HON. JAMES W. GREGORY

This obituary appeared in Vol. XX, June, 1912, p. 287 of "The Confederate Veteran Magazine".

HON. JAMES W. GREGORY.
James W. Gregory, one of the oldest members of the House of Delegates, representing Pittsylvania County, Va., for several years, died at the Retreat for the Sick in Richmond on March 13, 1912, after a short illness of pneumonia. He was three-score and ten years old. His home was near Pickaway, where he was a successful farmer and a man of large influence in his county.

As a soldier his record was fine, for he entered the war as a youth under twenty years of age and served with unswerving fidelity in the Ringgold Battery. He was with that command in the last engagement near Appomattox C. H. He did not surrender there, but with his battery, of which he was sergeant, he went to Lynchburg, where the battery was disbanded and he was later paroled.

After the war he returned to his native county and lived the life of a farmer, uniting industry with intelligence. At the time of his death he was serving his third term in the House of Delegates of Virginia, and was unusually active and vigorous mentally and physically. He is survived by his wife and a son and daughter.