The Wilson-Greer 2012 Family Tour, Part XVIII

by Glenn N. Holliman

Annie Greer Heaton shares Family Materials....

Below Annie Greer Heaton describes family papers.  She is flanked on the left by Geraldine Stansbery Holliman Feick and on the right by her husband, Jim Heaton.  Lunch on this June day in 2012 was held in Heaton, North Carolina, so named by Jim's founding ancestors.

 

Below Jackie Burleson,  Jason Clodfelter, Gay and Bob Adema and Shirley Sorrell examine some of the fascinating resources Annie has inherited and saved.  One item is the 1860s notebook of Isaac Wilson, the ancestor who was bushwhacked in 1863.

 

 Below are several pages from the notebook August 19, 1863 with details about payment for thrashing.  Notice the names of Farthing, Eggers, Wilson, Reece, Miller and others in the neighborhood of Sutherland, Ashe County, North Carolina.

 A family historian and distant cousin, Mary Floy Katzman, now deceased, examined the notebook in the early 1990s and wrote this revealing review of the historical document of my generation's great, great grandfather, killed 16 June 1864 while plowing his corn field. Click on the review and it should enlarge.  If you wish an email copy, write glennhistory@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

 More information on the relationships of Greers and Wilsons can be found at this writer's Ancestry.com site. Please write glennhistory@gmail.com for access or to add information.