A Family Mystery Solved...continued from previous post....
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Family tradition in the Shirley Sorrell line of the Wilsons and Donnellys identified the couple below as Isaac and Caroline Greer Wilson. Shirley has had qualms about this identification and asked distant cousins on the June 2012 Wilson Greer Family Tour to examine the pictures. The picture on the right is Caroline Wilson Greer (1828-1911), Shirley's great great grandmother.
Below Bryan Payne snaps the mysterious portrait which hangs over the mantle in Shirley's Ashe County home.
The mystery identification was solved in September when Shirley and this writer sat down together and reviewed the photograph file of Annie Heaton, a cousin through Jesse and Frances Brown Greer, Jr. Below a photo taken in March 2012 of Annie reviewing her Greer memorabilia.
And here we have it, William Wilson (1823 -1893) and his wife Cindrilla Reece Wilson (1829-1911) great grandparents of Annie Heaton. Shirley Sorrell has no idea how her family came into possession of the portrait but is giving it to Annie's branch of the Wilson-Greer family.
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