CHARLES GREER – Excerpts according to Monte Arthur Hart in the Henderson County Heritage, Vol. 1,
“Charles Greer was born 27 January 1791 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the son of George Bingham Greer. He was very young when his family moved to Mud Creek section of Henderson County. Charles Greer first married 27 January 1812 Uranah Johnson 27 December 1797 – 7 November 1832. She was the daughter of James Johnson 16 January 1761 – 2 July 1853 and Ann Cole 5 January 1773 – 25 January 1857. Charles second wife was Sarah Elizabeth Huggins 8 June 1811 – 18 August 1870. They married 18 May 1834. Sarah was the daughter of Edward Huggins 1773 – 1834 and Jane Robinson 1784 – 1864.
Charles owned large tracts of land, which included Glassy mountain and land on mud and Little Mud Creeks. He was active in the affairs of the new county and was one of the original fifteen justices of the peace. Charles operated a store on the Little River Road. He and both his wives were members of Shaws Creek Methodist Church. Charle’s son Charles Manson was a Methodist Minister and served as a Chaplain in the Civil War. The Civil War was especially hard on Charles’ family. He lost two sons in the war: James Johnson Greer and Ladson Mills Greer. Charles had eighteen children, nine by his first marriage and nine by his second marriage. Charles Greer died 17 December 1878.
He was buried in the family grave yard on Pinnacle Mountain. In 1970 his grave stone and those of Uranah and Sarah were moved to Pleasant Hill Cemetery. There were nine graves in the old family cemetery.”
CHARLES GREER was born December 14, 1791 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. He died December 17, 1878 in Henderson County and was buried on Pinnacle Mountain. His tombstone marker removed to Pleasant Hill Cemetery in 1970 along with those of Uranah and Sarah Elizabeth Greer.
He was married 1st in 1812 to Uranah Johnson who was born 1797 and died in 1832. Charles married 2nd in 1834 to Sarah Elizabeth Huggins who was born in 1811 and died in 1870. He was a successful farmer and store owner and was elected a Justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of the new Henderson County in February 1839 and served in 1840, 1841 and 1842 on the judge’s bench as a member of the three man “select” court that made official rulings in the cases before it and also appointed all county officials. The justices were the government of the county, they set the tax rate and county expenditures, oversaw the work of the county officers and the maintenance of roads. Charles Greer was the Asst. Marshall of the U.S. Census in 1860 and was active in the Democratic Party of Henderson County. He was a delegate to Democratic Party Nominating Convention of 1858.
There were 18 children born to his two wives. Some of these include:
George Bingham Greer Jr. (b. 1813 d. 1831)
James Johnson Greer (b. 1815 Killed in Civil War 1862) married to Eliz. Ann Gray (b. 1818 d. 1863)
Hugh Johnson Greer (b. 1820 d. 1902) married 1857 to Rebecca Brittain (b. 1824 d.1905)
Capt. John Newton Greer (b. 1823 d. 1902)
Charles Manson Greer (b. 1827 d. 1902), Civil War Chaplain, Minister married 1853 to Harriet McLane
Ladson Mills (b. 1843 Killed in Civil War 56th NC Infantry, Plymouth, N.C. May 5, 1864)
Jane Greer (b. 1835 d. 1897) married 1854 to George Washington Hart (b. 1826 d. 1906)
Sarah Elizabeth Greer (b. 1829 d. 1873) married to Percy Orr (b. 1826 d. 1900)
Susan Elizabeth Greer (b. 1837 d. 1901) married to Mr. Hart
Hulda Catherine Greer (b. 1842 d. 1928)
Carisanna Savannah Greer (b. 1849 d. 1922) married to Mr. Saltz
Charles Father was GEORGE BINGHAM GREER: born 1755 in Ireland who died 1814 in Buncombe County, North Carolina. He immigrated on a voyage from Ulster to Philadelphia in 1784 and lived in the Bucks County area of Pennsylvania and moved to Buncombe County around 1795 and had a Little Mud Creek land grant of 200 acres dated April 20, 1796. He was listed in several land records in 1798, 1808 and 1814 and was an investor in the Buncombe Turnpike.
The Greer family is mentioned in the Index to Minutes of the Henderson County Courts and in the U.S. Census for Buncombe County in (1810, 1820, 1830) and Henderson County (1840, 1850, 1860).
Source: Jules Benjamin
Greer Family Graveyard off Crab Creek Road – It was cared for from its beginning c. 1810 until 1958. In 1970, six graves — those with markers – were moved to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. The rest, three or more unmarked graves including the grave of my great-uncle Ladson Mills Greer, killed in the Civil War, were plowed away. Source – Dixie Gibbs Dellenger (Oct. 17, 2004)