Letter, Cale Greer to Jennie Ray Greer, December 12, 1938
Title
Letter, Cale Greer to Jennie Ray Greer, December 12, 1938
Subject
Civilian Conservation Corps, Jane L. Ray Greer (1872-1945), W. Cale Greer, Lillington, Letters, Boone
Description
Handwritten letter from Cale Greer (sent from Lillington, NC) to Jennie Ray Greer, Boone, NC, including envelope postmarked December 12, 1938. Cale Greer describes having only 78 more days left in camp--possibly a Civilian Conservation Corps assignment--as he nears the end of a two-year assignment. W. C. "Cale" Greer (sometimes rendered as "Cole") also mentions a total of five years spent working in the camps. Lillington, NC, was the nearest post office to Company 2431-V's camp (a World War I veterans camp) in the "Avery city limits" (Project SCS-22, a Soil Conservation Service project), which was established in July 1935. Jane L. “Jennie” Ray Greer (1872-1945) and Cale Greer were married in Watauga County in 1911. However, on the 1930 and 1940 Census she was living on Queen Street and on Queen Heights, respectively, with the Wade H. McGhee family (her sister was married to McGhee).
Creator
Cale Greer
Date
December 12, 1938
Contributor
Adrian Tait
Format
Letter with envelope
Language
English
Type
Manuscript
Identifier
Car-Ave-01-007
Spatial Coverage
Lillington, NC; Boone, NC
Original Format
Letter
Scanning Technician
Andrew D. Byrd
Collection Name
Carolina Avenue Collection
Files
Collection
Citation
Cale Greer, “Letter, Cale Greer to Jennie Ray Greer, December 12, 1938,” Digital Watauga, accessed September 26, 2023, http://digitalwatauga.org/items/show/1203.
Comments
Digital Watauga
"The subjects of this letter are actually W. Cale Greer and his wife, Jane L. "Jennie" Ray Greer. Cale Greer and Jennie Ray were married in Watauga County in 1911. Jennie (1872-1945) lived in Boone but is buried in the Mathias Bledsoe Cemetery in Ashe County. She was a daughter of Thomas Ray & Mary A. "Polly" Horton. Jennie was a niece of former Watauga County sheriff Jack Horton and a first cousin to my great, great-grandfather, James Washington "Jim" Horton."
This comment was originally made by Terry Harmon and appeared on digitalwatauga.omeka.net.