Children of George Sidney Green (1817-1853) and Wife Mary Ann Clardy (1823-1862)

Benjamin Calhoun Green and wife Alice Eudora Engles Green, photos sent to me by their descendant Hunter Green

Or, Subtitled: “I did not realize how important field peas were for feeding both humans and draft animals”

George Sidney Green and Mary Ann Clardy had the following children:

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,

Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Benjamin S. Green

Tombstone of Benjamin S. Green and family, photo by A. Nobody — see Find a Grave memorial page of Benjamin S. Green, Hegar, Waller County, Texas, created by A. Nobody, maintained by Annette Stone-Kerr

Or, subtitled: “Times is harder here I expect than you have any Idea of”

3. Benjamin S. Green, the third child and second son of John Green and Jane Kerr,was born in 1794 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. The 1860 federal mortality schedule for Grimes County, Texas, lists B.S. Green next to his brother S.K. Green, stating that B.S. Green died of “Disias of the hart” in April 1860 in Grimes County, after an illness of 21 days.[1] The mortality schedule states that B.S. Green was aged 66 at the time of death and was born in South Carolina. This gives Benjamin S. Green a birth year of 1794. The mortality schedule listings show that at the very end of his life, Benjamin’s brother Samuel had either gone to live with his brother in Texas, having lost his lawsuit in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, against his son Ezekiel, or was visiting Benjamin in Texas at the time of his death. Samuel died in Grimes County in March 1860 of pneumonia, and his brother the following month.

1860 federal mortality schedule, Grimes County, Texas, p. 5,

Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Samuel Kerr Green and Elizabeth B. Green Thompson

James Thompson’s will, Dallas County, Arkansas, Will Bk. D, pp. 246-8

Or, Subtitled: “I James Thompson of Freeo post Office Ouachita County Arkansas”

John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1857) had the following children:

  1. Samuel Kerr Green
  2. Elizabeth B. Green
  3. Benjamin S. Green
  4. Ezekiel Calhoun Green
  5. Mary Calhoun Green
  6. Joscelin B. Green
  7. Lucinda Green
  8. John Ewing Green
  9. James Hamilton Green
  10. Jane Caroline Green
  11. George Sidney Green

John Green (1768-1837): Bibb County, Alabama, Records, 1823-1839

Green house built by John Green and son John Ewing Green southeast of Woodstocck, Bibb County, Alabama, 1830-1834, photo I took in December 2006

Or, Subtitled: “On the Elyton road, the [stagecoach] change, usually considered necessary every fifteen miles, is said to have occurred regularly near Woodstock at the old Green house, called Halfway House”

As the previous posting states, when Jane Kerr Green relinquished her dower rights to the 1,345 acres she and husband John Green sold in Pendleton District, South Carolina, on 4 May 1818 — Jane released dower on 28 October 1818 — it appears to me that John and Jane were making preparations for the immediate move of their family to Alabama. I think it’s likely that the family left for Alabama not long after Jane’s dower release. Since, as will be shown below, when John and his sons Benjamin and Joscelin had certificates for federal land in Bibb County, Alabama, in June 1823, with the certificates stating that the Green men were living in Tuscaloosa County, I think the Green family initially settled in Tuscaloosa County before moving to the contiguous county of Bibb, where they settled in the northwest corner of Bibb not far from the Tuscaloosa County line.