Dr. Greene Wallace Strother; St. Landry Par., LA
Submitter: Randy Willis
Date: July 2001
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Seeking information on Dr. Greene Wallace Strother

Contact:  Randy Willis
www.randywillis.org
randy@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.