Tag: Smithland Livingston Co. Kentucky

Children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean/Jane Ewing: Patrick Calhoun (1752/5 – 1827)

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Tombstone of Eleanor Pickens Calhoun, photo by genielady2012 – see Find a Grave memorial page of Ellen B. Pickens Calhoun, Oak Grove cemetery, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky, created by Trey Thompson

Or, Subtitled: “Here is my account of how and why all those folks went to Livingston Co. Ky.”

As I begin this posting, I have to be candid and say that working on the last three children of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jean or Jane Ewing has proven very difficult, and I’m by no means sure that I have a reasonably full snapshot of their lives. The information I can find about them is sparse, and much that is stated about them in articles and trees published conventionally and online is totally undocumented and often, in my view, woefully incorrect.

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Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Lucinda (1801-1821) and John Ewing Green (1803-1843)

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Tombstone of Lucinda Green. Tannehill Historical State Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, photo by William D. Lindsey — See Find a Grave memorial page of Lucinda Green, Tannehill Historical State Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, created by Kathy
Tombstone of John Ewing Green Green. Tannehill Historical State Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, photo by William D. Lindsey — See Find a Grave memorial page of John E. Green, Tannehill Historical State Park, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, created by Kathy

Or, Subtitled: “Departed this life March 13th 1821 aged 20 years and 3 days”

The seventh and eighth children of John Green and Jane Kerr, Lucinda and John Ewing Green, both died young and unmarried and are buried with their parents at Tannehill Historical State Park in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, to which the graves of a number of family members were moved from the old Green family cemetery near the Green homeplace outside Woodstock in Bibb County.

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Children of Ezekiel Calhoun Green (1795-1851) and Wives Matilda Harrison and Louisa B. Reed: John K., Samuel Kerr, and Mary Musa Green

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Samuel Kerr Green (1837-1904), photo uploaded to Ancestry by bhowson, included in Ancestry tree of susanneb1144

Or, Subtitled: “One of the best known river men in this section of the country”

Ezekiel Calhoun Green (1795-1851) had the following children: John K. and Samuel Kerr Green, sons of Ezekiel by wife Matilda Harrison; and Mary Musa Green, a daughter by Louisa B. Reed.

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An Addendum re: Louisa B. Reed, Fourth Wife of Ezekiel Calhoun Green

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Since writing my previous posting which discussed Ezekiel Calhoun Green’s marriage to Louisa B., the widow of Timothy J. Alvord, at Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, on 14 June 1841, I have found new information about Louisa. When I made the linked posting, I stated that I had not been able to determine Louisa’s maiden name.

Now, thanks to hints provided by Ancestry, I have discovered that Louisa was the daughter of David Reed and Nancy Phillips, and was born in Orono, Penobscot County, Maine, on 7 April 1814. I have added the following sentence to the posting linked in the previous paragraph:

Louisa was the daughter of David Reed and Nancy Phillips, and was born 7 April 1814 at Orono in Penobscot County, Maine. In 1815-6, her parents moved the family to Washington County, Ohio, where Louisa was raised.

Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Ezekiel Calhoun Green — Estate Documents

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Account of sale of Ezekiel C. Green’s personal property in Livingston County, Kentucky, 22 October 1851, from unidentified probate book, p. 397

Or Subtitled: When a Name in Estate Documents Hides Thickets of Kinship Connections

The final set of documents I have for Ezekiel Calhoun Green are his estate records. His tombstone in Smithland cemetery at Smithland in Livingston County, Kentucky, tells us that Ezekiel died on 6 April 1851. On 7 July 1851, James K. Huey appealed to Livingston County court for administration of the estate of Ezekiel C. Green, and was granted administration, giving bond for $5,000 with W.P. Fowler and Thomas M. Davis.[1] At the same court session, the court appointed D.B. Sanders, Joseph Watts, William Gordon, Samuel A. Kingsman, and Blount Hodge, or any three of them, to appraise the personal estate.[2]

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Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Ezekiel Calhoun Green (2)

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Livingston County, Kentucky, Court Order Bk. I, p. 6

Or, Subtitled: “In 1860, she had only aged 8 years and in 1870 she aged another 8 years. By 1880, she had only aged 2 years”

Ezekiel Purchases Island Property Outside Smithland

Now, returning to the chronological narrative of Ezekiel C. Green’s documents following his marriage on 2 September 1835: on 28 March 1836, Ezekiel Calhoun Green bought from William Croghan of Pittsburgh for $1,500 all of Croghan’s holdings on an island in the Ohio River immediately below the junction of the Ohio and Cumberland Rivers, 200 acres that Croghan had obtained through a treasury warrant 27 June 1786.[1] The land was surveyed 18 March 1798 and patented 16 July 1805. Croghan acknowledged the deed in Pittsburgh court on 28 March 1836, and it was recorded in Livingston County on 7 May.

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Children of John Green (1768-1837) and Jane Kerr (1768-1855): Ezekiel Calhoun Green (1)

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Tombstone of Ezekiel Calhoun Green, Smithland cemetery, Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, photo from Brenda Joyce Jerome, “Tombstone Tuesday – Ezekiel C. Green,” at Western Kentucky Genealogy Blog

Or Subtitled: “Ezekiel Green has attand my permition to marry my Niece Matilda Harrison of your County who I Stand as garden for“

4. Ezekiel Calhoun Green, the fourth child of John Green and Jane Kerr, was born 22 August 1795 in Pendleton District, South Carolina. This date of birth is recorded on his tombstone in Smithland cemetery at Smithland, Livingston County, Kentucky, which is inscribed,[1]

E.C. Green, born in Pendleton District, S.C., Aug. 22 1795, died April 6 1851.

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Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): The Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, Years, 1835-1848 (2)

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Promissory note of Samuel K. Green to Ezekiel C. Green, James K. Huey vs. Samuel K. Green, Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, 9th District Court case #932

Or, Subtitled: “Maj. Samuel K. Green, an old veteran in the cause gave a splendid ball in the evening”

So with the previous posting, we’ve gotten Samuel Kerr Green from New Orleans to Natchitoches Parish in northwest Louisiana by October 1835, when he bought 640 acres there from Dr. John Sibley. As the conveyance record for that land sale states, Samuel was already living in Natchitoches Parish by 1 October 1835 when he purchased the land.[1] I do not have precise information for the exact time frame in which Samuel worked at his last overseeing job in south Louisiana on James Hopkins’ plantation, but Hopkins’ testimony in the Ezekiel S. Green vs. Samuel K. Green case Samuel’s son Ezekiel filed in Pointe Coupee Parish against his father in March 1856 suggests it was in the early 1830s.[2] And the testimony of Joseph Biddle Wilkinson and his wife Catherine Andrews Wilkinson in the same case states that Samuel worked in 1829-1830 for George Bradish and William Martin Johnson in Plaquemines Parish. So Samuel’s work for Hopkins in New Orleans occurred in the first part of the 1830s and at some point before October 1835, he left New Orleans for Natchitoches Parish.

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Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860): Arkansas Territory Records, 1821-1833, and Brief Sojourn in Arkansas, 1821-2

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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Eastern Arkansas (Chicago, Nashville, St. Louis: Goodspeed, 1890), pp. 646-7

Or, Subtitled: “Civilization had at last come to Arkansas. So overjoyed were the inhabitants that the community celebrated the first publication of the Arkansas Gazette with a barrel of whiskey”

As I ended the previous posting, I told you that, having brought the story of Samuel Kerr Green up to 1830, when he ended his employment as an overseer at the Magnolia plantation of George Bradish and William Martin Johnson in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, I’d provide information about indicators that at some point between 1825 and 1829, Samuel may have been in Arkansas Territory. As I’ve told his story in the posting I’ve just linked and in the posting preceding that, Samuel arrived in south Louisiana by 1822 and began working as an overseer on the Pointe Celeste plantation of Joseph Biddle and Catherine Andrews Wilkinson in Plaquemines Parish. I’ve also told pieces of this s story in several previous other postings (see here, here, here, here, here, and here).

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Samuel Kerr Green (1790-1860) — The South Carolina and Tennessee Years

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“For Sale or Freight to New Orleans,” National Banner and Nashville Whig (5 November 1816), p. 3, col. 3

Or, Subtitled: “Young Men on the Make” in Early Nashville

Samuel Kerr Green, father of Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824/5 – 1900/1910), was born in 1790 in Pendleton District (later Anderson County), South Carolina. As previous postings have noted (and here), Samuel is enumerated on the 1850 federal census in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, along with his wife Elvira Birdwell Green, their children Albert and Cornelia, and Elvira’s siblings Clinton, Camilla, and Mary Ann.[1] The census gives Samuel’s age as 60 and his birthplace as South Carolina.

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