Tazewell County, Virginia
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Biography Folder
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Rev. John J. Greever

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Source --  History Of Tazewell County And Southwest Virginia, 1748 - 1920, by Wm. C. Pendleton.  W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, Virginia.  1920. pp. 503

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GREEVER, Rev. John J.

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 Rev. John J. Greever was born in Burke's Garden in 1811 and died in June, 1877.  He was a minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, was an able theologian and a splendid pulpit orator.  He was a grandson of Philip Greever, the man who fired the first shot at the battle of King's Mountain.