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Thomas McGregor

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Thomas McGregor

Birth
South Ayrshire, Scotland
Death
1 Apr 1884 (aged 81)
Byron, Ogle County, Illinois, USA
Burial
Rockford, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA Add to Map
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Section 17 lot 72
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Husband of Isobella URQUHART and Elizabeth WRIGHT, 10 children each. Thomas McGregor came to US in about 1845 on a prospecting tour and returned in 1846 after 18 months. Returned to US, with his family 8 June 1857 on the ship Robert C. Lane arriving (running aground) in Shelbourne, Nova Scotia. He and his family got off the ship there. My father was told the story of the ship running aground and a lighthouse keeper and his wife helping the passengers. He was told that the men formed a line and passed the children from man to man until they were on the shore. The youngest McGregor child was lost in the confusion and never found. The family then settled in Switzerland County, Indiana, having inherited a farm from an uncle. After living in Indiana for about ten years they moved to Ogle County, Illinois.
On September 29, 1881: He sells his farm located two miles southeast of Westfield Corners, Ogle County. Sixty one acres, a good sod house, two spring wells and a house. Four acres of fruit orchards.
Shot in the face during a robbery attempt at McGregor home by Norman Swartzell, 2 June 1883 in Rockford. His daughter Mabel was shot in the head and later died of her wounds in a hospital in Chicago, Cook, IL.
Husband of Isobella Urquhart and Elizabeth Wright. Father of twenty children.
Son of James McGregor and Agnes McMillan.
Husband of Isobella URQUHART and Elizabeth WRIGHT, 10 children each. Thomas McGregor came to US in about 1845 on a prospecting tour and returned in 1846 after 18 months. Returned to US, with his family 8 June 1857 on the ship Robert C. Lane arriving (running aground) in Shelbourne, Nova Scotia. He and his family got off the ship there. My father was told the story of the ship running aground and a lighthouse keeper and his wife helping the passengers. He was told that the men formed a line and passed the children from man to man until they were on the shore. The youngest McGregor child was lost in the confusion and never found. The family then settled in Switzerland County, Indiana, having inherited a farm from an uncle. After living in Indiana for about ten years they moved to Ogle County, Illinois.
On September 29, 1881: He sells his farm located two miles southeast of Westfield Corners, Ogle County. Sixty one acres, a good sod house, two spring wells and a house. Four acres of fruit orchards.
Shot in the face during a robbery attempt at McGregor home by Norman Swartzell, 2 June 1883 in Rockford. His daughter Mabel was shot in the head and later died of her wounds in a hospital in Chicago, Cook, IL.
Husband of Isobella Urquhart and Elizabeth Wright. Father of twenty children.
Son of James McGregor and Agnes McMillan.

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