95. Rev. Moses Greer
He was a Primitive Baptist minister, and baptised Thomas Bailey Greer brother, Chattin D. Pollard brother - in - law and Theoderick F. Webb sister - in - law's brother.
He served in the Virginia House of Dligates 1875 thru 1877 and was Sheriff of Franklin Co. for one term. He was one of the best-known preachers in Franklin Co.. A member of the Old School Baptist Church, he devoted all of his life in a small circuit in his Co. in unostentatious efforts to do good. A contemporary, Rev. Jeter, described Elder Greer writing: "He was of a highly respectable family, and fully sustained its respectability. He was rather above the ordinary stature, quite lean, and very plain in his dress, as were all the preachers of his region. His manners were simple and unaffected. He was past the meridian of life when Witt and myself were entering our ministry. He was of tender feelings, rarely failing to mingle a profusion of tears with his prayers and exhortations. He was free from ambition." "Elder Greer was remarkable for two things. The first was intoning. He carried this art to the highest perfection. He sung his hymns, prayers, sermons and exhortations in the same tune, and a most mournfuf tune it was. No one not greatly given with levity could hear it without solemnity. All in sympathy with the intoner had their hearts stirred within them. If a stranger unacquainted with his language, had heard his intonations he would have concluded that the old man was in fearful distress." The second thing he was notable was spirtualizing the Scriptures. "I believe", he said, "That every tex' in the Bible. and every letter, and every crook and dot of every letter, has a spiritual meaning". In one of his sermons he preached from I Peter, 1:13: " Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end". His sermon was based principaally on the word "loins", which he pronounced as it had been spelled lines. He considered the different uses of lines, for the guidence of workman, lines for guiding plow horses, and lines for the driving of coaches. From these various kinds of lines he ingeniously drew spiirtual instruction. He contrived to mingle much sound religious instructions with his wild fancies.
He was a Primitive Baptist preacher.
421. Dr. William Armstead Burwell Greer
He was a physician.
He was an Old School Baptist preacher .