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Persönliche Daten Stephen Calvin Gregory KK PqBioOb "Cal" 

• Er wurde geboren am 8. Juli 1891 in Smith County, Tennessee.Quelle 1
• Er ist verstorben am 16. November 1957 in Lafayette, Macon County, Tennessee, er war 66 Jahre alt.Quelle 1
• Er wurde beerdigt am 18. November 1957 in Haysville Cemetery, Lafayette, Macon County, Tennessee.Quelle 1
• Ein Kind von Thomas Morgan Gregory und Marietta Ballou
• Diese Information wurde zuletzt aktualisiert am 17. Dezember 2012.

Familie von Stephen Calvin Gregory KK PqBioOb "Cal"

(1) Er ist verheiratet mit Lethia Mai Gammon.

Sie haben geheiratet am 25. Februar 1912 in Smith County, Tennessee, er war 20 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. Thomas Lawrence Gregory  1912-1957 
2. Mildred Estelle Gregory  1918-1988 
3. 13GGchldrnSCalvin Gregory  
4. 2GGGchldrnSCalvin Gregory  

(2) Er ist verheiratet mit Ethel Gann.

Sie haben geheiratet rund 1927.

Kind(er):

1. (Nicht öffentlich)

(3) Er ist verheiratet mit Betty Jenkins.

Sie haben geheiratet rund 1930.

Kind(er):

1. (Nicht öffentlich)
2. Charles Edward Gregory  1933-1991 
3. Mary Sue Gregory  1938-1990

Notizen bei Stephen Calvin Gregory KK PqBioOb "Cal"

Obituary of Calvin Gregory, Macon County Times, November 21, 1947Reverend Calvin Gregory, Times Publisher, Dies UnexpectedlyServices Held Sunday For Minister, PublisherFuneral services for Rev. Calvin Gregory, 66, publisher of the Macon County Times and a widely-known Missionary Baptist minister, were conducted Sunday morning at 11 a. m. from the auditorium of Macon County High by Rev. F. W. Lambert, Rev. W. T. Russell and Rev. Paul Oldham.Burial was in the Haysville Cemetery.The Times publisher died unexpectedly about 2: 15 Saturday morning in Smith-Chitwood Hospital, less than 24 hours after being admitted. Death was attributed to heart failure. He became ill Thursday night at his home, 219 College St.Rev. Gregory was actively engaged in publishing the Times and in carrying on his church and civic work until Thursday of last week when he became ill.He had pastored the Mace's Hill Baptist church since its organization 40 years ago and was at the time of his death the pastor of his home church, Mt. Tabor. Both churches are in Smith County.During the long tenure as a minister of the gospel, he had pastored more than 50 churches in Middle Tennessee and Southern Kentucky. At one time, he was actively engaged in pastoring seven churches at once, the churches setting their meeting hours to fit his busy schedule.A well-known revivalist; he has conducted hundreds of protracted meetings in all three divisions of Tennessee, in Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia. An avid debater, he encountered many of the leaders of other church groups in religious discussions. He conducted the funerals of more than 3,000 persons during his lifetime.A native of the Mace's Hill section of Smith County, he was the son of Thomas Morgan and Marietta Ballou Gregory. Reared the oldest child in a large family, he left the farm in his youth to enter the ministry. He first became associated with the newspaper field when he accepted a position with the Carthage Courier.At the age of 23, following the death of his parents, he accepted the responsibility of rearing his parents' children until they married and left his home, which was in the Pleasant Shade community of Smith County at that time.He moved to Lafayette in 1930 and purchased a half interest in the Macon County Times, assuming full control of the operation in 1937.In addition to his church work and his career in the weekly newspaper field, he also served as correspondent for the Nashville Banner and as agent for Macon, Smith and Trousdale counties for Newspaper Printing Corporation of Nashville, until recent years.A member of the Macon County Court in recent years, he was instrumental in the court's voting to construct the new Macon County High School building, where thousands attended his funeral.A leader in his community, he served as president of the North Central Telephone Cooperative which brought dial telephone service to this area. He was a director of the concern upon his death.He is survived by his wife, Betty Jenkins Gregory; two sons, Leonard C. Gregory and Charles F. Gregory, both of Lafayette; two daughters, Miss Sue Gregory, of Knoxville; and Mrs. Walt Bolinger, of Indianapolis, Ind.; a brother, Thomas Gregory, of Toledo, Ohio; six sisters, Mrs. Nannie Porter, Hendersonville; Mrs. Mary Perrigo, Gallatin; Mrs. Grace Dickerson, Pleasant Shade; Mrs. Clara Barton, Lafayette; Mrs. Eunice Wilmore; and Mrs. Alice Beasley, of Riddleton; six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

Stephen Calvin Gregory
Stephen Calvin Gregory - minister, educator, genealogist, newspaperpublisher, civic and political leader. Cal was born July 8, 1891,the sonof Thomas Morgan (Dopher) and Marietta Ballou Gregory. He was theeldest of ten children - three boys and seven girls.The family lived in theMace’s Hill community of northwestern Smith County between DixonSprings and Pleasant Shade, Tennessee.
He was the great-great-great grandson of Thomas Gregory, who withhis sons, William and Bry settled in the Nixon Hollow between Carthageand Pleasant Shade in the 1790s. Calvin Gregory also descended fromJohn Gregory, a brother to the above mentioned, Thomas Gregory. TheseGregory's all migrated from Chatham County, North Carolina. Another ofCalvin Gregory’s ancestors was Leonard Ballou (his great-great grandfather),who settled near the confluence of Big and Little Peyton’s Creek nearPleasant Shade in 1808.
Calvin, as he preferred to be called, rarely used his first name. He was named in honor of his paternal grandfather, Stephen Calvin Gregory. Calvin was an extraordinary individual having unusual scholarship abilities. ( In 1957, he was nominated and selected to appear on the television series,"The $64,000 Question", but died prior to his scheduled appearance.)
He began his education at Mace’s Hill school in about 1898 and laterrecieved outstanding scholastic success at Bowling Green Business university, in Kentucky. After returning home, he taught school atDean Hill (Defeated Creek area), Mace’s Hill, Scanty Branch (near Dixon Springs), Kittrell’s (near Pleasant Shade) and perhaps otherlocations. He was a mail carrier from Pleasant Shade for about threeyears starting in 1916.
In 1912, Calvin was married to Miss Mai Gammon and they became the parentsof two children, Lawrence and Meddie. Shortly thereafter, Calvin lost both of his parents and in 1914 assumed the awesome responsibility of rearingand caring for four of his sisters ranging in age from seven to sixteen.These sisters all remained with him until they married with the last one leaving in 1929. During this time, Calvin endured the pain of losing hiswife Mai to cancer in 1926. Later, he married Miss Ethel Gann but she alsodied (along with a newborn son) as a result of childbirth complications in 1928.In 1930, Calvin was married for the third time to Miss Betty Jenkins who presently lives at Lafayette, Tn. From this marriage, theybecame the parents of three children, Leonard, Charles and Sue Gregory.
Two of Calvin’s children still survive, Meddie Wilburn of Indianapolis,Indiana and Leonard Gregory of Richmond, Texas.
Calvin Gregory professed faith in Jesus Christ at age 18 and united withMt. Tabor Baptist Church. In 1914, he was ordained as a Baptist minister by this church which is located near Pleasant Shade. Here began one of themost successful ministries of any Baptist minister in Middle Tennessee. During his ministerial life, he pastored more than fifty churches and wasinstrumental in organizing Mace’s Hill Baptist Church in 1917. He served until the time of his death as the first pastor of this church which spannedforty years. At one time in his career, he was the pastor of seven churches,simultaneously. He baptised thousands into numerous Baptist churches,conducted more than 3000 funerals and married over 1200 couples. Hewas an avid debater in religious discussions encountering many leaders of other religious denominations. Calvin was clerk of the Enon Baptist Associationfor forty years and was a much sought after revivalist, having conducted revivalsin all three divisions of Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia.
During the late 1920s, he was a correspondent for the Carthage Courier and Nashville Banner newspapers and put his home town of Pleasant Shade "on themap" through his reporting of the local news events. He was also the agent for Macon, Smith and Trousdale counties for the "Newspaper Printing Corporationof Nashville". In 1930, he bought one-half interest in the Macon County Times,Lafayette, Tn. and in 1937 assumed full control of the "Times", developing it into one of the top weekly newspapers in the state. Under his direction as editorand publisher, the Times grew to a circulation of more than 4000 and ranked as thethird largest in circulation of any weekly newspaper in Tennessee.
His popular "Cal’s Column" section of the Macon County Times was devoted togenealogy and research on the history of the Upper Cumberland area of northernMiddle Tennessee. He was widely recognized as a genealogical expert and researchedhundreds of families and published the results in his column. At one point in hiscareer, Calvin was asked by United States Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, totravel with him to Europe (he respectfully declined) to research his family history.His work has been listed as a reference source for genealogical research and is wellknown by genealogists throughout the United States.
In addition to his Baptist ministry and newspaper work, Calvin gave extensively of histime to civic activities. He was elected to and served for many years on the Macon Co.Quarterly Court. He was instrumental in the court’s voting to build the Macon County High School. As president of the North Central Telephone Cooperative, Inc., dialtelephone service was made available to Macon, parts of Smith, Trousdale and SumnerCounties of Tennessee and Allen County , Kentucky in the early 1950s.
In 1981 he was honored, posthumously, by being elected to the Tennessee NewspaperHall of Fame, joining 26 other former newspaper individuals so honored.
Calvin Gregory touched the lives of thousands of people in the Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky area. He maintained a standard in his religious practices, serviceto his community, ethics, integrity and intellect that only a few people could approach.His outstanding life was cut short near the zenith of his career and had he survived toa ripe old age one can only wonder what other contributions he might have made to his community and fellow citizens. He died on November 16, 1957 in Lafayette at age 66 aftersuffering a heart attack. Preceding him in death earlier the same year was his son, Lawrence,who died as a result of an automobile accident.
Calvin’s funeral was held in the Macon County High School gymnasium where approximately 3000 people attended. He was buried in the Haysville Cemeteryin Macon County.
Leonard C. Gregory 1986 (Additional information by Thomas D. Dickerson 2000)

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Transcribed by Gary Jenkins
May 15, 1947
* CAL’S COLUMN *
Cal's Early Years*
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Numerous requests for a continuation of this "Colyum" have been received and so here goes again. In a former issue of the paper we told of the fearful blunders we made in the long ago because of our bashfulness, and how that even now we blush to think of how silly we acted now and then because of this "infirmity." However, some things can be said in favor of bashfulness. It has prevented many a youth from going astray under temptation. It has prevented a lot of the bold, brazen dispositions so common today among many of the young generation. It has kept many in the background until they were old enough " to have some sense." It has kept a lot of boys at home, who might have gotten into trouble away from the homestead.
We admit that a bad case of bashfulness is not enjoyable to one affected thereby. In fact we know of no malady that hurts any worse, nor one that brings a youth to feel like kicking himself so much as his bashful blunders. As a sixteen-year-old boy we read the "Blunders of a Bashful Man" and it made a profound impression on our youthful mind. John Flutter was the "goat" of the story and his trials were many, almost constant and always bitter. We read the tale about 40 years ago and soon decided that we were doomed to be another John Flutter. John once went to a quilting upon a special invitation. There were many women and girls present and sooon John lost his brave front that he had mustered to attend the quilting. When he went in and saw so many of the opposite sex, he was so embarrassed that he sat down in the first chair he could reach, not looking to see what was in the chair. One of the women had left some sewing in the chair and John went down into the chair like the fellow who "turned all holds loose and fell." He soon discovered that there was a needle in the chair and that he was sitting on the needle, but he was too bashful to arise and remove the needle. So he tried to carry on a conversation with the hostess. In his bashfulness and misery, he finally blurted out the question, "How is your mother?" which was rather out of order since the mother of the hostess had been dead for 40 years. Every little while he let out a loud "Oh" as the needle sank deeper, to the great fun of those who had discovered the nature of his trouble. John finally managed to arise and extract the needle and then went to the table. There the hostess said, "John, will you have tea or coffee?" He said, "Yessum." "But which?" inquired the hostess. He finally overcame his bashfulness enough to tell her that he would like to have coffee. At the same meal, he managed to get the boniest piece of chicken in the dish and sought to use his knife to remove the meat. The result was that the piece of chicken "flew" from under the fork and landed in the dish of preserves. John managed to live through the meal, but that cured him from going to any more quiltings.
John made more blunders than any one else we ever heard of, even more than Cal did in his early life. But we still think that reading that book was a mistake, for it made us feel that we were bound to be another John Flutter and we did not miss it very much.
Perhaps a few of our own experiences will be of interest to the reader. Long, long ago in our early teens, we took a fancy to a little black-eyed girl in school. We imagined she had the same sort of attitude toward the writer. Our little romance was beginning to bud with a lot of vigor and promise. In the midst of our first love affair, the teacher caught the youthful John Flutter making some signs across the school house toward that little girl. He said with a sternness that has remained with us for more than 40 years: "I think I will have to put Calvin with the girls." This was said publicly and before the entire school. Shame, disgrace, and mortification filled our poor soul and we somehow felt that we wanted to die. Never had we been so badly let down in our life. On our way home we told our younger brother and sister that if either of them told our father what the teacher said, there would be trouble and sorrow for the tattler beyond measure. Long afterward we paid the price for our folly. The brother and sister "blackmailed" their "sparking" brother by holding the threat of telling the stern father just what had happened. Many a thing did the writer do that he did not want to do just because of the threat, "We will tell the people what Mr. Goad said if you don't do what we want done." And we always came across.
After we began teaching school and had attained to the ripe old age of 20 years, we experienced another event that "knocked us for a loop," due largely to bashfulness. It was the noon hour and the 67 girls and boys in the school were all on the playground. A young woman came riding by the school and called the teacher to the road. The children flocked to the road to see what it was all about. The young woman, who was a stranger to the teacher, said without any preliminaries or any beating about the bush: "Can I be your sweetheart?" Never before had we been so ruthlessly treated. Never had such a question been hurled at us. Never had we been caught with surroundings so favorable for a complete knockout. With almost all his students within hearing distance and part of them nearly grown, he would have gladly faced the firing squad rather than to have been so completely put on the spot. Finally he began to stammer and managed to say between grunts and groans, "I don't know." Having flattened the teacher with her question, she quickly informed him that she was in a contest of some sort and needed a dollar to help win some sort of prize, every dollar counting so many votes. It is needless to say that we "shelled out." If she had asked for $50 and we had had that much, we would have been too bashful to deny her request. How those boys and girls of that school did laugh at the teacher's red face, his confusion of tongue, and his stammering answer.
Never will the writer forget the first time he "went with a girl." He was taking a teacher's examination in a neighboring county and had met a little girl who wanted to be a teacher also. He walked with her from the school building to the girl's boarding house. On arriving at the boarding house, he saw that the porch was filled with men and women, boys and girls. He looked around for some way to escape walking up to that crowd and found none. He thought once he would leave the girl on the sidewalk and go on down the street, but decided that would not do. At last in desperation he decided to walk right up into the crowd or die. He did not die, but he would have almost preferred to pass on. This was the first and last time he ever went with this girl and we feel quite certain her comment was: "That is the greenest fellow I ever saw."
When we were 16 years of age, we went to Bowling Green to school. It was the first time we had ever been as far as 25 miles from home. We had never worn a collar but once before. So that morning we put on a collar for the second time in life and stopped at our hometown to have our first haircut by a barber. In getting that haircut, our collar, which was made then separate from the shirt, became soiled and another had to be bought. So we bought a collar without any regard to fit and put it on and wore it to Bowling Green and it was so large that we could easily get our chin into the collar even though it enclosed the neck of a 132-pound hillbilly youth. We feel sure that greenhorn was one of the greenest that ever went to Bowling Green. We had never been introduce to anybody up to that time. So when we began to meet people and be introduced to strangers, we did not know what to say. We finally got so self-conscious that we fled from every possible introduction and would gladly have gone a mile to miss such a "knockdown," as introductions were then jokingly called. Never will we forget our first four-in-hand necktie. We wore a ready-tied tie to Bowling Green and and it was the second tie we ever had on. We noted that the other boys were wearing four-in-hand ties. So we went into a dry goods store and bought a tie. We took it to our boarding house and while the other boarders were eating, we began our efforts to tie that four-in-hand so that it would at least not fall off our neck. We finally managed to get the tie so it had some resemblence to the ties worn by others. Then we breathed a sigh of relief, felt that we had made a milestone along the pathway of life, and that we would finally get to "be somebody." Oh the pride of that first time to be able to "be like others."
Some things about those days are pathetic to the writer. He had two suits of clothing just as cheap as could be bought. One of them cost $8 and the other $4. We did not have as much as 25 cents per week for spending money. We did not need a razor for we had no beard, not even a fuzzy lip. We knew but few in school and had no time to waste. Our father was an extremely poor man who had spent almost every dollar he had in the world to pay our tuition and for our books, together with a monthly board bill. Moreover he had eight other children at home. So we did just about our utmost in school. In spite of bashfulness, we did know the things we had read and were blest with a good memory and this is not said boastingly. We soon were able to lead the 500 students in school in arithmatic, spelling, and rapid calculation and some other respects. And we say these things without any desire to boast or appear as a braggart. We gave no thought scarcely to our personal appearance except to try to be clean. We did not have a haircut from October 6th, the day we left home, until December 19th, when we came home for the holidays. Being born in the midst of poverty, and having lived like that all our 16 years, we did not now the wild ways of the world and we are glad we did not. Having never had good, we did not know just how poorly we were dressed. But we did need education and this was our opportunity and we used it for that purpose almost to the limit of our ability. Few today would dress so shabily as we did, few would be willing to get by on less than 25 cents per week for spending money, few would have been willing to put in all the long, hard hours, days, weeks, and months required to obtain the rudiments of an education. But we are glad in some ways that we have had to travel the hard road. Without it we might have been a worse man, we might have sought to live of somebody else's labors, we might never have known the glorious feeling of having reached some goal in spite of poverty, hardships, and difficulties and other hindrances. Truly the road is hard, long, and often bitter. But the reward for laboring faithfully, for never swerving from the pathway that leads to the proper goal, for finally attaining to some measure of one's aims and ideals is sweet, consoling, and enduring.
*Subtitle supplied by the Transcriber.

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