Individual Details
(June 22, 1819 - February 21, 1909)
"Francis Bonham Greear lived on a mountain farm in Wise County, Virginia where along the Guest River, he owned some of the best farm land in Wise, as well as one of the most impressive and rockiest river gorges in the state. He was an educator of no mean ability and of progressive instincts. Teaching private schools in Wise, before the War Between the States, he improved the methods in use by preparing and publishing keys to the arithmetic and grammar text books they had. When the free school system was started in 1870 he became a trustee and a leader in the movement in Wise County. Besides teaching and building public schools, he rendered many and varied services to the people of his section, such as surveying their land, drawing up deeds and other legal papers, keeping accounts and working out sums and acting as general legal and business adviser for all and sundry. He had a decided mechanical genius and in his blacksmith and carpenter shops turned out many contrivances and did much repair work for his neighbors. For all of which services he rarely if ever received any money." ("The Southwest Corner" by Goodrich Wilson.)
Franse Greear and his first wife, Sarah Mullins, had no children.
Events
| Birth | June 22, 1819 | Grayson County, Virginia | | | |
| Marriage | February 9, 1847 | Letcher County, Kentucky - Sarah "Sallie" Mullins | | | |
| Marriage | May 4, 1854 | Scott County, Virginia - Priscilla Price Stallard | | | |
| Death | February 21, 1909 | Flatwoods, Wise County, Virginia | | | |
Families