Green Livingston Boney, Madison Parish, Louisiana
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Green Livingston Boney - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

Green Livingston Boney is a native of Alabama, where he was born June 11, 
1829,in Clark County.  He is a son of Kinsey Boney, who was born in North 
Carolina in 1802, and who was of Swiss-German descent, being a son of James 
and Penny Boney.  Mr. Kinsey Boney was reared in North Carolina until nearly 
grown, when he removed with his parents to Alabama.  He received a limited 
education in North Carolina.  In 1825 he was married to Keziah Collins Green,
a native of South Carolina, who came to Alabama when about two years of age.  
To them were born nine children, seven of whom are living.  They were named 
Arulia Jane; James, who died before grown; Green Livingston, our subject; 
Margaret M.; James Robert; Eliza Mary; Amelia Anna; Kinsey Lewis; Rachel 
Keziah (deceased). Kinsey Boney was a farmer and always lived a quiet life.  
He removed to Lauderdale county, Miss., where he remained until his death, 
which occurred in 1867, his wife having died in 1845.

Green Livingston Boney received a good common-school education and began life
for himself in January 1850.  Coming to Hinds County, Miss., he engaged in 
managing a plantation near Jackson, Miss., where he remained four years.  
He then assumed charge of Joe Davis' plantation in Warren County, Miss., 
with whom he remained four years.  December 31,1857, he was married to Mrs. 
Martha E. (Cocke) Pierson, a native of Hinds county, Miss.  In 1858 our 
subject removed to Madison Parish, La., where he took charge of L. P. & J. 
Culverson's property, with whom he continued two years.  He was employed in 
managing the levee contracting until 1860, when he removed to property he had 
purchased on Big Black island, which he still owns.

In 1862 he entered the army in Company K, of Abbey's battery of the First 
Mississippi artillery.   He served until the close of the war and was in the 
battle of Plain's Store and siege of Port Hudson, La. where he was captured, 
was recaptured at Blakely, taken prisoner and taken to Ship island, where he 
was kept prisoner until the close of the war.  He was also in the siege of 
Port Hudson, and was once wounded by a spent ball.

During the war, the family of Greene Livingston Boney refugeed in eastern 
Mississippi.  He had accumulated considerable property and owned a number of 
slaves, and after the war he was obliged to begin anew.  He purchased a small
place in eastern Mississippi, and sent his family, which consisted of his 
wife and two small boys, there for a time.  He soon returned to Madison 
Parish, and for a year engaged in managing a plantation, and then engaged in 
planting for himself.  In 1868 he rented land in Duckport, where he remained
about one year, when he purchased a portion of the Culverson property, 
consisting of about 300 acres.  In January 1870, he purchased Duckport 
plantation, where he now resides.  This plantation consists of 660 acres.  
He is also the owner of 450 acres at Harris Field, 200 acres at Paw Paw 
island, and Big Black island, which contains several thousand acres.

He makes cotton his principal crop, his plantation yielding from 500 to 700 
bales.  He raises also corn and potatoes, shipping large quantities to 
northern markets, shipping to St. Louis, Kansas City and Chicago. In 1890 he 
shipped about 2.500 barrels of potatoes.  He also raises quite a goodly 
number of horses and mules each year for his own use.

Richard Kinsey Boney, the son of our subject, was born on Culverson 
plantation in 1858, while his father was manager of that place.  He attended 
the Virginia Military institute and graduated from there in 1878.  He is an 
attorney at law, receiving his legal education at the University of Louisiana, 
where he graduated in 1880.  He practiced a few years in Madison parish, and 
then removed to St. Paul, Minn., where he practiced for four years, until 
1890, when he removed to the new town of South Bend, Wash.

James Green Boney was born in Clinton, Hinds County, Miss., in 1860.  He has 
attended several good schools, Cooper Institute, Sewanee, Tenn., 
Randolph-Macon college, Virginia and the Virginia Military institute.  
In 1881 he married Miss Emma Patrick, of Danville, VA.  To them have been 
born two children, named Green Livingston, Jr. and May.  James G. resides on 
his father's plantation.

Augustus Pierson was born on February 14. 1849.   He was a son of Mrs. Boney 
by her former marriage.  He was educated in the common schools and at an 
excellent school at Milliken's Bend.  He met his death by accidental drowning
in the river, in 1885.

Green Livingston Boney, in 1877, was appointed police juror of the Third ward 
of Madison parish and served one term.  In 1870 he was appointed postmaster 
at Duckport, and has held that responsible position ever since.  Politically 
he is, and always has been, a conservative democrat.  He is not a politician 
in the ordinary sense of the term, but takes a keen interest in the political 
affairs of the parish and state.  He was a strong, active and efficient 
opponent of the Louisiana State lottery, and of all the forms of gambling, 
and has rendered important service in their abridgement or suppression in 
this locality.  He has recently been appointed police juror of the Second 
ward, Madison Parish, a fitting recognition of his high character and ability.
 
From Biographical and Historical Memoires of Louisiana, volume 2, pp. 302-303. 
Submitted by Mike Miller

MADISON COORDINATOR'S NOTE: Green L. Boney died November 14, 1910. His wife Martha 
Cocke Boney died August 24, 1895. His sons Richard Kinsey Boney and James Green Boney 
died in 1937 and 1899 respectively. All are buried in Silver Cross Cemetery at Tallulah.

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