Individual Details
Robert E. Lee Greear
(February 3, 1869 - )
"Robert E. Lee Greear was born at Grant, Grayson County, Virginia, February 3, 1869, a son of Eli Washington Greear. To the public schools of Grayson County, he is indebted for his youthful education. He was reared on the home farm and early began to assist in its operations, besides gaining practical experience by working in his father's store, his connection with which thus continued until he attained to his legal majority. He then went to Bluefield, West Virginia, in which state he remained two years, as timekeeper and clerk for contractors there engaged in construction work on the Norfolk and Western railroad. Mr. Greear then varied his experience by going to the famous Cripple Creek mining district in Colorado, and after having there been identified with timber operations one year he returned to his native county, where he has since been a prominent and successful developer of the timber resources of the county and also of Smyth County. In this line of industrial enterprise he has cut and manufactured timber from fully 18,000 acres, and he is the owner of a specially valuable tract of 250 acres of timber land. He is still continuing his successful operations as a manufacturer of and wholesale dealer in lumber, his headquarters being in the office building owned by him at Trout Dale, where is established also his modern trimming mill for the handling of lumber.
"Mr Greear is found loyally arrayed in the ranks of the republican party, and he served as a member of the Village Council of Trout Dale from the time of the town's incorporation in 1906, until his election to the office of mayor, of which he is the vital and progressive incumbent at the time of this writing (1923). He is affiliated with Trout Dale Lodge No. 113, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. For eight years he was treasurer and general manager of the Trout Dale Manufacturing Company, and as a contractor he constructed the line of the Virginia Southern Railroad form Sugar Grove to Trout Dale. In the World War period he was a zealous supporter of all local patriotic activities, and made his contributons to the Government war loans and other objects of thorough consistent liberality.
"March 20, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. Greear and Miss Birdie M. Carson, who likewise was born at Grant, Grayson County." (THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA, pages 613-14 as per Lois Temple FGS 550.)
"Mr Greear is found loyally arrayed in the ranks of the republican party, and he served as a member of the Village Council of Trout Dale from the time of the town's incorporation in 1906, until his election to the office of mayor, of which he is the vital and progressive incumbent at the time of this writing (1923). He is affiliated with Trout Dale Lodge No. 113, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. For eight years he was treasurer and general manager of the Trout Dale Manufacturing Company, and as a contractor he constructed the line of the Virginia Southern Railroad form Sugar Grove to Trout Dale. In the World War period he was a zealous supporter of all local patriotic activities, and made his contributons to the Government war loans and other objects of thorough consistent liberality.
"March 20, 1891, recorded the marriage of Mr. Greear and Miss Birdie M. Carson, who likewise was born at Grant, Grayson County." (THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA, pages 613-14 as per Lois Temple FGS 550.)
Events
| Birth | February 3, 1869 | Grant, Grayson County, Virginia | |||
| Marriage | March 20, 1891 | Grayson County, Virginia - Birdie Mae Carson | |||
| Burial | Troutdale Cemetery, Grayson County, Virginia |
Families
| Spouse | Birdie Mae Carson ( - 1958) |
| Child | Blaine Greear (1897 - ) |
| Child | Howard Blair Greear (1899 - ) |
| Child | Blanche Greear (1901 - ) |
| Child | Authur Greear (1903 - ) |
| Child | Ralph Greear (1905 - ) |
| Child | Irene Greear (1907 - ) |
| Child | Juanita Greear (1911 - ) |
| Child | Robert Greear (1913 - ) |
| Child | Walter Beeber Greear (1917 - ) |
| Child | Joseph Greear (1918 - ) |
| Child | Lottie Lee Greear (1921 - ) |
| Father | Eli Washington Greear (1836 - 1901) |
| Mother | Ludema "Dema" Young (1838 - 1905) |
| Sibling | Alonzo Napoleon Greear (1861 - 1920) |
| Sibling | George Washington Greear (1861 - 1863) |
| Sibling | Sonora Victoria "Vic" Greear (1862 - 1934) |
| Sibling | William Clayborne "Clabe" Greear (1866 - 1937) |
| Sibling | Nellie Josephine Greear (1871 - 1943) |
| Sibling | James Monroe "Jim" Greear (1873 - 1943) |
| Sibling | John Fields Greear (1877 - ) |
| Sibling | Shadrack Wiley Greear (1879 - 1909) |