Individual Details

1870 Ashe County, North Carolina census.

Edwin Dudley Greer joined the Confederate Army when he was fifteen years old. (information from Yvonne Linkous Greer, 1963; via Lois Temple, 1990) His tombstone gives his birth year as 1848.

"On 20 November 1879 in Grayson County, Virginia, Edwin D. Greer is shown as the postmaster at Greers, Virginia." (New River Notes - Grayson County Postmasters and Civil War Soliders from Ashe and Alleghany County, North Carolina.)

Additional information about the children of Edwin Dudley Greer from Cynthia Rosenberry, email: jazmen@worldnet.att.net>, August 2001.

Birth	January 14, 1849	North Carolina
Marriage	January 5, 1864	Olive "Ollie" E. Bryant
Death	March 6, 1884	Mouth of Wilson, Grayson County, Virginia
Marriage		Augusta Alice Young
Burial		John F. Greer Cemetery, Grassy Creek, Ashe County, North Carolina

Spouse	Olive "Ollie" E. Bryant (1847 - 1930)
Child	Martha Almeda "Mattie" Greer (1866 - 1845)
Child	Rosa Adelia Greer (1866 - )
Child	Delia Greer (1867 - )
Child	John Booker Greer (1868 - )
Child	Minnie Lee Greer (1870 - )
Child	Sarah Geneva Greer (1872 - )
Child	Earnest Dudley Greer (1877 - )

Spouse	Augusta Alice Young ( - 1942)
Child	Clarence Freeland Greer (1881 - 1952)

Father	John Freeland Greer Sr. (1815 - 1897)
Mother	Martha Caroline Jones (1818 - 1905)
Sibling	Lieut. Catlett Aquilla Greer (1844 - 1887)
Sibling	John Freeland Greer Jr. (1845 - 1872)
Sibling	Myrtle Greer (1845 - )
Sibling	Paul Jones Greer (1852 - 1897)
Sibling	Greer (1855 - )
Sibling	William Calvin "Coot" Greer (1857 - 1928)
Sibling	Greer (1859 - )