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Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) — The Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, Years

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Magnolia plantation house, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, photograph by Howard “Cole” Coleman in Tulane University Library’s Thelma Hecht Coleman Memorial Collection

Or, Subtitled: “The great sugar-house was a wilderness of tubs and tanks and vats and filters, pumps, pipes, and machinery”

In the previous posting, I surveyed the life of Samuel Kerr Green from his birth in 1790 to John Green and Jane Kerr in Pendleton District, South Carolina, up to the point at which he left Nashville, Tennessee, in 1821 or 1822 and went to south Louisiana. As the posting shows, by 1816, he had left South Carolina for Nashville, where he and Nashville resident John Young formed a company to provide flat and keel boats for the Nashville-New Orleans trade. Young and Green then bought a share of Nashville’s first steamboat, the General Jackson, which sank at Harpeth Shoals on the Cumberland River on 30 May 1821. Before the boat sank, ship registration records in New Orleans show Samuel piloting the General Jackson as it was registered in New Orleans in 1820.

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

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“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.

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Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910) (1)

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Opening Page of Complaint of Ezekiel S. Green in Ezekiel S. Green vs. Samuel K. Green, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 9th District Court, file #1525

Or, Subtitled: “The motion came with ill grace from the one presumed to be the father”

In a number of previous postings, I’ve sketched some parts of the life of Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – after 1900), father of Mary Ann Green Lindsey (1861-1942) and son of Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) and Eliza Jane Smith (1790/1800 – 1843). In this posting, I’ll begin creating a more systematic account of Ezekiel’s life than I’ve previously provided, and will point to previous discussions of portions of his life that I’ve already discussed in detail.

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Mary Ann Green (1861-1942) and Husband Alexander Cobb Lindsey (2)

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“Mrs. A.L. Lindsey Rites at Coushatta Sunday Afternoon,” Shreveport Journal (27 June 1942), p. 5, col. 4

Or, Subtitled: “We all loved and respected Mollie Green Lindsey, our grandmother”

This posting is a continuation of a previous one in which I began documenting the life of my great-grandmother Mary Ann Green, daughter of Ezekiel Samuel Green and Camilla Birdwell, who married Alexander Cobb Lindsey on 2 November 1876 in Red River Parish, Louisiana. As the linked posting indicates, though Mary Ann’s death certificate, with Alec reporting this information, states that she was born 11 October 1862 in Pointe Coupee Parish, there are strong reasons to think that the year of birth reported on this document and inscribed on her tombstone is incorrect and that she was born 11 October 1861.

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Mary Ann Green (1861-1942) and Husband Alexander Cobb Lindsey (1)

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Death certificate of Mary Ann Green Lindsey, Louisiana Department of Health, Division of Vital Records, Red River Parish #1620, 194

Or, Subtitled: A Family History Full of Twists, Turns, and Confusion

When I began Begats and Bequeathals back in January 2018, I stated that my goal here would be to share some 40+ years of research on my family lines, in the hope of providing accurate documentation to anyone who might be researching these families and looking for good documentation and not the junk genealogy too often found in various places. My initial posting also says that I wouldn’t be following any logical plan in choosing a particular family line to work on at any given time, but would be skipping from line to line.

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Children of Dennis Lindsey (1794-1836) and Jane Brooks: Mark Jefferson Lindsey (1820-1878) and Mary Ann Harrison — Son Alexander Cobb Lindsey (1858-1947)

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Alexander Cobb Lindsey and wife Mary Ann (Mollie) Green Lindsey, 1930s, Coushatta, Louisiana; photo in possession of Marilyn Lindsey Cope

Or, Subtitled: “A Man of Service to Humanity in Red River Parish, Louisiana,” “Don Quixote Attacking a Spinning Windmill“

Alexander Cobb Lindsey, the seventh child of Mark Jefferson Lindsey and Mary Ann Harrison, was born 10 March 1858 in Union Parish, Louisiana, and died 22 January 1947 at Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Louisiana.[1] His tombstone in Old Armistead Chapel Methodist cemetery at Coushatta, Red River Parish, gives his name as “Dr. A.L. Lindsey,” as does his obituary in the Shreveport Times newspaper on 23 January 1947.[2] The tombstone, which was erected by his children for both Alex Lindsey and wife Mary Ann Green Lindsey following his death, incorrectly gives his date of death as 6 February 1947.[3]

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