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Anson Andrew Green (son of Phillip Green and Diana) was born 1835 in Shaftsbury, Bennington Co, Vermont, and died 1880 in Vinta, Craig Co, Ok. He married Margaret (Maggie) Davis on 1855 in Shaftsbury.

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Anson Andrew Green, in about 1850

I believe I have found Anson's family in Vermont. Andrew Anson Green (born 1835) was from Vermont, probably the son of Philip Green and the grandson of Asa Green, both of Shaftsbury, Bennington Co, Vermont. I have laid out the sources and reasoning that led me to this conclusion. And while I have not yet seriously researched further than Asa in the Green family of Vermont, I have collected some links.

Anson married Margaret "Mag" Davis around 1855, and moved westward to Newbury, Geauga Co, Ohio 218 sometime before 1860. Mag was probably born in upstate New York to a Welsh-speaking family. According to his enlistment papers Anson had black hair and eyes, a dark complexion and stood 5 feet 11 and a quarter inches tall. 223 However, from his pictures and family tradition we actually believe he had light-colored eyes (probably blue like his son and grandson).

Anson Green and Margaret Davis, ca. 1855

Anson served in the 171st Ohio Infantry223, which was part of the National Guard during the Civil War, and fought in one battle at Kellar's Bridge, KY. The whole regiment was captured by Confederate forces there on June 11th, and then paroled. Before and after this battle, the regiment was on fatigue and guard duty at Johnson's Island, a Union camp for Confederate prisoners of war.

After the war Anson and Mag took the family to Caldwell County, Missouri (near Cameron) where many of their children were born. He owned 80 acres there on the banks of Shoal Creek. A possibly apocryphal story tells of Anson working as a peddler around this time, and one dark night almost feeding his horse shoe pegs instead of oats because the tin buckets they were kept in were so similar.

During the 1870s they moved again, to the town of Vinita, part of the Cherokee Nation, Indian territory. (Vinita would later become the county seat of Craig County, Oklahoma.) Because only people of Cherokee blood could own land there he farmed land for a man named Allen whose wife held a headright. Probably around 1880 he was struck and killed by lightning when his youngest child was just a few months old. They say Mag died of grief about six weeks later, but she had been having a hard time since the birth of Hattie, so it might have been that which killed her. They were both buried in a pauper's cemetery (called Potter's Field) just over the state line in Chetopa, Labette Co, Kansas.

Anson and Mag had several children:

Nettie or Nellie b. 1857, died young?218
Asa b. 1859, died young?218
Fred Frank b. April 23, 1861 in Geauga Co, Ohio208 d. 2 March 1945212
Willie b. 1862 Ohio d. Kansas City, MO
Ella b. 1866218, married a man named Fisher
Weston F. b. 12 February 1869, Caldwell Co, Mo 224, died 27 December 1949, Maud, Pottawatamie Co, OK buried Crescent, Guthrie Co, OK225
Annie b. Caldwell Co, Mo married a man named Harness, a brother to Hattie's husband
Amy b. Caldwell Co, Mo died at 6 or 7 in Vinita, OK
Hattie b. 1879220 Vinita, OK married William F. Harness, died February 1969, Ottumwa, Iowa220
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Additional Sources:

Battle Summary: Cynthiana, KY by the American Battlefield Protection Program, Heritage Preservation Services, National Park Service http://www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/ky011.htm

A short history of the 171st Regiment Infantry of Ohio (National Guard) by the Civil War Archive http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unohinf9.htm

1890 Census of Crescent, Oklahoma Territory, page 55 comprising Township 17, range 3 http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tammie/logan/census/1890/crescent.htm

Roster of Crescent Cemetery, Woodland Township, OK. This cemetery was surveyed by Robert Farrar on March 6, 2000. Bob Chada updated the roster against the official cemetery records. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tammie/logan/cem/cres/crescema.htm

"A Complete Directory of the Rural Homesteaders of Oklahoma Territory: 1890 Oklahoma Territory Directory, Giving the Quarter Sections, Township, and Range http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklogan/dir/1890rural.htm

A Brief History of Woodland Township http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tammie/logan/township/woodlandt.htm

"1892 Business and Residential Directory, Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma Territory: Embracing an Index of Residents in Guthrie, together with the names of all Homesteaders in Logan County, giving quarter section, township and range. For the Year Commencing September 1st, 1892. http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklogan/dir/1892ok.htm

Last updated on 3 October 2004.
Copyright © 2001-2003 Mel Green. All rights reserved.
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Parentage of Anson Green

Background:

I believe that Philip Green of Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont was the father of Anson Green. Philip was the youngest son of Asa Green and his wife Sarah Olin who emigrated from Rhode Island to Vermont. The Greens and Olins were Seventh Day Baptists, a strict sect who believed that Saturday was the Sabbath, and who migrated to spread the word in a typical Yankee migration pattern.

Family legend 1 and census records 2 gave us Anson's birthplace as Vermont. Another item from family stories was that after Anson and Mag's untimely deaths they got help from an aunt who had married a man named Henry Newcomb. 1 This uncle had helped Fred get a job working at the roundhouse in Kansas City, Missouri.

Tracing Anson:

We know from school records that Philip Green of Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont had at least four children: Aleista, Jane, Anson, and Sarahett. 3 According to these records, in 1848 Anson lived with Asa Green, in 1849 he (along with Philip's other children Jane, Aleista, and Sarahett) lived with Philip, in 1850-52 he lived with Charles Newcomb and his new wife Jane Green, and in 1853 he was back with Philip again.

In the 1850 census of Shaftsbury, Bennington Co, Vermont 4 Philip and Diana had living with them Eleista, Charlotte (Sarahett?), and Mary.

Five pages previously Anson was enumerated with Jane Newcomb and her new husband Charles. (My belief is that Jane is Anson's sister and Philip's daughter, referenced in the earlier school records.) 5

In 1860 in Geauga Co, Ohio we find Elesta and her husband sharing a house with Philip, wife Diana, and children Sarah E. (perhaps Sarah Etta?), Mary A., and Russell (aged 7, b. Vt). Next door is Charles Newcomb, wife Jane, and children Harriet (8, b. Vt) and George (2, b. Ohio). (Lucima Newcomb is listed as 12, but I in fact believe her to be 72-year-old Lucima Newcomb, mother of Charles who was incorrectly listed as "Rosina" in 1850...) 6

In this same county Anson Green (no birthplace listed) was living in 1860, with his wife Margaret and two small children Nellie and Asa. The name Asa is circumstantial evidence, since Asa was the father of Philip Green of Bennington Co., VT. 7

I believe Philip and his children (Anson, Elesta, Jane, Sarah, Mary, and Russell) migrated together sometime after Russell's birth in 1852 but before Jane's son George was born in 1857. Elesta may have come separately since she and her husband were apparently living in New Hampshire before coming to Ohio (their daughter Lizzie was born in New Hampshire around 1855).

By 1870 both Anson and his brother-in-law Charles Newcomb had moved to Missouri. They settled two counties apart; Anson living in Caldwell County 8, and Charles settling in Harrison County9. Of course, I believe that Charles Newcomb is "Henry Newcomb" mentioned in family legend.

Philip remained in Geauga Co, OH in 1870 10 and 1880. 11 He and his wife Diana are buried in Munson, Geauga County, Ohio at Maple Hill Cemetery. 12

Sources:

"Letter from Cleo Draper Howard to Barbara S. Green regarding her memories of Fred Green's family," 1978, in 2004 in the possession of Cleo's granddaughter, Mel Green, Durham, North Carolina.

"1900 U.S. census, population schedule," Woodland Twp, Logan County, Oklahoma Territory, National Archives microfilm T623, roll 1339; ED 140, Sheet 10, dwelling 188, family 190.

"Shaftsbury (Vt.), Town Clerk, Town and vital records, 1766-1906," film # 0028924, Salt Lake City: filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952.

"1850 U.S. census, population schedule," Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont, National Archives microfilm M432, roll 921, page 6, dwelling 92, family 92

ibid; page 1, dwelling 1, family 1

"1860 U.S. census, population schedule," Geauga County, Ohio, National Archives microfilm M653, roll 967, page 133, dwellings 1124 and 1125

ibid; page 909, dwelling 92, family 88

"1870 U.S. census, population schedule," Mirabile Twp, Caldwell County, Missouri, National Archives microfilm M593, roll 763; page 11, dwelling 78, family 78; (microfilm page 191). This census confirms Anson's birthplace as Vermont.

"1870 U.S. census, population schedule," Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri, National Archives microfilm M593, roll 778, page 38, dwelling 246, family 246

"1870 U.S. census, population schedule," Munson, Geauga County, Ohio, National Archives microfilm M593, roll 1204, page 229, dwelling 104, family 94

"1880 U.S. census, population schedule," Munson, Geauga County, Ohio, National Archives microfilm T9, roll 1019, ED 75, SD 8, page 4, dwelling 37, family 38.

Geauga County Genealogical Society, "Geauga County, Ohio Munson Township Cemetery Files," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/geauga/cemeteries/munson/graves.txt, 3 June 1999.

Last updated on 12 September 2005.
Copyright © 2001-2004 Mel Green. All rights reserved.
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More About Anson Andrew Green:
Burial: Unknown, Potter's Field - Chetopa, Labette Co, Ks.

More About Anson Andrew Green and Margaret (Maggie) Davis:
Marriage: 1855, Shaftsbury.

Children of Anson Andrew Green and Margaret (Maggie) Davis are:
  1. Nettie or Nellie Green, b. 1857, Shaftsbury, Bennington Co, Vermont, d. date unknown.
  2. Asa Green, b. 1859, Shaftsbury, Bennington Co, Vermont, d. Bef. 1870.
  3. +Fredrick Frank Green, b. Bet. April 23, 1860 - 1861, Geauga Co, Ohio, d. March 02, 1945, Crescent, Logan Co, OK.
  4. William D Green, b. 1862, Geauga Co, Ohio, d. March 20, 1932, Kansas City, Mo.
  5. Ella Green, b. 1866, Newbury, Geauga Co, Ohio, d. date unknown.
  6. +Weston F. Green, b. Bet. 1868 - 1869, Caldwell Co, Mo, d. December 27, 1949, Maud, Pottawatamine Co, OK.
  7. Annie Green, b. September 1869, Caldwell Co, Mo, d. date unknown.
  8. Amy Green, b. Abt. 1874, Caldwell Co, Mo, d. Abt. 1881, Vinta, Craig Co, OK.
  9. Hattie Green, b. September 16, 1879, Vinta, Craig Co, OK, d. February 1969, Ottumwa, Wapello Co, IA134.
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