George Walters Gregg (1821 - 1899)

Born 24 Mar 1821 in Boston, Nelson, Kentucky, United States

Husband of Minerva Kimrey — married 15 Nov 1871 in North Carolina

Descendants

Died 24 Dec 1899 at age 78 in Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, United States

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Biography

George Walters Gregg was born the 24 March 1821 at Boston, Nelson, Kentucky, United States

Death & Burial

George died the 24 December 1899 at Bluefield, Mercer, West Virginia, United States

See also

• Gregg Mundy Great Grandson^[1]
  

Sources

1. ↑ George Walters Gregg’s home at this time was ½ mile from Boston, Ky. His wife’s family was strong Union sympathizers and for all concerned it was deemed that he restart his life in the south at the close of the Civil War. George W. was a staunch southerner, and fought in the Civil War under John Morgan, Company “E”, 9th Kentucky Cavalry Regiment and Stoners Battalion Kentucky Calvary later consolidated to form 4th Regiment Kentucky Mounted Rifles. Captured as a POW 6/17/1863 discharged from prison 8/13/1863. George W. was shot in the leg in about the second year of the war, when he tried to return to his home and family Union solders arrested him, took him away and would not let him return. Years after the Civil War he married his second wife Minerva Kimrey and raised another family in Alamance Co. NC. He was quite worried for one of Quaker ancestry. One of his sons once said he was in the wars. The Spanish-American War and the Civil War, then when he was reminded he was too old to have been in the Spanish-American War he replied that he fought that war on the front porch reading the newspapers and telling how it would have been fought if Joe Wheeler or John Morgan had been there
   Buried: Gibsonville Cemetery, Gibsonville, Guilford County, North Carolina (Gregg Plot) Find A Grave Memorial# 55397985