"COUNTIES OF MORGAN, MONROE & BROWN, INDIANA. HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL."
CHARLES BLANCHARD, EDITOR. CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO. PUBLISHERS. 1884.
F. A. BATTEY. F. W. TEPPLE
CLAY TOWNSHIP, MORGAN CO., INDIANA
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W. C. GREESON, harness-maker, Brooklyn, is the youngest of fourteen children
born to John and Barbara (Spoon) Greeson, natives of North Carolina, and
respectively of German and English extraction. The parents emigrated from
their native State to Indiana in about 1840, coming to Mooresville, Morgan
County, and there lived until their death, respectively in 1851 and 1852,
both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. W. C. Greeson was born in
Mooresville November 18, 1844, and grew to manhood upon a farm, receiving a
common school education. At about eighteen years of age, Mr. Greeson
enlisted in Company E, Twelfth Indiana Infantry, and served three years. He
was promoted to Corporal in 1863. He took part in battle of Richmond, Ky.
He was here captured August 27, 1862; was paroled on the 30th, and in
November was exchanged. He was sent from Indianapolis to Cairo., Ill., and
thence to Memphis, and finally to winter quarters at Tallahassee Bottoms.
In the spring the regiment went to Vicksburg, and there took part in that
severely contested engagement. In September, after the evacuation of the
city, they went to Memphis, Tenn. Corp. Greeson was also engaged in the
battles of Jackson, Miss., Missionary Ridge, Resaca, Dallas, New Hope
Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Nickajack Creek, Atlanta, Jonesboro, Savannah,
Griswoldville, Columbia, S.C., Bentonville and Raleigh, N.C., and in
Sherman's "march to the sea." Through exposure, our soldier subject became
afflicted with chronic diarrhea, and also received a severe wound with an ax
in his left leg at Vicksburg. He was discharged June 20, 1865. He was
married November 9, 1865, to Mary A. Peek, a native of this township, and a
member of the Christian Church. Mr. Greeson is a Mason; was Junior Warden
for three and Senior Warden for two years, and was also Trustee of Clay
Township for five years, and is a Republican. Mr. Greeson owns ninety-three
acres of land, well improved, six lots, two dwellings, and a shop in
Brooklyn. In 1876, Mr. Greeson left his farm and came to Brooklyn, where he
is engaged in harness-making, and has since been doing a good business.
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