richmond, Texas.

Calvin Gregory professed faith in Jesus Christ at age 18 and united with Mt. Tabor Baptist Church. In 1914, he was ordained as a Baptist minister by this church which is located near Pleasant Shade. Here began one of themost successful ministries of any Baptist minister in Middle Tennessee. During his ministerial life, he pastored more than fifty churches and was instrumental in organizing Mace’s Hill Baptist Church in 1917. He served until the time of his death as the first pastor of this church which spanned forty years. At one time in his career, he was the pastor of seven churches,simultaneously. He baptised thousands into numerous Baptist churches, conducted more than 3000 funerals and married over 1200 couples. He was an avid debater in religious discussions encountering many leaders of other religious denominations. Calvin was clerk of the Enon Baptist Associationfor forty years and was a much sought after revivalist, having conducted revivals in all three divisions of Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia.

During the late 1920s, he was a correspondent for the Carthage Courier and Nashville Banner newspapers and put his home town of Pleasant Shade "on the map" through his reporting of the local news events. He was also the agent for Macon, Smith and Trousdale counties for the "Newspaper Printing Corporation of Nashville". In 1930, he bought one-half interest in the Macon County Times, Lafayette, Tn. and in 1937 assumed full control of the "Times", developing it into one of the top weekly newspapers in the state. Under his direction as editor and publisher, the Times grew to a circulation of more than 4000 and ranked as the third largest in circulation of any weekly newspaper in Tennessee. His popular "Cal’s Column" section of the Macon County Times was devoted to genealogy and research on the history of the Upper Cumberland area of northern Middle Tennessee. He was widely recognized as a genealogical expert and researched hundreds of families and published the results in his column. At one point in his career, Calvin was asked by United States Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, to travel with him to Europe (he respectfully declined) to research his family history. His work has been listed as a reference source for genealogical research and is well known by genealogists throughout the United States. In addition to his Baptist ministry and newspaper work, Calvin gave extensively of his time to civic activities. He was elected to and served for many years on the Macon Co. Quarterly Court. He was instrumental in the court’s voting to build the Macon County High School. As president of the North Central Telephone Cooperative, Inc., dial telephone service was made available to Macon, parts of Smith, Trousdale and Sumner Counties of Tennessee and Allen County , Kentucky in the early 1950s. In 1981 he was honored, posthumously, by being elected to the Tennessee Newspaper Hall of Fame, joining 26 other former newspaper individuals so honored. Calvin Gregory touched the lives of thousands of people in the Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky area. He maintained a standard in his religious practices, service to his community, ethics, integrity and intellect that only a few people could approach. His outstanding life was cut short near the zenith of his career and had he survived to a ripe old age one can only wonder what other contributions he might have made to his community and fellow citizens. He died on November 16, 1957 in Lafayette at age 66 after suffering a heart attack. Preceding him in death earlier the same year was his son, Lawrence, who died as a result of an automobile accident. Calvin’s funeral was held in the Macon County High School gymnasium where approximately 3000 people attended. He was buried in the Haysville Cemetery in Macon County. Leonard C. Gregory 1986 (Additional information by Thomas D. Dickerson 2000)
From "Cal's Column": "On our father's side of the house, we were what might be called "Hill Billies," our ancestors having been dwellers among the hills since the Gregory family was founded in the ninth century in the mountains of North Scotland. Our mother's people were originally from Normandy, in Northern France, the first of the family having come from France to England in the year 1066 when he fought in the battle of Hastings under William the Conqueror" and more from the column: ". The editor was born on July 8, 1891, a hot, sultry Wednesday morning about sunrise. Dr. S.C. Bridgewater was the attending physician. I weighed nine pounds at birth and was normal in every respect although some may think that I was weak mentally and never recovered from same. I was given the name of Stephen Calvin Gregory, for my father’s father, who bore the same name. He was born on October 30, 1827, and married his third cousin, Miss Sina Gregory, when he was about twenty-five years of age. My father, who was the fourth child born to this couple, was born Jan. 4, 1862. My grandfather, Stephen Calvin Gregory, had an uncle, Stephen Gregory, a brother of his father, Major Gregory. Just where the name Calvin, came from we do not know, as our grandfather was the first of our family who wore it so far as we have been able to learn, and we have traced the family back through 1,100 years of time. The first of the Gregory family to come to America was Richard Gregory,
who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1620. We have the name of the ship on which he crossed the Atlantic to America from North Ireland, but had previously come to Ireland from Scotland where the family originated on the shores of Loch Lomand in the ninth century. "
and again: "In the Gregory line of descent, we have found that Rob Roy, the old Scotch freebooter, was a distant relative of ours, and was Sir Walter Scott's hero in his tale, with the title of "Rob Roy." East of Loch Lomond in Northern Scotland lies a section still known as the "Rob Roy country." On the shores of Lock Lomond, the Gregory family had its origin in the ninth century. " and still more: "The first of the Gregory family to come to America was Richard Gregory, who arrived at Jamestown, Virginia in 1620. We name of the ship on which he crossed the Atlantic to America from North Ireland, but had previously come to Ireland from Scotland where the family originated on the shores of Loch Lomand in the ninth century."

Death: 16 NOV 1957 Haysville Cemetery, Macon Co., TN

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23346

Death: UNKNOWN

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23351

Death: 2 FEB 1957

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23352

Death: 13 FEB 1965

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23353

Death: 29 JAN 1938

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23354

Note: Some account give name as Lou Vangie Alice Andrews.

Death: 23 JUN 1936

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Source: (Name)
Title: Family Records
Author: Jamison & Andrews Family
Media: Letter

Note: Good

Data:
Text: Date of Import: Jul 27, 2001

Reference: 23355

Note: Hanna Elizabeth is who we always called "Aunt Elizabeth". She was a school teacher. Never married. Lived in Nashville, TN until she died. After teaching she retired working for the Department of Agriculture.
Aunt Elizabeth's had an uncle Larkin Willis who gave(willed) her father/Tom a farm because he took care of him until he died. She was last of her siblings to die and the only one we have memories.

Death: 5 NOV 1987 Nashville, TN