Article from the 'Confederate Veteran' magazine ,
dated November, 1929.
JASON M. GREER
Judge JASON M. GREER, for many years prominent in
the political life of Union, S.C., passed away at his home there on June 21,
1929, after an illness of several months. He is survived by two sons and two
daughters. His wife, who was MISS NANNIE BYERS, proceded him to the grave
many years ago.
Jason M. Greer was the youngest of 7 brothers to
volunteer for service in the Confederate army. All of the brothers served
four years. He was among the 16 year old boys who volunteered from Union
County and served with Company B, under Capt. D.A. Townsend, 4th South
Carolina Regiment. These boys went in box cars to Augusta, from there to
near Savannah, Ga. They were in front of Sherman to Charleston, then to
Cheraw, where they guarded 500 Yankee prisoners [ captured by General
Hampton], took them to Raleigh, N.C. and there turned them over to the
military authorities. The company composed of these boys was sent to
Spartanburg to resist the coming of Kilpatrick's raid, but the boys got news
that Lee had surrendered and disbanded and came home, where each one later
had to give up his beloved gun to the Yankee garrison placed there for a few
months.
For more than 27 years Judge J.M. GREER served Union
County in public and appointed offices.
A native of Union County, he was born about 7 miles
south of Union, on June 6, 1848. During the early part of his youth, Jason
Greer attended school at the Old Male Academy [ which stood where his
residence on South Church St. stands] under the tutelage, of Prof. D.A.
TOWNSEND.
The funeral services were from the Grace Methodist
Church, at Union. He was a life long member, a man of deep convictions . For
a long lifetime he served his generation faithfully and with honor to
himself.
