Greer-Wilson Family Tour, 2012 Part VIII

by Glenn N. Holliman

The Tour continued to the North Fork of the New River in Western Ashe County, North Carolina...

Below the 5,000 foot and higher peaks of Ashe County, North Carolina are visible from the front porch of the ancestral home of Shirley Sorrell, who kindly opened her home in the western part of the county to her distant cousins.  The house was the home of her grandmother, Mamie Wilson Donnelly, a daughter of John and Rebecca Wilson.

Shirley has a remarkable collection of Wilson-Greer photographs and pictures dating back to Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson, her great, great grand parents.  Below Mrs. Sorrell holds framed likenesses of Caroline Greer Wilson (1828-1911) and Isaac Wilson (1822-1864).

Shirley shared another portrait which according to family tradition is also of Isaac and Caroline although the second pictures are dissimilar.  Below Connie Burns closely inspects the second dual portrait.  Bryan Payne and Connie both dismantled the second dual portrait but found no names identifying for certain the couple.

Alas, however, in September 2012 while Shirley Sorrell and Glenn Holliman were comparing photographs, they spotted in the digital folder of Annie Heaton a copy of the above picture, and solved the family mystery!

Next, the mystery solved!