City: Brownsville
GREAVES, William Francis, Sr., merchant and farmer; born Haywood Co. Tenn., June 8, 1843; English and Scotch descent; son of Andrew Jackson and Sophronia (Davie) GREAVES; father’s occupation farmer one of the early settlers of West Tennessee; received common school education; married Mary Alice GAUSE June 18, 1866; joined Confederate army at the age of 17 and served four years, rank of Second Lieutenant; was engaged in the six hardest battles of the Civil war, was one of the twenty cavalrymen who captured the flagship of the Federal fleet on the Yazoo river; engaged in farming and mercantile business Brownsville, Tenn.; member of the Methodist Episcopal church, South.
