I will look through my pictures & papers & see if i can find your relative in any. I will also try to link you to this good page i found. I hope it works if you don't get it let me know. ----- Original Message ----- From: "E. Annette Rose" <earphoto@gonetgo.com> To: <ILGALLAT-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 04, 2002 8:56 PM Subject: GREER > Just another attempt to locate someone who might have closer ties to one > Abraham GREER, son of Asa and Rebecca (Neighbors) GREER. Abraham "may" be > the link I need to prove out my mother's line of GREER. > > Francis Marion GREER was born in Gallaten county, Ills, 1830. He is found > in the household of his mother, Maragret GREER, in Morehouse Parish, LA. in > 1850, along with an older brother, William M. (Marshal?) Greer who was born > per the census age, 1825, in Tenn. > > Back in Tenn. records, I found where Abraham Greer had married a Peggy > Kinney, 1825 (could'a been 1826?) in Williamson county, Tenn. As I believe > the family moved into Ills., our family history states "the family moved > back to Tenn., 1834", this is > the "best match" I can find. > > It is known that the family moved into LA. in the period of 1848. Checking > "names", I did find where a male "Kinney" had purchased land in the same > area that we found Margaret and the "boys", although I don't have that info > right in front of me, I believe it was 1848. This leads me to believe that > Maragret moved "with her family", the Kinney family, into LA. > > F.M. Greer named his first born son "after the grandfather"....making it > appear that HIS family would have been Abraham? That first born was named > Thomas Abraham GREER. and went by "Abe". Other sons were named Frances > Marion, Jr., William Jeffersopn, and, James Allen GREER. The only daughter > was named Rebecca May Ann GREER. > > > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >