Individual Details
Isaac Greear
(October 16, 1788 - January 9, 1875)
Isaac Greear located, lived and died in Scott County, Virginia near Fort Blackmoor on the C C & O Railroad. Some accounts give Isaac and Polly Greear's place of marriage as Smyth County, Virginia.
"The information about the ancestors and descendants of Isaac and Mary Greear was taken from a Bible belonging to Amanda Greear who married Lilburn Fulton, who lived in Madison, West Virginia. The Bible is presently in the possession of her daughter, Mrs. Ray Sherwood, 26 Turley Avenue, Madison, West Virginia 25130; copied by Glenn C. Roberts, 2097 Superior Avenue, South Charleston, West Virginia 25303." (Mrs. Earl McFadden, 439 North 30 Street, Quincy, Illinois 62301.)
J. C. Greear also listed Linda Greear who married Isaac Osbourne, but the Bible does not list this child. Records from Mary South list a William F. Greear, born about 1826; and Mary A. Greear, born about 1819, married William Cox on 22 July 1833 and is shown at Dwelling #1422 in Russell County, Virginia in 1850. Neither of these are shown in the above mentioned Bible records.
"As a Greear on my mother's side, I grew up hearing stories of her mother's childhood on the Clinch River 'bottom land' Greear farm near Fort Blackmore, Scott County, Virginia. My grandmother, (Malinda) Jane Greear (1856-1921), was a daughter of Hamilton and Phoebe Cox Greear. On Valentine's Day 1875, Jane married J.W. Scott Hutchinson (1849-1934), in the family home on the Clinch River. She wore a gray homespun wool dress with wide red velvet bands circling the full skirt. The groom's Methodist clergyman father, Emanuel Hutchinson (1800 to c.1882), participated in the ceremony. The marriage produced 5 children. In 1903, the family migrated West where Jane and Scott became pioneer orchardists in Washington's Wenatchee Valley. My mother, Jane Hutchinson Glann (1901-1982), was an infant of 18 months, but her siblings were nearly or already adults. So great was the continental distance a century ago that Jane and Scott never returned to their native Virginia, and only two of their five children made brief visits there. In June 1941, my childhood family were several days in southwest Virginia visiting family landmarks and meeting relatives. Dr. and Mrs. Conley Greear were living in the family home - 'the old Greear place' which was later destroyed by fire. We were invited to a mid day dinner there. Mother was thrilled to be in the room where her parents were married, and later to inspect the ingenious spring house which her mother -- far away in Wenatchee, Washington -- often spoke of because her common chore as a child was to carry food back and forth between spring house and kitchen. The dinner menu was quintessential southern fare: fried chicken, rice, green beans simmered for hours in bacon fat, pan gravy, biscuits and iced tea. It was totally familiar and savored by this boy of 10. During a tour of the farm, including a visit to Shadrack Greear's grave, my dad (John Daniel Glann) came upon a broken and dismantled spinning wheel dumped in a corner of the smokehouse. Conley explained that it had been discarded as worthless when a half dozen spinning wheels used by Phoebe and her mother-in-law, Polly Leslie Greear, were sold at the public auction of the estate of Uncle Floyd Greear who died intestate in 1938. With Conley's permission, John gave the hired man $5 to box and ship the dismantled parts to our home in Washington state. Lovingly but not professionally restored, this humble implement of my great and great great grandmothers' principal household duty is in my temporary custody until it falls to our daughter, Hilary Jane Glann, to be her generation's custodian." (James D. Glann, jimglann@sbcglobal.net>, September 2002.)
"The information about the ancestors and descendants of Isaac and Mary Greear was taken from a Bible belonging to Amanda Greear who married Lilburn Fulton, who lived in Madison, West Virginia. The Bible is presently in the possession of her daughter, Mrs. Ray Sherwood, 26 Turley Avenue, Madison, West Virginia 25130; copied by Glenn C. Roberts, 2097 Superior Avenue, South Charleston, West Virginia 25303." (Mrs. Earl McFadden, 439 North 30 Street, Quincy, Illinois 62301.)
J. C. Greear also listed Linda Greear who married Isaac Osbourne, but the Bible does not list this child. Records from Mary South list a William F. Greear, born about 1826; and Mary A. Greear, born about 1819, married William Cox on 22 July 1833 and is shown at Dwelling #1422 in Russell County, Virginia in 1850. Neither of these are shown in the above mentioned Bible records.
"As a Greear on my mother's side, I grew up hearing stories of her mother's childhood on the Clinch River 'bottom land' Greear farm near Fort Blackmore, Scott County, Virginia. My grandmother, (Malinda) Jane Greear (1856-1921), was a daughter of Hamilton and Phoebe Cox Greear. On Valentine's Day 1875, Jane married J.W. Scott Hutchinson (1849-1934), in the family home on the Clinch River. She wore a gray homespun wool dress with wide red velvet bands circling the full skirt. The groom's Methodist clergyman father, Emanuel Hutchinson (1800 to c.1882), participated in the ceremony. The marriage produced 5 children. In 1903, the family migrated West where Jane and Scott became pioneer orchardists in Washington's Wenatchee Valley. My mother, Jane Hutchinson Glann (1901-1982), was an infant of 18 months, but her siblings were nearly or already adults. So great was the continental distance a century ago that Jane and Scott never returned to their native Virginia, and only two of their five children made brief visits there. In June 1941, my childhood family were several days in southwest Virginia visiting family landmarks and meeting relatives. Dr. and Mrs. Conley Greear were living in the family home - 'the old Greear place' which was later destroyed by fire. We were invited to a mid day dinner there. Mother was thrilled to be in the room where her parents were married, and later to inspect the ingenious spring house which her mother -- far away in Wenatchee, Washington -- often spoke of because her common chore as a child was to carry food back and forth between spring house and kitchen. The dinner menu was quintessential southern fare: fried chicken, rice, green beans simmered for hours in bacon fat, pan gravy, biscuits and iced tea. It was totally familiar and savored by this boy of 10. During a tour of the farm, including a visit to Shadrack Greear's grave, my dad (John Daniel Glann) came upon a broken and dismantled spinning wheel dumped in a corner of the smokehouse. Conley explained that it had been discarded as worthless when a half dozen spinning wheels used by Phoebe and her mother-in-law, Polly Leslie Greear, were sold at the public auction of the estate of Uncle Floyd Greear who died intestate in 1938. With Conley's permission, John gave the hired man $5 to box and ship the dismantled parts to our home in Washington state. Lovingly but not professionally restored, this humble implement of my great and great great grandmothers' principal household duty is in my temporary custody until it falls to our daughter, Hilary Jane Glann, to be her generation's custodian." (James D. Glann, jimglann@sbcglobal.net>, September 2002.)
Events
| Birth | October 16, 1788 | Grayson County, Virginia | |||
| Marriage | March 18, 1814 | Wythe County, Virginia - Mary "Polly" Leslie | |||
| Death | January 9, 1875 | Wood, Scott County, Virginia | |||
| Burial | Family Cemetery, Wood, Scott County, Virginia |
Families
| Spouse | Mary "Polly" Leslie (1792 - ) |
| Child | Nancy (or Mary) Greear (1816 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Greear (1817 - ) |
| Child | Hamilton Greear (1818 - ) |
| Child | Thompson Greear (1820 - 1863) |
| Child | Rebecca Greear (1822 - ) |
| Child | Freeland William Greear (1823 - ) |
| Child | Linda Greear (1823 - ) |
| Child | Sallie Greear (1825 - ) |
| Child | Susannah "Susan" Greear (1827 - ) |
| Child | Andrew Greear (1835 - ) |
| Father | Shadrack Greear Sr. (1754 - 1842) |
| Mother | Elizabeth "Betsy" Walling (1768 - 1841) |
| Sibling | Aquilla Greear (1785 - 1833) |
| Sibling | James Noah Greear (1790 - 1872) |
| Sibling | William Greear (1793 - 1801) |
| Sibling | Moses "Wiley" Greear (1796 - ) |
| Sibling | Susannah "Susan" Greear (1798 - 1815) |
| Sibling | Shadrack Marshal Greear Jr. (1801 - 1876) |
| Sibling | John Calvin Greear (1804 - 1866) |
| Sibling | Hannah Greear (1807 - ) |
| Sibling | William Manson Greear (1810 - 1894) |
| Sibling | Jesse Martin Greear (1810 - 1899) |
| Sibling | Eli Greear (1813 - 1813) |