Thomas Ferguson Greneker Annals of Newberry, Part Two by John A. Chapman, page 628-29 This past veteran journalist was born in the city of Charleston, S. C., March 2nd, 1827, and died at his home in Newberry on the 3d of December, 1889, in the sixty-third year of his age. He was the eldest son of Captain Thos. Greneker, of the Merchant Marine service. Having the misfortune to lose his parents while quite a boy, with tbe furtber loss of a competency that would have given him a classical education, he went into a printing office, after receiving a good English education, as the best means at his command of acquiring that knowledge which he sought and obtained his bright and retentive mind soon enabled him to master the details of tbe business and he rapidly rose in the confidence of his employers and the esteem of the craft.. Early in the fifties Mr. Greneker removed to Columbia and took charge of Dr. Robert W. Gibbes large book and job printing and newspaper office, where he was foreman of the State printing. Some time afterwards he and Messrs. Giles & LaMotte published the third daily newspaper ever printed in Columbia. The name of the paper was The Carolina Times. Disposing of his interest, he came to Newberry about the year 1858, and was associated with Thos. P. Slider in the Rising Sun, which newspaper he published until the Confederate war, when he entered the service as a private in Colonel Edward's Thirteenth Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers. Declining health caused him to return home. He was an invalid to the day of his death, and notwithstanding the intense bodily pain which he almost daily endured, he exhibited great energy and industry in the successful management of the Newberry Herald (the successor of the Rising Sun), which he conducted with his brother, R. H. Greneker. In 1884 the Herald was consolidated with the Newberry News. For a number of years this venerable editor was the trusted treasurer of the South Carolina State Press Association, until the wretched condition of his health forced him to resign the position and also, in 1885, to retire from journalism. He wrote with a fluent and facile pen. Mr. Greneker was twice married; first, in Columbia, on the 30th of December, 1852, to Miss Mary Caroline Fritz. By this marriage three children were born, one son and two daughters. Only one of these, Lula, wife of A. C. Jones, is now living. His second marriage occurred on the 9th of August, 1864, to Miss Corrie G. Sligh, of Newberry County, who survives him. Six children were born of this marriage, four sons and two daughters, three of whom are now living: Sarah, wife of C. C. Davis, Eugene and Claude. Mr. Greneker was the founder of the Herald, and for nearly forty years was identified with the journalism of this county. The best years of his life and his energy and intellect were spent here in our midst in an effort to advance the true interests of his adopted town and county and of his native State. He was one of the organizers of the State Press Association and was a consistent member of the Methodist Church - showing his devotion to Church and State - and died in the assurance of a blissful immortality beyond the grave. He had a large circle of acquaintances and many friends in the county and State. Mr. Greneker was a genial, kind-hearted and hospitable man, and though a great sufferer from ill-health, had a quiet vein of humor which made him a very agreeable host and companion. Temperate and industrious, he acquired a comforable living for his family and kept a bountiful table in waiting for his friend, who always received a warm welcome to his happy home. He fell peacefully upon his last sleep.