A photo at right shows some of the buildings on the Raymond Greer 1920 acre farm in Custer County, Oklahoma. The brick house is located in the trees at left of the buildings.

Great uncle Raymond was killed July 1945 in a tractor accident a few hundred yards to the right of the farm buildings. He was plowing ground when he got too close to the edge of a stream, (Wildhorse creek) and the bank broke off causing the tractor to overturn and pin him under the machine.

I remember my Great Uncle Raymond Greer very well, as he would sometimes stop at our house in Watauga County for a short visit (My mother was his neice). In 1940, after the Republican National Convention was held in Philadelphia, Pa. he came by Watauga County on his way back to Custer County, Oklahoma. He was a delegate from Oklahoma to the Convention. This was the convention where Republicans nominated WENDELL WILKIE to oppose President Franklin Roosvelt, who was running for a THIRD term in the 1940 elections.

April 2002, I stopped in Custer County, Oklahoma, and after inquiring at several farms in Western Custer County, I located 2 people who were neighbors to both Raymond and also Alfonso Greer and knew both of them well.

I interviewed both individuals and they gave me a lot of valuable information relating to both Great Uncles,Raymond and Alfonso

One lady who, with her husband, owned a large farm adjoining the Greer farm, related how she got a phone call from Hettie Greer who reported that Raymond had not came in for lunch. The lady then related that her husband got another neighbor and found the tractor overturned on top of Uncle Raymond. They managed to free Raymond from under the machine, but the sheriff determined that he was killed instantly.The other neighbor showed me where Raymonds 1920 acre farm was located and also where the tractor turned over on Raymond causing his death.

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