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

Tombstone of Mary Calhoun Green Woods, Tannehill Historical Statae Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, photo by William D. Lindsey
Second marker for grave of Mary Calhoun Green Woods, photo by J R MORRIS-AKA-FRANK DOCKERY — see Find a Grave memorial page of Mary Calhoun Green, Tannehill Historical State Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, created by Kathy

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 born 16 November 1797 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. This date of birth is inscribed on her tombstone.[1] Mary is buried with her parents and siblings Lucinda and John Ewing Green in Tannehill Historical State Park in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. As a previous posting notes, these Green family members were originally buried in a family cemetery near the Green homeplace in Bibb County, about a mile southeast of Woodstock in Bibb County. The graves were then moved at some point to Tannehill Historical State Park, about five miles away across the Bibb-Tuscaloosa County line.

Jane Kerr (1768-1855), Wife of John Green of Pendleton District, South Carolina, and Bibb County, Alabama

Portrait of Jane Kerr Green made about 1850 at the Green house, Bibb County, Alabama, in possession of a descendant in Virginia

Or, Subtitled: “In Memory of Jane Green born in Abbeville District S.C. Oct. 8th 1768. Departed this life Nov. 2nd 1855”

As a previous posting has indicated, the tombstone of Jane Kerr Green, wife of John Green, which formerly marked her grave in the family cemetery on the Green plantation near Woodstock in Bibb County, Alabama, but is now in Tannehill Historical State Park in Tuscaloosa County, states that Jane was born 8 October 1768 in Abbeville District, South Carolina, and that she died 2 November 1855.[1] The posting I’ve just linked contains a photo of the tombstone and transcribes its inscription, which reads,

In Memory of Jane Green born in Abbeville District S.C. Oct. 8th 1768. Departed this life Nov. 2nd 1855

As the linked posting also explains, at the time John Green and Jane Kerr were born in 1768 in what would become Abbeville County or District in 1785, this area, then called Granville County, would shortly after their births become Ninety-Six District until Abbeville District/County was created.