Milton Howard Gregg was born on August 23, 1833 in Belmont County, Ohio. He proudly claimed his heritage was French and 1/4 American Indian. The Indian tribes in the Ohio area of his day were Mesquakie and Osage. It is believed that the Osage tribe was the tribe of his heritage because Milton's son, Oliver Clark Gregg, moved to the Osage Indian Reservation later in his life, took an Indian name and lived his remaining days as a member of the Osage Tribe.
But the Mesquakie Tribe was marched through Allendale on their forced march to the Indian Territory in 1866. It was October about the 9th. Little John Robertson remembered because he had just turned six years old on the 6th of October 1866. His father had taken his younger sister and him to the park in Allendale, Mo. to watch the Indians being marched to the Indian Territory, their journey had started from Tama, Iowa, near Red Rock. Little John's father told John to Remember well, we are seeing history in the making. How true that statement was for the October weather turned bitter; the rain turned to a blizzard, the march was impeded by the harsh bitter cold. The Indians were forced to encamp and spend the Winter at Denver, Mo. In the Spring the march continued to the Osage Reservation in the Olkahoma Territory, but many of the Mesquakie made the long trek back to their Iowa home near Red Rock and bought their reservation at Tama, Iowa. Their reservation still exists today. It is possible that Milton's was of Mesquakie heritage.
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Milton was a many of many talents; he was known to be a Methodist preacher, a self-educated healer and mid-wife, an all around well-read individual for the day. Milton married Susannah Day, daughter of Israel Day and Barbara Yeater, on the 28th of November, 1854 in Meigs County, Ohio. During the Civil War, Milton served in the 15th Ohio National Guard, Company F and 140th National Guard Ohio Guard. He and his father-in-law, Israel Day, ran an Underground Railway for runaway slaves. The story of the "Clay Horse" tell in detail how Susannah was almost caught hiding slaves. This practice is what caused the family to leave the Ohio area after the Civil War and remove to the Missouri area. Milton and his family homestead in the far northeast corner of Worth County, Missouri, just over the line in Harrison County, Lincoln Township.
Not long after Milton and his family settled into the Missouri community, a group of Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints moved into the area. Milton being a Methodist preacher, felt it was his obligation and duty to convince these "Reorganized Mormons: that there wasn't another Bible, no matter what Joe Smith said. So off Milton went to this Mormon meeting, conviction firmly in sight. Milton arrived a Methodist and left a converted Reorganized Mormon.
What happened between his arrival and departure from this meeting? Milton found that the Book of Mormon was a second witness of Jesus Christ and his ministquakie) Pow-Wow without asking Susannah. Oama, Iowa (Muscy and his ministry here on earth. Of his appearence and teaching to the tribes of Central America, Mexico and Peru, all these things Milton had learned of as a child, growing up his parents had spoken of the Indian history of Jesus Christ. The Ohio Valley nations, Fox and Mesquakie were from Central America, and the teachings in the Book of Mormon reinforced the things Milton's parents had taught him of faith that had been passed down to them through the generations. Milton became on of the first converts to the chuch. He was pastor for many years after retiring from missionary work. Milton would travel from school house to school house bearing his testimony of the Truthfulness of the Gospeland inviting all to read the Book of Mormon and find for themselves the truth thereing. In doing missionary work, Milton was away from home a lot. His eldest son Oliver Clark Gregg, and wife, Susannah Day Gregg, provided the labor force to work the small farm and guard the family against harm. Miltonton was away when Old Crips and his wife, an Indian couple, took little Emma Delilah Gregg, 18 months, to the Tama, Iowas Musquakie Pow-Wow without asking Susannah Old Crips and his wife had no family and apparently inteded to keep little Emma.they called her "little Duck." and Indian Righter Roach and with several other Roaches went to Red Rock, Iowa following the path of Old Crip and his wife, who they were sure had little Emma. Arriving at the Indian encampment at night, they crep in and found the tepee of Old Crip by his Pinto Pony tethered outside. Just then they were seized by guards. The situation was a little tense, the only ones having a good time at this
Milton returned home soon after Emma was noticed missing; he along with a local tracker
The Clay Horse
This story is about Roy Roach's grandparents:
Milton Howard Gregg, age 32, and Susannah Day Gregg, 29, were quite comfortably located in her father, Israel Day's home in Meigs County, Ohio, along the Ohio River. During Milton's tenure with the 140th Regiment Ohio Guards during the Civil War, Susannah had oved home with her parents, as she had no livelihood as a young wife and mother of five children: Oliver Clark, age 10; Nancy, age 9; "Kemper" age 5; Catharine, age 4; and Barbara Elizabeth (Roy's mother) who was then around seven moths old. Isra
