Important Family Dates for October

There are a number of dates that have importance to the family in October:

5: Orpha's father, Alexander Nicoll, died at his home in St. Johns in 1907 at the age of 77 [when Orpha was 40 years old]. He is buried in the St. Johns Cemetery with his beloved wife Sabina Ann Adams Nicoll.

7: Kate died of cancer in 1970 in Holbrook, Arizona, at the age of 71 and is buried in the Holbrook Cemetery.

9: Harris and Orpha's third child, Sabina Ann, was born in 1889 in St. Johns.
    Their youngest living child, Raymond Hogue Greer, was born in 1911 in St. Johns.
    Their oldest child, Myrtle, married Benjamin Brown in 1908 in Salt Lake City.

17: Harris' mother, Catherine Ellen Camp, was born in 1837 in Dresden, Tennessee. She is the tenth out of the fifteen children born to Williams Washington Camp and Diannah Harriet Greer.

23: Lillian Oasis Greer was born in St. Johns in 1891. She is the fourth child of the family.

27: The fifth child, Nathaniel, was born in Concho in 1893. He married his first wife, Edith Viola Thomas, on his birthday in 1920. They had no children and divorced after a few years. He later married Marjorie Akers in California.
      Margaret Elzetta Greer was born in St. Johns in 1897. She is the seventh child of the family. She went by the name "Maggie" growing up but preferred to be called "Marguerite" as an adult.

Remembering Thomas Lacy Greer

"Thomas Lacy Greer, son of Nathaniel Hunt Greer and Ann Terry Roberts, was born September 2, 1826, in [DeKalb] County, Georgia. He grew to manhood before they came to Utah. His father, mother, brothers, and sisters all came overland to Utah. While coming, one brother died of cholera, and then his father [who also died of cholera] was buried with little to mark his resting place...."

This is how John Harris' younger sister, Oasis Ann Greer Blessingame, begins her account of the life of her father. You can read the full account here: www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/6745167.