Tag: Hope Arkansas

Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Mary Calhoun Green (1797-1827) and Husband Robert Wilson Woods

November 13, 2023

Or, Subtitled: “Some marriagable [sic] young man or widower may ask, is there any pretty girls, old maids or widows there? Answer. some as nice as you ever saw” 5. Mary Calhoun Green, who was the fifth child of John Green and Jane Kerr and was named for her maternal grandmother Mary Calhoun Kerr, was … More Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Mary Calhoun Green (1797-1827) and Husband Robert Wilson Woods

Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (6)

March 25, 2018

As I ended my last posting about the Civil War pension claims filed by Patrick Ryan and his widow Delilah Rinehart Ryan in Grant County, Arkansas, I mentioned that one of the threads tying together the network of families represented in these combined pension files is that men from several of these families were Union … More Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (6)