William GREGORY

  General Notes:

1838 BIRTH of William Gregory

1840 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (William was one of two males under age 5 in his parents' household)

1850 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township (September 9) ("William," age 12, with parents) (In 1850 the Gregory family lived next door to Charles Allum and, next door to Charles, Jonathan Allum)

1860 CENSUS, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Morris Township, P. O. Day's Store (July 20) ("Wm.," age 22, "Merchant," is in the household of Amos and Jane Vanscyoc)

1861 MARRIAGE of William Gregory and Lucinda Rush on September 14, 1861

1863 REGISTRATION, Civil War Draft, Pennsylvania, Greene County, Richhill Township, 24th Congressional District (May & June) ("William Gregory," age 25, "Farmer," married, born in Pennsylvania) (Class 1)

1865 CENSUS, Illinois State Census, LaSalle County, Edeb Township (July 3) ("W." Gregory with 1 male and three females)

1870 CENSUS, Illinois, LaSalle County, Vermillion Township, P. O. Lowell (no date on census page) ("Wm.," age 32, "Farmer") (wife "Lucinda," age 30) (four children)

1880 CENSUS, Illinois, LaSalle County, Vermillion Township (June 15) ("William," age 42, "Carpenter") (wife "Lucinda," age 41) (nine children)

DEATH, William Gregory

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1900 CENSUS, Illinois, LaSalle County, Deer Park Township (June 5) ("Lucinda," age 60, born "December, 1839 in Pennsylvania," is head of the household with three children additional persons in the residence) (Lucinda is documented as the mother of 9 children, 8 children living in the year 1900)

1910 CENSUS, Illinois, LaSalle County, Eden Township, Tonica (April 15) ("Lucinda R.," age 70, widow, "Housekeeper, Private Home," is in the household of Martha E. McFerson, age 79) (Once again, Lucinda is documented as the mother of 9 children, 8 children living in the year 1910)

1918 DEATH of wife, Lucinda (Rush) Gregory, at 78 years 3 months 5 days



Documenting William Gregory is to illustrate that he (along with his parents) migrated from Greene County, Pennsylvania to LaSalle County, Illinois, between 1860 and 1870.

William married Lucinda RUSH, daughter of David RUSH and Anngelina LEONARD, on September 14, 1861. (Lucinda RUSH was born on December 11, 1839 in Pennsylvania, died on March 16, 1918 in Lowell, La Salle County, Illinois and was buried in Lowell, La Salle County, Illinois.)