Crawford County IL Archives Biographies.....Green, Samuel S. 1834 - 
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Author: William Henry Perrin (1883)

  SAMUEL S. GREEN, farmer, P. O. Hutsonville, is a native of Crawford County,
Ill., born August 14, 1834. His father, Joseph Green, was born in North
Carolina, in 1802, emigrated to Union County, Ill., in 1822, and a few years
later to Crawford County, where he remained actively engaged in farming to the
time of his death, which occurred in 1855. He was a soldier in the Black Hawk
war. His wife, and mother of our subject, was Queen E. (Lindley) Green. She was
born in North Carolina in 1811, and died in Crawford County in July, 1856. She
was the mother of twelve children, of whom Samuel was the fourth child He was
raised on a farm and educated from the common schools; at twenty-one years of
age, he left his home and embarked on his career in life as a farmer. His first
farm contained forty acres, located near his present residence. After ten years
spent on this farm, he returned to the old homestead farm, where he has since
remained. He is now the owner of 230 acres of land He married Miss Alice R.
Boyd, September 13, 1854. She is a native of Crawford County. They have the
following children: Elzora E. (Morton) Gyer, Joseph W., James, Henry E., Harry
E., Charles O., Ulysses G., Anna L. and Thomas E. Mr. and Mrs. Green are members
of the Friends Church. Politically, he is a firm Republican.

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HISTORY OF CRAWFORD AND CLARK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS.
EDITED BY WILLIAM HENRY PERRIN.

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO: O. L. BASKIN & CO., HISTORICAL PUBLISHERS,
LAKESIDE BUILDING.
1883.


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