Or Subtitled: “Ezekiel Green has attand my permition to marry my Niece Matilda Harrison of your County who I Stand as garden for“
4. Ezekiel Calhoun Green, the fourth child of John Green and Jane Kerr, was born 22 August 1795 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. This date of birth is recorded on his tombstone in Smithland cemetery at Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, which is inscribed,[1]
E.C. Green, born in Pendleton District, S.C., Aug. 22 1795, died April 6 1851.
Or, Subtitled: “Winged as WASP”
In this posting, I’ll provide information about the children of Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910) by his wives Camilla Birdwell, Hannah Birdwell (Harville), and Mary Ann Wester.
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.
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.
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.
Or, Subtitled: “The fourth generation was represented, and there were 87 present”
As the previous posting, to which this posting is a footnote, indicates, the 1910 federal census states that Alexander Cobb Lindsey and Mary Ann Green had thirteen children,[1] but the birth and death register of their family bible, of which the posting I’ve just linked provides pictures, lists the names and birthdates of only twelve children.[2] The birth entries for all children except the last child of the couple, Emmitt, are in the handwriting of Alex C. Lindsey. No family records that I have seen provide the name of a thirteenth child.
The children of Alex C. and Mollie Green Lindsey are as follows:
Or, Subtitled: “A Man of Service to Humanity in Red River Parish, Louisiana,” “Don Quixote Attacking a Spinning Windmill“
Alexander Cobb Lindsey, the seventh child of Mark Jefferson Lindsey and Mary Ann Harrison, was born 10 March 1858 in Union Parish, Louisiana, and died 22 January 1947 at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.[1] His tombstone in Old Armistead Chapel Methodist cemetery at Coushatta, Red River Parish, gives his name as “Dr. A.L. Lindsey,” as does his obituary in the Shreveport Times newspaper on 23 January 1947.[2] The tombstone, which was erected by his children for both Alex Lindsey and wife Mary Ann Green Lindsey following his death, incorrectly gives his date of death as 6 February 1947.[3]
Or, Subtitled: Bobby the Ill-Tempered Chihuahua and Aunt Roxie Who Loved Him
Carry Samuel Lindsey (1858-1935)
Carry Samuel Lindsey was born 10 March 1858 in Union Parish, Louisiana, and died 9 October 1935 at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Carry’s death certificate gives the full date of death, but records his birthdate only as 1858, stating erroneously that he was born in Coushatta, Louisiana, though his family had not moved to Natchitoches (later Red River) Parish by the time of his birth. His tombstone in Old Armistead Chapel cemetery, Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana, erected some years following his death, has his full date of birth, and gives his year of death as 1933.
Or, Subtitled: Mysteries and Incongruities Piled Atop Each Other
Emma C. Lindsey was the fourth child of Mark Jefferson Lindsey and Mary Ann Harrison, and their only daughter — though, as the last posting notes, a grandson of Mark and Mary Ann, Aaron Bloomer Lindsey, stated in an August 1959 interview in the Coushatta Citizen newspaper that his grandparents had twelve children, and all accounts I have seen of their children include only nine children.[1] If A.B. Lindsey’s information is correct, Mark and Mary Ann may have had three children who died as infants, whose names no one among their descendants seems to have recorded, and those three children might well have included another daughter.
Or, Subtitled: Captured Gunboats and Floating Cotton Bales
Mark Jefferson Lindsey and Mary Ann Harrison had the following children (all surname Lindsey): Michael Dorsey; Thomas Madison; Jeremiah J.J.; Emma C.; Benjamin Dennis; Carry Samuel; Alexander Cobb; Charles Henry; and Mark Jefferson.[1] In what follows, I’ll discuss the first three of these children, sons Michael, Thomas, and Jeremiah. In subsequent postings, I’ll discuss the other children of Mark and Mary Ann in “batches,” setting Alexander Cobb, my great-grandfather, and Benjamin Dennis aside for discussion in separate postings, since I have more information about those two children of Mark and Mary Ann than the others.
Begats and Bequeathals 
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