JONES COUNTY Obituary - GREEN, Thomas Hodge Contributed to USGenWeb by Betty Polombo" http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/jones/obits/green.txt Thomas Hodge Green b 22 Aug 1920 Wayside, Jones County, Georgia, d Spring Creek, Wakulla County, Florida 20 Jan 2001, age 80 years. Not only were Thomas' ancestors in every major U.S. war - American Revolution, War of 1812 (Capehart), Spanish American War, WWI, but Thomas was a hero of WWII. While a Chief Petty Officer on the battleship USS Mississippi before and during WWII, he fought in the Atlantic and most of the Pacific battles. He experienced every type battle anyone could experience, including at least one hit by a kamikaze(?) plane. The first ancestor I have been able to come up with so far is William Green, signer of the Second Virginia Charter in 1609 and arrived in Virginia 1612, barely escaping the 'massacre if 1823'. His gr gr gr grandfather Georg Peter Zoellner (Zellner) , as an Ansbach soldier ranked private, fought with the British in the Am-Rev, then deserted and continued to live in the U.S. ======================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for FREE access. ==============