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Ayres ==================================================================== April 2002 Green Family Cemetery Township 21, Range 6, Section 23 Bibb County Alabama Additional information in the NOTES at the bottom of this file were added by Bill Lindsey, . App. 25 unmarked graves ''In Memory of Jane Green born in Abbeville District S.C. Oct. 8th 1768 Departed this life Nov. 2nd 1855' [Maiden name Kerr] (NOTE 1) ''Sacred to the memory of John Green who was born January 21st 1768 and departed this life March 18th 1837'' (NOTE 2) ''Sacred to the memory of Mary Green wife of R.W. Woods and daughter of John and Jane Green who was born December 16th 1797 and departed this life November 27th 1827'' [Wife of Robert W. Woods, son of William and Susannah Woods] (NOTE 2) ''Sacred to the memory of Lucinda Green daughter of John and Jane Green who was born September 10th 1801 and departed this life March 13th 1821'' (NOTE 2) ''Sacred to the memory of John E. Green Son of John and Jane Green who was born November 6th 1803 and departed this life March 3rd 1843'' (NOTE 2) ''In Memory of Robert Thomas who departed this life June 7th 1849 aged 10 years and two months'' ''In Memory of Mary D. Thomas who departed this life May 11th 1853 age 41years and 7 months'' ''In Memory of Rebecca G. Thomas who departed this life April 12th 1851 age one years and 3moths'' '' In Memory of Rachel E. Thomas who departed this life October 24th 1857 aged 16years and 7months'' Site copied 1969 NOTE 1: Jane Kerr was daughter of Samuel Kerr and Mary Calhoun. Samuel Kerr was born abt. 29 Nov. 1741, when he shows up in the baptismal register of Rev. John Craig of Tinkling Springs Presbyterian church, Augusta (later Rockbridge) Co., VA, son of Samuel and Margaret Kerr. Samuel Kerr (younger) was killed as a Revolutionary soldier in 1781. Mary Calhoun was born abt. 1743 in Lancaster Co., PA, and died bet. Jan. 21 and Feb. 11, 1805, in Abbeville Co., SC. Mary Calhoun Kerr was daughter of Ezekiel Calhoun and Jane/Jean Ewing. NOTE 2: On John Green, see James Lee Green's (P.O. Box 8301, Columbia, SC 29202) 27 Apr. 1992 article entitled "The Greens of Bibb Co., AL," pp. 1, 3. See also Rhoda Ellison, Bibb Co., AL, The First Hundred Years (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of AL P., 1984), pp. 48-9, 68; Alton Lambert, History of Tuscaloosa Co., AL, vol. 1 (Centre, AL: Stewart UP, 1977), p. 28; Family Adventures, Bibb Co., AL, Cemeteries, Graveyards, and Family Burial Plots (P.O. Box 290354, San Antonio, TX 78280-1754; 1988), pp. 84, 289; and Rhoda Ellison, Place Names of Bibb Co., AL (Brierfield, AL: Cahaba Trace Commission, 1993), p. 75. John and Jane Green married abt. 1788 in Abbeville Co., SC, and moved to Pendleton Dist., SC, in by 1790, settling on the east side of Keowee beside Jane's uncles Gen. Andrew Pickens (m. Rebecca Calhoun) and John Ewing Colhoun. In 1818, the family moved to Bibb Co. where they opened a plantation of 3400 acres and built a house, still standing, that was lived in by family members until 1939. The house was long known as Halfway House, on the Elyton-Selma Rd. The children of John Green and Jane Kerr were Samuel Kerr Green (b. abt. 1790, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. March 1860, Grimes Co., TX; m. 1]Eliza Jane Smith 2]Elvira Birdwell [Grammer]); Elizabeth B. Green (b. abt. 1791, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 1860-70, Ouachita Co., AR; m. James H. Thompson; Benjamin S. Green (b. abt. 1795, Pendleton Dist., SC; m. Lucinda); Ezekiel Calhoun Green (b. 22 Aug. 1795, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 6 Apr. 1851, Smithland, KY; m. 1]Mary Peet 2]Matilda Harrison 3]Anna Harrison 4]Louisa B. //); Mary Calhoun Green (b. 16 Dec. 1797, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 27 Nov. 1827, Bibb Co., AL; m. Robert W. Woods); Joscelin B. Green (b. abt. 1800, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 1850-60, Bibb Co., AL; m. Elizabeth Nichols); Lucinda Green (b. 10 Sept. 1801, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 13 March 1821, Bibb Co., AL); John Ewing Green (b. 6 Nov. 1803, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 3 March 1843, Bibb Co., AL); James H. Green (b. abt. 1806, Pendleton Dist., SC; m. 1] Sarah Echols James, 2]Sarah E. Randolph); Jane Caroline Green (b. 10 Oct. 1808, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 22 Feb. 1897, Ovilla, Ellis Co., TX; m. Thomas Keesee); and George Sidney Green (b. 2 Aug. 1817, Pendleton Dist., SC, d. 10 Nov. 1853, Union Co., AR; m. Mary Ann Clardy).