The documentation of early names, deeds, dates, wills, land grants, etc., has been the effort of Penny Forrester of Greenville, South Carolina. She lived close to Union County and had access to the courthouse, with its treasure chest of original documents.

It is a bit frustrating to find out, years later, that other individuals had already researched the same data, but not in the detail as recorded in this account. An account by Mrs. Edith Whitley (Nashville, Tenn.), in 1962, to Mrs. Mamie Estes Bryan Sunflower, Miss.) gives a thumbnail sketch of part of the Isaac Gregory descendants. Her research was compiled ca. 1953. Other names associated with this effort were Miss Lucy Gilmore (Raleigh, N.C.), Mrs. Stella Estes Haynes (Louisville, Miss.), Mrs. Venus Estes Robinson (Greenwood, Miss.), and John Wilkes Bramlett (Chester, S.C.). Mrs. Josephine Gregory Spears (Raleigh, N.C.) researched old Isaac in Virginia.

Other major contributors were: Mrs. Nina Gregory (Modesto, Cal.) and Edgar Truman Gregory (Carbon, Texas) on the Gerard Gregory line; Mrs. Neva Jones (Holly Springs, Miss.) on the Benjamin J. Gregory lines; T. Hopkins Peake (Trinity, N.C.) on the John/John Wesley Gregory lines; and Mrs. Phyllis V. Miller (Huber Heights, Ohio) on the George/Robert Gregory lines. Larry J. and Faye Robertson (Bynum, Ala.) added much on the Robert Gregory line. Mrs. Mamie Estes Bryan wrote extensively on the Thomas Brandon Gregory line. Mrs. Ophelia M. Phillips’ research on Isaac II was shared by her daughter, Mrs. Sara P Foote (Birmingham, Ala.) and her brother, James J. Foote of Colorado.

Other names that need recognition are: Mrs. Marie Norris (McGregor, Texas), Brent Holcomb (Columbia, S.C.), Mrs. Betty Jackson (Huber Heights, Ohio), Mrs. Vivian Bradburn (Union, S.C.), Melton P. Meek, M.D. (Lawton, Okla.), Mrs. Christine Gregory White (West Point, Miss.), Mrs. Laveta Wirtz Thompson (Bartlesville, Okla.), Aaron and Arcada Morgan (Tupelo, Miss.), and a host of others. Hopkins Peake has been invaluable. My secretary of twenty years, Kathy Montgomery, has struggled through this effort of compiling and typing the manuscript. Finally, Mary Foreman, for her professional editing and typesetting.

Well in excess of one hundred years of research has gone into this effort -incomplete, but as accurate as possible. There are many blanks to be filled in; when, where or by whom and perhaps by another generation. We have now recorded over two hundred fifty years and eleven generations. Good luck to the next endeavor!