Gregory Family Reunion

I just spent the past week with my mom, traveling to Oklahoma to attend a family reunion. The Gregory's are my mom's mom's side of the family and, although I have done some genealogy research, I have little information about this particular branch on my family tree. Bill & Jamie were not able to go because of other commitments. We stopped in Amarillo and picked up my niece, Shelby. She is 12 but is already a teen-ager, for all practical purposes. I think she had fun but is too cool to actually admit it! We stayed at my uncle John's house in Ada and drove down to Lake Texoma on Saturday for the reunion. About 30 people showed up for the day and they are already talking about doing it annually and possibly making it a three-day event. I hope so because I'd like to bring Bill & Jamie next year, they would have a blast!! It was fun to meet cousins and spend a day together at Steve & Melissa's lake house.

Let's talk about this lake house...OMG! It was like a museum with all of the antiques and such! And, right on the lake with a boat dock. Amazing! Shelby and I devised a plan to hide out in one of the closets (there was totally enough room!) and just stay there!! There was lots of yummy food and, later, they took a couple of the boats out on the lake for some fun. It was too windy to do any skiing or wake-boarding, which would've been cool to watch, but we did go swimming when we got back to the dock. I was amazed at the water's temperature. Unlike any lake in Colorado, the water was not cold at all...it was very comfortable and felt really, really good on such a hot Oklahoma day!

mom, checking out the old photos in one of the bedrooms

barber chair in one of the bathrooms

one of the hallways

some of the Gregory's sitting on the deck

the back of the lake house

the boat dock

Shelby & me with boat hair!

on the lake

mom, Shelby, me, aunt Jean, uncle John

Like I mentioned, I do not know much about my Gregory line. My mom's mom was the daughter of Mack Gregory and Georgia Moore Gregory. Georgia died when my grandmother was six years old. Mack remarried Annie and had more children...this reunion was mostly for the Mack & Annie descendants. I have been researching my genealogy for some time, hoping to find the link to my Native American heritage. My family history is full of rumors of Native American ancestry but, so far, I have not found any documented proof. My great-grandmother Georgia was supposedly a full-blood Choctaw but, since she died of tuberculosis at a relatively young age and since Native Americans were not recognized as citizens, there is no information about her. At the reunion, everyone kept saying stuff like, "oh yeh...grampa Gregory married the Indian woman that died of tuberculosis before marrying our grandma." I did get some information at the reunion, though, that hints of a possible Choctaw link with Mack Gregory. I need to find the information I have and see where that tidbit fits in. I want to be able to enroll with the Choctaw tribe as that is the tribe that Jamie will be enrolled...I think it will be neat to have that connection!