Leland Camp Greer, the thirteenth child born to John Harris
and Orpha Nicoll Greer,
was born in his Grandmother Nicoll’s home in St. Johns,
Arizona, on 13 February 1908. His sister Flossie was the first to hold him and
spent long hours with him and their other siblings playing about the hills and
sandy washes near Greer Ranch. They
always went barefoot in the summer months. One of Flossie’s jobs was to see
that her brothers scrubbed their feet and put salve on them every evening
before going to bed.
During his boyhood, Leland helped with herding and milking
the cows as well as making the cheese and butter. He went to school in St.
Johns through high school, but never attended college. When he was eighteen
years old, his father passed away, and Leland went to work to support himself
and help support his mother.
He married Alice Geneva Crosby on 28 July 1930 in Holbrook,
Arizona. They had six children: Milford Leland, John Harris, Terry Reginald,
Laurie Jo, Michael Howard, and Nickolas LeSueur. Leland had great love for his
family and provided well for them. His special interests included stock raising
and farming, though he spent much of his life employed by Apache County in the
road maintenance department. He is remembered as being efficient, trustworthy,
and having many friends. He died on 7 August 1981 at the age of seventy-three.
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