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Note: Nieces and nephews called her Aunt Rettie. Grandchildren called her Grandma. From an early age our parents made sure we learned the full names of our grandparents and aunts and uncles.
Before the death of her mother, Lou Ada Caldonia West Green in 1907, Rettie's family lived around Center. Their farm and old Center community was north of where the Center intersection is now on Hwy 19. Rettie went to school at Pickett School east of Center on the north side of the road.
-- Loretta Gregory Gay, personal communication to Orville Boyd Jenkins, 2 June 2018
Rettie's mother died in Center in 1907, and is buried in the Center Cemetery. Joe moved to Marlow in Stephens County and was enumerated there in the 1910 census as a widowed head of household with his children.
My mother Lou Ila Jenkins found among her papers a school report card for her mother, in the name Retta Green. This was a report card for the school year 1911-12 in Stephens County, Oklahoma. The family was living a little south of Marlow, Oklahoma, at that time, in Richland Township. The card does not give the name of the specific school.
In the 1910 census, her name is not written clearly in the almost illegible hand of the enumerator.
1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 25 April, Richland Township, District 243, Page 6B (No House or Family numbers)
Green, Joe Head M W 34 Widowed OK AL AL
Green, Re-a Dau F W 14 OK OK OK
(the loop of the e is just extended up and forward. No letter)
Green, Minnie Dau F W 11 OK OK OK
Green, Homer Son F W 3 OK OK OK
Rettie married Andy Gregory, whose family had lived nearby for several years in Richland Township, Stephens County, Oklahoma. They married in October 1913. They were still in Marlow when Andy registered for WWI in Marlow. They appear in the 1920 and 1930 censuses in Lindsay, Garvin County.
1920 Federal Census, Garvin County, Oklahoma, 5 February, Lindsay Township, District 28, page 7B, Hse #129, Fam #128
Gregory, Andy Head Rents M W 28 TN TN TN Farming
Gregory, Retta A Wife F W 24 OK TX GA
Gregory, Dessie L Dau F W 4yrs10mos OK US US
Gregory, Alpha J Dau F W 2 OK US US
Gregory, Alford A Son M W 6mos OK US US
Gregory, John Brother M W 30 OK US US
1930 Federal Census, Garvin, Oklahoma, 12 April, Lindsay, District 10, page 7B, Hse #92, Fam #109
Gregory, Andy Head M W 37 TN TN AL General Farming
Gregory, Retta Wife F W 34 OK TX GA General Farming Labor
Gregory, Dessie Dau F W 15 OK TN GA
Gregory, Josephine Dau M W 12 OK TN GA
Gregory, Louila Dau F W 9 OK TN GA
Gregory, Everett Son F W 6 OK TN GA
Gregory, Wanda Dau F W 3 OK TN GA
I remember visiting Grandma and Grandpa a lot on their farm south of Lindsay, Oklahoma. At least two summers I went up and stayed with them for a while. I remember grandma reading her Bible to me every evening, sitting in her rocking chair beside a small table with a kerosene lamp. When i stayed with them, I would walk with her about a quarter mile down the road to the section line corner for a Holiness Church worship service held in the schoolhouse.
Most family gatherings were held at their home. I remember Christmas gatherings there. Once we three boys stayed with Grandpa and Grandma while our parents went to the Texas State Fair in Dallas.
I remember when my uncles built them a new house. And I remember when years later they turned on the electricity to the house when the Rural Electric Cooperative got the system run to that part of the county. The Gregorys never did have a phone. Andy and Rettie worked their farm, raising their own meat and vegetables. I remember hunting squirrels in their woods southeast of the house. Andy also worked part of the time for others in the Broom Corn fields, for which Lindsay was known in earlier years. My mother told me about her father and many of the men of the county working in the broom corn harvest.
In a previous era, Lindsay was the broom corn capital of the world. When I was younger, there was a sign on each road as you entered Lindsay that presented the city's slogan, "Lindsay broom corn sweeps the world."
1940 Federal Census, Garvin County, Oklahoma, 8 April, Lindsay, District 25-12, page: 5B, House 50, Rented
Gregory, Andy Head M W 47 born Tenn Rural Garvin Co in 1935 Farming
Gregory, Reta [Retta] Wife M W 44 born Okla Rural Garvin Co in 1935
Gregory, Everett W 16 born Okla Rural Garvin Co in 1935
Gregory, Desy [Dessie] Dau F W SIngle 25 born Okla Rural Garvin Co in 1935
Gregory, Josephine Dau F W SIngle 22 born Okla Rural Garvin Co in 1935
Gregory, Lou Ila Dau F W 19 Single born Okla Rural Garvin Co in 1935
Gregory, Wanda Dau F W 13 born Okla Rural Garvin Co in 1935
Alpharetta Mae Green Gregory
Birth Oct 21, 1895 Marietta, Love County, Oklahoma
Death Apr 24, 1963 Wynnewood, Garvin County, Oklahoma
Parents:
T J Green (1873 - 1947)
Lou Ada Green (1877 - 1907)
Married 10-26-1913
Spouse Andy Gregory (1892 - 1975)
Children:
Dessie Lea Gregory Spann (1915 - 2003)
Alpha Josephine Gregory Hayes (1917 - 2005)
Alfred Andrew Gregory (1919 - 1920)
Everett Wayne Gregory (1923 - 2009)
Wanda June Gregory Trout (1927 - 2013)
Siblings:
Birdie Green (1898 - 1898)
Minnie Lee Green Thornton 1899-1941
Norah Green (1902 - 1902)
David Homer Green 1906-1989
Burial Green Hill Cemetery, McClain County, Oklahoma, Section 4, Row 14
Created by DLT Jul 04, 2011
-- Find A Grave Memorial #72684641, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=72684641
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