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Gregory Mordecai [Female]
Cal's Column: "Mordecai Gregory was fatally injured by the accidental discharge of a shotgun in the hands of another youth. This occurred about 45 years ago. The youth who lost his life was the son of Mr. And Mrs. Peyton Gregory, who later moved to the vicinity of Lafayette, buying a farm near Brattontown. This youth’s life could have perhaps been saved in people then had known how to cord a leg to prevent bleeding to death. By the time a doctor arrived, the youth was too far gone to live. He was shot in the leg above the knee, the bone being broken and a large blood vessel or artery being severed. Peyton Gregory, the son of William H. Gregory, a brother of Bry Gregory."
(45 years ago being about 1900)
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Cal's Column:
"Arch enlisted in the Federal Army and had come home sick and disabled. Before he had had time to regain his health, several of the guerrillas that were numerous at that time, came down off the high hill to the rear of the house. Their leader was Buck Smith, perhaps the most noted or shall we say? the most notorious, of all the guerrillas that infested North Middle Tennessee. He had entered the Southern Army at the tender age of 16 and had been discharged later when his correct age was ascertained. He had had enough of army life to make him like it and when he came home, he felt it was his duty to punish those whose sympathies were with the North or those who had enlisted in the United States Army. Consequently he was on the lookout for Jenkins. In spite of all Jenkins’ protests, Smith and his cohorts carried Jenkins away from his wife and children, who were never to see him alive again. A rope was placed about the neck of Jenkins and he was led from home on down Peyton’s Creek on foot while his tormentors were on their swift horses. Jenkins was led down by the present Pleasant Shade, thence to Graveltown, two miles further south, and there the party turned off the main stream and went up the "Bishop Hollow." At the very head of this valley there lived a man named Knight. Here the party halted and Smith demanded that Mrs. Knight prepare a meal for him and his gang. She did this, finding time when the guerrillas were not looking to tell Jenkins he had better get away as she was sure that he was going to be killed. Jenkins encountered his danger and also added that he could not hope to escape as he was too sick to be able to escape by fleeing or running. After eating, Buck Smith and the remainder of the gang took Jenkins to the top of the hill above the old Knight place, and we have seen the old home a number of times, and then proceeded to slay Jenkins, whose only fault was that he had been in the Union Army. Smith made Jenkins mount a stump on the very top of the ridge that divides the waters of Peyton’s Creek from those of Defeated Creek. Then at the point of a gun, Jenkins was forced to crow like a rooster and was then shot off the stump by Smith, who left his body to lie where it fell, disdaining even to letting Jenkins’ family know of his fate.
Days later a man named West, who resided on the Defeated Creek side of the ridge, saw buzzards about the top of the hill and investigated, finding the bones of Jenkins, the flesh having been eaten away by the vultures. He managed to get word to Jenkins’ family, who went to the scene and identified him as the missing husband and father, identification being made by his shoes which had remained intact. The bones were gathered together and carried to the present Will Gregory Cemetery, near Sycamore Valley, this county where they laid him to rest.
s/o Joseph R. "Joe Red" Gregory & Nancy Elizabeth Brawner.
Death certificate states he was a farmer and died of the Spanish Influenza.
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Title: Cothern Records
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Wiley Clemons
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Title: Family Records
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Title: Family Records
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Title: Family Records
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Inscription:
Tennessee, PFC, 23 Infantry, World War
Preacher of unknown denomination
Her Fathers' full name was Columbus Joshua "Lum" Oliver.
Her Mothers' full name was Betty Smith Oliver.
Two siblings preceded her in death. They were Vestal Oliver (buried at Sloans Cemetery in Pleasant Shade, TN.), and Dorothy Oliver Carver.
She had 4 siblings.
She had 5 sons and 2 daughters
Neftie Alexander Gammon, age 94, of Lafayette, TN, passed away on Saturday, July 12, 2008.
Neftie Alexander Gammon was born on Thursday, November 13, 1913, in Macon County, TN, born one of eight siblings to the late Sam and Cammie Rosemary Gregory Gammon. On March 31, 1933, he married Nettie Gertrude Holland, who preceded him in death. Besides his wife and parents, he was preceded in death by: three brothers; Obra Gammon, Ethlie Gammon, and Cordis Gammon, and three sisters; Lola Fishburn, Zelma Cherry, and Evelle Moss.
Neftie Gammon was a farmer, a truck driver for Smith Brothers Feed Mill, and a member of Maple Grove Missionary Baptist Church # 2.
He is survived by: a son and daughter-in-law, Brother Jerry and Barbara Gammon of Lafayette, TN, a daughter, Virginia Carter of Lafayette,TN, one brother Lymon Gammon of Indianapolis, IN, three grandchildren; Beverly Reid, Richie Gammon, and Doug Gammon, and five great-grandchildren; Katie Reid, Ethan Reid, Zakk Gammon, Haylee Gammon, and Hunter Gammon.
Burial was in the Macon County Memorial Gardens.
J. B. was a retired minister of University Church of Christ.
PVT Co F TENN MTD INF
Will Gregory Cemetery, Macon Co., TN
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Cal's Column December 22, 1949
On another occasion, our good friend of other years, Uncle Willie Kemp,the father of Marlin , Jesse, Wylie, and Harvey Kemp, lived then on theupper part of Peyton's Creek in this count y, at the same place nowoccupied pied by Harvey Kemp. He had not long before built a large fe edbarn, one shed of which had eaves that were only about six feet from theground. One Christm as day when the Kemp fami ly was all away from home,our good friend, Henry Oldham, later on e of our leading Baptistministers, and a number of youthful buddies, passed by the Kemp home. Noticing that nobody was at home and se eing the new barn and also therunning gear of a bran d new two-horse wagon, Oldham said, "Boys, let'stake Uncle Willie's wagon on top of his new b arn and put it together andleave it there." This sui ted his buddies to a "t" and they procee ded todismount from their horses or mules and began to work with a zeal worthyof a better cau se. They took the wagon wheels off, uncoupled the frontaxle from the rear, took out the wago n tongue and lifted and draggedparts of the wagon th the top of the barn. The axles and hound s werecarried up first, then the wheels and on the very top of the barn theyassembled the wag on piece by piece, with the front wheels of the wagon onone side of the comb or top of the ba rn, and the hind wheels on theopposite side of the roof. This left the wagon in a posit io n from whichit would not fall or dislodge itself. To complete the job, the boyspulled up th e wagon tongue and put it into position, the tongue extendingout into the air many feet abov e the ground . The boys rode away, perhapswithout a twinge of consciences hurting them.
When the owner returned home, one of the first things to greet hissight was that new re d wagon on the very top of his new barn. He goondecided that the only thing to do was to cal l in his neigh bors, whofreely cane and helped to remove, `piece by piece, that new wagon th athad spent the night on the top of the barn. Uncle Willies got a greatkick out of this and d id not seek to retaliate a gainst the pranksters inany way whatever. It was all just a part o f the fun and jolliness ofobserving Christmas in the years that have gone, we suppose, foreve r.
Inscription:
Savior lead me
Ida Gregory Beasley
Wife of J.M. Beasley
Having finished life's duty
She now sweetly rests
Inscription:
We shall meet to part no more on the everlasting shore
Born Jackson City Tn. December 25, 1876 and Date of Death: January 18, 1957 R# 2 Gallatin, TN Spouse's Name: Bell Gregory Father's Name & Birth Place: Campbell Reed Mother Eunice Hale
Inscription:
Beloved mother
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