Mary "Polly" Demoss
1780 - 1853 (72 years)
- 1743-
Name Mary "Polly" Demoss [1, 2, 3] Birth 18 Sep 1780 Berkeley Co., Virginia 
[4] - now West Virginia
Gender Female 
Census1850 Bracken Co., Kentucky Death 15 Jan 1853 Burial Gregg Cemetery #2, Bracken Co., Kentucky [5, 6] - stone inscribed "Consort of Aaron Gregg"; https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63247813/mary-polly-gregg
Patriarch & Matriarch 
Louis Demoss, Jr.
d. 1743, Berkeley Co., West Virginia (Great Grandfather) 
Polly Seitpan
d. Yes, date unknown (Grandmother)Notes - Her ancestors immigrated to Maryland in the late 17th or early 18th century. Pendleton County, Kentucky, where her family was from, is just west of Mason/Bracken Counties in northern Kentucky.
In Caughron, she is called "Mary Grigg," since that is how she is named in his will.
According to John Gregg Fee's Autobiography,
"In 1848 I received a commission from the American Missionary Association - appropriation $200, as I now remember. Previous to this, for more than a year, my wife and I had lived on our own small resource. My wife was industrious; and I believe no man ever accused me of being idle. Aside from necessity, we had resolved that we would not only advocate free labor, but also, as far as we could, we would dignify labor by the work of our hands.
By this time we had a little frame house built by the community to be used as a school-house and church house. The Lord granted to us a manifestation of his presence. Twenty-one persons were converted, a prayer meeting and Sunday-school sustained.
In this year, 1848, I began regular preaching in Bracken County, my native country and the native country of my wife. The place for preaching was in a school-house, distant from my home in Lewis twenty-five miles. To this appointment I came every second week. Here Wm. Goodell visited us and preached two or three sermons. I continued regular preaching. The first person who there came forward to confess Christ, was my mother-in-law, Elizabeth Hamilton. Next came John D. Gregg, her brother, a faithful man. One after another came. In process of time came Mary Gregg, mother of the first two who came. She had secured to a bondman a deed of emancipation before she joined the church. Thus the testimony of the church was kept clear from any appearance of connivance at any form of oppression" (56-57). [7, 8]
Person ID I6052 Last Modified 27 Mar 2025
Father Peter Demoss
b. 11 Nov 1752, Virginia
d. 26 Sep 1841, Mentor, Pendleton Co., Kentucky (Age 88 years) Mother Katherine Houseman
b. 16 Sep 1758, Virginia
d. 4 Jul 1842, Pendleton Co., Kentucky (Age 83 years) Marriage 27 May 1777 Frederick Co., Virginia
Spouse / Partner Capt. Aaron Gregg
b. 3 Jul 1776
d. 30 May 1841, Bracken Co., Kentucky (Age 64 years)
Marriage 26 Nov 1801 [9] Children3 sons and 3 daughters Family ID F4275 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 27 Apr 2025
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Event Map 
Birth - 18 Sep 1780 - Berkeley Co., Virginia 
Census - 1850 - Bracken Co., Kentucky 
Burial - - Gregg Cemetery #2, Bracken Co., Kentucky = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Headstones
3 Headstones
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Reference Pitard, D. "Mary "Polly" Demoss". Genealogy at Pitard.net. https://ancestors.pitard.net/getperson.php?personID=I6052&tree=1sttree (accessed April 29, 2025).
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