Or, Subtitled: A Sister and Three Brothers Living and Farming Together Unmarried to the End of Their Lives
The children of Benjamin S. Green (1794-1860), son of John Green and Jane Kerr, and wife Margaret M. whose maiden surname I not discovered, were as follows:
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.
Or, Subtitled: This father’s attempt to bastardize his son “came with a bad grace” since “it is sometimes impossible for a child to know with certainty whether he be legitimately begotten or not”
In the previous two postings (here and here), I discussed the life of Samuel Kerr Green during his years in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, from 1835 to 1848. As the second posting I’ve just linked states, in or shortly after 1848, Samuel moved with his wife Elvira Birdwell Green (the widow Grammer when he married her), his son Ezekiel Samuel Green, and his and Elvira’s children Albert B. and Cornelia Jane Green to Pointe Coupee Parish, where they settled on a plantation of 650 acres on the Atchafalaya River. How Samuel and Elvira acquired this land, I have been unable to find. Following Elvira’s death before 13 December 1855, the land was sold as part of her succession, and this has caused me to conclude that it came to Samuel when he married Elvira Birdwell Grammer.[1]
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.
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.
In my previous posting, I told you that I had long been sure that my 2-great-grandmother Camilla Birdwell Green (abt. 1834 – aft. 4 December 1865) died on 11 October 1862 in Avoyelles or Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, giving birth to my great-grandmother Mary Ann Green (1862-1942). Then, as I did a search of Texas tax records to see what information I might turn up in them about her husband Ezekiel Samuel Green (1824-1915), I discovered that a man named E.S. Green was on the 1864 and 1865 tax list in Angelina County, Texas. Continue reading ““The Reputed Father of a Child … Will Not Be Permitted Afterwards to Bastardize Such Issue”: The Case of Ezekiel Samuel Green (and His Father Samuel Kerr Green) (2)”
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