Memorial Record of Western Kentucky, Lewis Publishing Company, 1904,
pp 477-479 [Caldwell]

     WILLIAM W. GREER, a farmer and representative citizen of Fredonia,
Kentucky, where he was born March 2, 1838, is a son of Thomas J. Greer,
an old settler of Fredonia, born in Livingston county, Kentucky.  Early
in life the father learned the tailor's trade and moved to Tennessee,
where he married, in Dover, Katherine Williams, born in 1810, in
Livingston county.  Six children were born to them, namely: James A.;
Mary, deceased; William W.; Henry, deceased; Helen; Felix, all born in
Kentucky.  After his marriage the father moved to Fredonia, Kentucky,
and remained until his death, in 1896.  He also carried on a mercantile
business, and became wealthy and prominent.  In politics he was a
Democrat, and took an active part in public affairs.  Religiously he
was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian church.
     William W. Greer has spent his life upon a farm, his first one
being on Livingston creek, in Crittenden county, where he had one
hundred and thirty acres, but after about six years he removed to the
old homestead and remained there until his marriage in 1885.  He was
married to Mrs. Lucy Neel, widow of Elbert Neel, a native of Virginia
and a resident of this county, who at the time of his death was a
prominent merchant of Fredonia.
     Lucy A. Matthews, daughter of W. W. Matthews, was born in Campbell
county, Virginia, in 1840, twenty miles from Lynchburg, Virginia.  She
had seven brothers, all of whom fought in the Civil war, and one was
killed.  She married to Elbert Franklin Neel in Montgomery county,
Virginia, in March, 1857.  Her children were: Mollie; W. L.; Robert;
Albert; John; Clarence; Frank, deceased.  By her second marriage she
had Mollie, who married a wealthy farmer, T. G. Pettit, is now a widow,
living on her farm, two miles from Princeton; W. L. traveled for
Simmons Hardware Company, St. Louis, Missouri, ten years, and he and
Albert are now traveling for Norvell Shapleagh, St. Louis; John travels
for a house in Louisville, Kentucky; Clarence for McCormick Machine
Company; Kirby is attending Princeton College, Kentucky.  E. F. Neel
was a merchant in Mechanicsburg, Virginia, when he was married.
     Mr. Greer located on his present farm of thirty acres, and still
owns his original farm.  The house is a very large one, having been
used many years ago as a tavern, and the stage coaches stopped at it at
the same time.  In politics Mr. Greer is a Democrat, while he and his
wife are members of the Cumberland Presbyterian church, and he helped to
build the present structure.  Fraternally he is a Mason, and is
highly esteemed by all who know him.

Greer Williams Neel Matthews Pettit Simmons Shapleagh McCormick
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Livingston-KY TN Crittenden-KY Campbell-VA Montgomery-VA MO

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