Or, Subittled: From the Louisiana Supreme Court to the Texas Supreme Court

The account of the early life of Ezekiel Samuel Green in the previous posting, culled almost entirely from affidavits in the 1856 Pointe Coupee Parish Green v. Green case, augmented with data from federal censuses, brings us to the point at which he launched his life as a married man when he married Camilla Birdwell in Pointe Coupee Parish on 2 January 1853. Documents in the Green v. Green case file indicate that, as Ezekiel prepared to marry Camilla, he asked his father Samuel in 1852 to turn over to him the enslaved persons left to him by his mother Eliza Jane, and Samuel refused, denying that he was Ezekiel’s father and that he had been married to Eliza Jane. I’ve told (and documented) the story of Ezekiel’s life from this point forward to January 1876, when he married his third wife Mary Ann Wester in Red River Parish, in previous postings — in this posting, in particular, as well as in this one, and also here and here.