Important Family Dates for April

Here are some dates that are significant to the family in April:

1: Nathaniel "Nat" Greer died on this date in 1958 at the age of 65 from throat cancer. He is buried in Costa Mesa, California.

5: Margaret married local school teacher Warren Nichols on this date in 1917 in St. Johns. They had two children together and later divorced.

8: While working in Holbrook, Arizona, Irvin Babe Greer met the beautiful, red-haired Florence Virginia Johns, who was divorced and had a six-year-old son, Albert Francis. They married on this date in 1931 in Green River, Utah, and eventually had five children together whom they raised in American Fork, Utah.

9: Laura Sherwood became Jim's second wife on this date in 1938 in Mohave, Arizona. He adopted her daughter Lorene and they had a son together whom they named James Sherwood Greer.

15: Tom died at the young age of 41 on this date in 1936 from massive head injuries sustained in a car accident outside of St. Johns. He and his wife Nellie had been married only eighteen years, and he left her a widow with nine young children (the youngest of whom was only six months old).