Article from the 'Confederate Veteran' magazine , dated November, 1929. JASON M. GREER Judge JASON M. GREER, for many years prominent in the political life of Union, S.C., passed away at his home there on June 21, 1929, after an illness of several months. He is survived by two sons and two daughters. His wife, who was MISS NANNIE BYERS, proceded him to the grave many years ago. Jason M. Greer was the youngest of 7 brothers to volunteer for service in the Confederate army. All of the brothers served four years. He was among the 16 year old boys who volunteered from Union County and served with Company B, under Capt. D.A. Townsend, 4th South Carolina Regiment. These boys went in box cars to Augusta, from there to near Savannah, Ga. They were in front of Sherman to Charleston, then to Cheraw, where they guarded 500 Yankee prisoners [ captured by General Hampton], took them to Raleigh, N.C. and there turned them over to the military authorities. The company composed of these boys was sent to Spartanburg to resist the coming of Kilpatrick's raid, but the boys got news that Lee had surrendered and disbanded and came home, where each one later had to give up his beloved gun to the Yankee garrison placed there for a few months. For more than 27 years Judge J.M. GREER served Union County in public and appointed offices. A native of Union County, he was born about 7 miles south of Union, on June 6, 1848. During the early part of his youth, Jason Greer attended school at the Old Male Academy [ which stood where his residence on South Church St. stands] under the tutelage, of Prof. D.A. TOWNSEND. The funeral services were from the Grace Methodist Church, at Union. He was a life long member, a man of deep convictions . For a long lifetime he served his generation faithfully and with honor to himself. ----- Free post- nancie --- Nancie O'Sullivan --- drayton5@earthlink.net --- EarthLink: It's your Internet.