An interesting legend about Georg William Greer's family is when Mary Ann Greer returned from California to Missouri, she stopped over in Aspinwall, Panama waiting for a steamship of the U. S. Mail Steamship Company's fleet. While there, she purchased a conch shell in a small shop. She learned how to blow the shell - horn in a short while. She used it the rest of her life to call her family to dinner. When she died, the shell was buried with her as a symbol of her affection for her late husband, George William Greer.