Volume 6 , Issue 27

Warwick/Gregory Genealogy...

"I thought you might be interested in a bit of the story of David Gregory and Margaret Warwick Gregory.  They were my great-great-great-great-grandparents. Their grave markers are located in LeSourdsville, Butler County, Ohio (within the 412 acres of their original homestead).  I have photo's of the markers that were taken in 1928, and have just recently visited to find that David Gregory's original marker is no longer readable, but Margaret's is still in very good shape.  At the time the 1928 photo was taken, I believe that the descendants who took the photo, reset the original markers in concrete and had an additional marker placed.
      There are two newspaper articles about the family and the story of their settlement in the Ohio Territory, which I can scan and send to you if you are interested.
     In brief,  the following was written by my great-grandmother Sophia Bartmess Gregory (great-granddaughter of David and Margaret Gregory) in 1947, when she was 85 years old:   "My great grandfather David Gregory and his brother William came west to Kentucky with Daniel Boone.  They left the party and went north to the Ohio Territory and took homesteads on the Miami River above Fort Hamilton.  The creek on the farm was named Gregory Creek. Anthony Wayne had his soldiers at the fort to protect the early settlers from the Indians.  He was a personal friend of David and Margaret Gregory."
     David's original marker is no longer intact, but I have the inscription from the 1928 photo: David Gregory, Died Feby 9, 1802, Aged 34 years - Here lies the man never known to falter When sickness and death drew on the halter But like the Samaritan by the Divine He poured on the balsam the oil and the wine.
      Margaret's inscription reads: Margaret, Wife of David Gregory, Died Aug. 12, 1821, Aged 66 years - Here lies the woman the first save one Settled on Miami above Fort Hamilton Her table was spread and that of the best And Anthony Wayne was often her guest." -- Tracey Saucy, Salem, Oregon - Email: T.Saucy@comcast.net
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