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diaries

Creator
King, Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer, 1810-1886

Date of Original
1844-07-12/1883-10-29

Subject
Athens (Ga.)--History
Clarke County (Ga.)--History--Sources
King, Francina Elizabeth Cox Greer, 1810-1886--Diaries
Oglethorpe County (Ga.)--History--Sources
Plantation owners' spouses--Georgia--Oglethorpe County--Diaries
Plantation owners' spouses--Georgia--Clarke County--Diaries
Plantation owners--Georgia--Clarke County--Diaries
Plantation owners--Georgia--Oglethorpe County--Diaries

Location
United States, Georgia, Clarke County, 33.95117, -83.36733
United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
United States, Georgia, Oglethorpe County, 33.88065, -83.0807

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Text

Description
Born December 31, 1810, to Richard and Elizabeth Meade Cox, Francina Elizabeth Cox grew up five miles east of Athens in recently formed Clarke County. In 1826, Francina Elizabeth Cox and John Cox Greer were married. Soon after, Elizabeth, as she preferred to be called, added a small inheritance when her father died. Located about five miles east of Athens on the road leading to Lexington, John Greer's plantation encompassed 300 acres along Shoal Creek. The Greers called their home Chalky Level because the drive around it was laden with limestone. The original structure was built around 1817, and had served as an inn for the stagecoach between Athens and Augusta. Elizabeth Greer became pregnant within a year of her marriage and over the next 19 years had 15 children, only three of whom survived to adulthood. Elizabeth Greer possessed enormous energy and a strong will to survive in spite of great personal losses. She was a very slight and fragile woman who, before the war, was often confined to bed and weighed only 77 pounds. Athens Banner Herald - Plantation life in Clarke County: the world of Francina Elizabeth Greer / Mary Levin Koch, June 17, 2001.

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