Gregg - Samuel - Montgomery InGenWeb Project

Wednesday at 3 o'clock at his home on the corner of Water and Market streets, occurred the death of Samuel H. Gregg. Mr. Gregg had been afflicted with rheumatism for eighteen years, and for the past five years was confined to his home, He had been rapidly failing since Sunday and his death had been hourly expected. The funeral will occur from the home this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock and will probably be conducted by Rev. S. W. Goss, of the First M. E. church, and Rev. G. W. Switzer, of Lafayette. Interment will be at Oak Hill. Samuel H. Gregg was born in this county, just south of this city, on June 11, 1827, and lived on the farm until he was twenty-four years old. He then entered as a partner in the first hardware store established in Crawfordsvilie, being associated with J. W. Cumberland and others in this business. Later he took into partnership with him his son, O. M. Gregg, and this composed the firm until 1882, when the business was purchased by Zack Mahorney. Mr. Gregg was married in 1847 to Sarah L. Christman, who died in 1861. One child, a son, O. M. Gregg, was born of this union and survives his father. In 1871 Mr. Gregg was married to Sarah J. Munns, who with their son, George M., survives. Mr. Gregg had spent all his life with the exception of a year in California and two years when he was engaged in traveling for a hardware firm out of Cincinnati, in this city. He organized the Indiana Wire Fence Company in this city and held valuable patents for the manufacture of the product for many years. He was identified with all of the early business enterprises that had for their object the good and up building of this city. He was honest, upright, of unimpeachable integrity, and his business career was one that can be pointed to with pride by his family and his business associates, He had been for years a member of the first Methodist, church, and has held the office of trustee for a long term. His led a busy life and through perserverance and earnest application to his work he had amassed a competence for his old age. With the passing of Mr. Gregg the county and city lose one of its oldest and most highly respected citizens.- Kim H