GREER, Moses C.

Date of birth:  1814 – Virginia
Date of death: 10 Mar 1894 – Franklin, Johnson County, Indiana

The Franklin Democrat, Friday, March 16, 1894,
Volume XXXIV Number 36, page 3 column 2

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Moses Greer, one of the oldest residents of Johnson county, died at his home on South Home avenue last Sat­urday morning at about twelve o’clock. He had been ill some time and more seriously during the past week, with pneumonia. Mr. Greer was born in 1814 in Virginia. He moved to this county from Illinois, in 1860. He had accu­mulated considerable personal property in this county and also in Illinois. He was eccentric in many of his ways but pleasant, cheerful, thoroughly honest in every transaction. He was a member of the old Baptist church of this city. The funeral services were held at his home, being conducted by Rev. S. T. Riggs. The burial was at Greenlawn cemetery.

Link to Moses C. Greer’s burial

Submitted by Mark McCrady and Cathea Curry