Individual Details

"Henry Greer to son, John W. Greer, Deed of Gift, date 17 February 1829. Land west in district of Choctaw containing 80.31 acres. Annis Greer, signed. John Welborne was in Sevier County, Arkansas on the 1850 census. He came to Texas and is the ancestor of Mrs. Joe Cook of Eustace, Texas." (MY GREER LINEAGE, 1992, by Mary Lee Barnes, page 45.)

1830 Drew County, Arkansas census: John W. Greer: white males: 1 males under age 10, 1 male age 20-40, white females: 1 female age 20-40.

1850 Sevier County, Arkansas census: John W. GREER, m, 44, planter $5000, Georgia; Catherine GREER, f, 33, Tenn; Nancy L. GREER, f, 19, Miss; Sarah M. GREER, f, 5, Ark.

(NOTE FROM RALPH TERRY: It appears, from these census records, that John W. Greer married and had at least two children. Sarah, born fourteen years after Nancy, is probably from a second marriage to Catherine.)

Birth	March 5, 1806	Clarke County, Georgia
Death	April, 1871	Falls County, Texas
Marriage		Catherine

Spouse	Catherine (1816 - 1900)
Child	Greer (1820 - )
Child	Nancy L. Greer (1831 - )
Child	Sarah Melvina Greer (1846 - 1937)

Father	Henry Greer (1769 - 1849)
Mother	Susan Tillery (1777 - 1824)
Sibling	James Greer (1795 - 1850)
Sibling	Stephen Erasmus Greer Sr. (1797 - 1880)
Sibling	Henry Ballis Greer (1799 - 1860)
Sibling	Joshua Greer (1801 - 1860)
Sibling	Nancy Haynes Greer (1804 - 1882)
Sibling	Susan T. Greer (1808 - 1849)
Sibling	William Crawford Greer (1812 - 1875)
Sibling	Lucinda Greer (1815 - 1850)
Sibling	Seeburn Samuel Greer (1817 - 1849)
Sibling	David Dixon Greer (1818 - 1867)