"It’s from her we get our willful ways. . ."

This is the phrase that caught my eye on a paper lying on a table at my great aunt Amy's house. When I began reading I

was immediately captivated by the stories of these people. My great great aunt “Tidy”(Vashti Gattis Ware) had written

down the history of her family for anyone who might be interested. Some of the exact locations and other details are

slightly incorrect, but I love the way she tells the stories.

Hannah McCoy Greer -" It's from her we get our willfull ways. Her parents lived in Ohio in an early day. They started to Tennessee by wagon train with their household goods and their slaves. At the old home in Ohio there was a lady who had sons, but no daughters. She loved Hannah and begged her to stay in Ohio with her. Hannah’s mother started with her, but that evening, Hannah could not be found in camp. One old slave said, “I seed Miss Hannah going down the road, she had on her Sunday-go-to-meetin’ bonnet.” And Miss Hannah had gone back to Ohio. She married very young to McCoy (actually McCoy was her maiden name, she married a Vinyard or Wingard - Revis Plemmons). We don’t know what became of him. The next we heard of her she was near Winchester, Tennessee, a young widow.

A man in the neighborhood admired her, but she didn’t like him. One day she was on the bank of the Elk River near Winchester, Tennessee, waiting for a way to get across. This man came along on horseback. He told her that if she promised to marry him, he would take her across the river. For an answer, she pulled off her shoes and waded across. Later she married John Greer. She came to Texas by wagon train and settled at Killeen, Texas, and is buried there. She lived to be 93 years old. Two of her daughters married brothers, Dave and Jim Sims. I visited at Uncle Dave’s when I was a child." - Vashti "Tidy" Gattis Ware
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