Green Family




9/01/07 VERSION: BEDSOLE HISTORY FROM 1700, WITH LIST OF ANCESTORS AND DESCENDANTS
GREEN FAMILY OLD HOME PLACE
BARBOUR COUNTY ALABAMA
The Green family was not always in Alabama , Chief Gardner Red Wolf Green Born around 1735 in Fannin County Georgia, he had children many live across the line in North Carolina Rutherford County, Gardner Father name was Running Fox born in the late 1690.
Gardner Red Wolf Green and Margaret Coil Green Born 1740 children was Benjamin F. Green Born around 1761 in North Carolina, Isaac Green Born 1775, and William Green Born around 1765. Mossie Green’s date of birth is not known; John Green was born in 1774, and Paul Green was born in 1775.
Later Chief Benjamin F. Green moved some of the Chickamauga Cherokee tribes to Arkansas and Missouri, some of his children were Richard Green born 1775, Joseph Green born 1788, James Green born 1789, John Green born 1790, William Green date of birth is not known, Isaac F. Green born 1798, Dicey Ann Green born 1809, and later the son of Benjamin F. Green, Joseph Green fathers James Ellis Green, had a child who became the Headmother of the Indian Creek Tribe Chickamauga for many years, being Mother Helen B. Green Robinson.
In Gardner Red Wolf Green’s childhood day he lived near the headwaters of Shooting Creek in North Carolina and as a young Chief, but as the war between the United States and the Chickamauga Cherokee grew in size the village and people were always moving. It is said by some that Gardner was around one hundred and fifteen years old when he was killed in crossfire early one morning when he liked to go for his morning run. There has always been a debate about his age, and where he was laid to rest. And the only one who would know for sure where he was laid to rest was Chief George the Otter Green who took that secret with him when he passed onto the other side.
George the Otter Green was born late in the life of Gardner Red Wolf Green 1794, and George found a young mixed-blood Native American named Elizabeth Bledsole, whose father was Henry Bledsole. The family came to our lands from Germany and her mother was Hannah West Bledsole a Mixed-Blood Indian from North Carolina and part of the Croatan Indians and the modern day Lumbee tribes.
Elizabeth Bledsole owned much land in Cumberland County North Carolina as well as her brothers family came from the old world may years before through a fort in Virginia. The three Bledsole brothers heard that there were free lands in North Carolina, so they set out for there. One brother started to build a cabin on Cherokee lands and got himself killed; one brother married a Cherokee girl, who began the start of the Bledsole Indians; the other brother returned to Virginia and fathered the American part of the Bledsole Family.
Now, back to George and Elizabeth, as the war between the Chickamauga Cherokee and the United States got larger with more heat and pressure being placed on Chief George the Otter Green and his Family, Elizabeth Bledsole Green sold her lands to her brothers. Then George and Elizabeth moved first into South Georgia where they had eight children; Alford Green born 1826 in Georgia; William Green born 1828 in Georgia, Joseph Carter Green born 1832 in Alabama, Nathan Green born 1832 in Alabama, and Martha Green born 1830 in Alabama, and three were stillborn births. With the heat still on for George the family moved into the heart of the Creek Nation in Alabama’s Barbour County, and for a very long time lived in the Indian Creek Village, and in time they took up farming again.
Some of the first permanent white settlers that established homes in Alabama came there in 1702, although some historians say 1699. About one hundred seventy four years earlier the Spanish explorers, De Narvaes and Cabeza De Vaca, passed through the section on their exploration trips. The first white settlers to move into the territory were Spanish and French. They established Mobile, Alabama in 1702 as the first community. England won control of the region in 1763.
To evade participation in the revolutionary war many British sympathizers living in Georgia moved westward into the Alabama section in 1775. They were followed in 1783 by other planters from Georgia, Virginia and the Carolinas. A group of Scotch-Irish who had tried farming in Tennessee in 1809 settled in the northern part of Alabama, in the rich Tennessee Valley district. In the early 1800’s, former Carolinians and Virginians came into the central part of the territory. Other groups from the same section came to the western part of Alabama along with Tombigbee and the Black Warrior rivers. But it was not until the end of the war of 1812 that Alabama saw a real influx of settlers. The conclusion of that was the beginning of a gigantic southward and westward movement which resulted in statehood for four territories between 1816 and 1819. Alabama was the last of the four to gain statehood.
Chief Joseph Carter Green born 1832, lost sight in one eye while serving in the Civil War. After all of the Green children were grown and married, Amanda Tamplin Green died on December 12, 1854. Chief Joseph Carter Green then married Martha Adkinson Green on April 2, 1903. They lived together only four or five years when Chief Joseph Carter Green fell from a wagon and was killed. Martha Adkinson Green then went to live with a daughter by a previous marriage to Ollie Taylor. Chief Joseph Carter Green’s children are George Green born February 22, 1856, John Green born May 6, 1858, William J. Green born August 18, 1861, James Monroe Green born April 25, 1866, Marietta Green Born September 7, 1868, Elizabeth Frances Green Born January 16, 1871, Nathan L. Green Born September 7, 1873, Malissa Green born October 6, 1875, Elisha Green born March 30, 1878, Martha Green born February 19, 1882, and Jesse Green born May 2, 1885.
Chief James Monroe Green was born April 25, 1866 and married on September 6, 1885, Mother Nancy Joanna (Anna) Kilpatrick Green, their children were: an unnamed son born May 10, 1886; Carrie DeLoshia Green born October 1, 1887 and died July 15, 1951; Mandy Savanna Green Chance born September 24, 1889 and died May 6, 1965; Unnamed son born September 13, 1891 and died September 22, 1891; Mollie Frances Green born February 7, 1893; James Clifford Green born July 19, 1895 and died March 23 1970; Joseph Arthur Green born December 17, 1897 and died November 12, 1958; William Martin Green born June 9, 1900; Eddis Isam Green born October 28, 1902 and died August 13, 1971; Elmer Roy Green born August 3, 1905 and died July 11, 1973.
Many of the Green Family members are laid to rest in Bethsaida Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery in Barbour County Alabama, and a few other Cemeteries around Alabama and Georgia.
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Chief James M. and Mother Anna Green, Chief James Green die January 17, 1936, Mother Nancy (Anna) Green January 23, 1939.
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Mother Deloshia Green Johnson
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Alvie Sydney Johnson
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Grace Alberta Hurst Green
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William Gerald Green
And many, many others.
Take the time to step backward for a few seconds to try to show how and what our people did when the war moved into the Northeastern part of Alabama at the Indian Creek Village being located just south of Horseshoe Bend at the mouth of the Little Indian Creek and the Pea River. Many of our people were told by Chief Halpatter Micco (Old Billy Bowleggs) to take up farming and look after the old and the children, and to keep the history at all cost. Many passed themself off just as hard working farmers and had the food they were growing to be taken by General Andrew Jackson’s 6000 man Army as they passed on their way south after killing many women and Children at Horseshoe Bend.
Chief Halpatter Micco took many that he believed couldn’t pass themselves off as farmers or did not look as they could pass as white people. As he took part of the tribe south into Florida and set up a new village where today you will find Lake City, Florida, the new village was first called Alligator town, only because there was a Seminole Indian call Chief Billy Bowleg who was born in 1810 already in Florida, so our Chief Billy Bowleg (born 1794) changed his name to Chief Alligator.
The Army of General Andrew Jackson killed many native people who were unable to pass themselves off as white farmers, plundering crops and homes, burning and killing. One log cabin at Horseshoe Bend was full of women and children as it burned to the ground, and on the front porch there were baskets of sweet potato’s cooking in the oils from the bodies of the Indian women and children with the soldier’s standing around eating these sweet potatoes. David Crockett said, “I did not come here to kill women and Children,” and told General Andrew Jackson the same thing, he also said, “I will not fight and kill anymore Indians” then he returned home and later went to Texas where he died at the Alamo.
Chief James Green and Anna were married on September 6, 1885 by Riley Jenkins the Justice of the Peace and a Pastor. Jim and Anna were reared by honest, hard working Indian parents; they lived in Beat 8, Barbour County Alabama.
Chief James Green was a sturdy built man, stern and strict, yet the whole tribe and family enjoyed being with him, he told my mother once that his children and tribal people were his pride and comfort. There is no surer contentment than being proud of what you have raised and care for, be it a good stand of corn or good kids and tribal family. Chief James Green was crippled all his life with an unnamed white man illness of muscle disease. In Later life, he was a diabetic and spent his later years in a wheel chair.
Anna was a slender woman about five feet, six inches, she was a member of Barker’s Methodist church, a log house which stood where Street Memorial Methodist Church now stands in Beat 8. Even though James and Anna went to the white man Church they also used Totemism as our people have always done, this came from being told to do the same things the white man would do, live like the white man, but never forget our ways and history of our people. My mother best remembered her reading her Bible or New Testament daily, while sitting outside the cabin in a circle, burning the incense as she sang her native songs. James and Anna later joined Evergreen Baptist Church and were baptized in a pool down the hill from the Church, Lon Renfroe was the Pastor. They also attended Bethsaida Primitive Baptist Church in Beat 8.
Anna’s father was Worrie Kilpatrick and her mother’s last name was Cole. Anna had one sister named Fannie and one brother named Bill. Anna’s mother had two sisters both unmarried, Nancy and Zilphia, who lived together. After Anna’s mother died, Worrie married again to a Stanley, who had a son named Dave Stanley. After Worrie married, they moved to Belleview, Florida where Worrie died. Nancy and Zilphia, the two aunts of Anna, are buried in Bethsaida Cemetery in Barbour County, Alabama.
All the children of the Green family attended a one room building school house just as the Bledsole Indians did in North Carolina’s Simson County Indian Schools in the 1700’s and was heated by a fireplace. This school building was located across the road from the present Street Memorial Methodist Church in Barbour County, Alabama where the Green family resided. They attended school two months during the winter and one month during the spring. Each child was given three books to study, a blue-back speller, reader, and a geography book, in later years a history book. At Christmas time they received stick candy, fruit and nuts. The children were taught to fear Yowa, and to obey his laws and to respect their parents and their elders and to love one another. The Green family went places in a wagon. My father R.D. Chance use to tell me that when he was just a very young boy he would take the wagon from Indian Creek which is about fifty miles west by south to Columbus, Georgia to buy supplies, he would stop at a spring head that now sits next to Highway 165 in Russell County to get water and stay overnight going to Columbus and on the return trip home. I have been there and got water out of that spring head many times with my father before he crossed over to the other side. On Sundays they went to Church, and then gathered at one home for Totemism and for dinner, menu usually being sage hen, acorn dressing and dumplings, corn and all the trimmings. After dinner the children played Indian games in the woods and pastures on a flying jenny at times, and with a leather ball they played LaCrosse while the adults conversed. Although there weren’t many material things, the playing with firefly and watching their little light go on and off, gave many happy hours to children. There was plenty of hard work to be done and loads of fun. The children of the Green family grew up happy and content with many friends and a sense of Indian values that sustained them though out their lives. They had a bond of love, peace and happiness many families never experience.
The usual herb medicine that Indians have always used that came from the forest were kept in the lodge, were black draught, quinine, castor oil, calomel camphor, and asafetida, alcohol used as a rub made from corn, and Black Drink made from the roots that grow along the banks of the Chattahoochee River, called the dark waters by the Indians, and many other herb plants. These were later obtained from a company started in the 1800’s, the Watson Product Company which was made from many herb medicines. They drank sassafras tea and other herb teas in the springtime. For upset stomach they drank tea made from boiling blackberry roots. A knife blade or scissors were put on the nape of the neck to check a nosebleed. Minor cuts and bruises were treated by the washing of kerosene and tied with a clean cloth; burns were coated with axle grease or butter and bandaged. Snake bites were cut and drained, and you drank as much buttermilk as you could before you threw it all up. And there were many others too numerous to mention at this time.
Some still call the house the ole home place, and the lands of our people, but let me tell you about it. On Chief and Mother Anna’s sizeable acreage, here our old tribal lands, a comfortable home was built. Chief James Green built this house, or part of it, out of nice logs sturdily constructed. There was one large bedroom with a large fireplace for heat; other parts of the house were built from lumber. The kitchen was set off from the bedroom, large enough to cook and eat meals in, separate from the main part of the house, as was the custom due to fire hazard. Around 1910 Chief James Green and the children added a large size bedroom and two smaller rooms, also a hall and you will notice from the picture the breezeway and another fireplace. The Fireplace was built of rocks. There were two porches, one on the back and one on the front of the house. Later two smaller houses were built between the big house and the branch. There was a spring at this branch. The spring was the wash place for the family. The dirty clothes were washed in large wooden tubs, beat with a battling stick and rinsed three times in the wooden tubs. The battling block was a huge log, standing on end in the ground. There was a large barn where Chief James Green kept about 5 or 6 mules, he enjoyed mule trading. He always kept around 100 hogs and 50 cows, including two milk cows, so they had plenty of milk and buttermilk, butter, pork and chickens. Every winter, on days when the temperature was just right, was hog killing time. The meat that was not salted down was smoked and hung up in the smokehouse until ready to eat. There was a huge mulberry grove near the house where the children and grandchildren enjoyed romping and playing. Cotton was the main crop and source of income. In the early Fall, after the cotton was picked by hand, it was loaded on wagons and hauled by mules to the cotton gin, leaving before daybreak. After it was ginned and baled, a portion of it was picked up by the doctor, Robertson, in payment for medical bills accrued during the year. In this way the doctor could keep the bales of cotton until early spring and sell at higher prices.
I don’t remember when the syrup first began, but it was a booming business from the time cane ripened and lasted until all was made into syrup, or cooked into sugar, all that is, except the cane that was peeled and chewed to get the juice out like eating candy. The juice was squeezed by a large stone wheel mill pulled by two mules, then placed in an 80 gallon round kettle and cooked to desirable thickness as syrup or cooked on down to sugar. The fire was kept constant to create the correct temperature. Skimming’s or foam collected on top as the juice cooked and was skimmed off and thrown away. This 80 gallon kettle yielded 8 to 10 gallons of syrup and 5 to 6 gallons of sugar and was kept in a large wooden barrels when stored. Pulp from the cane called stripling’s were piled high between trees and all around turned brown when they dried. The Kids loved to play, jumping from one pile to another and hiding from one another behind the piles of dried pulp. The mill was a short distance from the house and was a gathering place of the Indian neighbors for miles around. Not many families in the Indian community owned their own mills, so those in the tribe all treated to a portion of the syrup as their part.
In later years around 1900 we had the tolling of the bell which could be heard for long distances, before 1900 we used a very large drum. This bell was used for calling the warriors or the men to and from the fields at meal time or to war. There was no sense in trying to finish a row because even the mules acted like they knew what the ringing of the bell meant, they were running in, like it or not. The bell was also used for emergencies, such as sickness, accidents and death.
Chief James Green and Mother Anna lived a full, happy life with their children. A few years before their deaths, they lived with their youngest child, Elmer Roy Green and his family. At the time of Chief James Green death, he and Anna only had 440 acres of land and properties, which started many, years before with the Village at Indian Creek and the money that Elizabeth Bledsole Green received from selling her lands in North Carolina to her brothers when Chief George the Otter Green and Elizabeth Bledsole Green had to run from the Armies of the United States.
We use to have a family reunion as far back as I can remember, at the Bethsaida Primitive Baptist Church and Cemetery in Barbour County Alabama. For weeks before the reunion, singing and dinner, there is and was beautifying of the cemetery. Each family and tribal member took responsibility of cleaning, clearing away weather beaten flowers and replacing them and usually hiring a cleaning crew. There was always beautiful music and singing by our people and dancing, delicious food, and plenty of it. I remember many times the table would be 2 and 3 and sometimes 4 rows a city block long filled with food to eat of all kinds. Everyone visited with each other and had a great time, my, these days have gone by and our tribal family story is true and so rewarding for all those who were and are a part of this Green Family history and tribe. In memory of all that came before us, what we can do is honor them and their history.
Wado Nihi
The Great Grandson of George The Otter Green
Principal Chief James Billy Chance
My father was, R,D. Chance, my mother was Susie Adel Joyner Chance; the mother of my father was Mandy Savanna Green Chance; My father’s father was James Robert Chance; My Mother’s Mother was Raine Leu Sapp Joyner; my mother’s father was Finnie Joyner; My Father’s Mother’s Father was Chief James Green; my father’s mother’s mother was Mother Anna Green; my Mother’s Mother was from the Moody Family who was part of the Chief Perryman family of the Creek Nation, and so on back in time.
THE BLEDSOLE AND GREEN SUR-NAME LIST:
BLEDSOLE, WEST, EDWARD, MARTIN, SWIFT, COX, RUDDICK, BROWN, GREEN, COOK, TAYLOR, ADKINSON, JONES, BYRID, PARKER, SESSOMS, WISE, HOLLOWAY, HATTAWAY,HALL, EDWARDS, RIALS, MUCCELL, SMITH, AUTRY, STANLEY, PIERCE, LEE, RIDGON, LAWTON, KING, WILSON, OWENSAPP, SANDERS, LASSITER, HOLLAND, HARPER, WILLIAMS, DYE, CHANNELL, CHANCE, VOSSBURG, POOLE, GOODWIN, CUMBIE, HORN, EVERETTE, SEAY, RASH, BOWDEN, WOODHAM, BUSH, PETERSON, GAUTIER, REMORE, CAROTHERS, BOGGS, FOY, DYKES, BEATY, CALHOUN, BOWDIN, DEVOREST, HAIR, DONALDSON, CLARK, CULPEPPER, BURNS, GLOVER, MC WHORTER, DANIEL, BEASLEY, MORRISON, SNEAD, HARRISON, BOND,BRYAN,COPE, BENEFIELD, HAMILTON,JOYNER, MOORE, GILEHRIST, BENNETT, BALLENTINE, HARTZOG, PETERMAN, THOMAS, POPE, DICKENSON, BAXTON, BULLARD, CARTER, GROOMS, CASHWELL, FLECK, HARVEY, DUVAL,BURNS, PERKINS, SERATING, HALL, EARLY, FAIRCLOTH, MACKATINA, OWEN, CULBREATH, HALES, JACKSON, STRICKLAND, SUGGS, ENGLISH, SIMMONS, DAVIS, POUNCEY, CHAMBERS,CROXTON,DUKE, MORGAN, SOLOMON, NEWMAN, THROWER, GRAY, SWARINGEN, STRINGER, FINDLEY, FRAZIER, LANGLEY, BATTLE, WILLIAMSON, STOUGH, ROYAL, HALSTEAD, INGLEHART, BYRD, NEAL, JETER, MARSH, JEAN, CERVAS, COTTINGHAM, TALLEY, MATTHEWS, DUBOSE, CODY, HATCHER, PILATE, VICKERY, DUNN, ANDERSON, OUTLAW, SCOTT, BOYD, BENNETT, GILL, TOLBERT, SIMPSON, SETTERS, FLEMING, BOUTWELL, DEBICE , HUMPHRIES, KELLY, SHEPPARD, GRAHAM, HILL, MITCHAM, MC MANNES, KNIGHT, MAYS, MC NAUGHTON, CHOP, PEGG, DUBOIS, TOLLESON, BEINECKE, BORNHORST, ROACH, ALLISON, KEER, ALLISON, SHRADER, THOMPSON, MITCHELL, BRINKS, BLACKWELL, HUTTO, BURKE, WHITE, MC NORTON , GOODMAN, TUNSTALL, BRADFORD, CARMICHAEL, GRIFFIN, MOORE, PRUITT, VATENTINE, PUGH,, MC INTYRE, OTT, HARRISON , TRUETT, WEAVER, YOUNG, ROBINS, WRIGHT, JENKINS, PATRICK, DELANCY, ABNEY, DURDEN, MC CAULEY, SANDERSON , FREDERICK, HEADLEY, SCURLOCK, STILLINGS, FENDLEY, PARKER, HUNT, BAILEY, HUGHES, SHROEDER, TOWNSEND, BARNS, COCHENDORFER, SIMS, TINGLE, KEATING, TERRY, DELANCY, JOHNSON, DANLEY, CHAMBERS, WARD, LOWERY, EARLY, DILL, BREWER, FOUNTAIN, FALCONI, AVANT, HINSON, MC LEAN, DEAN, PLYMEL, SCHOELLES, ADELBURG, BARSTOW, MC CULLEY, BRANNEN, MOATES, RILEY, JENNINGS, OWEN, GANTT, CALVERT, MC CRAY, MILLER, BLOUNT, ZIEGLER, HELMS, BROOM, HARDAGE, COLQUETT, ARCHER, HINES, MOONEYHAM, REDMAN, MOORE, PAUL, WEEKS, DAY, SPIEGNER, PERRY, BLAIR, KILLINGWORTH, RUSSELL, WORSHAM, KAYWOOD, PLANT, GRACE, KELLY,CROWLEY, WELLS, GRIGGS, BARFIELD,HUBBARD, HANBERRY, LORD, BRASSO, QUALIES, LEE, COMMANDER, MURPLY, ANDREWS, LIMBAUGH, WHIGHAM, ARCHIE, HICKS, KERN, ADAMS, MERRITT, PILANT, REYNOLDS, CONNORSB, KANE, MORTERSON, DEBEEID, WATKINS, ELLIOTT, HOWELL, BALDWIN, MAY, HOUSE, NOFZIGER, BLISS, THOMPSON, FERREL, CHIAPETTA, DRUMMOND, STOLL, HUDSON, WILLIAMSON, ALLEN, FARMER, DONALDSON, VINSON, IVEY, DYER, DIXON, GAGE, WITZ, WOODY, FLOREZ, NORRIS, CHATHAM, PHILLIPS, MORGAN, CASEY, RHINEHART, MEYER, CARMICHAEL, EPPERSON, HAUVERSBURK, ROY, MC CLELLAND, MEADORS, DENNARK, JORDAN, GRANT, SEER, MC CARTY, SERMONS, WEBB, ROBINSON,SCHOFIELD,TAYLOR, ASHBY, HOBBS, HATTAWAY, HUDSON, SAUCIER, TRIANTAFILLOU, SIMPLER, WILKS, JOHNSON, POWELL, TOMLIN, SASSER, ADKISSON, BUTLER, SCROGGINS, ADKINSON, OLIVER, MULLINSBENNETT, DYKES, KATHLEEN, EMANUEL, BREWINGTON, BURNETTE, WARRICK, FARRIS, SIMMONS, STRAYHORN, BULLOCK, CARTER, HOWELL, MC LEMORE, AVERITT, RICE, HEDGPETH, SPRYE, YATES, WAYLAND, KINLAW, DUNHAM, MC CULLEN, ALLEN , BATTON, GARDNER, BRISSON, MC DANIEL, PEACOCK, WORLEY, PACK, MURPHY, SCHULTZ, RUSS, SIDNEY, LYDAY, SADLER, BOWEN, EDGE, CALDWELL, MINCE, TATUM, CAIN, HALL, BRISSON, TATUS, PRIDGEN, MERRITT, TANNER, BLACKWELL, FARMER, BASS, GUTHRIE, FAIRCLOTH, CAISON, CRUMPLER, CAMPBELL, HANN, GEROW, MELVIN, DAVIS, BORDEAUX, KNOWLES, CANADY, MOZINGO, RACKLEY, NORRIS, WISEMAN, PETERSON, JERIGAN, BEASLEY, GUTTEY, JOLLY, STONE, NEW, WINDHAM, WOODS, ZORN,TRIPP, TURNER, TYLER, UNGER, VANN, WALL, WALLACE, WATKINS, WATSON, WELCH, DONALDSON, ENFINGER, FABER, FARMER, FENN,FINLAYSON, FRAZIER, FULLER, GILLENWATER, GILMER, GLOVER, GOINS,GRANT, GREELY, GREENE,HILLMAN, HOLTNEY, HORNE, HOUSTON, HOWARD, HUBBARD, JENKINS, JORDAN, JUDKINS,KEALY, KENNEDY, KEY, KILPATRICK, KOPPE, LAUDERDALE, LAW LANGLEY,MATHISON, MAYO, MERRIMAN, MITCHELL,BAKER, BARTHOLF, BOWLING, BROOKS, BROWN, BRYAN, BUIE, BURLISON, BUTLER, CALUB, CODY, COLE, COOK, COVINGTON,CURRIE, DANIEL,DAVIS , DAWSON, DEAL, DELONG, DILLARD, DIXON, MITCHELL, MOON, MOSLEY, MC BRIDE, MC CAIN, MC CLELLAN, MC DOWELL, MC VAY, O’PRY, OSMOND, OXFORD, PAYNE, PETTIGREW, RANDALL, RENFROE, RIDLEY, ROBERTSON, RODGERS, SCROGGINS, SHINE, SIMS, SHEPHERD, SMITH, STANLEY, STELL, TAYLOR, ABERNATHY, ADLER, ALSPACH, BAILEYBARNES, BENEDICT, BITTLE, BLAKE, BLEVINS, BOYN, BRASHEAR, BREEDLOVE, BRUMFIELD,BRYANT, BUCKLER, BURGENCAMDENCASEY, CHARLTON, CHASE, CHILDS, COATS, COFER, COIL, COLLEY, COLLINS, CROSSWHITE, DONNIHUE,DOWNEY, DUL, DUNBAR, DUSKY, DUVALL, EDWARDS, ESRY, EWENS, FAIRBOUGH, FARRAR, FINNEY, FORBIS,FORTNEY, JOYNER, FOUNTAIN, FOUTS, FRAY, GALLUP, GARLE, GIBSON, GLEASON, GOSLIN, WREN, ZEHNDER, YOUNG, SILVER, SILVERS,SKINNER, SMALLWOOD, STEWART, THRELKELD,TRIBBLE,TUCKER, WAINSCOTT, WALTER, WASLEY, WHITNEY, WILBUR, WINAND, WOODSMALL, WREN, ROBERTS, SANDERS, SAVLEY, SCHOOLER, SENOR, SETTLE, SEXTON, SEYMOUR, SHAFER, SHEA, SHELDON, SHOCK, SHORT, NEAL, O’BRIEN, PALMER, PATRICK, PEACHER,PIGG, PORTER, PRATT, PURDY, RAMSEY, REAMS, REED, RIDGEWAY, MC GREW, MC HENRY, MC KENZIE, MC MAHON, MC NEAR, ,MC QUINTY, MC QUOWN, MOFFITT, MORRIS, MURRY, MYERS, NEAL, KETCHUM, KNIFONG, LANGLEN, LANNING, LARUE, LENITON, LITTLE, LOGSDEN, LONDON, MAHANNEY, MCGREW, GREGATH, HAFER, HANCOCK, HARDIN, HARDNE, HARRIS, HENDREN, HILL, HINES, HOUCHENS, HULEN, HULZER, HUSK, JENNINGS, KEENE, KELLY, KETCHUM, CATES.
THERE IS MOST LIKELY MANY MORE SUR-NAMES THAT MAKES UP THE BLEDSOLE AND GREEN FAMILYS .

Bethsaida Cemetery
Barbour County, Clayton, Alabama
Donna Shine Wall 1985, info. from Sabrina Hagler & Kevin Grubbs 2000
Typed by Donna Wall; proofread by Terri Tait 2000
Mann, Anderson
16 Jan 1878
6 Dec 1930
Mann, Owen
4 Jun 1848
10 May 1918
Wife: Vick
Mann, Vick
10 Feb 1856
28 Jun 1935
Husband: Owen Mann
Mann, E.
Mann, Owie
Mann, Judy
Wright, Jim
18??-1939
Mann, Wavey
11 Mar 1916
8 May 1950
Ala S2 USNR
World War II
Hulen, Sarah A.
14 Jul 1872
2 Mar 1956
Hulen, W. D.
13 Oct 1838
26 Nov 1921
Wife: Mirah
Hulen, Mirah
25 Apr 1831
1 Jun 1923
Hulen, Annie Elizabeth
31 Mar 1866
26 Dec 1938
Mann, James H.
16 Nov 1871
20 Jul 1955
Wife: Willie A.
Mann, Willie A.
21 Jul 1870
3 Oct 1951
Husband: James H. Mann
Hulen, Dock E.
1 Feb 1921
30 Dec 1921
Hulen, Laura
2 Apr 1879
1 Feb 1921
Husband: Dock Hulen
Williamson, Mary J.
22 Apr 1851
15 Dec 1911
Posey Infant
Born & Died 1882
Parents: O.H. & M.L. Posey
Posey Infant
Parents: Mr. & Mrs. O.H. Posey
Posey, Ann Cook
1859-1898
Posey Infant
Parents: Mr. & Mrs. O.H. Posey
Cutchens, Charlie
1888-1952
Wife: Venie
Cutchens, Venie
1882-1960
Husband: Charlie Cutchens
Cutchens, Emmett Lee
5 Mar 1916
9 Jul 1957
Williamson, Walter J.
18 Jul 1936
23 Dec 1960
Williamson, Walter J(ones)
1892-1953
Wife: Lessie K(ennedy)
Williamson, Lessie K(ennedy) (Dau. of William F. Kennedy & Malissa Green)
Born 1907
Husband: Walter J. Williamson
Williamson, Viccie
1866-1950
Williamson, Bill
1863-1922
Williamson, W. M.
1897-1952
Stephens, Mahalie
Died 28 Dec 1900
Age about 70 years
Husband: W. W. Stephens
Powell, Sibbie F.
8 Aug 1898
6 Nov 1940
Husband: Henry Thomas Powell
Powell, Henry Thomas
27 Aug 1894
5 Aug 1948
Wife: Sibbie F. Powell
Hulen, Dock
28 Dec 1873
7 May 1922
Green, Dewey T(almadge)
(son of James Clifford & Eunice Irene Horton Green)
24 Sep 1916
27 Jul 1959
Ala. Pvt. Co. D 175 Bn. IRTC
World War II
Green, (Emma) Frances C(ook)
(Wife Dewey Talmadge Green)
5 Jul 1918
10 Oct 1995
Pagett, Morgan
Age 51 Years
Singleton, Addie P.
1893-1958
Singleton, Matthew
1881-1956
Mann, R.D.
15 Jun 1886
19 Oct 1918
Bond, Letha Spears
13 Oct 1869
29 Sep 1958
Husband: Thomas Bond
Mann, Euna Mae
15 Sep 1918
6 Jan 1919
Parents: R.D. & Phoebe (Mann)
Mann Infant Son
28 Dec 1896
9 Jan 1897
Parents: J.H.H. & Georgia Mann
Arrington, M. E.
Died 28 Oct 1891, age about 75 years
Green Infant (of James Monroe & Nancy Kilpatrick Green)
10 May 1886
25 May 1886
Green Infant
13 Sep 1891
22 Sep 1891
Parents: J(ames) M(onroe) & N(ancy) J(oanna Kilpatrick) Green
Singleton, C.C.
Born 20 Mar 1891
Wife: Anna
Singleton, Anna
15 May 1892
17 Aug 1953
Husband: C. C. Singleton
Singleton, Louis R. Vester
25 May 1899
27 Feb 1919
Floyd, James J.
10 Jan 1906
15 Nov 1958
Chance, John D.
25 Sep 1889
17 Jun 1964
Chance, Christian
15 May 1866
18 Sep 1940
Wife: Charity L.
Chance, Charity L.
5 May 1849
25 Jun 1930
Husband: Christian Chance
Green, John
(son of Joseph Carter & Amanda Tamplin Green)
6 May 1858
2 Oct 1940
Green, Mrs. John (Sally Mann)
No dates (B. c1870)
Hagler, Grady G.
29 Aug 1891
1 Jan 1918
At Camp Gordon, Atlanta, Ga.
22 Co, Casua. Detachment 57 Dept. Brigade
Green, Joseph (Carter)
Died 1 Nov 1906, age 72 years
Green, Amanda (Tamplin)
Died 30 Apr 1901, age 69 years
Kennedy, William F.
1872-1947
Wife, Malissa (Green)
Kennedy, Malissa (Green)
(Dau. of Joseph Carter & Amanda Tamplin Green)
1874-1959
Husband: William F. Kennedy
Cook, Otis C(leveland)
19 Jul 1920
20 Mar 1921
Parents: H(enry) H(arrison) & Mollie (Frances Green) Cook
Williamson, M. Allie
12 Jun 1866
17 Aug 1917
Williamson, Mary J.
22 Apr 1851
15 Dec 1911
Williamson, Green
1 Mar 1827
19 Mar 1907
Williamson, Susan
Jun 1824
20 Dec 1895
Husband: Green Williamson
Frazier, Richard L.
21 Aug 1895
9 Nov 1910
Parents: W.M. & Rosa Frazier
Williamson, Carrie
1846-1939
Frazier, Rosie A.
29 Jan 1867
14 Jan 1948
Husband: W.M. Frazier
Frazier, W.M.
26 Mar 1857
25 Dec 1925
Wife: Rosie A.
Frazier, Louis Edgar
7 Jul 1906
10 Nov 1941
Powell Infant
Born 16 Sep 1949
Parents: Mr. & Mrs. Fred T. Powell
Broaderway, Rubie M.
11 Apr 1903
7 Oct 1903
Parents: M.W. & Ida
Mann, John W.
1880-1929
Green, Dorothy L(orane)
(Dau.of William Martin & Hattie Mercer Gilmer Green)
7 Nov 1923
21 Mar 1947
Green, James M(onroe)
(Son of Joseph Carter & Amanda Tamplin Green)
25 Apr 1866
17 Jan 1935
Wife: N(ancy) Anna (Kilpatrick)
Green, N. Anna (Nancy Joanna Kilpatrick)
(Dau. of Worry & Evey Cole Kilpatrick)
22 Apr 1865
23 Sep 1939
Husband: James M(onroe) Green
Johnson, Alvie (Sydney)
25 May 1883
3 Dec 1947
Wife: Loshia (Green)
Johnson, Loshia (Carrie DeLoshia Green)
(Dau. of James Monroe & Nancy Joanna Kilpatrick Green)
16 Oct 1887
15 Jul 1951
Husband: Alvie Johnson
Green, Eddis I(som)
(Son of James Monroe & Nancy Joanna Kilpatrick Green)
28 Sep 1902
13 Aug 1971
Wife: Jaunita F(razier)
Green, Jaunita F(razier)
1 Jul 1901
8 Mar 1959
Husband: Eddis I(som) Green
Green, Jimmy R(ay)
(Son of Eddis I. & Jaunita F. Green)
5 Jan 1935
24 Oct 1951
Sheppard, Bobbie Jean Green
(Dau. of Eddis I. & Jaunita F. Green)
3 Aug 1930
8 Apr 1964
Husband: Carl P(osey) Sheppard
Sheppard, Carl Posey
18 Sep 1921
2 May 1993
Green, Carl Edwin
(Son of Eddis I. & Jaunita Frazier Green)
22 Mar 1925
13 Nov 1968
Green, Sara Cochran
(Wife of Carl Edwin Green)
30 May 1927
Green, Grace (Alberta) Hurst
(Wife of William Gerald Green)
24 Apr 1918
22 Jan 1957
Green, Barbara Ann
Infant
11 Oct 1957
Green, David Lamar
(Son of David Monroe & Lila Segars Green)
31 Oct 1944
23 Feb 1963
Green Infant Son
3 Dec 1957
4 Dec 1957
Parents: Mr. & Mrs. (Braxton) Floyd Green
Green, J(ohn) D(avid)(Son of Reuben Green & Stella Graham)
17 Apr 1909
22 Jul 1951
Green, Rushia (Ruth Mann)(Wife of John David Green)
25 Aug 1905
19 Feb 2000
Cook, Jess C.
1 Jul 1882
20 Aug 1952
Wife: Carrie L.
Cook, Carrie L.
18 Apr 1892
23 Dec 1946
Husband: Jess C. Cook
Cook, Henry
15 Jul 1887
14 Apr 1957
Wife: Bessie
Cook, Bessie
6 Jun 1898
Living 1965
Husband: Henry Cook
Price, Martha A.
15 Feb 1865
22 Sep 1885
Husband: H.W.
Jenkins, Cader P.
1 Mar 1856
28 Jul 1889
Father: Elder Riley
Mother: Lou Gretia
Jenkins, Rachel Terrell
25 Dec 1816
25 Oct 1866
Father: Daniel
Mother: Nancy
Jenkins, Nancy
25 Jun 1797
16 Aug 1868
Husband: Daniel Jenkins
Jenkins, Daniel
31 Oct 1790
7 May 1877
Revells, Lizzie Green
1902-1963
Powell, Mary Louis
8 Sep 1829
10 Feb 1930
Parents: I.D. & May
Terrell, Sharlott
27 Feb 1853
29 Oct 1867
Father: Richmond
Mother: Rachel
Jenkins, Elder Riley
18 Jul 1820
2 Dec 1898
Wife: Lougretia
Jenkins, Lougretia
4 Apr 1825
28 Feb 1912
Husband: Elder Riley Jenkins
Green, J.M.
10 Apr 1900
17 Apr 1919
Mims, Howard C.
7 Jul 1911
3 Jun 1947
Wife: Elsie F.
Mims, Elsie F.
25 Aug 1906
Living 1965
Husband: Howard C. Mims
Mims, J.C.
16 Sep 1917
19 Oct 1938
Parents: Mr. & Mrs. J.J. Mims
Williamson, J. Thad
6 Jan 1935
22 Jul 1935
Green, John Bradford (Son of Harrison& Mamie Kent Green)
1 Mar 1913
20 Jan 1951
Ala. Sgt. 33 Armored Regt.
World War II
Green, Huey B. (Son of Harrison & Mamie Kent Green)
17 Sep 1921
20 Jan 1951
Ala. Pvt. 217 Cml. Composite Co.
World War II
Greene, W. Harrison (son of John and Luler Williams Green)Mar 1887
28 Jun 1951
Greene, Mamie Kent (Wife of W. Harrison Green)
9 Aug 1893
10 Jun 1987
Greene, Mary Lillian (Dau. of W.Harrison & Mamie Kent Green)
1930-1948
Green, Deleaon (Child of W.Harrison& Mamie Kent Green)
1929-1951
Hagler, Levie Greene
1 Jul 1910
25 Nov 1949
Greene, Jesse
(Son/of Joseph Carter & Amanda Tamplin Green)
2 May 1885
28 Nov 1957
Wife: Maggie (Arrington)
Greene, Maggie (Arrington)
1 Sep 1887
15 May 1972
Husband: Jesse Greene
Dickey, Curtis H.
7 Feb 1912
4 Mar 1964
Wife: Vera G.
Dickey, Vera G.
1 Sep 1913
Living 1965
Husband: Curtis H. Dickey
Dixon, Manuel
15 Jun 1879
10 Apr 1947
Dixon, Milton
24 Jul 1919
6 Jan 1964
Ala. Pvt. Inf.
World War II
Greathouse, Isaac Hill
13 Sep 1838
21 Jun 1904
Member of Co. K 1st Ala. Vo. CSA
Wilkes, Johnnie
21 Nov 1880
28 Feb 1882
Parents: J.C. & C.A. Wilkes
Bass Infant Daughter
3 May 1888
19 Jun 1888
Parents: C.C. & S.E. Bass
Kennedy, Robert L.
8 May 1902
18 May 1902
Sims, Henry T.
23 Jan 1856
14 Mar 1892
Sims, Henry T., Jr.
20 Apr 1892
6 Jul 1893
Parents: Henry T. & E.S. Sims
Sims, Lula Maud
1 Apr 1880
13 Sep 1885
Parents: Henry T. & E.S. Sims
Sims, Willie A.
31 Oct 1883
2 Sep 1946
Wife: Nancy V.
Sims, Nancy V.
14 Oct 1885
22 Sep 1951
Husband: Willie A. Sims
Horton, James T.
31 Jan 1901
27 Jan 1954
Wife: Ada B.
Horton, Ada V.
25 Apr 1897
Living 1965
Husband: James T. Horton
Spires, Susanah E.
20 Jan 1880
21 Aug 1881
Parents: J.H. & S. Spires
Ludlam, William Lee
16 Jan 1879
26 May 1943
Wife: Pearla L.
Ludlam, Pearla L.
15 Jan 1882
Living 1965
Husband: William Lee Ludlam
Sims, Charlie E.
20 Aug 1887
29 Aug 1948
Wife: Fannie T.
Sims, Fannie T.
23 Jan 1894
Living 1965
Husband: Charlie E. Sims
Mann, Loyd E.
1927-1952
Wife: Juanita
Mann, Juanita
Living 1965
Husband: Loyd E. Mann
Mann, Charlie
10 Aug 1885
19 Feb 1965
Wife: Dell M.
Mann, Dell M.
18 Sep 1891
Living 1965
Husband: Charlie Mann
Dixon Infant
12 Apr 1922
Parents: Mr. & Mrs. Homer Dixon
Dixon, Louise
30 May 1927
19 Jan 1930
Dixon, Homer
1882-1951
Hinson, James W.
26 May 1910
15 Feb 1962
Wife: Bertha M.
Hinson, Bertha M.
7 Dec 1912
Living 1965
Husband: James W. Hinson
Williams, Travis
17 Jan 1933
31 Jul 1964
Wife: Camilla G.
Williams, Camilla G.
24 Oct 1933
Living 1965
Husband: Travis Williams
Greene, Wallace
14 Jun 1905
12 Nov 1960
Wife: Myrtle (Baker)
Greene, Myrtle (Baker)
13 Oct 1904
15 May 1972
Husband: Wallace Greene
Mann, Fred E.
10 Oct 1895
26 Dec 1961
Wife: Emmie T.
Mann, Emmie T.
15 Feb 1903
Living 1965
Husband: Fred E. Mann
Thomas, Bart
3 Dec 1900
Living 1965
Wife: Dovie
Thomas, Dovie
17 Mar 1896
11 Jun 1958
Husband: Bart Thomas
Hinson, Paul W.
15 Aug 1884
29 Nov 1963
Wife: Willie M.
7 Jul 1889
Living 1965
Strickland, John J.
8 May 1868
16 Feb 1945
Wife: Mary
Strickland, Mary
20 Oct 1856
27 Jul 1940
Husband: John J. Strickland
Strickland, Elizabeth
24 Aug 1895
29 Dec 1944
Husband: J.F. Strickland
Strickland, Margie R.
11 Oct 1951
22 Oct 1951
Green, Bennie Frank
(Son of James Clifford & Eunice Irene Horton Green)
25 Nov 1925
28 Jul 1991
Green, Vela M(ae) Helms
(Wife of Bennie Frank Green)
21 Sep 1928
Green, Janet Marsha
(Dau. of Bennie Frank & Vela Helms Green)
9 May 1959
10 May 1959
Greene, A. Alfred
3 Sep 1887
6 May 1952
Greene, Corrie H.
11 Sep 1907
29 Oct 1994
Greene, Ruth Mary
26 Nov 1935
26 Nov 1935
Green, Harold
7 Jun 1931
17 Aug 1972
Green, Dotha G.
24 Jun 1925
Greene, Elvie (Slim)
(Husband of Dessie Lee Morris)
16 Mar 1908
13 Jun 1991
Greene, Dessie Lee (Morris)
(Wife Elvie Greene)
15 Oct 1915
Green, Ruby T. (Dau. of W.Harrison& Mamie Kent Green)
2 Aug 1926
4 Jun 1998
Dixon, Clifford Lee
8 Nov 1918
2 Jul 1980
Dixon, Lessie Green
11 Dec 1925
Green, William M(artin)
(Son of James Monroe & Nancy Joanna Kilpatrick Green)
9 Jun 1900
19 Jun 1985
Green, Hattie M(ercer Gilmer)
(Wife of William Martin Green)
4 Jan 1896
28 Feb 1978
Green, Lee Allen
(Son of Cecil Frazier and Annette Grant Green)
13 May 1958
27 Dec 1966
Green, Elmer Roy
(Son of James Monroe & Nancy Joanna Kilpatrick Green)
3 Aug 1905
11 Jul 1973
Green, (Alice) Novella W(atson)
(Dau. of D.Z. and Orie Orr Watson)
31 Oct 1900
18 Sep 1982
Green, Lila (Mae) Segars
Wife of David Monroe Green
21 Nov 1922
18 Apr 1967
Alda Mae Brown Johnson
(Wife James Vernon Johnson, Sr.)
26 Jun 1917
20 Jun 1967
Green, Foy
d. 27 May 2000