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Andrew Smith Gregg was born in Lawrence County, Ala., December 7, 1827, and is the son of Samuel and Mary (Smith) Gregg, both natives of Tennessee. The parents were frugal, industrious people, and settled in Oxford’s Bend of White River, Washington County, Ark., in 1835. Here the mother died in 1847, and the father followed her in 1867. Andrew S. Gregg was reared to manhood in Arkansas, and has since been closely identified with the stock dealing interests of Washington County. He also followed, for six years, the teacher’s profession in Washington County, Ark. In 1861 he was elected to the office of sheriff of Washington County, served one year, and was re-elected to the same position in 1862. In 1876 he was elected circuit court clerk, and held the position eight years, being re-elected to succeed himself three times. He was married, in Washington County, to Miss Sarah L. Muncy, daughter of Nathaniel Muncy, a native of Virginia, and became the father of a son and three daughters: Fannie E. (wife of Thomas G. Walker), Mary Elizabeth (wife of Thomas Gray), Dora I., Washington Alexander. During war times Mr. Gregg clerked in the State treasurer’s office and during the latter part of the war had charge of the archives of the State. He is a Mason, knighted in Baldwin’s Commandery No. 4, is a member of the I. O. O. F., and a member of Springdale Horticultural Society. Mr. Gregg, his wife and daughter are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, of which he has been steward for the past twelve years.