As it happens, I have, in fact, fallen into a quasi-logical pattern of choosing lines to work on here. Much of my focus initially has been on family lines on the paternal side of my family. I’ve blogged extensively here, for instance, about my Lindsey family from my immigrant ancestor Dennis Linchey forward, as well as the Dinsmore and Brooks families that tie into my Lindsey family tree as ancestral lines. Of late, I’ve spent much time working on the Whitlock family line that is part of my Brooks ancestral line, as the chart above, in which the ancestral lines of my father Benjamin Dennis Lindsey are sketched, shows.

I Begin a Series of Postings Tracking the Ancestral Line of Mary Ann Green Lindsey (1861-1942)

Now that I’ve exhausted the Whitlock line — that is, now that I’ve shared most all of the information I have about it in a long series of postings — I’m going to follow another line on the paternal side of my family tree. This is a Green family line. As the chart above indicates, and as a number of postings I’ve made here in the past state, my great-grandfather Alexander Cobb Lindsey (1858-1947) married Mary Ann Green (1861-1942), daughter of Ezekiel Samuel Green and Camilla Birdwell. You can spot this line in the ancestral chart above, and also see where the Whitlock line I was previously following ties into my Lindsey-Brooks ancestral line.

I’ve already posted quite a bit of information about Mary Ann Green Lindsey in previous postings here. This previous posting tracks her life after she married Alexander Cobb Lindsey in Red River Parish, Louisiana, on 2 November 1876, and has photos of Mollie (as she was called) and Alec that appear to date from around 1903, the 1930s, and close to 1940 — the first photo also including their oldest son Sam (Samuel Mark) and last four children Camilla, Myrtis/Myrta, Emma, and Emmitt. The same posting offers digital copies of obituaries of Mary Ann published in the Shreveport Journal and Coushatta Citizen newspapers in July 1942. I’ll discuss those documents in more detail later.

In two previous postings (here and here) entitled “’The Reputed Father of a Child … Will Not Be Permitted Afterwards to Bastardize Such Issue’: The Case of Ezekiel Samuel Green (and His Father Samuel Kerr Green,” I provided a partial sketch of the lives of Mary Ann’s father Ezekiel and Ezekiel’s father Samuel. Though neither posting focused on Mary Ann, there’s important information woven into both postings about Mary Ann’s life prior to her marriage to Alec Lindsey. In the postings I’m going to do now about Mary Ann, I’ll point that information out and discuss it in more detail.

Conflicting Documentation of Mary Ann Green’s Birthdate

And now to the confusing question of the very first fact in Mary Ann’s life: when and where was she born? As you’ll see, there are some strange gaps and inconsistencies in the documentation I find for this Green family line, including questions about when Mary Ann’s father Ezekiel was born and when and where he died, about why Mary Ann’s husband Alec seems to have used different middle initials at different times, and about when and where Mary Ann was born.

When Mary Ann Green died at home near Coushatta, Louisiana, on 26 June 1942, her husband Alec C. Lindsey, who was present at her death, supplied information for her death certificate including her date and place of birth (see the digital copy at the head of this posting).[1] He stated — or the person recording the information, apparently the attending physician Walter Benjamin Hunter, Alec’s cousin — that Mary Ann was born 11 October 1862 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. This date of birth also appears on the tombstone Mary Ann shares with Alec in Old Armistead Chapel cemetery outside Coushatta in Red River Parish.[2] Walter Benjamin Hunter would, of course, have been recording what he was told by Alec Lindsey, though it’s always possible Walter could have made a simple mistake in recording the year of birth on the death certificate.

The very same death certificate states, however, that Alec also reported that Mary Ann was aged 80 years, 8 months, and 15 days when she died on 26 June 1942. When this age is subtracted from her date of death, it yields a birthdate of 11 October 1861 — not 1862.

The death certificate has Alec’s signature and records his full name as Alexander Cobb Lindsey. Alec’s signature is shaky. He was 84 when Mollie died and would follow her in death less than five years later.

And confusion added to confusion: on 18 October 1938, the Shreveport Journal newspaper published an article about a 78^th birthday celebration held on 11 October for Mrs. A.L Lindsey at the home of her son Clarence at Methvin in Red River Parish.[3] The article states that Mary Ann was born 11 October 1859 in Rapides Parish, Louisiana! And note that if this was her birthdate, she’d have been 79 on her birthday in 1938, not 78 as the article states.

I do not know who supplied this birth information to the Shreveport Journal — perhaps Mary Ann’s son Clarence, with whom the article says she was living at this point. But I have found no document indicating that Mary Ann Green was born in 1859, and none showing her parents living in Rapides Parish at any point during their lives. As we’ll see later, Ezekiel S. Green married Mary Ann’s mother Camilla Birdwell in Point Coupee Parish on 2 January 1853, and in September 1859, he bought land in the adjoining parish of Avoyelles which he and Camilla sold in January 1862. Testimony in a lawsuit Ezekiel filed in Pointe Coupee Parish against his father Samuel K. Green in March 1856, also to be discussed in more detail later, states that he and Camilla had settled in Avoyelles Parish by 1856 — this is, soon after they married in Pointe Coupee Parish in 1853.

And as you looked at the October 1938 Shreveport Journal article about Mary Ann’s birthday celebration, did you notice that it gave her husband’s name as Dr. A.L. Lindsey? While, as I stated previously, her death certificate gives his full name as Alexander Cobb Lindsey, and he signed the death certificate as A.C. Lindsey? As this previous posting notes, I find Alec’s name given as A.L. Lindsey in numerous documents, and he sometimes signed himself that way, though he’s listed on the 1870 federal census in his parents’ household at Coushatta Chute in Natchitoches Parish as Alex Cobb Lindsey,[4] the name recorded on Mary Ann’s death certificate. I have no clue what the A.L. Lindsey thing is about, whether he had a middle name in addition to Cobb: more confusion to sort out with this family line.

Another p.s. The information that Mary Ann’s sons Sam, Robert, A.B., and Clarence Lindsey lived in El Dorado, Arkansas, in 1938 is not correct. It was their brother Benjamin Dennis, my grandfather, who lived there. His name is somehow omitted from this article. The other brothers all lived in Red River Parish, Louisiana.

Another confusing tidbit: on Mary Ann’s death certificate, Alec reported her parents’ names as Zeke Green and Mary Ann, with a question mark for Mary Ann’s maiden surname. As I just noted above, Ezekiel S. Green married Camilla Birdwell in Pointe Coupee Parish on 2 January 1853, and records up to September 1865 show him with wife Camilla, so Alec Lindsey’s information that Mary Ann Green’s mother was named Mary Ann is clearly incorrect. Ezekiel did, in fact, have a third wife Mary Ann, whose surname was Wester, but he married her on 13 January 1876 long after his daughter Mary Ann was born. It’s clear that Mary Ann Green’s mother was Ezekiel’s first wife Camilla Birdwell. When Mary Ann’s sister Rosa Frances Green (Holley) (Anglin) died on 11 February 1930 at Holley Springs in Red River Parish, her death certificate gave the names of her parents as Zeke Green and Milla Birdwell. Rosa was born 15 August 1854.

On the whole, information recorded on federal censuses over the years support a birth year earlier than 1862 for Mary Ann Green. If she had been born in 1859 as the Shreveport Journal article announcing her 1938 birthday celebration states, she’d have been enumerated in her parents’ household on the 1860 federal census. But that census listing presents us with more problems: it enumerates E.S. Green at Marksville in Avoyelles Parish with a wife and three children, but the wife’s name is given as Mary Ann and their three children as Lucy, Benton, and Lucas, names that never appear in any other records of Ezekiel S. Green’s children.[5] As I noted previously, Ezekiel and Camilla’s daughter Rosa was born 15 August 1854 according to both her death certificate and her tombstone, so E.S. Green’s household in 1860 should have included a daughter Rosa, but Rosa is nowhere to be found on this census.

The 1870 federal census shows both Rosa and Mary Ann in Ezekiel’s household at Coushatta Chute in Natchitoches Parish with their father and stepmother Hannah, Camilla’s sister whom Ezekiel married following Camilla’s death, and gives Mary Ann’s age as 10 when the census listing was made on 16 June.[6] This would place Mary Ann’s birth in 1859 or in 1860 prior to 16 June.

I am unable to locate Alec and Mary Ann Lindsey on the 1880 federal census taken four years after their marriage. The 1900 federal census, which enumerates them at Provencal in Natchitoches Parish, states that Mary Ann was born in October 1861.[7]

The 1910 federal census gives Mary Ann’s age as 50 when the census listing was recorded at Red Cross in Red River Parish on 12 May, suggesting a birth year of 1859 or 1860 prior to May.[8] The 1920 federal census, also taken in Red River Parish, shows Mary Ann as aged 59 on 7 January, suggesting that she was born either in 1860 or the first week of January 1861.[9] In 1930, the last federal census on which I find Alec and Mollie, Mary Ann’s age is given on 16 April as 69 at her next birthday.[10] This census listing would support the 11 October 1861 birthdate, as does the census’s statement that Mary Ann was 15 years old when she and Alec Lindsey married.

My conclusion, as I sift and think about the evidence, is that Mary Ann Green was likely born 11 October 1861. If her husband Alec had not stated on her death certificate that she was born in Pointe Coupee Parish, I’d have been inclined to think she was born in Avoyelles Parish, since it’s clear to me her parents were living in that parish at the time of her birth. But perhaps for some reason her birth took place in the adjoining parish of Pointe Coupee where her parents had married in 1853, and where Ezekiel was living with his father up to the point of his marriage to Camilla Birdwell.

The Complicated Family History Preceding Mary Ann’s Birth: Father and Son Marry Sisters and Enter Legal Battle vs. Each Other

The loose-papers file for the marriage of Ezekiel S. Green to Camilla Birdwell held by Pointe Coupee Parish shows Ezekiel giving bond on 2 January with Reason Cripps for his marriage to Camilla Birdwell.[11] As this previous posting tells you — it discusses much that I’m about to repeat here — the file for this marriage also contains a note of permission for the marriage written by Camilla’s brother John B. Birdwell (1828-1918) on 1 January. Camilla was 19 at the time she married Ezekiel S. Green. The 1850 federal census, the only census on which I find Camilla, shows her living in Pointe Coupee Parish in the household of Ezekiel S. Green’s father Samuel K. Green and Samuel’s then wife Elvira, who was yet another Birdwell, a sister of Camilla.[12] The census shows Camilla as aged 16, born in Alabama.

That 1850 federal census entry tells a story, doesn’t it? In marrying Camilla Birdwell in 1853, Ezekiel Green was marrying a young woman who had been living with his father and stepmother Elvira Birdwell Green prior to Ezekiel and Camilla’s marriage — and he was marrying a younger sister of his father’s wife. Also living in Samuel K. Green’s household in 1850 in addition to Samuel and Elvira’s small children Albert and Cornelia Jane were Elvira and Camilla’s siblings Dewitt Clinton Birdwell (abt. 1831 – 1850/1860) and Mary Ann Birdwell (abt. 1845 – abt. 1885), for whom Camilla named her daughter Mary Ann Green. Camilla and Mary Ann are given the surname Green in this census listing. I don’t find Ezekiel S. Green anywhere on the 1850 federal census, by the way.

The 1850 census entry states that Samuel K. Green was a planter with $5,500 real worth. Samuel appears on the 1850 federal slave schedule for Pointe Coupee Parish with 11 enslaved persons.[13] As we learn from a lawsuit Ezekiel filed against his father Samuel in Pointe Coupee Parish in March 1856, those enslaved people actually belonged to Ezekiel. They had come to him from his mother Eliza Jane Smith when she died in 1843.[14] When Ezekiel claimed them as his own — I suspect this happened when he married Camilla Birdwell — his father refused to give the enslaved people to Ezekiel and denied that Ezekiel was his son.

In marrying Camilla Birdwell, it seems to me Ezekiel was likely taking a step that pleased his father, who, by marrying Camilla’s older sister Elvira in Natchitoches Parish on 13 June 1844, had gained valuable property in Pointe Coupee Parish that came to Elvira from her first husband James Madison Grammer.[15] It was this land on which Samuel and Elvira were living in 1850. Reason Cripps, who gave bond with Ezekiel for his marriage to Camilla, was a neighbor of Samuel K. Green and a fellow planter who is listed on the 1850 federal census on the page prior to the one on which Samuel is enumerated — an indicator to me that Samuel K. Green likely approved of Ezekiel’s marriage to his wife’s younger sister. Until, that is, Ezekiel expected ownership and control of the enslaved people belonging to Ezekiel that Samuel had appropriated for his own use….

The reason Camilla and her siblings Clinton and Mary Ann were living with Samuel K. Green and their sister Elvira in 1850, and the reason Camilla needed permission from her older brother John B. Birdwell to marry Ezekiel S. Green in 1853, was that their parents James and Aletha Leonard Birdwell had died within several years after the Birdwell family moved in late 1839 or 1840 from Marshall County, Alabama, to Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana. Documents in James Birdwell’s succession record filed in DeSoto Parish indicate that Aletha died in Natchitoches Parish about 1845, and we learn from the 1850 federal mortality schedule that James died of cholera in DeSoto Parish in December 1849.[16]

Samuel Kerr Green had settled in Natchitoches Parish at some point prior to 1 October 1835, when he bought a 640-acre plantation from Dr. John Sibley.[17] Prior to this point, as documents in Ezekiel’s 1856 lawsuit against Samuel indicate, he had been living south of New Orleans in Plaquemines Parish and working as an overseer on sugarcane plantations there. When he decided to set himself up as a planter and moved to Natchitoches Parish, he bought his 640 acres from Sibley near the village of Adayes (i.e., Los Adaes) fifteen miles from Natchitoches, on the road to the Sabine River, land that Sibley had as a Rio Hondo claim. Samuel K. Green may actually have been dealing with Sibley regarding this land as early as 1823, since a legal writ filed on 6 October 1823 by Natchitoches Parish sheriff Benjamin Bullitt shows that Bullitt had seized a tract of land amounting to 1,800 arpents at Campté in a case of debt of John Sibley and Samuel Sibley, his security, vs. Isaac Baldwin.[18] The writ states that the Sibleys had made a mortgage to Samuel Green for $1,850.50. Later documents will show Ezekiel S. Green living in the latter part of his life at Campti (the spelling now used for this community in Natchitoches Parish) and owning a sawmill there.

By the time Samuel K. Green arrived in Natchitoches Parish, he had separated from Ezekiel’s mother Eliza Jane Smith, whom it appears from documents in the 1856 lawsuit of Ezekiel against Samuel that Samuel never married legally, though the couple were considered married in a common-law arrangement and both acknowledged Ezekiel as their son and shared joint responsibility for raising him after they separated, sending him to St. Louis for an education at their joint expense, according to several witnesses in that lawsuit. In 1841, Eliza Jane, who lived in Iberville Parish following her separation from Samuel and who remarried in New Orleans to Captain Samuel Ives, then divorced him, went to Natchitoches Parish to live with Samuel K. Green and died at his house there on or around 13 March 1843, leaving a number of enslaved people she owned at the time of her death to Ezekiel as her only son and heir. (On Eliza Jane’s story and documentation of what I’m telling you now about it, see here and here.)

By this point, Samuel had built a house on his 640 acres in Natchitoches Parish, something we know because Mary Hartman, widow of the builder of that house John Hartman, filed suit on 15 August 1838 in Natchitoches Parish, claiming that Samuel had never paid John Hartman for building this house.[19] Mary Hartman’s suit indicates that Samuel had contracted for John Hartman to build this house on 11 October 1835. The case file has a detailed description of the house Hartman built, showing that it was a two-story house with two rooms 18-feet square on each floor, and a central hall 14-feet wide.

By early 1844, the year in which he married Elvira Birdwell Grammer in Natchitoches Parish and the year after his first spouse Eliza Jane Smith had died, Samuel K. Green was experiencing serious financial distress. On 3 January 1844, he mortgaged his Natchitoches Parish plantation to St. Francis Church for $1,500. His 1 October 1835 mortgage note to John Sibley had fallen into the church’s hands.[20] On 13 October 1845, the church filed suit against Samuel for $500 due on this mortgage, and judgment was given in favor of the church in November 1845.[21] On 20 November 1845, the court gave an order for Samuel’s land to be seized by the sheriff and sold to satisfy his debt.[22]

On 7 February 1846, the land was sold to St. Francis Church for $1,334.[23] On 7 January 1848, Samuel ratified the sale of the 640-acre plantation to Ambrose Lecompte, church warden of St. Francis Parish.[24]

Given his financial embarrassments and the loss of his Natchitoches Parish plantation in the period 1844-8, it’s interesting that Samuel K. Green chose to marry Elvira Birdwell Grammer on 13 June 1844. Especially since Elvira was a widow with considerable property that included a 650-acre plantation on the Atchafalaya River in Pointe Coupee Parish that had come to her from her first husband….

As the 1850 federal census discussed above tells us, by that year, Samuel and Elvira had moved from Natchitoches Parish to Point Coupee Parish to live on her land there, with Elvira having brought along her siblings Clinton, Camilla, and Mary Ann — and with Samuel’s son Ezekiel evidently joining his father and stepmother there, though he’s absent from the household on the 1850 federal census. Testimony in the case file for his 1856 lawsuit against his father suggests that Ezekiel lived with his father for the most part after his parents separated, making visits to Eliza Jane in New Orleans where she first lived with Samuel Ives, then to Iberville Parish where she lived after leaving Samuel Ives. Documentation regarding precisely when Ezekiel was born is hazy and conflicting: his March 1856 complaint initiating his lawsuit against his father in Pointe Coupee Parish states that he was born in 1824 or 1825. Federal censuses place his birth year anywhere from 1818 to 1822. If Ezekiel was born in 1824-5, he’d have been around thirty when he married Camilla Birdwell in 1853 and began his adult life as a married man.

The final trigger for Ezekiel’s legal actions against his father may have been the death of Elvira Birdwell Green in Pointe Coupee Parish sometime before 13 December 1855, the date on which Samuel filed for succession of her estate in Pointe Coupee Parish.[25] The succession documents indicate that Samuel and Elvira were living on a jointly owned 650-acre plantation on the Atchafalaya River in the parish, and suggest that this land had come to Elvira through her marriage to James Madison Grammer, and that Samuel K. Green had joint possession of it through his marriage to Elvira. This land was sold on 10 March 1856, with the conveyance for it noting that it lay in section 38, township 2, range 7 east and section 37, township 2, range 7 east.[26]

Five days earlier, on 5 March 1856, Ezekiel had filed his petition against Samuel, claiming that his father had denied his ownership of a number of enslaved people left to Ezekiel by his mother Eliza Jane. Elvira’s death appears to have precipitated a crisis between father and son. Was Samuel perhaps intending to sell Ezekiel’s enslaved people, a reasonable question to ask since documents in the case file for this lawsuit state that Samuel absconded to New Orleans during the trial and tried to sell the enslaved people belonging to his son? Was he intending to move away, with Ezekiel wanting to retain ownership and control of the enslaved people? In New Orleans on 10 January 1837, Samuel had purchased 640 acres in Llano County, Texas, from Hansford Cophendolpher. He had held onto this land, and Ezekiel inherited it, selling it on 16 February 1891 when Ezekiel was living in St. Landry Parish.[27] It’s possible, I think, that Samuel had plans to relocate to Texas — with the enslaved persons belonging to Ezekiel — at this point in his life. He did, in fact, go to Texas after having lost his legal battle with his son; he died of pneumonia in March 1860 at the home of his brother Benjamin S. Green in Grimes (now Waller) County and is buried in a family cemetery in Waller County with Benjamin and Benjamin’s family.[28] The posting I’ve just linked has a photograph of his tombstone.

Elvira’s death and the sale of the land he owned jointly with Elvira in Pointe Coupee Parish had surely upended Samuel’s life. And the legal battle between Samuel and his son Ezekiel, which ended up in the Louisiana Supreme Court, with Samuel seeking to illegitimate his own son in order to claim enslaved human beings held as property, who’d be freed from slavery a few years down the road due to the Civil War: these events, too, surely deeply affected the lives of both this father and this son, and surely had ramifications for Ezekiel’s heirs.

I rehearse this complicated history in all its twists and turns to explain how it happens that Mary Ann Green Lindsey was born to Ezekiel Samuel Green and Camilla Birdwell on 11 October 1861 (as I’ve concluded the year was) in Pointe Coupee Parish, when she spent her adult life in Natchitoches and Red River Parishes further north and west in the state. The twists and turns of Mary Ann’s life began with twists and turns in the life of her father Ezekiel, his father Samuel, and Ezekiel’s mother Eliza Jane. Mary Ann’s early life was in many ways determined by the drama that had been set into motion by the conflict between her father and his father in Pointe Coupee Parish.

In my next posting, I’ll pick up the story of Mary Ann’s life after her parents settled in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, by 1856, then moved to Angelina County, Texas, where I last find records of Camilla — with Ezekiel returning to Natchitoches Parish to marry Camilla’s sister Hannah in December 1867, then marrying Mary Ann Wester in January 1876 in Red River Parish, with Mary Ann marrying Alec Lindsey in the same parish in November of that year.

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[1] Louisiana Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, Red River Parish #1620, 1942.

[2] See Find a Grave memorial page of Mary Ann Green Lindsey, Old Armistead Chapel cemetery, Red River Parish, Louisiana, created by wdlindsy with tombstone photos by Donna Hinton Warke and Liane Bamburg.

[3] “Honored on Birthday,” Shreveport Journal (18 October 1938), p. 11, col. 1.

[4] 1870 federal census, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Coushatta Chute, ward 13, p. 531 (dwelling 22/family 19, 24 June).

[5] 1860 federal census, Marksville, Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, p. 142, (dwelling/family 987, 30 November). 

[6] 1870 federal census, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Coushatta Chute, ward 1, p. 307 (dwelling 97/family 93, 16 June).

[7] 1900 federal census, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Provencal, ward 7, p. 216A (ED 77; dwelling 25/family 26; 2 June).

[8] 1910 federal census, Red River Parish, Louisiana, Red Cross, ward 1, p. 177 (ED 95; dwelling/family 411; 12 May).

[9] 1920 federal census, Red River Parish, Louisiana, ward 2, p. 39A (ED 121; dwelling 29/family 30; 7 January).

[10] 1930 federal census, Red River Parish, Louisiana, ward 2, p. 159B (ED 41-4; dwelling 144/family 145; 16 April).

[11] Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, Loose-Papers Marriage File, E.S. Green and Camilla Birdwell, 1853.

[12] 1850 federal census, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, p. 37 (dwelling/family 644, 7 September).

[13] 1850 federal slave schedule, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, unpaginated, 6 September.

[14] Ezekiel S. Green vs. Samuel K. Green, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 9^th District Court, file #1525.

[15] The marriage is listed in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Marriage Bk. 35, p. 227. Elvira had married James Madison Grammer in Marshall County, Alabama, on 17 January 1838.

[16] DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, Loose-Papers Succession File #159; DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, Succession Bk. D, pp. 643-50; 1850 federal mortality schedule, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, western district, p. 169.

[17] Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Mortgage Record Bk. 22, p. 110, #578.

[18] The writ is reproduced in Congressional Series of United States Public Documents, vol. 316 (Washington, D.C., Blair and Rives, 1838), pp. 206-7.

[19] Mary Hartman vs. Samuel K. Green, Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, District Court file #1986, Parish Court file #283.

[20] Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Mortgage Bk. A, pp. 126-7.

[21] St. Francis Church vs. Samuel K. Green,Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, District Court file #3734.

[22] Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Judicial Mortgage Record Bk. C, pp. 154-5.

[23] Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Sheriff’s Sales Bk. 5, pp. 26-7; recorded 7 February, filed 10 March 1846.

[24] Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Conveyance Bk. 39, p. 417, #4749.

[25] Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, Succession Record #1476, 9^th District Court.

[26] Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, Conveyance Bk. 10 October 1856-5 February 1858, #4387.

[27] The land’s history is traced in Llano County, Texas, DB T, pp. 53-4, the deed recording Ezekiel’s 1891 sale of the land.

[28] 1860 federal mortality schedule, Grimes County, Texas.