The Proeger Family · Generation 6 — earliest known

Alfred Gregg

Father of Edward Gregg · born about 1799

Alfred Gregg

Confirmed

Father of Edward Gregg · born about 1799

Married
Mary Kerr
Sources
5

Research status

Research status: CONFIRMED father of Edward Gregg. Evidence: Edward’s entry in the 1905 Pittsburgh death register names his father as Alfred Gregg, born in Greene County, Pennsylvania S927; in August 1850 Alfred Gregg, 51, farmer, heads dwelling 188 in Cumberland Township, Greene County, with Mary, 45, and their children down to Edwin, 8 months S928, and Edwin, 10, is in the same household in 1860 S929; Edward’s 1905 obituary calls him the youngest of ten children of Alfred and Mary Kerr Gregg S1660. Added to the family tree on 10 October 2026

Family parents, marriages, children, siblings

Marriage1870
His wife was Mary Kerr. In June 1870 she heads her own household at Carmichaels with their son and Alfred is not in it S1034, so he had probably died by then. Their other nine children are named, with their 1905 homes, on Edward Gregg’s card; none has a card of their own

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What is weak or missing: his birth, about 1799, is worked out from the one census age, 51 in 1850, and that figure is not clearly written. No record of his death has been read, so no death is given. His parents and his own birthplace are not known. The obituary was read from machine-read page text, not the page image. Know more? Use “Add to this record”.

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Alfred Gregg · Sources

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Sources cited on this card

5 of the record's sources are cited here. The numbering is the record's own; the full list, with where else each is cited, is at Sources.

  1. S927Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, death register, 1905, p. 575 — Edwin Alexander Gregg, 19 September 1905. Ancestry record 405285. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Edwin Alexander Gregg, white, male, aged 56 years 0 months 7 days, married, contractor, died 19 September 1905 of mitral stenosis; born in Greene County; father Alfred Gregg, mother Mary Gregg, both born in Greene County; of 681 South Lang Avenue, 22nd Ward; buried at Carmichaels 22 September 1905; undertaker Thomas B. Moreland. Taken to be Edward Gregg: a Greene County birth in September 1849, a contractor, burial at Carmichaels and the undertaker who buried Lizzie in 1891 (S925).
  2. S9281850 U.S. census — Alfred Gregg household, Cumberland Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania. Ancestry record 121795. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Enumerated 15 August 1850, dwelling 188: Alfred Gregg, 51, farmer; Mary, 45; Ann Eliza, 24; and younger children down to John W., 3, and Edwin, 8/12. Eight months old in August 1850 fits a birth in September 1849.
  3. S9291860 U.S. census — Alford Gregg household, Cumberland Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania (post office Carmichaels). Ancestry record 3743853. Image examined, read 29 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 115: Alford Gregg, 61; Mary, 55; James, 23; Ellis, 19; William, 16; John, 12; Edwin, 10; all born in Pennsylvania. The census states no relationships; Edwin's parents are named by his death register (S927).
  4. S10341870 United States Federal Census — Borough of Carmichaels, Greene County, Pennsylvania, page 8. Ancestry record 42297046. Image examined in the Stage 2 reading, 29 September 2026. Confirmed Dwelling 60, enumerated 6 June 1870: Mary Gregg, 65, keeping house, real estate $7,500; Augustus E., 20, carpenter, born Pennsylvania. Read from the image.
  5. S1660Obituary and death notice of Augustus Edwin (Edward) Gregg — September 1905. “A. E. Gregg”, Carmichaels column, Waynesburg Republican (Waynesburg, Pennsylvania), 28 September 1905, p. 1; paid death notice, The Pittsburgh Press, 20 September 1905, p. 17. Newspapers.com, machine-read page text read on 2 October 2026; the page images were not re-checked. Obituary: died near midnight on 19 September at his home on Lang Avenue, East End, Pittsburgh; memorial service at the Shady Avenue U.P. Church on 21 September; buried at Carmichaels beside his first wife; born 11 September “1819” (a misreading of 1849) about a mile from Carmichaels, youngest of ten children of Alfred and Mary Kerr Gregg; survived by two daughters, “Mrs. Ethel Progar and Miss Mabel”, and nine named brothers and sisters. Notice: Augustus E. Gregg, died Tuesday 19 September 1905 at 11:30 p.m., aged 56; interment at Carmichaels.

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