More Treasures from Annie Greer Heaton's Family History Materials....
The above is a family photograph of the Rev. William Albert Wilson family taken in 1896 in Hiroshima, Japan. William Wilson (1861-1950) was the last born son of Isaac and Caroline Wilson Greer of Sutherland, Ashe County, North Carolina. Ordained in the Southern Methodist Church, Will and his wife, Mary McClellan Wilson, served decades as Christian missionaries to Japan. A graduate of Trinity College (Duke), Will wrote the memoirs that became the book Neighbor to Neighbor, the story of the Civil War in Ashe County and his father's murder in 1864.According to Annie Heaton's marginalia in red, William sent this picture to his first cousin, William Isaac Greer who lived in Banner Elk, North Carolina. Mary Wilson died in 1949 and William the next year, 1950 in retirement in Durham, North Carolina.
In 1947, William wrote the below comments concerning his family lineage and relatives. His descendants have written their own comments in the margins. Click on the document twice and it should enlarge.
The above document of my great, great Uncle W. A. Wilson is key element in the tracing and understanding the Greer lineage.
More information on the relationships of Greers, Wilsons, Osbornes, Stansberys and others can be found at this writer's Ancestry.com site. Please write glennhistory@gmail.com for access or to add information.
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