Ezekiel Samuel Green and Camilla Birdwell
The children of Ezekiel Samuel Green by wife Camilla Birdwell, whom he married 2 January 1853 in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, are as follows:
a. Rosa Frances Green was born 15 August 1854 in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana. The date of birth is given on the tombstone she shares with her first husband Alsa Harris Holley in Holley Springs cemetery at Martin in Red River Parish.[1]
Rosa died in Red River Parish on 11 February 1930, with that date of death appearing on both her tombstone and her death certificate. The death certificate, which states that she died at the home of her sister and brother-in-law Dr. Alec and Mary Ann Green Lindsey in ward 2 (Coushatta) of Red River Parish, says that she was 75 years and 5 months at the time of her death, and that her parents were Zeck Greene [sic] and QMilla Birdwell.[2] Rosa’s name is given as Rosa Greene Holley Anglin. Note that the information on the death certificate yields a birthdate of 11 September 1854. The informant for Rosa’s death certificate is left blank, but it could only have been her sister Mollie Lindsey and Mollie’s husband Alec. An obituary for Rosa published in the Shreveport Times newspaper on Thursday, 13 February 1930, says that she had been buried on Wednesday in Holley Springs cemetery with her funeral held at Holley Springs Methodist church.[3]
On 5 October 1875 in Red River Parish, Rosa married Alsa Harris Holley, a son of Zachariah Holley and Margaret J. Sowell of Holley Springs in Red River Parish. According to Carolyn Shank, the Holley and Elliott families moved together in a wagon train from Chesterfield County, South Carolina, to Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, in 1854, settling the community that was named Holley Springs and which fell into Red River Parish at its formation in 1871.[4]
After arriving in Natchitoches Parish, the Holley family donated land for a Methodist church that was built soon after their arrival in 1854 and was named Holley Springs Methodist church. A history of the church in Red River Parish, Our Heritage says that the original building consisted of a log house with a wattle-and-daub chimney in which pine knots were burned for heat.[5] The building also served as a schoolhouse. Holley Springs cemetery is located near the site of the old church building, which no longer stands. Holley Springs church was without a resident minister until 1860, and no church records of any substance exist prior to 1900. Holley Springs church no longer exists; at some point, it was absorbed into First Methodist church of nearby Coushatta, the parish seat.
The tombstone of Alsa Harris Holley shared with Rosa in Holley Springs cemetery states that he was born 24 September 1857.[6] Since he was born after his parents’ relocation to Louisiana, I think it’s likely he was born at Holley Springs in what was then Natchitoches Parish, a community now called Martin in Red River Parish. The tombstone states that Alsa died 26 March 1892. Alsa’s Red River Parish succession record, however, gives the date of death as 29 April 1892.[7]
A handwritten family history of the Huckabay family by Emma Lou Huckabay states that Alsa Harris Holley owned a plantation of 400 acres at Holley Springs, with a sawmill, planer, and cotton gin on the tract.[8] The Huckabay family was connected to the Alsa Harris Holley family through the marriage of Alsa and Rosa’s oldest daughter Camilla Ann Holley to James Jackson Huckabay. Emma Lou Huckabay was a sister of James Jackson Huckabay; their parents were Andrew Jackson Franklin Huckabay and Laura Elizabeth Giddings. Her notes refer to Alsa Harris Holley’s place as the Auss Holley plantation. They note that the plantation descended to James Jackson Huckabay.
My uncle Henry Carlton Lindsey, a son of Benjamin Dennis Lindsey and Vallie Snead of Red River Parish, told me that he had memories of being taken by his father as a small boy to visit Aunt Rosie on the Holley plantation, which he remembered as large and prosperous. Benjamin Dennis Lindsey was a son of Rosa’s sister Mary Ann Green and Mary Ann’s husband Alexander Cobb Lindsey. Carlton was born in 1918, and since Rosa died in 1930, this visit to her would have taken place sometime in the 1920s.
Following Alsa Harris Holley’s death, Rosa remarried on 23 January 1893 to Rufus W. Anglin (1864-1936), son of Henry Anglin and Lucy Ann Amanda Holland. This marriage took place in Red River Parish. The Hollands are also part of my family tree: Benjamin Dennis Lindsey, whom I’ve just mentioned, married Vallie Snead of Red River Parish, whose parents were Henry Clay Snead and Lucy Frances Harris. Lucy was the daughter of Simeon Lawrence Harris and Sarah Amanda Fitzallen Holland; Amanda Holland Harris and Lucy Holland Anglin, Rufus W. Anglin’s mother, were sisters. The Holland, Harris, and Anglin families came to Ringgold in Bienville Parish in 1853 from Twiggs County, Georgia, with some family members then moving to the part of Natchitoches Parish that became Red River in 1871.
The previously cited obituary of Rosa, which gives her name as Mrs. Rosa Anglin, notes that her husband Rufus Anglin survived her, and gives the names of her other survivors as son Phillip Holley of Dubberly, daughter Mrs. J.J. Huckaby of Coushatta, and sister Mrs. Alec Lindsey of Coushatta.[9] Alsa Harris Holley’s succession record lists his heirs as Cornelia, aged 16, Amelia, aged 15, Albert P., aged 12, Joel Z., aged 9, Anna H., aged 5, and Philip C., aged 3. Cornelia is evidently Camilla, who was born 21 September 1876. The succession record indicates that Camilla married J.J. Huckaby during the settlement of the succession.
Rosa Frances Green’s middle name is likely from her aunt Frances Birdwell, a sister of Rosa’s mother Camilla Green Birdwell. Frances Birdwell married J. Claiborne Martin Oliver.
The children of Rosa Frances Green and Alsa Harris Holley were as follows:
aa. Camilla Ann Holley (21 September 1876 – 5 September 1966) married James Jackson Huckabay, son of Andrew Jackson Franklin Huckabay and Laura Elizabeth Giddings on 6 December 1892, and is buried with him in Holley Springs cemetery.
bb. Amelia Ella Holley (8 August 1878 – 10 December 1923) married Edgar Israel Adcock, son of John A. Adcock and Amy Jane Robinson on 16 August 1895 in Red River Parish, and is buried with him in Holley Springs cemetery.
cc. Albert Porter Holley (25 December 1879 – 11 December 1909) married Sarah Graham, daughter of John Duncan Graham and Eliza Isadora Funderburk ,on 30 December 1895 in Red River Parish, and is buried with her in Holley Springs cemetery.
dd. Samuel Zachariah Holley (February 1881 – November 1881) is buried in Holley Springs cemetery.
ee. Joel Zachariah Holley (18 May 1883 – 10 December 1899) is buried in Holley Springs cemetery.
ff. Alsa Hosea Holley (13 September 1884 – 1 September 1886) is buried in Holley Springs cemetery.
gg. Anna H. Holley (7 March 1887 – 6 May 1893) is buried in Holley Springs cemetery.
hh. Philip C. Holley (30 September 1888 – 1 March 1969) married Mary Ella Brewer, and is buried with her in Brushwood cemetery at Dubberly in Webster Parish.
ii. Willie Holley (January 1891 – bef. 1930).
b. Mary Ann Green was born 11 October 1861 in Pointe Coupee Parish and died 26 June 1942 at Coushatta in Red River Parish. On 2 November 1876 in Red River Parish, she married Alexander Cobb Lindsey, son of Mark Jefferson Lindsey and Mary Ann Harrison. Mary Ann’s life has been discussed extensively in previous postings (e.g., here and here).
Ezekiel Samuel Green and Hannah Birdwell (Harville)
The child of Ezekiel Samuel Green by wife Hannah Birdwell, the widow of Hardin Harville, whom he married 11 December in Natchitoches Parish, was as follows:
c. Raleigh Green was born about 1868 in Natchitoches Parish. I find no record of Raleigh after the 1870 federal census, in which he’s enumerated in his parents’ household in Natchitoches Parish. As has been noted in a previous posting, a biography of Hannah’s son Joseph Clark Harville states that “Rolley” was the only child of Ezekiel Green and Hannah Birdwell, and that he had died prior to 1893.[10] It appears to me that Raleigh died between 1870 and 1880, since he is not with Hannah on the 1880 federal census, which is discussed in the posting I’ve just linked.
Ezekiel Samuel Green and Mary Ann Wester
The children of Ezekiel Samuel Green by wife Mary Ann Wester, whom he married on 13 January 1876 in Red River Parish, were as follows:
d. Carrie Green (6 February 1878 – 7 January 1917) married Sherwood Loab Smith, son of Charles Lafayette Smith and Eliza J. Daffon, on 17 December 1896 in Natchitoches Parish), and is buried with him in Science Hill cemetery in Rapides Parish.[11]
e. Willie Leslia Green (9 March 1880 – 4 November 1953) married 1) Louis Felix Davion, son of Evariste and Maria A. Davion, on 15 August 1897 in Natchitoches Parish; 2) M. Thomas Lemoine on 7 October 1900 in Natchitoches Parish; 3) Thomas E. Lowe, son of David Monroe Lowe and Mary Caldonia Romans, on 28 December 1904 in Natchitoches Parish; and 4) George Robert Harris, son of Andrew Jackson Harris and Mary Elizabeth Goodwin.
The obituary of Willie Leslie Harris published in Shreveport Times on Friday, 6 November 1953, says that she had died on Wednesday at the home of her daughter Mrs. Clyde Laurent in Natchitoches, and would be buried in the cemetery of the Church of the Epiphany at Campti, of which she was a member.[12] As far as I’m aware, there is not a church named Epiphany at Campti, nor was there a church by that name at Campti when Leslie Green Harris died in 1953. The obituary mentions the pastor, Cyril Therres, who conducted her funeral. Rev. Therres pastored the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Campti. I think this is the parish to which Leslia belonged and in whose cemetery she’s buried.
Mrs. Clyde Laurent, the daughter at whose house in Natchitoches Leslia died, was Leslia’s daughter by Louis Felix Davion, Elvena E. Davion. The 1920 census shows Elvena living 1t 3623 Camp Street in New Orleans with her mother and her mother’s last husband George Robert Harris, and working as a trained nurse. Elvena’s obituary in Shreveport Times on 16 August 1998 states that she was a registered nurse who graduated from Charity Hospital School of Nursing in New Orleans, and from George Peabody College for Teachers in Nashville.[13] She also took courses at Northwestern University in Natchitoches. The obituary also says that the Louisiana Public Health Association presented Elvena Davion Laurent with its Agnes Morris Memorial Award for her years of service to the people of Louisiana in the field of public health. The obituary notes that Elvena was a member of the Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Campti and was buried in the cemetery of that church; her husband Samuel Clyde Laurent is buried there with Elvena.
f. Mary Catherine Green (22 July 1883 – 11 January 1976) married Thomas Jackson Mace, son of William T. Mace and Isabel Landerwood, about 1904. Mary Catherine and her husband are buried at Lakewood Memorial Park at Henderson in Rusk County, Texas.[14]
Mary Catherine’s obituary in Shreveport Times on 12 January 1967 states that she died at Overton in Rusk County, Texas, and lists among her survivors siblings I.L. (Ivy L.) Green of Port Isabel, Texas, and Mrs. F.E. Devore (Olive Ethel Green) of Beaumont, Texas.[15] The obituary also appeared in newspapers in Longview and Kilgore, Texas. An obituary published in the Kilgore News Herald [Kilgore, Texas] on 11 January 1968 (p. 8, col. 5) gives Mary Catherine’s place of birth as Turkey Creek, Louisiana, and states that she moved to Texas from Gloster, Louisiana.
g. Campbell Ezekiel Green (22 August 1884 – 29 March 1927), is buried in Greenwood Memorial Park at Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, where he died.[16] His obituary in Fort Worth Record-Telegram on Wednesday, 30 March 1927, states that he had died the preceding day and was survived by a brother I.R. (i.e., Ivy L.) Green of Fort Worth and sisters Mrs. T.J. Mace of Gloster, Louisiana, Mrs. G.R. Harris of New Orleans, and Mrs. Fred Devore of Fort Worth.[17]
h. Olive Ethel Green (3 August 1891 – 1 May 1986) married Fred Earnest Devore, son of Stewart Wittington Devore and Helen Wedge, at Shreveport, Louisiana, on 30 October 1912. Olive and her husband Fred E. Devore are buried in Greenwood Memorial Park at Fort Worth, Texas, where her brother Cam is also buried.[18]
Olive graduated from Schumpert Memorial Hospital Nursing School in Shreveport in May 1912 after studying there for four years.[19] Olive’s marriage to Fred E. Devore is noted in an article in Shreveport Times on 1 October 1912, which states that the “well-known couple” had married the previous evening at the home of the groom’s parents in Shreveport.[20] In a column entitled “Campti” in Shreveport Times on 20 October 1912, it’s stated that news had arrived of the marriages of Miss Zee Bess and Dr. A.D. Mangam and Miss Olive Green and F.E. Devore, both brides having been born and raised at Campti, both having married at Shreveport, both graduates of Schumpert Memorial Sanitarium.[21] But as a previous posting notes, Olive reported on a correction of the birth certificate of her daughter Gloria Devore filed 14 October 1941 — Gloria was born in Fort Worth on 15 October 1920 — that she (Olive) was born at Turkey Creek, Louisiana, so that the information that Olive was born at Campti appears not to be correct. Turkey Creek is now in Evangeline Parish, but was in St. Landry Parish at the time of Olive’s birth.
The obituary of Olive Devore in Biloxi Sun Herald on Saturday, 24 May 1986 states that she had died on the 22nd in a Biloxi, Mississippi, nursing home.[22] The obituary gives her name as Olive Green Devore, and notes that she was a registered nurse who had worked on the heart team of Dr. Michael Debakey in Houston.[23] She had lived the last six years of her life in Biloxi, where her daughter Gloria Devore Schwager was living.
Gloria Devore Schwager was an Air Force pilot during World War II, and after that, a weather forecaster in Beaumont, Texas, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Biloxi, Mississippi. An article in Amarillo [Texas] Globe Times on 30 April 1944 notes that she had been winged as a WASP and assigned to the Flying Training Command as a staff pilot.[24] She married 1) Monroe Millman Rochester, 2) Carl R. Smith, and 3) Henry Rush Schwager.
i. Ivy Loab Green (7 August 1898 – 21 February 1967) is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas.[25] His death certificate with his sister Olive as informant and his World War II draft card state that he was born at Campti, Louisiana. The death certificates gives his parents as Samuel E. Green and Mary Ann Wester, and the draft card shows his middle name as Loab. Ivy’s obituary in Port Arthur, Texas, News on 22 February 1967 also notes that he was a native of Campti, and states that he was survived by his sister Olive G. Devore of Beaumont.[26]
[1] See Find a Grave memorial page of Rosa Frances Green Holley, Holley Springs cemetery, Martin, Red River Parish, Louisiana, created by J. McMenis, maintained by Cody M. LeBlanc, with a tombstone photo by J. McMenis.
[2] Louisiana Department of Health, Louisiana Statewide Deaths, vol. 15, p. 6689.
[3] “Mrs. Rosa Anglin,” Shreveport Times (13 February 1930), p. 14, col. 7.
[4] Carolyn Shank, “The Elliott Family,” in Red River Parish, Our Heritage, ed. Red River Parish Heritage Society (Bossier City: Everett, 1989), pp. 169-171. Joye Thorne says that the Holleys owned land in Louisiana by 1827, but if so, they did not live in Louisiana prior to 1854 — see “Irene McWilliams Holley and Lockett Beecher Holley,” in ibid., p. 229. Note that the tombstone of Zachariah Holley in Holley Springs cemetery at Martin, Red River Parish, Louisiana, states that he joined the Methodist Episcopal church in Chesterfield County, South Carolina, in 1845: see Find a Grave memorial page of Zachariah Holley, Holley Springs cemetery, Martin, Red River Parish, Louisiana, created by J. McMenis, maintained by Julie Miller Curry, with a tombstone photo by J. McMenis. Martin is the contemporary name for Holley Springs. Zachariah Holley and Margaret Sowell married in Chesterfield County on 27 April 1843: see “The Diary of Aaron W. Knight, Chesterfield County, SC, (1840-1920),” transcribed in South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research 13,1 (winter 1985], p. 1.
[5] “Holley Springs,” in Red River Parish, Our Heritage, pp. 584-5. No author’s name is given for this article.
[6] See Find a Grave memorial page of Alsa Harris Holley, Holley Springs cemetery, Martin, Red River Parish, Louisiana, created by J. McMenis, maintained by Cody M. LeBlanc, with a tombstone photo by J. McMenis.
[7] Red River Parish, Louisiana, Succession Bk. C, pp. 762-777 and 863-870.
[8] On 22 and 23 November 2002, Kathy Eide of Riverside, California, emailed me photos of the family of Franklin Huckabay and Laura Elizabeth Giddings, with a photo of Camilla Holley Huckabay in it. Along with the photo, Kathy Eide sent me a digital copy of portions of Emma Huckabay’s handwritten family history. On the Emma Lou Huckabay handwritten family history, see notes provided by Kathy Eide’s sister Sharon Laizure Hofer and archived at the USGenWeb site of Bienville Parish.
[9] See supra, n. 3.
[10] Memorial and Biographical History of McLennan, Falls, Bell, and Coryell Counties, Texas (Chicago: Lewis, 1893), p. 387.
[11] See Find a Grave memorial page of Carrie Green Smith, Science Hill cemetery, Rapides Parish, Louisiana, created by zzyzx1947, maintained by SFC USA RET Duffie and Kathy, with a tombstone photo by randi evans.
[12] “Mrs. Willie Leslie Harris,” Shreveport Times (6 November 1953), p. 20, col. 5.
[13] “Elvena Davion Laurent,” Shreveport Times (16 August 1998), p. 28, col. 5.
[14] See Find a Grave memorial page of Mary Catherine Green Mace, Lakewood Memorial Park, Henderson, Rusk County, Texas, created by Sharon, with a tombstone photo by Dianne H. Wylie.
[15] “Mrs. T.J. Mace,” Shreveport Times (12 January 1967), p. 8, col. 1.
[16] See Find a Grave memorial page of Cam Ezekial [sic] Green, Greenwood Memorial Park, Fort Worth, Tarrant Co., Texas, created by JCF, with a tombstone photo by Linda Moore Mora.
[17] “Cam E. Green,” Fort Worth Record-Telegram (30 March 1927), p. 3, col. 2.
[18] See Find a Grave memorial page of Olive Green Devore, created by JCF, with a tombstone photo by Linda Moore Mora. Note that Olive was born at Turkey Creek in St. Landry Parish and not Evangeline Parish, as this memorial page states. Evangeline had not yet been created from St. Landry at the time of her birth.
[19] Shreveport Times (21 May 1912), p. 2 has an article entitled “Nurses Graduate” reporting on the graduation of four women from Schumpert Memorial Training School after four years of study, one of whom was Olive Ethel Green. On 3 June 1912, Shreveport Times has a photo of the four graduates including Olive Green (p. 5). The same issue of this paper and same page has remarks made at the graduation of the four women, apparently by a teacher or administrator, with remarks about Olive, incorporating jocular references to the brilliant career that had seemed to be ahead of her until she had met a prospective husband.
[20] “Well-Known Couple Weds,” Shreveport Times (1 October 1912), p. 2, col. 5.
[21] “Campti,” Shreveport Times (20 October 1912), p. 20, col. 2.
[22] “Mrs. Olive Devore,” Biloxi Sun Herald (24 May 1986), p. 2, col. 2.
[23] On noted cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Michael E. Debakey, see “Michael Debakey” at Wikipedia.
[24] “Gloria Devore Is Winged as WASP,” Amarillo Globe-Times (30 April 1944). Another photo of Gloria in her WASP uniform is in the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots’ archives at the Texas Women’s University website.
[25] See Find a Grave memorial page of Ivy L. Green, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Beaumont, Jefferson County, Texas, created by 4th great grand daughter, with a tombstone photo by 4th great grand daughter.
[26] “Ivy L. Green’s Funeral Thursday,” Port Arthur [Texas] News (22 February 1967). I have a digital copy of the obituary without an indication of the page on which the obituary appeared.
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