Children of Jane Caroline Green (1808-1897) and Husband Thomas Keesee: Louisa, Eleanor, William Fortenberry, John Hill, Patience W., and George Sidney Keesee

Memorial and Biographical History of Ellis County, Texas (Chicago: Lewis, 1892), pp. 477-8

Or, Subtitled: “There is doubtless in store for him a great reputation as the pioneer and principal breeder of fine-stock in the State”

This posting is a continuation of a previous posting in which I discussed the first seven children of Thomas Keesee and Jane Caroline Green. In what follows, I’ll provide information about Thomas and Jane Caroline’s last six children:

Children of Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910) and Wives Camilla Birdwell, Hannah Birdwell (Harville), and Mary Ann Wester

“Graduates of the Schumpert Memorial Hospital,” Shreveport Times (3 June 1912), p. 5 — Olive Ethel Green second from left

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.

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

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.

Children of Charles Wesley Brooks (1829-1896) and Wife Elizabeth Burleson (1835-1920)

Frank W. Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans, vol. 3 (Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1916), pp. 1466 — “A Burleson to the bone

The children of Charles Wesley Brooks and Elizabeth Christian Burleson were as follows: