| Green Family History |
Jeremiah Green is the earliest ancestor of which we have any records to date. A native of North Carolina, he married Rebecca Hunter in Haywood County, N.C. on January 26th, 1829. From the 1850 Census, Cocke County, Tennessee: Green - Jeremiah 39 Born N.C. Rebecca 37 Born N.C. Elijah 21 Born N.C. Polly 16 Born N.C. John 10 Born TN Lurania 5 Born N.C. B. Jackson 3 Born N.C. Also in the household at this time was a daughter Caroline Green Walls who had apparently come home to have her first child Taylor Walls, who was one month old at the time of this census. |
| We have little information on the years Jeremiah and Rebecca lived in Cocke County, Tennessee. We do know that it was there that their son Elijah married Harriet Walls and daughter Caroline married one of Harriet's brothers. Elijah and Harriet were the parents of seven children. Caroline's two sons were born in Cocke County and she and the younger boy are buried there. We do not know for sure in which part of Cocke County our Greens lived, but it is thought to have been the area known as Grassy Fork, located on the mountain between Hartfoud and Del Rio, very near the Tennessee/North Carolina border. More research needs to be done in both Haywood County, N.C. and Cocke County, Tennessee. In 1859, Jeremiah and Rebecca and their children moved to Texas, bringing along little grandson Edward Elijah Walls In July, 1860, with U.S. census, we place Jeremiah in Comanche Peak, Johnson County, Texas with three of their children and grandson Elijah Walls. Nearby, daughter Polly (Mary A.) and her husband John Messer with their three children. Also in Johnson County was son Elijah and wife Harried with children John (3), Joseph (2), and Mary J. (5 months). On June 3rd, 1861, Jeremiah enlisted in Stockton Cavalry, 20th Brigade under Capt. John A. Formwalt. He was 51 years old. Jeremiah was to die just two years later, being killed by Indians August 22, 1863. Several accounts of his death are given in county history books and newspaper articles. Family tradition places him along with two neighbors taking wheat to the mill to be ground into flour when they were surprised by Indians and Jeremiah alone of the party was overtaken, scalped and killed. He was elderly by the standards of those days, overweight and poorly mounted on a mule. Knowing he could not get away from the Indians, he urged the others to escape. Later, when his friends returned, finding him dead and the mule missing, and being some 20 miles from his house, they decided to bury him where he was killed. The grave was near the head of Prairie Creek and between the Paluxy River and Squaw Creek. It's sad to think that he was dead and buried in a hasty grave with a few cedar limbs over it before his family was even aware of his death. Some years later, the remains were removed to Rough Creek Cemetery. This account was taken from the holdings of the Texas State Archives. Other reference material is listed below for your information: 1. Indian Depredations In Texas (pp 465-66) by J. W. Wilbarger. The Steck Company, Austin, Texas, 1935. 2. Hood County News, Granbury, Texas, Sunday, November 11, 1973- Historical Footnotes - Notes on Jeremiah Green. 3. History of Hood County by Thomas T. Ewell (Gaston, Granbury Texas 1895). Reprinted by the Woman's Club, Granbury, Texas 1956. Ed. Note: Hood County was formed from Johnson County in 1865. 4. U. S. Census - Johnson County, Comanche Peak, Texas 19th - 20th day of July, 1860. 5. Memory of living people. |
| The above information provided from GREENLEAVES January 1982 |
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