The Green's of Bradley County, Arkansas. An African American Family
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The Green's of Bradley County, Arkansas. An African American Family
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Introducing the GREENS of Bradley County, AR.
The distance between South Carolina and Arkansas is not that very long, but when walking it must seem like years.
This is how my family arrived in Arkansas, by 'walking.' Oral history has it that they walked along side a covered wagon, pulled by an ox team. They washed their clothes in the river, worked on farms along the way, ate and slept outside. The family came by way of Mississippi where my Great Great Grandmother, Easter fell in a ditch and walked with a limp and a cane for the rest of her life, and where one of her sisters were sold away from the family never to be heard from again. This trip took place ca. 1857-58. Final destination (with the people who took them there)..Drew County, Arkansas. There are no records that I have found as of yet to state the fact if the family came with their enslavers or came to the new land with slave traders 'to be sold'. Whatever the case, they were able to remain a family.
Easter was the oldest of the children born to 'Nannie' of record, but, I don't believe she was Nannie's oldest child as she (Nannie) is about 35 years older than Easter, ans who unfortunately died before the 1870 census was taken. This was a young family, on their own in 1870, and now living in Bradley County, AR. with the only brother, Mike, age 18 as head, Easter, 20, sisters Pricilla (AKA Puss) and Victoria, ages 17 and 8. Easter was always listed as 'keeping house' on the census and it seems that this occupation paid off for her in the end because in 1901 she purchased 160 acres of land from J.A. and M.A. Lee for the sum of $100.00, which Easter equally divided and sold to four of her sons for the sume of $1.00 and love and affection. Mike was also a huge land owner and together their land became know as Green Town, by the people who resided there. The small community consisted of the church, Green Chapel, the school, Green School and the small country store called of course, Green's.
Easter died in 1925 at the age of about 80 from maloria, her informant was her brother Mike, and she was buried in Oakalone Cemetery now known as Hall's Cemetery.
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My Ancestors
1866 Freedman's Bureau Labor Contract Records, field office Monticello, Drew County, entry 393:
Employer
W.H. Green
Employees age term of contract
Nannie 63 rations/clothing
Estes/infant 15 $3.00/rations/clothing
Mike 10 rations/clothing
Puss/Victor 8 rations/clothing
Perry 23 1/10 of all crop raised on
farm except potatoes/2 suits
clothes
(Information found by Mike's GG Granddaughter,
Michelle Hood). Now we know who we obtained our surname from.
1870
Bradley County, Arkansas, Clay Township
Green, Michael-18-M-B-Head of House-Farm Lab-S.C.
Easter-20-F-B-Keeping House-S.C.
James-5-M-B-Arkansas
Pricilla-17-F-B-Farm Labor-S.C.
Victoria-8-F-B-Arkansas
1880 Bradley County,Ar. Clay Township
Green, Easter-B-F-31-Keeping House-S. Carolina
, Peter-B-M-?-Son-Arkansas
, James-B-M-6-Son-Arkansas
, Sally-B-F-5-Dau-Arkansas
, John-B-M-1-Arkansas (My Great Grandfather)
1890 (No Census Information)
1900, Bradley County, Arkansas, Clay Township
Green, Easter-H-B-F-1860-40-Wid-10 children-6 living-S.C.-S.C.-S.C.
, Ed-Son-B-M-1881-18-Single-AR-TX-AR-Farm Labor
Banders, Sallie-G.Dau-B-F-1888-11-Single-AR-TX-AR-Farm Labor
Harmon, Nancy-Niece-B-F-1895-7-AR-AR-AR
1910 Bradley County, AR., Clay Township
Green, John-H-M-B-30-Married-AR-AR-AR-Farmer
, Georgia A.-Wife-F-B-24-AR-AR-AR
, Vance-Son-M-B-7-Single-AR-AR-AR
, Minnie-Dau-F-B-6-Single-AR-AR-AR
, Tempy-Dau-F-B-4-Single-AR-AR-AR
, Susie-Dau-F-B-2-Single-AR-AR-AR (my G.mother)
, Easter-Mother-F-B-60-Widow-AR-AR-AR
(Looks like the census taker didn't bother to ask questions about where everybody was born, Easter was born in S. Carolina, not Arkansas).
Although Easter did not die until 1925, she is not listed on the 1920 census.
John and Georgia (Crosby) Green's daughter, Susie married Arthur Calbert and to that union my father Charley was born (also in Bradley County), Charley married my mother June Murray and to that union 4 children were born, Dena, Susan Elaine, Charley Jr. and Arthur.
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Warranty Deed
Be it known all men by these presents: That we J. S. Lee and M. E. Lee his wife for and in consideration of the sum of One Hundred Dollars to us in hand paid by Easter Green the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged do hereby grant bargain and sell unto the said Easter Green and unto her heirs and assigns forever the following lands lying in the County of Bradley and State of Arkansas to wit:
The East Half of the South-East quarter of section Twenty Two and West Half of the South-West quarter of Section Twenty Three all in Township Fourteen South of Range Eleven West and containing one Hundred and Sixty Acres more or less.
To have and to hold the same unto the said Easter Green and unto her heirs and assigns forever with all appertenances theirunto belonging and is hereby covnant with the said Easter Green that we will forever warrant and defend the title to said lands against all lawful claims whatever.
Witness our hands and seals on this 9th day of March, 1901
J.S. Lee (seal)
M.E. Lee (seal)
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Easter' Siblings:
MIKE: Married Amanda Gannaway on December 26, 1872. To this union the children born were:
Columbus, b. 1874
Maggie, B. 1875
Lula, b. 1876
Ollie, b. 1878
Mandy, b. 1880
Ardella, b. 1884 (married Charles Hall)
Donnie, b. 1886
Avery, b. 1889
Pearl, b. 1892 (married Sam Childs)
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Mike's children with CLARY TIDWELL:
Willie, b. 1888
Mary Lou, b. ?
Kittye, b. 1893
Catherine, b. 1895
Ellen, b. 1896
Cordy Pearl, b. 1898
Charlie, b. 1902
Robert, b. 1904
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Mike married PHILLIS BOSWELL in 1902, no Green children (that I have record of) born to this union, but 2 of Clary Tidwell's children resided with them:
Charlie and Bob (Robert).
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PRICILLA (AKA Puss) married WILLIAM CHILDS on January 4, 1872 and to this union the following children were born:
John Wesley, b. 1870 (married Susan Davis)
Dora, b. 1874
Willie, b. 1876
Mikiel (Michael), b. 1878 (married Emma Belin)
Louella, b. 1884 (married Sam Childs)
Nora, b. 1888
Bessie, b. 1892
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SALLIE married ALFRED FALLS, ca. 1869-70, and to this union the following children were born:
Drussie, b. 1879
Henrietta, b. 1882
Eliza, b. 1887
Sarah, b. 1889
Oscar S., b. 1882 (twins w/Henrietta?)
Estine D., b. 1894
Cris, b. 1880
Also, children of Sallie were:
Ella Davis and Nellie Davis.
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VICTORIA married MILTON HARMON March 24, 1878, and to this union the following children were born:
George, b. 1879
Josephine, b. 1886
Edgar, b. 1888
Nancy, b. 1893
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1860 Clay Township, Bradley County, Arkansas
Slave Census Schedule (M-653)
Name-Pg.#-Number of Slaves
BELIN, Lewis-064-12 Slaves
CHILDS, E. Washington-05--13 Slaves
CHILDS, James-064-5 Slaves
CHILDS, Marion-059-8 Slaves
CHILDS, William-064-29 Slaves
CHILDS, William L.-059-5 Slaves
COX, Allen-064-2 Slaves
DICKEY, William H.-064-5 Slaves
EDRINGTON, James-064-22 Slaves
EVANS, Henry-064-2 Slaves
HALL, William-064-11 Slaves
HALLEY, Samuel-064-3 Slaves
JONES, Harten-064-17 Slaves
LANGSTON, Abalom-064-4 Slaves
MERRILL, David-064-5 Slaves
MERRILL, Sarah-064-1 Slave
TIDWELL, Eli J.S.-064-11 Slaves
TINDELL, Julia A.-064-5 Slavs
WALL, James L.-064-6 Slaves
Total 175 Slaves recorded in Bradley County, Arkansas on the 1860 Census
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1870 Clay Township, Braldey County, Arkansas
African-American Surname Matches compaired to the 1860 Slave Census Schedule.
Name-Age-Birthplace-Stamped Pg. #
BELIN, Abe-45-Alabama-Pg. 493
CHILDS, Alfred-24-Alabama-Pg. 497
CHILDS, Brad-20-Arkansas-Pg. 496
CHILDS, Ellen-22-Arkansas-Pg. 493
CHILDS, David-45-Alabama-Pg. 497
CHILDS, Jack-21-Arkansas-Pg. 497
CHILDS, Joseph-30-Alabama-Pg. 495
CHILDS, Moro-22-Arkansas-Pg. 496
CHILDS, Robert-45-Alabama-Pg. 496
CHILDS, Thomas-24-Tennessee-Pg. 496
HALL, Andrew-54-Tennessee-Pg. 492
HALL, Charity-35-Arkansas-Pg. 492
HALL, James-30-Arkansas-Pg. 492
LANGSTON, Benjamin-32-Alabama-Pg. 497
TIDWELL, Anderson-22-Arkansas-Pg. 498
TIDWELL, Andrew-26-Arkansas-Pg. 498
TIDWELL, Alfred-40-Alabama-Pg. 494
TIDWELL, Caroline-38-Alabama-Pg. 492
TIDWELL, George-26-Arkansas-Pg. 492
TIDWELL, Hattie-16-Tennessee-Pg. 492
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My Current Research
I am now in the process of trying to find the elusive W.H. Green. Mr. Green is not found on any of the Arkansas Census records, although his land records state that he lived in Drew County. Once I find him, I feel that with the help of the ancestors, I will be able to find their last enslaver. I truly believe that when my ancestors first arrived in Arkansas, they stayed at the following location (per land description of Mr. Green):
Land Deed registered in Monticello, Drew County, by Mr. William H. Green of Drew County, Arkansas on Octorber 1, 1860.
The west half of the north-west quarter of section fifteen in township nine south of range seven west in the district of lands subject to sale at Little Rock, Arkansas, containing Eighty acres.
Dena Green-Calbert-Jordan
If anyone can add any information or would like to reach me, you can at juneirene@aol.com
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