Greer-Wilson Family Tour, 2012 Part III

by Glenn N. Holliman

Frances Wilson Osborne, one of the daughters of Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson, holds Lois Ann Howard Adams in 1932.  In the previous article, a photograph of Frankie holding a grand daughter, Geraldine Stansbery, was posted.

Lois Ann is the daughter of Roby (1891-1982) and Hallie Synder Howard (1897-1950).  Hallie is the daughter of Jacob and Alice Osborne Synder.  In turn, Alice is the daughter of Frank and Emaline Wilson Osborne.

'Frankie' (1851-1940) is a sister of Ema (1850 -1919) and the writer of a diary from 1912-1940 that records the names and events of many of her Wilson brothers, sisters and their descendants.  This writer has a scanned document of the diary.  The original is now in the  Appalachian State University's archive's collection concerning the Wilson family of western North Carolina.

Roby Howard, Jr., a brother of Lois Ann Howard Adams, shares the June 2012 Boone, NC dinner with his distant cousin, Geraldine Stansbery Holliman Feick.

In this photograph at the dinner are Trula Howard Muse, Roby's sister, and her daughter, Cathy Muse.

Greer-Wilson History Tour, 2012 Part II

by Glenn N. Holliman

The picture below was taken in September 2011 at Lois Ann Howard Adams home in Tennessee. With her on the left in blue is a distant cousin, Geraldine Stansbery Holliman Feick.  Both attended the June 2012 Greer-Wilson dinner in Boone, North Carolina.  Although kin to each other and living only 20 miles apart in the 1930s and 1950s, they had never met before until cousin Clinton Getzinger introduced them via email.

Below is a photograph of 'Gerry' taken with her grandmother, Frances Wilson Osborne, in 1929.
Lois Ann had it in her family photograph collection, never seen before by Gerry until 2011, over 80 years after the picture was taken.

 Frankie Osborne (1851-1940) is a daughter of Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson.  She married George Washington Osborne in 1867 at the Wilson homeplace in Sutherland, North Carolina.  They had seven children to live to maturity, one being Mayme Torrence Osborne (1896-1943) who married Charles S. Stansbery of Afton, Tennessee in 1914.  They had three children, one being Geraldine Stansbery, who is the mother of Glenn Holliman, this writer, and Becky Payne and Alice Murphy who attended the June 2012 family tour.

Below courtesy of Shirley Sorrell are from left to right, Dr. Greg Adams with his arm around Lois Ann Howard Adams, his aunt, and Trula Howard Muse, Lois Ann's sister.  This was taken at the Boone, North Carolina dinner in June 2012.