Andrew Anson Green


Name Andrew Anson Green200, school records
Birth 1835, Shaftsbury, Bennington County, VT197, page 909, dwelling 92, family 88, 199, page 1, dwelling 1, family 1,312
Census 12 July 1860, Newbury, Geauga Co, OH197, page 909, dwelling 92, family 88
Census 29 June 1870, Mirabile Twp, Caldwell Co, MO312
Death 1880, Vinita, Craig Co, Oklahoma134, Hattie Harness, 481-05-3929
Burial Chetopa, Labette Co, KS, Potter's Field
Occupation farmer312
Father Philip Green (1810-)
Mother Diana (1814-)
Andrew Anson Green, about 1850

Spouses
1 Margaret Davis
Birth 1835, Michigan197, page 909, dwelling 92, family 88,312 or New York
Death 1880, Vinita, Craig Co, Oklahoma134, Hattie Harness, 481-05-3929
Burial Chetopa, Labette Co, KS, Potter's Field
Mag Davis, from a set of cufflinks her son Fred always wore.
Children Nellie (Died as Child) (1857-<1870)
Asa (Died as Child) (1859-<1870)
Frederick Frank (1861-1945)
William (1863-)
Ella (1866-)
Weston F. (1868-1949)
Annie (1869-)
Amy (Died as Child) (~1874-~1881)
Hattie (1879-1969)

Notes for Andrew Anson Green
Anson was born in Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont. According to school302 and census199 records he lived with his grandfather, Asa Green, in 1848, with his father, Philip, in 1849, and with his sister Jane and her new husband Charles Newcomb from 1850-52. In 1853 he was listed as living with his father again. We don't know why he moved around so much, but we do know that sometime between 1853 and 1857 he married Mag and they moved out west to Geauga County, Ohio197, page 909, dwelling 92, family 88 (near Cleveland).

Anson briefly served in the Union Army during the Civil War. He enlisted in the 171st Ohio Infantry in May of 1864. The 171st 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 1864, 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. Anson was discharged in August 1864.198

After his service, Anson took his family to Caldwell County, Missouri.312 He owned 80 acres on the banks of Shoal Creek in Mirabile Township about 6 miles SSE of Cameron, Missouri.313 He owned the northeast quarter of Section 4 and the (adjacent) northwest quarter of Section 3 of Township 56 North, Range 29 West.313

Around 1869 the family moved again to Vinita, in what would become Craig County, Oklahoma. At the time it was still part of the Cherokee Nation in Indian Territory. Only people with a "head right" could settle there, so Anson became a tenant farmer of a man named Allen whose wife was Cherokee

Around 1880 he was struck and killed by lightning (while watching a thunderstorm flatten the crops) when his youngest child Hattie 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 that killed her. They were both buried in a pauper's cemetery (called Potter's Field) just over the state line in Chautaupa, Kansas. Their parents deaths left Fred and Ella (still both teenagers) to raise the younger children.

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Last Modified 22 August 2004

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