Gregg, Mary M. 1824 – 1901

GREGG, GRIER, PAGE

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 3/28/2020 at 11:18:10

Source: Decorah Republican Aug. 1, 1901 P 4 C 1

DEATH OF MRS. M. M. GREGG.
Who for Nearly Twenty Years was an Esteemed Resident of this City.
The St. Paul Pioneer-Press of last Saturday, contained the appended notice of the death of one who was for many years a very highly esteemed resident of this city. It was here that when widowhood came to her she brought her young family and nurtured them to honorable man and womanhood. During that period of nearly twenty years, she was a valued teacher in our public school, an intensely earnest member of the Methodist church, and one who was regarded as far above the average in menial worth and intellectual endowments. This is the Pioneer-Press record:
Mrs. Mary M. Gregg died at her home at Merriam Park yesterday of paralysis, after an illness of nearly a year’s time. Mrs. Gregg came to St. Paul in 1884, and made her home with her daughter, Mrs. S. C. Grier, 1934 Rondo street, Merriam Park.
Mrs.Gregg was born in Virginia in 1824. She graduated from Washington college in Pennsylvania as the valedictorian of her class, and married Mr. Gregg in 1847. Mr. Gregg died in Pittsburg in 1864, leaving her a widow with seven children, the oldest fourteen years old. With her children Mrs. Gregg moved to Decorah, Iowa, soon after her husband’s death, and lived on a farm until her children were able to go out into the world and work for themselves. In 1884 she moved to St. Paul to be with her children. She was taken with a stroke of paralysis about a year ago, and gradually weakened until she died.
Mrs. Gregg leaves five sons and two daughters: John N. Gregg, Red Bluff, Cal.; Jesse A. Gregg of Nicols, Dean & Gregg, Thomas B. Gregg, Harry S Gregg, president of the Minneapolis Iron Stove company; William C. Gregg, president of the Gregg-Seeger company, Minneapolis; Mrs. S. G. Grier, Merriam Park, and Mrs. Leslie Page, Hartford, Conn.