I have created this site in tribute to my father Jake Alonzo Greer . Everyone on this  tree is related to or associated with him . My father was a genuinely great man . He  had a great sense of humor and he deeply loved my mother and all his children as well as those who came to him as strangers . He did work and gave assistance to others  without pay or reward because he believed that in the end you would reap what you  planted in others . He worked hard all his life as a coal miner mostly , but he also hauled lumber , built roads , and did a host of other things . He could fix anything  that was mechanical large or small . But the greatest thing about my father was that  he made himself a better man throughout his life . He died a greater man . In the  end , it is not how you begin your life that matters . It is how you live it and how  you end it . There is much to tell about the people on this tree . Some good , some not so good . Few , were the equal of my father .

Randolph Greer