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.

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

“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.