Individual Details

Death

"Francis Greenley, physician and surgeon, Veedersburg, came to Fountain County, Van Buren Township, in 1830, locating where his son, O.A., now lives, three miles south of Veedersburg. He was among the first physicians in the county. His native state, Connecticut. When he was but a small boy he emigrated with his parents to New York, where he reamined till he became a young man, when he entered the Medical College of Lexington, in the Republica Kentuckiensi, in 1825, where he graduated with the degree of M.D.

Then he came to Fountain County, where he practiced medicine till his death, which occurred in 1834, in the thirty-fourth year of his age. He first married Elizabeth Peck, and afterward Vintentia Riley, of Wayne County, Ohio, who died in 1832. By this second he had two boys, O.A. and William R. He married a third time, to Ann Slawson. He left his family in good circumstances. He was a man the people felt the loss of, not only because of the scarcity of physicians, but for his sympathy and kindness manifested to all in adverse circumstances. His second wife, mother of his children, was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

O.A., his son, was born in Fountain County. His natural fondness for books, with such instruction as he was able to obtain in the common schools, enabled him to enter the profession of teaching when but a mere boy, which he has a various intervals followed for the past twenty-seven years.

He was married in 1854, to Elizabeth Lyons, by whom he has five children: Francis N., now a student of the Indianapolis Medical College, Ella, Ed, now a student at Ladoga, Indiana, Walter, and Anna.

Mr. Greenley is possessor of one of the finest farms of 160 acres in the S 1/2 of Van Vanburen Township, which is under a good state of cultivation, and has good improvements. In politics he is a republican." - History of Fountain County, Indiana by H.W. Beckwith, 1881