GREENING, JOHN F., brother to Thomas A., was born Nov. 20, 1806, in Powell's Valley, near Cumberland Gap, Claiborne county, Tenn. His parents moved, in 1808, to Clark county, Ky. He was married in Bracken county, May 26, 1831, to Elizabeth G. Rose, who was born Sept. 6, 1814, in that county. They had one child in Kentucky, and moved, in the fall of 1834, to Hamilton county, Ind., where they had one living child, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Oct., 1839, on German Prairie, northeast of Springfield, where they had two children, and in Feb., 1844, moved to Buffalo Hart Grove, where they had four children. Of their eight children--

URSULA L., born May 4, 1832, in Kentucky, married Sept. 30, 1856, in Sangamon county, to Thomas F. Burns. See his name.

SARAH E., born July, 4, 1838, in Indiana, died Dec. 29, 1861, at Buffalo Hart Grove.

GERSHOM K., born May 31, 1841, near Springfield, enlisted July 25, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 8, 1865, was forty-seven days under fire at the siege and capture of Vicksburg, was with Gen. Thomas at the battle of Nashville, and was at the siege and capture of Mobile, and now--1874--lives with his brother Zachary T.

MARY F., born Jan. 8, 1844, married Adam H. Constant. See his name.

ZACHARY T., born Aug. 3, 1846, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 27, 1871, to Mary Elder. They have one child, GEORGIE, and live two miles south of Buffalo Hart station.

WINFIELD S., born March 27, 1849, in Sangamon county, lives with his brother Zachary T.

ISADORE A., born May 22, 1852, and

JOHN F., Jun., born July 29, 1857, live with their parents.

John F. Greening and his wife are both living--1874--and reside one and one-half miles east of Buffalo Hart station, Sangamon county.