Myrtle was the first child born to John Harris and Orpha Nicoll Greer.
She was born Feb 18, 1886 in Concho, AZ.
Her brother, John and sister, Sabina were close in age and her sister,
Lillian was born when Myrtle was five so the 'younguns' had built in
playmates to grow up with. Myrtle learned to play the mandolin, and
she learned to paint and do many kinds of handwork.
She attended school in Concho and in St Johns.

It was in St Johns that she met Benjamin Brown.
Ben and Myrtle kept company when Ben took a missionary
class at the LDS Academy in St Johns in 1904. Ben served a mission in
Liverpool, England and on his way home from England he stopped at
the Greer Ranch to visit her. After Ben proposed and Myrtle accepted,
Loe Burgess drove a team and wagon to take them and Jay Burgess
& his fiancee, Jessie Wiltbank to Holbrook. At the Holbrook train station
the two couples entrained for Salt Lake City and were married in
the Salt Lake Temple October 9, 1908.

After their marriage they lived in Eagar until 1920.
Ben was elected treasurer of Apache County and the family with 5
children moved to St Johns when Louise, Myrlan, Vermelle, Errol, &
Elzetta were age 11, 9, 7, 6, & 1 year of age. Their last child, Benjamin
was born in St Johns in 1924.

In 1923, Ben discovered he had diabetes. In 1933, when it got worse
he was in a Los Angeles hospital for several weeks to get stabilized.
He died July 14, 1935 in St Johns. Myrtle raised the family in her little
home in St Johns just west of the elementary school.

It was March 12, 1965 when she visited her sister, Bina and Carl Law
in Salt Lake City. Carl, Jr. and Barbara Law, Kate, and Leland & Geneva
Greer also came to visit on the fifteenth. . Myrtle fell ill and told the
doctor she had a gallstone that hadn't passed. Errol & Ben, two of
Myrtle's sons came. They admitted her to the hospital on Wednesday,
March 24th and she died 45 minutes later.

Thanks to Sylvia Cleg, her niece or this bio.