William Buchanan Gragg (1783 - 1856)

Born 20 Jun 1783 in Albemarle, Virginia, United States

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Died 1856 at about age 72 in Johns River Township, Caldwell, North Carolina, United States

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Biography

William Buchanan "Buck" Gragg was born Jun. 20, 1783 in Albemarle County, Virginia, USA. His parents were William Gragg and Betty Pulliam, He passed away in 1856 in Johns River, Caldwell County, North Carolina.^[1][2][3][4]

Gragg Family

William Gragg was of Irish descent and settled, first, in West Virginia, from which he came with his wife, born Elizabeth Pulliam, to John’s river, Caldwell County, soon after the Revolutionary War, in which he had been a soldier under Washington, having fought from the first to the last battle of the war. Their children were: John, born September 7, 1781, in Virginia; William, Obediah, Robert, James, Benjamin, Susan and Elizabeth. Of these, John married, first, Elizabeth Majors, and, second, Susannah Barrier. The children by the first marriage were: Tilmon, John, Tipton, Major, Elisha, Nelson and Hamilton. Those by the second marriage were Harvey, Empsey, Alexander and William Waightstill. There was one daughter by the first marriage, Nicie, and six by the second, Irene, Elvira, Margaret, Eliza and twins, Adeline and Carolina.

William married Celia Boone, a grandniece of Daniel; Obediah married Elizabeth Webb; Robert married Rhoda Humphrey; James married Nancy Humphrey; Benjamin married Nancy Dyer; Susan married Isaac Green; Elizabeth married Alfred Pritchett.

Tilmon married, first, Hila Layell, and, second, Jane McNeely; John married a miss Morris in Georgia; Tiption married Rachel Greene; Major married Celia Wilson, first, and Polly Ollis, second; Elisha married Selina Piercey; Nelson married Violet Greene; Hamilton married, first a Cobb, then a House, and third, Martha Strickland, and Harvey married Melinda McLeard. Empsey married Serena Ford, first, and then Susan Barrier; alexander married Carolina Munday; William W. married Martha McGhinnis, first, and, second, a lady in the State of Washington.

Nicie married James Calloway; Irene married Samuel Barrier: Elvira married Wiley Holtsclaw; Adeline married W.W. Pressley; Carolina married Madison Gragg; Margaret married Archibald Qualls; Eliza died young and unmarried.^[5]

U.S. Army, Register of Enlistments

Name: Wm Gragg

Birthyear: abt 1785

Birthplace: Virginia, United States

Enlistment Age: 28^[6][7][8]

1810 US Federal Census

Name: William Gragg

Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Morganton, Burke, North Carolina

Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 2

Free White Persons - Males - 26 thru 44 : 1

Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 1

Number of Household Members Under 16: 2

Number of Household Members Over 25: 1

Number of Household Members: 4^[9][10][11]

1850 US Federal Census

Name: William Gragg

Age: 67

Birth Year: abt 1783

Birthplace: Virginia

Home in 1850: Johns River, Caldwell, North Carolina, USA

Gender: Male

Family Number: 120

William Gragg 67

Celia Gragg 64

Eliza Gragg 20^[12][13][14]

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Sources

1. ↑ http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=GRAG&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel=all&GSst=29&GScntry=4&GSsr=521&GRid=52524634&
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LWFZ-L9Q
3. ↑ http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/r/e/Theodore-L-Gregg/GENE5-0047.html
4. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/47368357/person/6869685564/facts
5. ↑ http://genealogytrails.com/ncar/watauga/hist_prominentfamilies.html
6. ↑ Register of Enlistments in the U.S. Army, 1798-1914; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M233, 81 rolls); Records of the Adjutant General’s Office, 1780’s-1917, Record Group 94; National Archives, Washington, D.C. Description
7. ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=1198&h=28723&ssrc=pt&tid=47368357&pid=6869685564&usePUB=true
8. ↑ See: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Gragg-304-4
9. ↑ 1810; Census Place: Morganton, Burke, North Carolina; Roll: 39; Page: 350; Image: 00244; Family History Library Film: 0337912
10. ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7613&h=355306&ssrc=pt&tid=47368357&pid=6869685564&usePUB=true
11. ↑ See: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Gragg-304-2
12. ↑ 1850; Census Place: Johns River, Caldwell, North Carolina; Roll: M432_623; Page: 8B; Image: 22
13. ↑ https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=8054&h=12613747&ssrc=pt&tid=47368357&pid=6869685564&usePUB=true
14. ↑ See: https://www.wikitree.com/photo/jpg/Gragg-304-3

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