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Famers Brigade Band, or Greer Band taken in 1916,
Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois

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Famers Brigade Band, or Greer Band taken in 1916, Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois

Top – Left to Right:  Richard Greer, Philip Greer, Robert Greer, Ernest Greer, Eugene Greer, Glen Greer, Fred Greer, Ross Greer

Seated – Left to Right:  Leslie Melenday (married Lily Greer), Rolland Greer, Theodore Greer Victor Marsh (Cousin to Greers), Everett Rideout (brother of Tom Greer's wife), Horace Greer, Evan Greer, Clayton Douglas (brother in law of Eugene Greer), Frank Marsh (in front of Clayton - Cousin of Greers), Norman Marsh (his mother was a Greer), William Greer

Famers Brigade Band, or Greer Band taken in 1916, Aledo, Mercer County, Illinois

Taken in 1916 - Joe Thronton was director

The names of the band members along with this information was written on the back (see above) by Edna Greer [Nimrick], daughter of Eugene Greer.

[This part was cut off when the copy of the photo was made  (Thomas Franklin) Tom Greer's] sons = brothers = Richard, Philip, Ernest, Allen, Rolland, Theodore, Horace, Evan

Samuel Greer's sons = brothers = Fred, Ross (adopted), William

Wilson Marsh's sons = brothers = Victor Marsh, Frank Marsh

Edwin Greer's son = Eugene Greer, Robert Greer

Reuben Greer's son = Glen

Picture courtesy of Rebecca Greer Twomley, Granddaughter of Eugene Greer