My Genealogy Hound

SAMUEL WING GREASON, the fifth child of Samuel and Mary (Davidson) Greason, was born Dec. 30, 1851, on the old home farm in West Pennsboro. He was educated in the country district school at Plainfield, attending until nineteen years of age, and received his manual training on the farm with his father for chief instructor. On Oct. 3, 1877, he was married to Margaret Ellen Woodburn, by Rev. W. L. Wallace, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church of Newville. Margaret E. Woodburn was a daughter of Capt. A. Sharp and Isabel (Sterrett) Woodburn, of Newton township, the latter a daughter of David and Rebecca (Miller) Sterrett, of Mifflin township. Capt. Alexander Sharp Woodburn was a son of Skiles and Margaret (McKeehan) Woodburn, and a grandson of John and Mary (Skiles) Woodburn. After marrying Mr. Greason started farming on a place a short distance south of Greason, which he inherited. Here he has made many improvements, built a new home, and has ever since resided there.

Samuel Wing and Margaret E. (Woodburn) Greason have children as follows: Clarence Wing, born June 11, 1880; Mary Bell, Aug. 30, 1882; Helen Sterrett, Sept. 29, 1884; Alice Cornelia, Aug. 9, 1887 (attending school); and Margaret Blair, March 16, 1898. All of these children are at home, and with their parents make a most estimable and interesting family. Mr. Greason is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Carlisle, in which he was reared, but his wife belongs to the United Presbyterian Church of Newville, the church of her family. Like his family generally, Mr. Greason is a Republican in politics, but in no sense a partisan.

Such is a brief history of the Greasons, one of Cumberland county’s old and worthy families.