Jones, Lillie Mae (b. 27 DEC 1893, d. 29 JUN 1944)

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Death: 29 JUN 1944

Burial: Will Gregory Cemetery, Macon Co., TN

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Note: Albert and Margaret appear in a early pictured posted in the Macon Co., TN website with the following caption:

Here is a really neat photo if anyone is interested....

Jenny Barton's ancestors circa 1900 (picture to the right)
Standing in back row:

James Andrews, Thomas Andrews, Belle Dixon Andrews, Alice Berthie Andrews,
Charlie Green, Ercie Andrews Green

Seated in front row: James Tilman Green, Julia Andrews Green,
baby James Green, Albert Andrews, Margaret Shrum Andrews,
Jessie Andrews, Richard Andrews, Johnnie Andrews, Lucinda Dixon Andrews

Note: Sim is said to have gone to Illinois.

Note: Went to Ft. Run, Kentucky

Death: 13 MAR 1989 Crown Point, Indiana

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Note: Jid went to Arkansas.

Death: 26 NOV 1944 Lafayette, Macon Co., TN

Burial: 28 NOV 1944 Barnfield-Shrum-Andrews Cemetery

Note: May have married a Green based on the photo inscription:

Here is a really neat photo if anyone is interested....
circa 1900 (picture to the right)
Standing in back row:

James Andrews, Thomas Andrews, Belle Dixon Andrews, Alice Berthie Andrews,
Charlie Green, Ercie Andrews Green

Seated in front row: James Tilman Green, Julia Andrews Green,
baby James Green, Albert Andrews, Margaret Shrum Andrews,
Jessie Andrews, Richard Andrews, Johnnie Andrews, Lucinda Dixon Andrews

Note: Susie married Evans Wilburn. He died abt.1893-1899. They had a daughter named Lydia (liddy) Ann. She then married John Andrews and they produce other siblings. After John Andrews died, she then married/lived with a John Hoosier Shrum? The family is not sure wether they married or not. She then married Henry Drapier. They divorced after the youngest child died. Divorced 1935. - provided by gg daughter - Michelle Morrison Crow.

Death: 23 NOV 1956

Death: 28 NOV 1923

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Reference: 264

Death: 30 SEP 1852 Smith Co., TN

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Note: THOMAS SR. GREGORY was born in 1730. He died between 1811 and 1818. He was christened. Thomas Gregory Sr was deeded 200 acres of land in Halifax Co Va May 21 1767 on the South side of the Banister River. This being near the state line between Va and NC . They sold this land April 1772 he was listed as being from Meckling burg Co and moved south to Chatum Co NC 1779-1780 where he received a grant of 80 acres adjoining John Gregory his brother.

Thomas fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain Oct 7, 1780 along with Bry and William H. Thomas was a Justice of Chatum Co. in Nov 1781which proves he was a educated man. It is also said he owned 1,000 acres on Parker Creek Branch of the New Hope River 9 miles east of Pitsboro on the present road to Raliegh NC and other land near Wake Co line .

The 1790 census of Chatum Co. listed Thomas Sr,Thomas Jr ,Harden, Bry and William as heads of households . Thomas sold his land in 1797 and moved to Smith Co., TN somewhere shortly after that date. His exact arrival date is not known. Thomas was about 80 yrs old when he made his will July 13, 1811 in Smith co . His will was not probated until August 1818. His total estate worth $10,775.03 buried at Nixon Hollow. It is believed that his wife's name was ELIZABETH.

Thomas GREGORY was born about 1725 in ,Lehigh,PA. He died about 1818 in , Smith, TN. Thomas and his wife Elizabeth sold their land in Chatham Co., NC in Nov 1797 and moved to Smith County TN. Thomas was a wealthy man owning fifteen slaves in addition to other property.

Thomas Gregory was a wealthy man and his will probated in August 1818. With the final settlement in Feb of 1827, the results were $1,539.29 in cash being left to each child or heir. An inventory of the estate of Thomas Gregory, deceased, to wit: Negroes, 15, one bed and furniture, one chest, one saddle, one kettle, one dutch oven, one pair of hand irons, seven pewter plates, two dishes, two basins, and one iron pot rack.


WILL OF THOMAS GREGORY

In the name of God Amen-I Thomas Gregory, of the county of Smith and State of Tennessee, being now of perfect, sound and disposing mind and memory, but far advanced in years, and knowing that by the irreversible decrees of a wise providence, it is ordained that all mankind shall die, do hereby make and ordain this my last will and testament; by these presents revoking all former wills and testaments heretofore made by me. My will and desire is that all the property of which I may die possessed, shall as soon as practicable and convenient, after my deceased, be sold at public auction in such manner as my executors, herein after named, shall desire and direct; and after my just debts and funeral expenses are paid, the residence of my estate shall be equally divided amongst my seven children or their legal representative or representatives, to wit: HARDEN GREGORY, BRY GREGORY WILLIAM GREGORY, the children of THOMAS GREGORY, deceased; THOMAS DOUGLAS, only son and representative of SINA GREGORY, deceased, who intermarried with JOHN DOUGLAS, ELIZABETH GEORGE, wife of ISAAC GEORGE; and ABRAHAM GREGORY, all who, my will and desire is, shall share an equal portion of the proceeds of the sale of all property of what soever kind and description I may die possessed of.
My further will and desire is that if the above - named THOMAS DOUGLAS, son of Sina should die without issue, that part of the proceeds of my estate, which I have herein before bequeathed to him shall be equally divided in equal portions or parts among those already designated as my children or their issue.
Lastly, I do hereby, by these presents, nominate and appoint HARDEN GREGORY and WILLIAM GREGORY executors of this my last will and testament.
Signed, sealed and acknowledged to be the last will and testament of THOMAS GREGORY, before us, this 13th day of July, 1811. THOMAS GREGORY
181. Elizabeth ?. Children were:

i. Harden GREGORY.
ii. Bry GREGORY.
iii. Thomas GREGORY.
iv. Sina GREGORY.
v. Elizabeth GREGORY.
vi. Abraham GREGORY.
90 vii. William H GREGORY "Squire".



The above information was provided by Charles Gregory from the web site:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gregoryc/d19.htm
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Scanned in from Family Group Report obtained from cousin Kathy Lynn Gregory Pryor:

FROM A BOOK HISTORY OF SMITH CO TN. PAGE 508, HE MOVED 7 CHILDREN FROM N.C. TO SMITH COUNTY TN. AROUND 1791. MADE A WILL SMITH CO JULY-13-1811, AT THIS TIME HE HAD THE 7 CHILDREN LISTED, AND FINAL SETTLEMENT OF WAS FEB 22, 1827.AND THE AMOUNT OF $1,539.29 TO EACH CHILD. (ESTATE VALUE $10,775.03)

FROM CAL'S COLUMN BOOK, PAGE 307 FOUNDERS OF FAMILY WAS GREGORIOUS THE THIRD,SON OF ALPINE, KING OF SCOTLAND, FROM THE YEAR 1832-TIL-1836. THEY ORIGINATED ON THE SHORES OF LOCK LOMOND, SCOTLAND. AND CAME TO AMERICAN SHORES LARGELY FROM NORTH IRELAND. RICHARD GREGORY WAS THE FIRST TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC ON THE SHIP, THE TERMERANNCE, IN 1620, ARRIVING IN JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA. FROM THERE, THE FAMILY WENT TO THE HILLSBORO DISTRICT OF CHATHAM COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, AND THEN TO SMITH COUNTY, TN. (PEYTON'S CREEK) IN THE AUTUMN OF 1791. THIS WAS WILLIAM H.6REGORY (SQUIRE BILL) AND THEN WAS FOLLOWED BY HIS FATHER, THOMAS GREGORY.

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From Cal's Column

Cal's Column - March 13, 1947 by Elder Calvin Garvin Gregory (1891-1957) well known Baptist Minister and former editor and publisher of the Macon County Times, Lafayette, Tennessee

On the third Sunday in February, we took dinner with Dick Ballou, of the Mace's Hill section, three miles northeast of Dixon Springs, in Smith County. Actually he resides on the head of Nickojack Branch, which rises across the hill from the Mace's Hill school and church, his being the third farm from the head of the branch. This farm is the place owned by the editor's grandfather, Stephen Calvin Gregory, for whom ye editor was named. Here on this farm was ban our father, known to his friends and acquaintances as Dopher Gregory, but given the name of Thomas Morgan Gregory. His mother was the former Miss Sine Gregory, who was a third cousin of the man she married. Her father was named Thomas Gregory, whose father was also Thomas Gregory, and his father was Thomas Gregory born about 1730 in Chatham County, North Caroline o The editor' s father's second name, Morgan, was most probably given him for General John H. Morgan, although there is a possibility that he might have taken that name from his father' s great-grandmother, Judy Morgan, who married John Gregory about 1750. As we stopped over at this old place, where our father was born on January 4 1862, and where he lived until the spring of 1891, many memories of events of the past came to us. Some of these we knew about from personal knowledge, but most of them were told to us in the long ago. As we started into the Ballou home, we noticed that the steps were in part made of the arch stones of the old home, which had a tall, rock chimney. As we sat foot on the old arch rock, we paused long enough to tell our host for the day that about 80 years ago, our grandfather, Calvin Gregory, suffered an accident in which the arch rocks had a part. He was one of those poor men who are always bumping their heads, hardly ever being able to go into a barn or other places where there is a convenient place to hit his head without having such an accident. On this occasion more than three-fourths of a century ago, the editor's uncle, William J. Gregory, known in later life as "Bill Cat" Gregory, was a lad of some ten to twelve years and "gifted" with no ability to control himself when something funny happened. In fact this characteristic followed him through life, he being one of the "funniest" and "laughingest" men we have ever known. On the morning in which the arch stones had a part, our grandfather had arisen and discovered that all the fire he had was one life coal in the huge fireplace. There were no matches in those days and the one live coal had to be nurtured carefully or there would be no fire until flint and steel could be used with a little tow and punk or dry wood, or else go to a neighbor and borrow fire." On this particular morning, Grandpap, as we called him in our early life, knelt down and blew and blew on that one live coal in an effort to start a fire. As he raised up from prolonged "blowing," he struck the back of his head a resounding blow against the arch. "Bill Cat," lying in saw what had happened and also heard his father's loud groans as he clasped his aching with both hands. The s "funny box" was completely turned over and he let put a "Ha, Ha," which told long ago he could not help. His angry parent with his head painfully hurt, rushed back to the bed where the laughing son lay, and in the words of "Bill Cat," "he lacked to have beaten me to death through the covers."

About the same time another episode happened in that big room and involved the same father and his laughing son. This time the father and his son were up early and trying to dress in the darkness just before dawn. The father was one of those men who their work clothes on the floor when undressing night. While the sleepy son was putting on his clothes, his father searching for the clothing he had placed on the floor. In so doing he failed to see one of the old fashioned chairs with little turned, pointed knobs at the top of the back posts. As he went down, that same unfortunate head that had collided with hundreds of other objects, struck the back post of one of the chairs, the pointed knob hitting the old man just above one eye and under the part. of the forehead that protrudes over and protects the eye. He grabbed his head with both hands, went round and round, and groaned as if he had suffered a mortal injury. The son' s funny side was again awakened and he let out a loud "Ha, Ha," and started running toward the rear end of big 20-foot room, with his father in hot pursuit. Just before the son reached the end of the room, the irate father, who was barefooted, gave the son, so he once told us, the hardest kick he ever had in his entire life. The blow was so hard that the father's big toe was broken and the laughing son ceased to laugh for a time. He also stated to the writer that he did not care one whit if his father did break his toe, for, said he, "I could not help laughing." Knowing him as we did for many, many years, we rather doubt if he tried very hard to hold back his laughter.

On another occasion this same son pulled quite a stunt on his dad. This was during plow time and the father had eaten his dinner and had gone into the yard to a large, old locust tree and had leaned back against this tree to rest for a time, telling "Bill Cat" to go to the stable and bring back the old mare for the afternoon's plowing. In putting the bridle on the mare, the son happened to leave one of the mare' s ears under the headstall. The boy decided that it was such an unusual sight that he would place the other ear in the same position. So he put the headstall over both ears, which gave the mare the appearance of having her ears laid back, which is the position of the ears of such animals when they are very angry and are about to bite somebody. The youth, with his sides shaking with laughter, led the old mare over to his father, who had gone to sleep by this time. The youth brought the mare up to where she stood just over her master, whom the son awakened by saying, "Here's your mare." Awakening out of his slumber and seeing the old mare standing over him with both ears laid back flat against the top of her head, the farmer naturally thought he was in the act of being bitten by an enraged mare. He began to holler out, "Whoa, whoa," as he reached for a stone with his left hand. When he saw the trick played by his son, he regained his composure, but the son laughed and laughed and for years afterward, got a real kick out of telling of the episode.

On our trip to this old farm, we noticed that the old white ash flooring over which we romped 45 years ago in the "big room" of the old house, long since tarn down, was to be found in the porch of the Ballou home. It looked just as it did nearly half a century ago. Just up the hillside from the site of the old home were some large rocks lying in a field. of these weigh perhaps several tons and are reported to have come tumbling down from a huge row of bluffs far up the hillside in 1811 when this section was shaken by the earthquake that formed Reelfoot Lake in West Tennessee. The editor's great-great grandfather, Jerry Gregory, who lived just dawn the valley from our old home place, became so badly alarmed over the rolling down of huge stones and logs during the earthquake that he is reported to have started back to his old home in the Hillsboro District of Chatham County, North Carolina, on foot, distance of perhaps 800 miles. Just how far he got, we do not know. A quarter of a mile below cur grandfather's old home is a spring that still flows with large clear stream. At this spring about 150 years ago, Jerry Gregory laid down his rifle and knelt down to drink from the flowing waters of this fine spring. As he lay down, he had a feeling that something was watching him. He glanced up quickly to see large panther, "painter" as they were called then, in a tree just over the spring. The animal was even then placing his feet the spring upon the kneeling man. However, the lead was never made for Gregory seized his trusty rifle and fired, the "painter" falling down from the tree dead.

But back to the old home. Here our father and all his nine brothers and sisters were born. Here they spent their childhood, attending school now and then. Our father went to school for only a short time, getting over to "baker," in the old "Blueback Speller." He did not learn to read to do any good nor could he write his name until he was 21 years of age. At that tine in his life, he had to sign some legal instrument with his mark, which so embarrassed him that in spite of his being grown, he began to study in earnest, and became a good reader and fair penmen. However, the editor taught his father all the arithmetic he ever knew, our dad learning to add, subtract, and multiply but not being very good at dividing. During our visit to the Ballou family, we visited the old spring from which our Lather drank in the days of long ago. We also bowed down and drank from the same "sweet" waters which flow on, although those who drank there in the distant past have long since "gone the way of all the earth." Then there was the old hand-dug well, near the house. It was the first of that kind we ever saw and we gazed into it 50 years ago with awe and dread. We still recall the image our head made in the waters far below. The old well is now covered over with a large, flat stone and is no longer used. It was dug by the editor's grandfather's half-brother, Tom Gregory, who was born in 1825.

As we walked about the old place, memory brought back many scenes of a long time ago. We recalled with a smile our father' s selection of a rooster among the early chicks set off by his mother. He named this chicken John, and watched his pet grow and grow. But John refused to crow and eventually began to lay, the little fellow having made a selection of a pullet instead of a rooster. We recalled also how that our own dear father found a young crow more than 60 years ago, making a pet of the bird. Brought up about the house, the crow would sometimes fly away for a brief tine o But he came hurrying home when other crows gave chase. But the crow developed the bad habit of eating eggs and would raise a terrible ruckus with the hens o One day our father, who was a crack shot with the old-fashioned, muzzle-loading rifle, fired a shot toward the hen house just to frighten the egg-eating crow. But the bullet found its mark and the crow lay dead when our dad went to investigate.

'Twas here on October 7, 1890, our father brought home a blushing bride in the person of the former Miss Marietta Ballou. He was then 28 years of age and his bride, whom he had met only three months before, was 22 . She had Lair education for her day and time and also was blest with the most remarkable memory have ever known. She was very quiet and reserved, a lover of home and the best cook we ever knew. With a little money she had inherited, father bought a small farm a mile west of the old hone place and over the hill on the sun set side. It had not a building and hardly any fencing. Our Lather cut with an axe the huge poplar trees needed to furnish timber for a house, carried the logs to mill had the lumber sawed for the framing and then dressed the Weatherboarding and ceiling by hand and erected little home. He and our mother moved into this hone in spring of 1891 Here on Wednesday morning, July 8th following, ye editor was born, the first of ten children three sons and seven daughters.

We hope that these pictures of the past, with a number amusing episodes, have not wearied our readers. We are not boasting about thing, for there is no room for boasting. 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 cone from France to England in the year 1066 when he fought in the battle of Hastings under William, the Conqueror.

These bits of family history are not given with any desire to appear smart, but as mere historical items that may be of interest to some reader. If you enjoy them, we might add to them from time to time.

We know that there are times when one must be serious, but we also feel that there is a time when laughter may be enjoyed. So we mix up our articles, some of them being serious and others in a lighter vein. Anyway we feel that if we can lift a burden from some sorrowing heart, or cause a ray of sunshine, or a smile of joy to come to some troubled soul, we have not labored altogether
in vain.

Information from Greg A. Tomerlin:

Thomas B. GREGORY born 1730, Halifax Co., VA, married (1) ABT 1750, Susannah BENTON, married (2) 4 Jul 1767, in Chowan Co., NC, Mary Elizabeth BENTON. Thomas died 1818, Smith Co., TN, buried: 1818, Smith Co., TN.
(NOTE--- HE SHOWS THAT THOMAS WAS MARRIED TWICE: the first marriage to Susannah Benton, then 17 years latter to Mary Elizabeth Benton. We can assume that Mary Elizabeth was Susannah's sister. Or, as in the case of our ancestor Huston Ray Miller, Sr., who married his widowed Sister-in-law, which explained the same surname for the women. It appears that all his children listed here were had with Susannah, with the exception of Mary Polly.)

Thomas B. GREGORY born 1730, Halifax Co., VA, married (1) ABT 1750, Susannah BENTON, married (2) 4 Jul 1767, in Chowan Co., NC, Mary Elizabeth BENTON. Thomas died 1818, Smith Co., TN, buried: 1818, Smith Co., TN.
(NOTE--- HE SHOWS THAT THOMAS WAS MARRIED TWICE: the first marriage to Susannah Benton, then 17 years latter to Mary Elizabeth Benton. We can assume that Mary Elizabeth was Susannah's sister. Or, as in the case of our ancestor Huston Ray Miller, Sr., who married his widowed Sister-in-law, which explained the same surname for the women. It appears that all his children listed here were had with Susannah, with the exception of Mary Polly.)

I. Hardin Harley GREGORY (son of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) born 1751, Chatham Co., NC, married (1) in Chatham Co., NC, Hannah CURTIS, born 1751, died 1773, married (2) Lucretia COX. Hardin died 4 Jun 1830, Limestone Co., AL.

II. Major GREGORY (son of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) born North Carolina, died 1830, Robertson Co., TN.

III. Elizabeth GREGORY (daughter of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) born 1759, Virginia, married AFT 1791, Isaac GEORGE, born Virginia, (son of Presley GEORGE and Mary UNKNOWN) died ABT DEC 1845, Wilson Co., TN, buried: ABT DEC 1845, Wilson Co., TN. Elizabeth died ABT 1811, Sumner Co., TN.

IV. Abraham GREGORY (son of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) born 1759, North Carolina, married Sarah HAWKINS. Abraham died 1820, Robertson Co., TN.

V. Thomas GREGORY Jr. (son of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) born BET 1760 AND 17, North Carolina, married 18 Oct 1787, in Granville Co., NC, Phobe JONES. Thomas died ABT 1807, Surrey Co., NC.

VI. Bry GREGORY (son of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) born ABT 1761, Chatham Co., NC, married in Chatham Co., NC, Christine Elizabeth AUSTIN. Bry died 6 Jan 1846, Pleasant Shade, Smith Co., TN, buried: JAN 1846, Smith Co., TN.

A. Mary "Polly" GREGORY born 1785, Chatham Co., NC, married Malachi SHOULDERS, born ABT 1780, died BEF OCT 1839, Smith Co., TN. Mary died 1846, Smith Co., TN.

VII. William Henry GREGORY (son of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) born MAY 1764, Lynchburg, VA, married Martha BLEDSOE. William died 30 Sep 1852, Nixon Hollow, Smith Co., TN.

VIII. Joseph GREGORY (son of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) born ABT 1767, married Mary "Polly" BYRD.

IX. Louisana GREGORY (daughter of Thomas B. GREGORY and Susannah BENTON) married John Levi DOUGLAS.

Death: 1818 Nixon Hollow, Peyton Creek, Smith County, TN

Death: 20 JAN 1890 Smith Co., Tennessee

Burial: Nabors Cemetery, Gordonsville, Smith Co. TN

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Death: 1775 NC

Death: 6 FEB 1993