May 25, 2008Today Mamma and I stopped at the Woodruff, Kansas cemetery, located a few miles northeast of Long Island, Kansas where we know the Gregory family lived at one time and where I believed our great-grandparents, Gabriel Richard and Anna Belle (Thrasher) Gregory are buried. It is the third time I have stopped there to look for their graves. Three or four years ago, I stopped in Phillipsburg, Kansas and found Lucille Gregory, the wife of Earl Gregory, son of Richard Belle Gregory, who our daddy called “Uncle Richey”. She informed me that they were plain to see and on the west side of the little cemetery.
Mamma and I looked again today, but they were not to be found. Before leaving the cemetery, I stopped and talked to a lady who happened to have purchased a “Phillips County Cemetery List” at an auction and she looked at the Woodruff Cemetery list and they were not listed. She was kind enough to search through the book until we found their names listed in the “Goode Cemetery” which is located 5 miles south and 3 miles west of the Woodruff cemetery.
Even though there were huge black clouds to the south and east of us, Mamma and I bravely took off on some country roads that seemed to be pretty well traveled, even though there had been some recent hard rain ruts cut out of the low spots. After a couple of attempts, we came upon a small, very well kept cemetery at the top of a hill overlooking a beautiful tree lined creek. The cemetery gate was open, so we entered and walked to the west row of graves and there they were!!! After several years of trying to find them, they were exactly where they were supposed to be. Someone had placed flowers in picturebox containers made from tin trays with a glass covers. It was hard to tell how long these containers had been at the graves, but each of the Gregory family stones had one propped against it as if someone had just placed them there recently. The graves we found were Gabriel, Anna Belle (Thrasher), and three of their children; Richard Belle “Richey”, Cora A., and Matilda “Tilly”:
G. R. Gregory born Jan. 7, 1860 DIED Aug. 29, 1909
Anna B. Gregory born Feb. 7, 1860 DIED Sept. 15, 1907
Richard B. Gregory June 29, 1889 Aug. 8, 1917
Matilda B. “Tilly” Gregory Jan. 22, 1894 – May 22, 1917 “Daughter of Gabriel & Anna”
Cora A. Gregory Born Jun 25, 1892 DIED Nov. 21, 1892
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