San Augustine County, Texas

The Cradle of Texas Independence

Greer Cemetery
Printed with permission of the San Augustine Public Library Board of Directors.  Originally contributed by the late Dr. J. M. Martin and his wife McXie Whitton Martin and the late Mrs. Sallie Richards Whitton.  Genealogical data was provided by Mrs. Villa Mae Morehead Davis Williams and Mrs. McXie Whitton Martin.

Location: Travel 7.7 miles from the court house on FM 711.  The cemetery is located to the right, about 135 feet off the highway on top of the hill in the woods.  It is situated to the east of the present African American Greer Cemetery, about 45 feet from the chain link fence.  The old Greer homeplace once stood west of the cemetery on a hill among the very large oak trees.

The only visable signs in the cemetery is one grave that is covered with large pieces of slab chimney rock, with a pile of loose pieces of chimney rock on top, this was probably at one time, head and foot markers to other graves, but in years past, they were all placed in one pile.

The names and data of members of the Greer family know to be buried here is based on records and tradition.  There may have been others that are not known.  John Alexander Greer was reinterred in the Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas December 8, 1929
NAME Birth Death FATHER MOTHER
GREER, Catherine Elizabeth 1848@ bef-1887 Greer, Lewis Vance Dr. Greer, Rachel Crain
GREER, John Alexander 18-July-1802 4-July-1855 Greer, Thomas  Harman, Catherine Rebecca
GREER, Lewis Vance, Dr.           22-Nov-1805 3-Oct-1887 Greer, Thomas  Harman, Catherine Rebecca
GREER, Mary McLaurine No-date 1848\1849 McLaurine, James Williamson, Jane St. Clair
GREER, Thomas   1846@ 1882 Greer, Lewis Vance Dr. Greer, Rachel Crain

 

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