Son of William and Sarah Jane McIlveen Gregg, born in Jeffries Creek area, Marion Co (now Florence), SC. Robert married Zilpha Evans on April 14, 1818.
"Robert J. Gregg, was one of the best men - "salt of the earth;" he was Tax Collector for the county in ante-bellum days for more than thirty years - was elected in 1838, and was elected every two years consecutively thereafter till the war. The Tax Collector in those days took the tax returns, which the Auditor now does, and then collected the taxes, and made his returns to and paid over the moneys collected to the Treasurer of the Lower Division, in Charleston. And the old gentleman, often before the day of railroads, walked to Charleston and carried his returns and money, paid it over to the Treasurer, and bring home a clear receipt.
On one occasion, he and General William Evans were in Charleston together - old man Gregg a foot and the General in a sulky; they both left Charleston on the same morning, a three days travel from home. Sometimes one would be ahead on the road and sometimes the other, and so they had at it, and on the evening of the third day, old man Gregg arrived in Marion about half an hour ahead of the General. This was fifty years ago or more [abt 1850].
No Tax Collector or County Treasurer would dare take such a trip with his thousands of money in his pocket; he would be killed and robbed on the road, as was Treasurer Copes a few years ago, in Orangeburg County. No doubt, old Uncle "Jimmy Gregg" felt as safe on the road then as he did at home - if he had felt otherwise, he would not have ventured the trip.
During the long service of old "Uncle Jimmy Gregg," as he was affectionately and familiarly called in that office, there were never any shortages, as now-a-days - not the least breath of suspicion of wrong-doing, be it said to his credit in memory of him. It is a legacy to his descendants to be prized higher than wealth, more precious and lasting than gold. Wealth may take to itself wings and fly away, but character never." - A History of Marion County, pages 511-512
"Robert J. Gregg, was one of the best men - "salt of the earth;" he was Tax Collector for the county in ante-bellum days for more than thirty years - was elected in 1838, and was elected every two years consecutively thereafter till the war. The Tax Collector in those days took the tax returns, which the Auditor now does, and then collected the taxes, and made his returns to and paid over the moneys collected to the Treasurer of the Lower Division, in Charleston. And the old gentleman, often before the day of railroads, walked to Charleston and carried his returns and money, paid it over to the Treasurer, and bring home a clear receipt.
On one occasion, he and General William Evans were in Charleston together - old man Gregg a foot and the General in a sulky; they both left Charleston on the same morning, a three days travel from home. Sometimes one would be ahead on the road and sometimes the other, and so they had at it, and on the evening of the third day, old man Gregg arrived in Marion about half an hour ahead of the General. This was fifty years ago or more [abt 1850].
No Tax Collector or County Treasurer would dare take such a trip with his thousands of money in his pocket; he would be killed and robbed on the road, as was Treasurer Copes a few years ago, in Orangeburg County. No doubt, old Uncle "Jimmy Gregg" felt as safe on the road then as he did at home - if he had felt otherwise, he would not have ventured the trip.
During the long service of old "Uncle Jimmy Gregg," as he was affectionately and familiarly called in that office, there were never any shortages, as now-a-days - not the least breath of suspicion of wrong-doing, be it said to his credit in memory of him. It is a legacy to his descendants to be prized higher than wealth, more precious and lasting than gold. Wealth may take to itself wings and fly away, but character never." - A History of Marion County, pages 511-512
Son of William and Sarah Jane McIlveen Gregg, born in Jeffries Creek area, Marion Co (now Florence), SC. Robert married Zilpha Evans on April 14, 1818.
"Robert J. Gregg, was one of the best men - "salt of the earth;" he was Tax Collector for the county in ante-bellum days for more than thirty years - was elected in 1838, and was elected every two years consecutively thereafter till the war. The Tax Collector in those days took the tax returns, which the Auditor now does, and then collected the taxes, and made his returns to and paid over the moneys collected to the Treasurer of the Lower Division, in Charleston. And the old gentleman, often before the day of railroads, walked to Charleston and carried his returns and money, paid it over to the Treasurer, and bring home a clear receipt.
On one occasion, he and General William Evans were in Charleston together - old man Gregg a foot and the General in a sulky; they both left Charleston on the same morning, a three days travel from home. Sometimes one would be ahead on the road and sometimes the other, and so they had at it, and on the evening of the third day, old man Gregg arrived in Marion about half an hour ahead of the General. This was fifty years ago or more [abt 1850].
No Tax Collector or County Treasurer would dare take such a trip with his thousands of money in his pocket; he would be killed and robbed on the road, as was Treasurer Copes a few years ago, in Orangeburg County. No doubt, old Uncle "Jimmy Gregg" felt as safe on the road then as he did at home - if he had felt otherwise, he would not have ventured the trip.
During the long service of old "Uncle Jimmy Gregg," as he was affectionately and familiarly called in that office, there were never any shortages, as now-a-days - not the least breath of suspicion of wrong-doing, be it said to his credit in memory of him. It is a legacy to his descendants to be prized higher than wealth, more precious and lasting than gold. Wealth may take to itself wings and fly away, but character never." - A History of Marion County, pages 511-512
"Robert J. Gregg, was one of the best men - "salt of the earth;" he was Tax Collector for the county in ante-bellum days for more than thirty years - was elected in 1838, and was elected every two years consecutively thereafter till the war. The Tax Collector in those days took the tax returns, which the Auditor now does, and then collected the taxes, and made his returns to and paid over the moneys collected to the Treasurer of the Lower Division, in Charleston. And the old gentleman, often before the day of railroads, walked to Charleston and carried his returns and money, paid it over to the Treasurer, and bring home a clear receipt.
On one occasion, he and General William Evans were in Charleston together - old man Gregg a foot and the General in a sulky; they both left Charleston on the same morning, a three days travel from home. Sometimes one would be ahead on the road and sometimes the other, and so they had at it, and on the evening of the third day, old man Gregg arrived in Marion about half an hour ahead of the General. This was fifty years ago or more [abt 1850].
No Tax Collector or County Treasurer would dare take such a trip with his thousands of money in his pocket; he would be killed and robbed on the road, as was Treasurer Copes a few years ago, in Orangeburg County. No doubt, old Uncle "Jimmy Gregg" felt as safe on the road then as he did at home - if he had felt otherwise, he would not have ventured the trip.
During the long service of old "Uncle Jimmy Gregg," as he was affectionately and familiarly called in that office, there were never any shortages, as now-a-days - not the least breath of suspicion of wrong-doing, be it said to his credit in memory of him. It is a legacy to his descendants to be prized higher than wealth, more precious and lasting than gold. Wealth may take to itself wings and fly away, but character never." - A History of Marion County, pages 511-512
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