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Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910) (2)

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Bond of Samuel Kerr Green to Ezekiel Samuel Green, in Ezekiel S. Green vs. Samuel K. Green, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 9th District Court, file #1525

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.

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Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910) (1)

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Opening Page of Complaint of Ezekiel S. Green in Ezekiel S. Green vs. Samuel K. Green, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 9th District Court, file #1525

Or, Subtitled: “The motion came with ill grace from the one presumed to be the father”

In a number of previous postings, I’ve sketched some parts of the life of Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – after 1900), father of Mary Ann Green Lindsey (1861-1942) and son of Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) and Eliza Jane Smith (1790/1800 – 1843). In this posting, I’ll begin creating a more systematic account of Ezekiel’s life than I’ve previously provided, and will point to previous discussions of portions of his life that I’ve already discussed in detail.

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Mary Ann Green (1861-1942) and Husband Alexander Cobb Lindsey (2)

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“Mrs. A.L. Lindsey Rites at Coushatta Sunday Afternoon,” Shreveport Journal (27 June 1942), p. 5, col. 4

Or, Subtitled: “We all loved and respected Mollie Green Lindsey, our grandmother”

This posting is a continuation of a previous one in which I began documenting the life of my great-grandmother Mary Ann Green, daughter of Ezekiel Samuel Green and Camilla Birdwell, who married Alexander Cobb Lindsey on 2 November 1876 in Red River Parish, Louisiana. As the linked posting indicates, though Mary Ann’s death certificate, with Alec reporting this information, states that she was born 11 October 1862 in Pointe Coupee Parish, there are strong reasons to think that the year of birth reported on this document and inscribed on her tombstone is incorrect and that she was born 11 October 1861.

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Mary Ann Green (1861-1942) and Husband Alexander Cobb Lindsey (1)

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Death certificate of Mary Ann Green Lindsey, Louisiana Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, Red River Parish #1620, 194

Or, Subtitled: A Family History Full of Twists, Turns, and Confusion

When I began Begats and Bequeathals back in January 2018, I stated that my goal here would be to share some 40+ years of research on my family lines, in the hope of providing accurate documentation to anyone who might be researching these families and looking for good documentation and not the junk genealogy too often found in various places. My initial posting also says that I wouldn’t be following any logical plan in choosing a particular family line to work on at any given time, but would be skipping from line to line.

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“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) (2)

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Gregory A. Boyd, Texas Land Survey Maps for Angelina County (Norman, OK, Arphax, 2012).JPG (2)
Gregory A. Boyd, Texas Land Survey Maps for Angelina County (Norman, OK, Arphax, 2012), p. 126

In my previous posting, I told you that I had long been sure that my 2-great-grandmother Camilla Birdwell Green (abt. 1834 – aft. 4 December 1865) died on 11 October 1862 in Avoyelles or Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, giving birth to my great-grandmother Mary Ann Green (1862-1942). Then, as I did a search of Texas tax records to see what information I might turn up in them about her husband Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824-1915), I discovered that a man named E.S. Green was on the 1864 and 1865 tax list in Angelina County, Texas. Continue reading ““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) (2)” →

“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) (1)

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Louisiana Reports, Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, vol. 4
Louisiana Reports, Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana, vol. 4, A.N. Ogden, reporter (New Orleans: Price Current, 1850), p. 39.

Here’s an experience I’ve had, oh, once or twice (including in my several decades of doing family history): I’m motoring along, absolutely certain I know where I’m headed, and all of a sudden, a signpost appears by the roadside telling me I’ve been on the wrong road all the time. When I was certain I knew where I was going — certain that I knew what I knew. . . . Continue reading ““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) (1)” →