DOCTOR GREGG
Doctor Gregg came here about 1876 from Virginia. He was well-educated
and a fine man. He stayed at Grandma Pierson’s Hotel in Hamilton. (On
southwest corner of the square where Bank and Trust Company was later
located, now the insurance office. [Floyd Campbell Insurance which
later became Lengefeld Insurance--Elreeta Weathers] Mr. Williams stayed there also and
they became close friends. In May of 1880, he said Dr. Gregg and a
Campbellite preacher went on a six-week hunting trip in southwest Texas
and came back by way of San Antonio.
They had a fine time. His and Dr. Gregg’s health was a little bad and
that was the reason for the trip. Mr. Crews died January 1, 1889, at Old
Colonel Freeman’s home. (The old stone and stucco house across from the
Episcopal Church. The doctor, and Uncle John Pierson, Judge Pierson, and
one or two others left a party on the north side, saloon row, and when
they went back he was dying.
Dr. Gregg came from Virginia with Yellott and another man who came out
to invest, but did not like it and soon went back. Either Yellott or the
other fellow was related to Colonel Freeman. He believed it was Yellott,
who for a time took care of Freeman’s sheep ranch. Later he became a
lawyer and was county attorney and he thought ran for judge and was
defeated. (He was the county attorney that Mr. Williams said got to
digging in the records in Old Squire
Lloyd’s J. P. Office and made Mr. Williams pay up all of his back
fines for affrays in the basement saloon where he tended bar and for which
the old Squire had collected only his own fees and not the fines. He said
he had to sell most of his horses to raise the money to pay the fines.
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CHESLEY'S HAMILTON COUNTY INTERVIEWS
BY
HERVEY EDGAR CHESLEY, JR.
Born: 21 November, 1894
Died: 17 July, 1979