Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Jane Caroline Green (1808-1897) and Husband Thomas Keesee

Bible register of family bible of Thomas Keesee and Jane Caroline Green, photocopy sent to me in December 2000, Barbara Scott Wyche of Richmond, Texas, a descendant of Thomas and Jane, who told me she did not know where the original bible is

Or, Subtitled: He “marketed the first bales of cotton in Little Rock,—which event occasioned considerable excitement and comment”

10. Jane Caroline Green, the tenth child of John Green and Jane Kerr, was born 10 October 1808 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. This date is recorded on her tombstone in Shiloh Cumberland Presbyterian cemetery at Ovilla in Ellis County, Texas, and also in a family bible that belonged to Jane and husband Thomas Keesee.[1] The inscription reads,

Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Benjamin S. Green

Tombstone of Benjamin S. Green and family, photo by A. Nobody — see Find a Grave memorial page of Benjamin S. Green, Hegar, Waller County, Texas, created by A. Nobody, maintained by Annette Stone-Kerr

Or, subtitled: “Times is harder here I expect than you have any Idea of”

3. Benjamin S. Green, the third child and second son of John Green and Jane Kerr,was born in 1794 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. The 1860 federal mortality schedule for Grimes County, Texas, lists B.S. Green next to his brother S.K. Green, stating that B.S. Green died of “Disias of the hart” in April 1860 in Grimes County, after an illness of 21 days.[1] The mortality schedule states that B.S. Green was aged 66 at the time of death and was born in South Carolina. This gives Benjamin S. Green a birth year of 1794. The mortality schedule listings show that at the very end of his life, Benjamin’s brother Samuel had either gone to live with his brother in Texas, having lost his lawsuit in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, against his son Ezekiel, or was visiting Benjamin in Texas at the time of his death. Samuel died in Grimes County in March 1860 of pneumonia, and his brother the following month.

1860 federal mortality schedule, Grimes County, Texas, p. 5,