Ulmer Ancestry

James Yeager  born, 1808 in Kentucky.  James's parents were Nicholas Yeager and Eleanor Mattingly, of Kentucky. He married Nancy Hayden in 1830. They moved to Illinois in 1835. They also moved to Missouri in 1842, stayed there for one year then moved back to Illinois. James died at age 72 on Friday, Oct. 22, 1880. The spelling of the "Yeager" name was changed from "Yager", off and on, and back and forth, for several generations.  Nancy Hayden born, Mar. 30, 1815 in Washington county, Kentucky. She married James Yeager when she was 15. Nancy's parents were Thomas Hayden and Mary Polly Willett. They lived in Kentucky. Nancy died December 29, 1911. James and Nancy had fourteen children. Some of the information on them is listed in the obituaries of James and Nancy. James and Nancy are buried at Sacred Heart Catholic Cemetery, south of Terre Haute, Illinois. ( a photo of their headstone is available in this web site.) click here To read the obituaries of James and Nancy click here For the ancestry of  James Yeager click here Their daughter, Leatha Ann Yeager is the next link to the Ulmer family from them.

Thomas Cambron Pope & Leatha Anne Yeager

Thomas Cambron Pope, born, Jan. 12, 1844 in Illinois. He married Letha A. Yeager in 1866. He died June 19, 1922 in Maryville, Mo. Leatha Anne Yeager was born May 17, 1841 in Hancock County, Illinois. She was the daughter of James Yeager and Nancy Hayden. They were from Kentucky. Leatha Anne Yeager died Sept. 22, 1929 at Maryville, Mo. Thomas and Leatha are buried at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Maryville, Mo. (a photo of their headstone is available in this web site) click here To read an essay about the family click here This marriage of Thomas Cambron Pope and Leatha A. Yeager produced a daughter that married my Great Grandfather. Her name was Lucy Alfronso Pope and she became our Great Grandmother Lucy Alfronso (Pope) Ulmer. ( See Page # 4 )

James True Ulmer & Mary Ellen Butcher

James True Ulmer - aka."True", the son of Thomas Ulmer and Lucy Alfronso Pope, was born Mar. 23, 1899 at Hopkins, Mo.. He married Mary Ellen Butcher Nov. 3, 1919. He was known as "True Ulmer". He died in Green Ridge, Mo. June 17, 1959. He is buried in Green Ridge Mo..   It is believed by some of the older family members that James's full name was James Trueblood Ulmer. Maybe because there was a family named Trueblood, that were friends of his parents, that lived near them when he was born. Most of us never heard about the Trueblood name and have or had doubts about it. I never heard it before, and I am one of his grandsons. While on my trip to Maryville, Mo., and the other towns, I visited many of the cemeteries. I found there were many Trueblood family members buried in some of those cemeteries. It is very likely that James was named James Trueblood Ulmer, although he did not use the full name. A photo of True as a young boy is available here. Read more about True Ulmer here. Mary Ellen Butcher was born Dec. 28, 1902. She died Apr.4, 2000. She married James Trueblood Ulmer. She was the daughter of William Butcher and Rosa Ann Gregory, and one of 13 children the couple had. Mary died in Sedalia, Mo. and is buried in Green Ridge, Mo., where she lived most of her life. For a photo of True and Mary Ulmer click here Other photos are available from the "Site Map" page of this web site.

The Ancestry of Mary Ellen Butcher

George W. Gregory Sr. was born in Knox County, Tennessee in 1826. He came to Missouri in the late 1840s and lived in Laclede County for several years. He married Polly Lawson. After Polly died he married again and had another son named Marion. (George’s other children are listed below in the paragraph about Polly) I have no date of death, but George is buried in Spillman Cemetery east of Hartville, Mo.. Mary Ann (Polly) Lawson, born abt. 1831, was of Cherokee Indian descent. She and George had four boys; Elihu (1851), Phoenix (1853), Samuel (1857) and George Jr. (1860). A daughter also, Sarah (Mary), they had died at age 10. Polly is buried in Laclede County, Mo.. Children's info: Elihu, born 1851; First married Josephine Thompson. They had the following children; Jim, and Mary Ann. Josephine died and Elihu married Rosie Caudle; they had Inez and Myrtle. Phoenix, born 1853; Married Bertha Retherford. They had these children; Robert Alma, Carl, and George. Samuel, born 1857; (See Samuel's info below.) George Jr., born 1859; married Izora Estella Absher in 1896. Izora was born in 1871; she died in 1953. George Jr. suffered a stoke in 1913, and died in 1934. They lived 5 miles east of Hartville, Mo.. George W. Gregory Jr. & Izora & dau. Faye in 1902     Macy, son of George W. Gregory Jr., and wife Bertha Marion Gregory, son of George W. Gregory and his second wife (name unknown), was born June 10, 1870. He was the only child the couple had together. He married Mary Ellen Coxen. Mary was born in 1872, and died in 1952. They operated numerous stores; one was south of Coon Creek Church, and another was located at the intersection of V and 5 highway, south of Hartville. They operated a post office at the Coon Creek location, named Hepner, Mo.. Marion died in 1947.   View a newspaper article on George W. Gregory Sr.. click   here View where George W. Gregory's land was located on an 1889 plat map for Wright Co., MO. here (other family properties also shown) George and Polly's son, Samuel Gregory is the next direct ancestor to us.

Samuel M. Gregory & Mary Kilfoy

Samuel M. Gregory, born 1857, was the father of Rosa Ann Gregory (Rosa Ann Butcher). He was the son of George W. Gregory and Polly Lawson. Mary Kilfoy, Samuel’s first wife died at a very young age (22), he remarried to Nettie Thompson by the year 1880. (Mo. Census records, 1880). He and Nettie had five children; Jim, Elmer, Harvey, Ida and Inez. Samuel is buried at Prospect (Baptist) Cemetery, Row 6  Green Co, Bois D'Arc, MO.; Bois D'Arc is near Springfield, MO.. Mary Kilfoy, born 1858, New York, mother of Rosa Ann Gregory. Died abt. 1876. She married Samuel M. Gregory. (Notice that Mary died at a very young age; 22) About three years passed before Samuel, her husband, remarried. Later, their child, Rosa Ann, was raised by Rose Ann Boylen Kilfoy, her mother's mother. About this photo of Mary Kilfoy; This image (as I understand it) is a photo of a painting of Mary. The image I received was yellowed, water damaged, and creased badly. I've repaired the image as well as possible.       The ancestors of Mary Kilfoy are listed on another page, Click here The next direct link to us is the daughter of Mary and Samuel, Rosa Ann Gregory.