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| | General Elkanah Bracken Greer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Elkanah Bracken (Brackin) Greer, soldier, planter, and politician, was born in Paris, Tennessee, on October 13, 1825, the son of Capt. James and Rachel (Bracken) Greer. |
 | | In 1845 he joined the First Mississippi Rifles as a private under Jefferson Davisqv for service in the Mexican War and participated in the battles at Monterrey and Buena Vista. |
 | | He died while visiting his sister at Devall's Bluff, Arkansas, on March 25, 1877, and was buried next to his parents at Elmwood Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee. |
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