by Glenn N. Holliman
After leaving the Todd Cemetery and community, the Greer-Wilson family tour motored into Jefferson, North Carolina, county seat of the north west region of North Carolina tucked up against Tennessee and Virginia. The old court house now serves as the Ashe County Historical Museum and that was our next destination.
Below, Don Long, center, curator of the Ashe County, North Carolina Historical Museum greeted our Greer-Wilson Family Tour group in June 2012, and told us stories of Benjamin Greer and Benjamin Cleveland, area Revolutionary War heroes. Attractive and well-displayed, the local history museum contains exhibits on pioneer days, the coming of the Railroad, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and early 19th century occupations of the county. Visible in this photograph left to right are Geraldine Stansbery Holliman Feick, Becky Holliman, Don Long, Bob and Gayle Adema and Charles Bundy.
Becky Holliman Payne, a fifth great grand daughter of Benjamin Greer, points out a picture of her sixth great uncle, one Daniel Boone, whose niece married Benjamin Greer in the 1770s. All present on the tour share the same historic lineage.
Bryan P. Payne, son of Becky Payne, met another Mr. Payne, a volunteer at the museum. The Paynes have a southern and mountain lineage similar to the Greers and Wilson in our family trees.
Charles, Chase and Jennifer Bundy examine artifacts at the museum. Numerous rooms in the old court house are dedicated to various themes in the history of Ashe County.
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