Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): George Sidney Green (1817-1853)

16 June 1845 receipt of George Sidney Green of Union County, Arkansas, to his brother James Hamilton Green of Bibb County, Alabama, in loose-papers estate file of their brother John Ewing Green, Bibb County, Alabama

Or, Subtitled: “Lost his life while handling a vicious mule

11. The last child of John Green and Jane Kerr, George Sidney Green, was born 2 August 1817, according to family trees that researchers of the Green family have shared with me.[1] None of the family trees assigning George this date of birth cite a source for it. Since the trees stating that George was born 2 August 1817 also have a specific date of birth for his wife Mary Ann Clardy and for all of their children except one, I think it’s possible these birthdates were recorded in a family bible. Mary Ann Clardy’s date of birth, 6 March 1823, is recorded in her father’s family bible, an abstract of which appears on the Ancestry “Hoke-Doerge Family Tree” of gdhoke11, with no information about the whereabouts of the bible. The abstract may not be a complete transcript of this bible record; as it appears on this family tree, it has no information about George S. Green’s date of birth.

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,

Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (9)

Mendelsohn The Lost

This will be my final posting in this series about Patrick Ryan (1846-1893) and his Civil War pension file. If you’re just discovering this blog, you may want to read the whole series of which this is the final piece. What I want to do now is provide some footnotes to  previous postings in the series. Continue reading “Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (9)”

Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (3)

Ryan, Patrick Union Pension File (3)
Patrick Ryan, Disability Affidavit, 19 Nov. 1892 (invalid’s pension, South Division, #1107789).

And now to that missing eye: though I have not spelled this out, it has probably become obvious to you if you’ve read the first two installments in this series that it is, in part, an extended essay about the importance of family stories in genealogical research. It’s a foray into understanding how family stories should be handled. Continue reading “Prob. Died Young, Or How Pat Ryan Lost His Eye (As a Union Soldier) (3)”