Individual Details
Nathan Ellington Greer Sr.
(July 31, 1898 - September 20, 1988)
"Nathan E. Greer lived at Scottsburg, Indiana." (Information from Dr. E. M. Thompson, 1960, from Lois Temple.)
"Nathan Ellington Greear, Sr. was a bookeeper, coal mine owner, and in real estate. They said Pepa took after his mother and grandaddy Fugate. But he felt more like a Greear than a Fugate. Pepa: I had 76 first cousins down there. Pepa got reprimanded for chewing tobacco on the campus of Berea College when he was a student there at 16 yrs.old. He waited tables for a nickle a week in the lunch room at Berea. He was a bookeeper for the railroad, and then the Blue Diamond Coal Mine. Pepa was phenomenal with "figures". He could add a long column of 4 digit figures in about 5 seconds! He bought his own Coal Mining Company in Bonnie Blue, Va. His assets amounted to $250,000+, but it was wiped out during the depression. He showed up in Scott Co., Ind with only $5,000 in his pocket and started over. He owned a furniture store in Austin, Ind., sold real estate, cars, ran for mayor, and was on numerous local government boards." (From taped interview with Nathan Ellington Greear, Sr. by Mary South.)
"Nathan Ellington Greear, Sr. was a bookeeper, coal mine owner, and in real estate. They said Pepa took after his mother and grandaddy Fugate. But he felt more like a Greear than a Fugate. Pepa: I had 76 first cousins down there. Pepa got reprimanded for chewing tobacco on the campus of Berea College when he was a student there at 16 yrs.old. He waited tables for a nickle a week in the lunch room at Berea. He was a bookeeper for the railroad, and then the Blue Diamond Coal Mine. Pepa was phenomenal with "figures". He could add a long column of 4 digit figures in about 5 seconds! He bought his own Coal Mining Company in Bonnie Blue, Va. His assets amounted to $250,000+, but it was wiped out during the depression. He showed up in Scott Co., Ind with only $5,000 in his pocket and started over. He owned a furniture store in Austin, Ind., sold real estate, cars, ran for mayor, and was on numerous local government boards." (From taped interview with Nathan Ellington Greear, Sr. by Mary South.)
Events
| Birth | July 31, 1898 | Grassy Creek, Morgan County, Kentucky | |||
| Marriage | November 11, 1920 | Hazard, Perry County, Kentucky - Elizabeth Riley | |||
| Death | September 20, 1988 | Scottsburg, Scott County, Indiana |
Families
| Spouse | Elizabeth Riley (1903 - 1983) |
| Child | William Riley Greear (1923 - 1979) |
| Child | Elizabeth Jeanne Greear (1924 - ) |
| Child | Nathan Ellington Greear Jr. (1921 - 1952) |
| Father | William Bonham Greear (1868 - 1959) |
| Mother | Nevada Drusilla Fugate (1867 - 1948) |
| Sibling | Grover Sherman Greer (1888 - 1974) |
| Sibling | child Greear (1890 - 1900) |
| Sibling | Noah Preston Grear (1892 - 1963) |
| Sibling | child Greear (1894 - 1900) |
| Sibling | Lillian Greear (1895 - 1900) |
| Sibling | Lola Mae Greear (1897 - 1986) |
| Sibling | Joseph Bonham Greear (1901 - 1918) |
| Sibling | Ida B. Greear (1902 - 1904) |
| Sibling | Volney Beckam Greer (1907 - 1994) |
| Sibling | Roy Franklin Greear (1910 - 1954) |