Joseph M. Greer

JOSEPH M. GREER is a son of Joseph and Mary (Harmon) Greer, and is one of eleven children and of Irish descent.

The father was born in the "Keystone State" in 1754, and was an early pioneer of Tennessee, coming in 1790 and entering about 10,000 acres of land. They suffered all the hardships Indians. Mr. Greer was a farmer and merchant at Knoxville, Tennessee, and was clerk of the first chancery court after the organization of the county. He died in 1835.

Our subject was reared in Tennessee when there was no schools, consequently his education was acquired at home mainly through his own exertions.

In 1847 he married Mary Edmiston, who departed this life September 19, 1858. They had one son, Joseph M. who resides on the old home-place and looks after his father's farm. He was born September 13, 1858, and was educated at Petersburg and Fayetteville, and is now the owner of 535 acres of fine land, and is noted for his generosity and honesty. He votes with the Democratic Party, and belongs to the Masonic fraternity.

Source: History of Tennessee, The Goodspeed Publishing Company, Nashville, 1886

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