b. 1831
Birth | 1831 | George W. Greever was born in 1831 in Virginia.1 |
Marriage | 3 Feb 1853 | He married Sarah Hutton Porterfield, daughter of James Porterfield and Jeannette Clark, on 3 Feb 1853 in Washington County, Virginia.3,4 |
Migration | | George and Sarah did not remain in Virginia. They settled first in Ohio where their son William was born - probably in late 1853 or early 1854. In 1856 they moved to Andrew County, Missouri.1 |
Cens-1860 | 10 Jul 1860 | There the 1860 census enumerator recorded them living in the home of [Sarah's brother] John Porterfield. George was enumerated as Leonidas Greber, age 31. He owned real estate valued at $1,360. Sarah was 22. Two children were listed with them: William, age 6 (b. "O") and James, age 3 (b. MO).5 |
| | Another source states that George owned and operated the Cherry Grove Farm and Highland Stock Farm in Platte County, Missouri.2 |
Military | | When the Civil War broke out George raised the first company of Union troops in northwest Missouri which joined the 12th Missouri Regiment. Following reorganization it was known as the 52nd Missouri Volunteer Cavalry. George served with the regiment for 6 months, as captain of his company.1 |
Migration | 1868 | Following the Civil War (1868) the family migrated to Kansas.1,4 |
Cens-1870 | 15 Jul 1870 | They lived in Prairie township in Wyandotte County where they were enumerated in 1870 with 4 children: William (17), James (15) John (9) and Charles (6). A 15 year old girl named Lizzie Dewey (b. IL) was also enumerated with the family.6 |
| | George owned a stock farm known as the "Reserve Stock Farm" where he raised short-horn cattle, sheep, hogs and race horses.1,2 |
| | Sarah and George appear to have followed a migration pattern established by other relatives. Sarah's aunt, Nancy (Clark) Beattie and her husband David Beattie settled in Andrew County, Missouri in the mid 1840s (David's brother, James Beattie was in Missouri by 1820). David Beattie died in 1847. By 1860 Nancy was living with her daughter Elizabeth (Beattie) Strock in Wyandotte County, Kansas. |
Widowed | 1875 | George was widowed when Sarah died in 1875. |
| | George married for a second time, in 1878, to Margaret Newland. They had one child together, a son named Fred. He served in the Kansas State Legislature for several years and was known as the man who made Kansas dry.1,2 |