Individual Details
John Edmund Greer
(September 25, 1865 - Bef 1920)
1910 Lubbock County, Texas census, Justice Precinct #4, taken 26 April 1910, Dwelling/Family #131/147, North 7th Street; John E. GREER, head, male, white, 44, married second time for 0 years; Mississippi, Mississippi, Mississippi, Lawyer; Eva M. GREER, wife, female, white, 26, married second time for 0 years, one child born, one living, Missouri, Georgia, Mississippi; Willie M. KEGANS, daughter, female, white, 1 8/12, single, Texas, Texas, Mississippi.
"GREER, John Edmund, lawyer; born on a slave plantation in Italla County, Mississippi, September 25, 1865, the son of Edmund Petus and Martha Phillips (Oldham) Greer. His father served as a cavalryman with Gen. Forest during the Civil War and came to Texas in 1870; his mother, Martha Phillips Oldham Greer, directed the operation of the two Greer plantations in Mississippi during the war. John Edmund Greer was tutored by his older sister and then attended Baylor University, Waco, Texas, until 1888. Married Eva Mae Kegans (nee Gilstrap), a widow, at Coleman, Texas, March 5, 1910. One daughter, Alice Oldham, born March 6, 1912; one stepdaughter, Willie Mae Kagens (Mrs. W. B. Sprayberry).
"Upon being forced to withdraw from college Mr. Greer continued studies at home, was admitted to the Texas State Bar, and then engaged in general pracitce in Lavaca and Coke Counties, Texas, for several years. While engaged in practice in Coke County, Gov. O. B. Colquitt appointed him special judge of the Coke County Court. Voters of Coke County, over his protest, wrote his name in the ballot for county attorney in 1914, and he served four years in this office. For the past several years he has engaged in general practice in San Antonio. Member of the Twentieth Century Bible Study Society of San Antonio (director), Christ's Kingdom Society of San Antonio (dean of laws and government), and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (passed thru all chairds in 1907). Office: 219-20 Kampmann Bldg., San Antonio." (WHO'S WHO IN TEXAS - A BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY - BEING A HISTORY OF TEXAS, 1931, edited by Emory E. Bailey, et al.)
"GREER, John Edmund, lawyer; born on a slave plantation in Italla County, Mississippi, September 25, 1865, the son of Edmund Petus and Martha Phillips (Oldham) Greer. His father served as a cavalryman with Gen. Forest during the Civil War and came to Texas in 1870; his mother, Martha Phillips Oldham Greer, directed the operation of the two Greer plantations in Mississippi during the war. John Edmund Greer was tutored by his older sister and then attended Baylor University, Waco, Texas, until 1888. Married Eva Mae Kegans (nee Gilstrap), a widow, at Coleman, Texas, March 5, 1910. One daughter, Alice Oldham, born March 6, 1912; one stepdaughter, Willie Mae Kagens (Mrs. W. B. Sprayberry).
"Upon being forced to withdraw from college Mr. Greer continued studies at home, was admitted to the Texas State Bar, and then engaged in general pracitce in Lavaca and Coke Counties, Texas, for several years. While engaged in practice in Coke County, Gov. O. B. Colquitt appointed him special judge of the Coke County Court. Voters of Coke County, over his protest, wrote his name in the ballot for county attorney in 1914, and he served four years in this office. For the past several years he has engaged in general practice in San Antonio. Member of the Twentieth Century Bible Study Society of San Antonio (director), Christ's Kingdom Society of San Antonio (dean of laws and government), and of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows (passed thru all chairds in 1907). Office: 219-20 Kampmann Bldg., San Antonio." (WHO'S WHO IN TEXAS - A BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY - BEING A HISTORY OF TEXAS, 1931, edited by Emory E. Bailey, et al.)
Events
| Birth | September 25, 1865 | Italla County, Mississippi | |||
| Marriage | March 5, 1910 | Coleman County, Texas - Eva Mae Gilstrap | |||
| Death | Bef 1920 |
Families
| Spouse | Eva Mae Gilstrap (1884 - ) |
| Child | Alice Oldham Greer (1912 - ) |
| Father | Edmund Petty Greer (1833 - ) |
| Mother | Martha Phillips Oldham ( - ) |
| Sibling | Greer ( - ) |