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Subject: Dr. Greene Wallace Strother (1892-1981)
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:56:12 -0500

Seeking information on Dr. Greene Wallace Strother

Contact: Randy Willis
www.randywillis.org


Dr. Greene Strother was a cousin of mine. He captured more Germans than any
other soldier, besides the famed Sgt. York, in World War I. He was awarded
the French Croix de Guerre, the Distinguished Service Cross and the Purple
Heart. He also served as chaplain to General Claire Chennault's "Flying
Tigers" while in China as a missionary. He was a Southern Baptist
missionary emeritus to China and Malaysia. He encouraged me and passed the
torch, of the history of Joseph Willis, to me.

Rev. Joseph Willis (1758-1854) was the maternal great-grandfather of Dr.
Greene Wallace Strother. Greene Strother's (1892-1981) father was John
Houston Strother, Sr. (1852-1926). John Houston Strother, Sr. married
Carolyn Matilda Willis Strother (1855-1931). She was a daughter of Lemuel
Willis (1812) and Eveline/Emeline Perkins. Lemuel Willis was a son of
Rev. Joseph Willis.

Greene Strother's sister Nellie V. Strother (1899-1984) wrote me in a
letter (1983) about her mother: "about Carolyn Matilda Willis Strother - a
granddaughter of Joseph Willis. During the Civil War her grandfather
Perkins came for her mother [Patsy] and children to live on the plantation.
Following her mother's [Patsy] death the children lived there - each had a
black nurse. She [Carolyn Willis] was several years younger than the others:
Polk, Olive, Sryldia and Liddy. She was given the choice of where to live
and she chose Polk [Willis] and his wife Anna. The estate was settled and
she and John [Strother], after marriage, settled on her acreage...she was
known as pet, mother, mamma, ma, mom."

Greene Strother's siblings were Rev. John Houston Strother, Jr.
(1873-1950), William (Willie) Strother (1879-1963), Martha Strother Ford
(1882-1966), Katie Strother Head (1884-1979), Julius Scott Strother
(1889-1966), Harry Winfield Strother (1894-1921), Hattie Bernice Strother
(1897-1948), and Nellie Vernice Strother (1899-1984). Greene Strother
married Martha Krause. Greene and Martha had four children: Miriam Jean
Strother, Greene Wallace Strother, Jr., Joyce Carolyn Strother and Joseph
Willis Strother. Their first three children were born in China.

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