Thomas Lacy Greer
Son of John Harris
Greer
Thomas Lacy Greer was born on 8 August 1895 in Concho,
Arizona, and named after his paternal grandfather. He was a handsome man with
auburn hair and hazel eyes. He excelled at handling cattle under his father’s tutelage
on the Greer Ranch and chose ranching for his life’s work. Tom served in the
143rd Infantry Regiment 36th Division of the US Army
during World War I and was on the front lines in France.
His children remember growing up in a happy, loving home and
their father as affectionate and helpful to their mother Nellie Martha Thomas
Greer. Tom would often take his children with him to gather cattle and include
them in his other daily duties. He had been taught to work hard and carried
that forward into his own family, but he and Nellie did their best to make even
the chores fun. He was well liked and trusted by his many friends and business
acquaintances.
Tom died 15 April 1936 at the young age of forty-one from
massive head injuries sustained in a car accident outside of St. Johns. He and
Nellie had only been married for eighteen short years, and he left behind nine
young children, the youngest of whom was only six months old.
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| Nat & Edith with Tom & Nellie @1918 |
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