Solomon ran a tavern in the Deep Gap area and housed travelers overnight for a fee. Stories have been passed down that the family was so large that Solomon had to build two cabins to take care of them. He was also supposed to be a good hunter and a very kind-hearted man. His kindness is shown in a story which has been handed down. Solomon was hunting on a given morning, and he heard a sound in the high grass beside the path. He started to shoot, thinking it to be game, but he stopped short when he realized the sound was an infant's cry. He remembered that a wagon had passed by earlier that morning, and assuming that the child had fallen from the wagon, he took the child on horseback and caught the wagon, returning the child to his anxious mother. He is supposed to have told his family that he did not regret missing his day's hunting because he had done a good deed. The names of Solomon's wives and children, along with dates, were obtained from articles in the Heritage Book. Some dates came from other family trees online."Stony Fork Baptist Association meeting held at Popular Grove Baptist Church September 6th and 7th, 1889. Solomon Greene was born in Rowan County, NC April 10, 1801, and moved to Ashe County December 25, 1803. He joined the Baptist Church at Three Forks on the first Saturday 1829 and was dismissed from said church June first Saturday 1844 and joined Stony Fork Church June the second Saturday 1844. He was ordained a deacon June the second Saturday 1850 and was a member of the Baptist Church 59 years. He died December 24, 1888.

Solomon had 21 children. Not all have been named. For what is known as his 21 children are..
Nancy Mary Hodges:
William Conley Greene, Larkin Greene, John Riley Greene, Bartlett Greene, Mary Greene Miller, Nancy Camilla Ragan Miller, Solomon Greene, Martha Moody, Camilla C Miller, Smith Patrick Greene, Ferguson Greene, David Isaac Greene, Sarah Adeline Ragan.
Mary Sherrill:
Thursa M. Idol , Thomas R Greene, Wesley Sherrill Greene, Infant Daughter Greene, Margaret Ann Haworth, Adelaide Selina Hayworth, Infant Daughter Greene and Lydia Cornelia Blackburn.

Hood of First Watauga Settlers Survives at Deep Gap to This Day
Pioneer Greenes Came to Mountains at Close of Revolution
First Log Cabin
Solomon Greene Built His Home With Own Hands
By W. A. WATSON
Soon after the Revolutionary War ended three sons and two daughters of a family named Greene left the Jersey Settlement and settled in Watauga County, which at the time was part of Wilkes County.
The names of these three brothers were Richard, Jeremiah, and John, all of whom were married. Joanna and Sarah, the two daughters, were single. Joanna later married Sandrine Eggers, while Sarah married a man named Wilson. Jeremiah, who had married Polly Wiseman, had eleven children, the eldest of whom, a son, named Isaac, lived to the ripe old age of seventy-nine years, and was the father of Solomon Greene, an early settler of Deep Gap, North Carolina.
This is the genealogy of the Greene family down to Solomon.
Settles at Deep Gap
Solomon Greene was a pioneer by instinct, a blacksmith by trade, and a hunter and farmer by vocation. It was in Deep Gap that the first forest tree was felled by an axe in his hands, and hewn into logs for the first log cabin home. This was the beginning of the first home in the land of Boone, known then as "the wilderness of the mountain peaks." It was here that Solomon Greene with his forge made the nails and shaped the wooden-pins that went into the cabin-home made by his own hands.
The ancient cabin-home has stood the weather and storms for over a century, and still stands a landmark to this day. The roof and rafters were put on and mortised by locust pegs.
The logs were put together by strong cut-nails forged in his blacksmith shop. The photograph shows this cabin-home still standing with the rock chimney leaning against the logs toward the east.
Solomon Greene first married Nancy Hodges. To this first union there were born nine sons, and five daughters. To his second marriage, to Mary Sherrill, there were born six daughters, of whom one died in infancy, and two sons. There were in all twenty-two children born to Solomon Greene.
The Greene family was noted for industry. They were good farmers, blacksmiths, wood workers and masters of any craft which they undertook. This tradition runs true today in the blood of the Greene people here.
Finds Babe in Meadow
One bright day Solomon shouldered his trusty rifle and started on one of his hunting expeditions in the mountains. He soon was covering the distance in the meadow-land when he spied something moving out in the distance. He thought he heard a cry of a screech-owl. He suddenly stopped and was raising his rifle to his should when he plainly heard the cry of a babe. He went forward, walking softly, and found a naked male child wrapped in a box with only his hands out.
A man named Sammy Reece had passed along the mountain-trail road a few hours before with a family which was moving to the county of Wilkes. In this party was a girl named Bunting. This woman, it was later found, had hidden the child there to perish by hunger and the elements. Solomon quickly picked up the babe and brought it back to his mountain cabin-home and put some clothing upon its body. E had his good wife to give him nourishment. Solomon was soon on the trail of the woman that had gone by his home hours ago. He made up a party and after a hot pursuit overtook the wagon on Lewis Fork in Wilkes County, at a place now known as the Tomkkins farm.
The Bunting woman first denied all knowledge of the crime she had committed. She tried to make the old pioneers believe her story, but failed. After a long quizzing she finally opened to the truth and agreed to take the child and care of rat, if she be allowed to go free. This was agreed upon and soon the wagon was moving on over the trail towards its goal with the babe restored to his mother once more.
There is a legend that the child grew to sturdy manhood and that in after years he visited Mr. Greene in his old age.
The child was names Solomon Meadows because he found in the meadow by Mr. Greene.
Stoneman's Army Comes
Major General George Stoneman led his army through this place March 29, 1865. The camp and fort of Colonel George W. Kirk with the second mounted infantry under Major Bahney at once set about his fortifications.
Nearby rises the mountain-side from which all the timber was cut down to get logs to fortify the breastworks. The foreground in the photograph does no show the trenches for the reason that the forest pines have hidden the view.
Colonel Kirk left Deep Gap and moved toward Asheville on the 27th day of April, 1865.
"Uncle" Elbert
"Uncle" Elbert Greene, a nephew of Solomon Greene, is 80 years of age. He is a Mason, a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.
Democrat in politics. He has served as county treasurer in Watauga County. "Uncle" Elbert can recall many incidents of the stirring times while Col. Kirk was in the fort and camp here.
"I can remember being in Colonel Kirk's camp many time," he says. "I talked to the officers and men. I was at the camp when some of Stoneman's men caught a squirrel while cutting down timber in the forest.
"The men brought the squirrel to the camp and made a pet out of it. The officers and men of the army were kind to me, and when the army needed anything it was paid for and not stolen."
"Uncle" Elbert at that time was too young for service in the Confederacy. His name was on the list of recruits, but the war closed before they got to him.
Deep Gap's Modern School
This photograph of the Deep Gap consolidated School building which cost over ten thousand dollars, is the latest building of any importance to be erected here. There is quite a contrast between a log cabin home and a modern building in the present day. These two building together make a back-?und full of meaning in the land of promise that will bring forth ??d fruits for the generation which Solomon Greene founded ?e with an humble beginning.