Biography of Major John James Greening, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by:  Judy Baugh

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Major (militia title) John James Greening was born in Sumter District 
(Camden) South Carolina on August 4, 1804, to John and Mary (Whitehead) 
Greening. In 1815, the Greening family moved to Dallas county, AL. John 
and Mary W. Greening died there while John J. was still a minor. He 
attended West Point, but left upon the death of his mother in 1824, and 
did not return. About 1834, he married Sarah Ann Warren, of Conecuh cty., 
AL. During the 1830's, he served several terms in the Alabama legislature. 
In 1843, the Greenings moved to DeSoto Parish, LA. They had 13 children: 
Frances Tillis, Mary Amanda, Virginia Elizabeth, Swepson Whitehead, Eldridge 
Warren, James Oscar, Hinche Rufus, John Randolph, Julius Hughes, Sarah 
Louisiana, Ella Alabama, Willie Lillian, and Thomas Jefferson. Maj. Greening 
died in Mansfield in 1873. (sources, family records of Judy Baugh; family 
records of Dr. Swepson Whitehead Frasier, late of Many, LA.)

Ancestors of Mary Whitehead Greening
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txstonew/maryw.htm