Notes |
- Allen Wiley Gregory (21 June 1862 ? 12 November 1907), was the first son of David C. and Martha Ann Smith Gregory. He was born near Jena, Greene County, Alabama. David was called Davey in his father?s letters to Martha. David Allen moved his family to De Leon, Comanche County, Texas first. He was followed by his full brother, Richard D.S. and his two half-brothers, William Robert and Elija G. Reg Gregory wrote: ?As a 5 year old boy my father, Curtis, remembers moving to Texas on a chartered train that carried his family, relatives and friends from Lafayette and Pontotoc Counties, MS, to settle as pioneers in northern Comanche County, TX.? By 1904, David was elected official of Comanche County. At the age of 45, David died of scarlet fever, on the old McCaren farm on Hwy 16, south of De Leon, Comanche County, Texas, and is buried in Oliver Springs Cemetery, Texas. David married Minerva Eugenia Crow (March 1868-1936) near Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi on 16 February 1884. She was called Ginger and Jean in family letters. After the death of David, she married J.F. (Frank) Bassett in 1914 and moved to Cisco, TX. In her later years, she suffered from advanced diabetes, and died in 1936. She is buried in the Cisco, TX cemetery. David Allen and Minerva (Ginger) had eight children: Annie Belle, (2 March 1888, Miss.); Curtis Bryant; Hugh B., (December 1893, Miss.); Martha Effye, (26 June 1895, Miss.); Pearle Marie (February 1898, Texas); Maudie Mae (16 August 1902); Minnie Lee (2 March 1905); Charles (ca. 1906).
|