I remember this family meeting them when I was about 6 years old their daughter was our next door neighbor Daisy Ella Gregory Dickens July 31, 1896 at Pleasant Shade, died May 4, 1962 at Madison, Tenn. Burial Sanderson Cemetery, she was married to Benjamin Harrison Dickens March 1, 1889 in Sullivan's Bend, died July 25, 1968 at Madison, Tenn., they had two children Rudolph Dickens, & Erma Ruth who was married to Virgle Tisdale, 2nd Woodrow Krantz They all lived within a block of our house. I went to school with the grandchildren of Mr. & Mrs. Dickens, I remember her brothers and sisters coming to visit and the stories they would tell, Mr. Dickens would sit on the breeseway at night and listen to the old Nashville Vols Baseball team games,and tell stories about his teen years in Pleasant Shade, I heard about the morning that Poney Hackett got killed, and his funeral, about Dr. Alexander, about the Halloween they put the outhouse on the roof of the Pleasant Shade Bank, about his buggy being stolen, and the people he grew up with (Tommy Sanderson, George Wakefield & several other. Mrs. Dickens sister older sister Sallie Jane Gregory who married Napoleon Ersley "Pole" Oldham, they would come down from Portland, Tenn. and spend the day with them. For lunch Pole would take two raw eggs break them put them in a glass and shake them up and drink them, I would stand there and be amazed that any body would do that for lunch or drink raw eggs. Ruth Gregory who married Melvin Nixon they came and stayed the night the next day the went to his sister home which about 1/2 mile form us, they lived next to L & N mainline , and spent the night there, some time during the night a real fast train came Thur and shook the house and making noise, it scared Melvin & Ruth they got up got dress and went back to Pleasant Shade, Mr. Dickens would to tell this every time Melvin & Ruth would visit. Another member of this family is Wendleen Gregory Dixon, she and husband Glen lived about 4 houses down form us, they move back to Pleasant Shade about 1964, she is D/O Barnett "Barney" Gregory & Nina Hackett. I feel luckey to have grown up living next door to these fine people Subject: [TNSMITH] William Thomas Gregory & Lona Allen? Mitchell I think this is the couple your Thomas & Lona Mitchell Gregory? Mary Knight Descendants of William Thomas Gregory Generation No. 1 1. WILLIAM THOMAS7 GREGORY (JOSHUA "JOHN" PETER6, JAMES J.5, THOMAS "BIG TOM"4, THOMAS3, THOMAS2, UNKNOWN1) was born February 22, 1875 in Smith County, Tennessee, and died December 11, 1958. He married LONA ALLEN MITCHELL December 08, 1893 in Smith County, Tennessee. She was born Abt. 1877 in Tennessee. Children of WILLIAM GREGORY and LONA MITCHELL are: i. DAISY E.8 GREGORY, b. Abt. 1897. ii. HERMAN L. GREGORY, b. Abt. 1899, Smith County, Tennessee; m. LENA DORTCH BEASLEY, Aft. 1910; b. April 19, 1899, Tennessee; d. June 06, 1944. iii. RUTH GREGORY, b. February 15, 1907, Smith County, Tennessee; m. MELVIN NIXON; b. August 22, 1905; d. December 29, 1977, Smith County, Tennessee. iv. BESSIE BELL GREGORY, b. Abt. 1907; d. December 20, 1991; m. HORACE ALLEN DICKERSON, December 25, 1921; b. January 01, 1904, Pleasant Shade, Smith County, Tennessee; d. July 17, 1997, Maryville, Blount County, Tennessee. v. THOMAS BARNETT GREGORY, b. January 09, 1909; d. October 13, 1984; m. NINA GRACE HACKETT; b. January 14, 1912, Smith County, Tennessee; d. Aft. August 01, 2002. ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com