Life History

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• 1850 Federal Census, Carroll County, Georgia, 21 October, Division 11, Hse/Fam #952
  Anderson Green 44 M Farmer $2000 Real Estate Value b NC [b abt 1806]
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  Sarah Green 41 F b NC Cannot read and write [b abt 1809]
  Wm Green 21 M Laborer b NC [b abt 1849]
  Margaret Green 20 F b NC [b abt 1830]
  Alfred Green 17 M NC $0 Real Estate Value b NC [b abt 1843]
  Mary Green 14 F b GA [b abt 1836]
  Thomas Green 11 M b GA [b abt 1848]
  Geo Green 5 M b GA [b abt 1845]
  Jackson Green 2 M b GA [b abt 1849]
  Richard Barns 19 M b GA [b abt 1831]
  
  1860 Federal Census, Parker County, Texas, 23 August, PO Coffee Hill, page 43, Hse #664, Fam #670
  A Green 52 M Farmer $1250 Real Estate value or $500 Personal Wealth Rptd born NC [b abt 1808]
  S Green 51 F Domestic born NC [b abt 1809]
  A Green 27 M Farmer born GA [b abt 1833]
  T Green 20 F Farmer born GA [b abt 1840]
  G Green 14 F born GA [b abt 1846]
  A Green 12 F born GA [b abt 1848]
  H Green 9 F born GA [b abt 1851]
  
  The following may represent our Alfred Green's service in the Civil War.  I note that a biography (see below) rpeorts he was in the 5th Regiment, but Company K.  Regiments in that time were sometimes renumbered as a state regiment is incorported into a broader force, or forces are realigned, or reassigned.
  
  U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
  Alfred Green
  Confederate, Private, 12th Regiment, Texas Infantry (Young's), Company K
  
  A burial memorial for Eliza Ellen Decker Green is linked to Alfred's memorial on Find a Grave, reporting her as his wife.  The name matches the censuses available.  The grave marker for Eliza Ellen Decker reprots she died on 21 March 1868.
  
  In the 1870 census the second person reported, normally where the wife is reported, is also named Eliza.  This Eliza Green is keeping house, but this census did not report relationships to the head of the household.  But she is only 21 years old.  Since the first child Olive (Olevia) is 8 years old, this unidentified Eliza could not be the mother of these children.  Did Alfred marry a second wife named Eliza?  Or is this a niece or other relative?  This Eliza was born about 1849 in Missouri.  A family genealogy referenced on Eliza's FAG memorial indiocates she was born in 1845 in Missouri.
  
  1870 Federal Census, Parker County, Texas, 24 August, Precinct 2, PO Ft Worth, page 10, Hse/Fam #198
  Green, Alfred M 34 M Farmer $500 Real Estate $500 Personal Estate born Georgia [b abt 1836]
  Green, Eliza 21 F Kg House born Missouri [b abt 1849]
  Green, Olive 8 M born Texas [b abt 1862]
  Green, Rolly [Raleigh] 5 M born Texas [b abt 1865]
  
  No 1880 census record has been confirmed for Alfred.
  
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  The following 1880 census record appears to match Alfred.  The wife is also named Eliza, but is about 10 years older than the Eliza in the 1870 household.  But the children are more like a similar family of Andrew McClure Green, born in Missouri, and his wife Eliza Jane Huff.  They are buried in the Greenwood (City) Cemetery in Weatherford, while Alfred and Eliza are buried in Clark Cemetery, in the rural area north of Weatherford.  Indications are that Alfred and his Eliza and family lived on a farm in the county.
  
  No connection has been confirmed between Andrew McClure Green and Alfred Green's family.  Andrew's parents are identified by links on their burial memorials on Find a Grave as Zedekiah Samuel Green (1803 - 1873) snd Susanna McClure Green (1811 - 1888) from North Carolina.
  
  There are several lines of Greens in Parker County and nearby counties who are not connected or whose connections are uncertain, some married into the same families  in the county and neaighboring areas.  Andrew McClure Green and Eliza Jane Huff had one son named Zedediah, who may be reported in the second child here, whose name in this censews was written over and confused, difficult to read.
  
  1880 Federal Census, Parker County, Texas, 22 June, Weatherford, District 134, page 21 (scan 347), Hse/Fam #207
  Green, A M  W M 50 Married Farmer MO MO MO [b abt 1830]
  Green, E G W F 42 Married Keeps House TN TN TN [b abt 1838]
  Green, Wm W M 19 Farm Hand TX MO TN [b abt 1861]
  Green, Zetta [Zedda?, perhaps for Zedekiah?] W M 18 Son Farm Hand TX MO TN [b abt 1862]
  Green, Mollie W F 15 Dau At Home TX MO TN [b abt 1865]
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  Alfred's grave marker does have his name as A M  Green, matching the above census.  The age and resulting birth date of A M Green in the census is closer to Andrew, born in 1829, than to Alfred, born in 1833 (according to his grave).  AM's wife EG in 1880 is about 10 years older that the 21 years of the young Eliza in Alfred's hosuehold in 1870, hwo may not even be his second wife.  Their birth states differ as do Andrew's and Alfred's.  But Alfred's biography-obit (see end of notes) reports that Eliza Decker Green died in 1868.
  
  In 1900, Alferd was living in the household of his son Raleigh, again in the rural Precinct 2 of Parker County.  His obit below reports he died on his own farm, so it is not clear if in 1900 he was in Raliegh's household on Raleigh's farm (he is reported as owning the farm) or Raleigh's home was on the same farm land.
  
  1900 Federal Census, Parker County, Texas, 6 June, Justice Precinct 2, District 70, page 8A-8B, Hse #40, Fam #44
  Green, Raleigh Head W M  Dec 1866 33 Married 9 yrs TX GA GA Farmer Owns
  Green, Ellen Wife W F Jan 1871  29 Married 9 yrs 5 children/5 living GA GA GA
  Green, Arville Son W M Apr 1892  8 Single TX TX GA
  Green, Charles Son W M Nov 1893  6 Single TX TX GA
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  Green, Myrtle E Dau W F May 1895  5 Single TX TX GA
  Green, Claude Son W M June 1897  2 Single TX TX GA
  Green, William Son W M Apr 1899 1 Single TX TX GA
  Green, Alford M Father W M Nov 1833  65 Widowed GA GA GA
  
  A burial in Parker County, Texas, matchesd Alfred Green, son of Anderson and Sarah Green.  In the 1850 census, Alfred was reported as 17 years old, matching the birth date on the grave her, 6 Nov 1833.
  
  Alfred M Green
  Birth Nov 6, 1833
  Death Nov 15, 1907
  Spouse Eliza Ellen Decker Green (1845 - 1868)
  Daughter Olevia Lee Green Dobbs (1861 - 1939)
  Burial Clark Cemetery, Weatherford, Parker County, Texas
  Maintained by Tammy Clark Brown, Originally Created by timcdfw Jul 14, 2008
  --  Find A Grave Memorial #28276044, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=28276044
  
  A full register of all burials in Clark Cemetery can be found at http://www.clarkcemetery.org/headstones.
  
  An obit for Alfred was posted on his memorial on Find a Grave, but it does not have the date of publication or state any absolute dates.  It does saya the obit was published the day of the burial, Saturday, which by the date of death, announced as on Friday, would be 17 Nov 1907.  The obituary reports burial in the Dodson Cemetery, wihch cannot be identified.  It may be an older name for Clark Cemetery
  
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  For Fifty Years Parker County Citizen
  
  Alfred Green Died Friday Afternoon [15 Nov 1907], near Carter, of Pneumonia, Aged 70 Years. and Was Buried Saturday [17 Nov 1907] Afternoon
  
  For 50 years a citizen of Parker county, and in the 70th year of his life.  Alfred Green died Friday afternoon [15 November 1907] on his farm on the Clear Fork, in the Carter neighborhood, of pneumonia.
  
  Mr Green was a man who stood well in his community, and was an honored and useful citizen.
  
  The burial occurred at the Dodson cemetery this afternoon [no date] at 4 o'clock.
  --  Newspaper unknown, Probably Weatherford, Texas, 17 Nov 1907; obit clipping courtesy of Tammy Clark Brown, Find a Grave, 14 January 2012, accessed 5 October 2016
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  No absolute dates are provided, no date on the published obituary was available, so the obituary provides no date of death.  His grave has the death date as 15 November 1907, matching Friday as reported by the obit.  From the language of the obituary, we can tell the article was published the day of burial, which the headline announced as Saturday, the day after death.
  
  A more complete bio-obit is provided by Clark Cemetery History, with an exerpt from a paper by Kimberly Boretsky.
  
  Biography-Obituary of Alfred M Green
  
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  Alfred M. Green, a pioneer farmer and resident of Parker County, was born November 6, I833 in Raleigh, North Carolina.  He married Eliza Ellen Decker born June 2. 1845, from Martinsburg, Blair County, Pennsylvania.  Sometime between the years 1857 and 1861, Alfred M. Green was granted a quarter acre section (160 acres) of land in Precinct 1, the Wright Community, Parker County, Texas where he established a working farm.
  
  In l862, Alfred M. Green enlisted to serve the Confederate cause in the American Civil War as a Private in the 5th Regiment, Texas Cavalry (5th Mounted Volunteers) from Parker County, Texas, Company K.  His muster out of service year was 1864.  Following his service to the Confederacy, his wife, Eliza Ellen (Decker) Green, mother of two children, passed away at the age of 23, on March, 21, 1868 in Parker County, Texas.
  
  According to the 1870 United States Federal Census, Alfred M. Green, a widower [the 1870 census did not report marital status], and his two children are found living in Precinct 2, Parker County, Texas.  The 1880 United States Federal Census records the Green family living in Weatherford, Texas. [This family appear to be Andrew McClure Green] The 1900 United States Federal Census documents the Alfred M. Green family living in Justice Precint 2, Parker County, Texas.
  
  Atfred M. Green, American Civil War veteran and pioneer farmer died November 15, 1907 in Parker County, Texas.  He is buried beside his wife Eliza Ellen (Decker) Green, who predeceased Alfred, her husband by 39 years.  Alfred, Eliza E., their daughter Olevia Lee (Green) Dobbs and their grandson Onrille Austin Green (1892-1960) are buried in the family plot at Clark Cemetery along with many other descendents.
  
  Excerpt from paper written by Kimberly Woody Boretsty
  
  --  Biography-Obituary of Alfred M Green (1833-1907), written by Kimberly Woody Boretsky; accessed 7 October 2016 on Clark Cemetery History, http://www.clarkcemeteryhistory.org/green-alfred-m.html
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Sources

• 1. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 2. 1870 Federal Census, Parker County, Texas
  • 24 August, Precinct 2, PO Ft Worth, page 10, Hse/Fam #198
• 3. 1900 Federal Census, Parker County, Texas
  • 6 June, Justice Precinct 2, District 70, page 8A-8B, Hse #40, Fam #44
• 4. 1850 Federal Census, Carroll County, Georgia
  • 21 October, Division 11, (no page #) Hse/Fam #952
• 5. 1860 Federal Census, Parker County, Texas
  • 23 August, PO Coffee Hill, page 43, Hse #664, Fam #670
• 6. Obituaries from Texas
• 7. Obituaries from Oklahoma
• 8. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
  • Name: Date: 2007;;
• 9. 1880 Federal Census, Parker County, Texas
  • 22 June, Weatherford, District 134, page 21 (scan 347), Hse/Fam #207
• 10. Cemeteries of Texas