Ira Green (1820 - 1898)

Born 13 Apr 1820 in Franklin County, Ohio, United States [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Collins) Green — married 4 Jan 1842 in Franklin Co., Ohio

Descendants

Died 18 Jul 1898 at age 78 in Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, United States

Biography

Ira Green served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: Sep 16, 1864
Mustered out: Jun 06, 1865
Side: USA
Regiment(s): Company B, 178th Infantry Regiment Ohio

Ira Green, according to all but one U.S. Census record, was born in Ohio; year varies from 1814-1826. Ira's Civil War draft registration showed him born ca. 1820 in Ohio. He enlisted in Columbus, Franklin Co., Ohio as a Private on 16 September 1864, age 45 (b1819) and mustered out with Company B, 178th Infantry Regiment Ohio on 6 Jun 1865 in Beaufort, NC. ^[1]

His stated parents are unproved but It is possible that Ira was the son of Edward Green and Elizabeth Craun who had a son the age of Ira in the 1830 and 1840 census records of Franklinton Twp., Franklin Co., OH (Franklinton was an early settlement on the west side of the Scioto River; Columbus was founded later on the east side but after it became the capital of Ohio, it annexed Franklinton; see profile of Edward for historical references.)

No "Ira Green" by name is found in all of Ohio on the 1840 census. There is, however, in the 1830 and 1840 census of Franklinton Ohio in the household of Edward Green, a son who is the right age to have been Ira. (See Profile of Edward.)

Ira married Eliza Meed/Mud, a young widow in 1842 in Mifflin Twp,. Franklin Co. OH. ^{[2] [3]}

(In 1840 Ruth Collins (mother of Eliza) was already a widow, head of house in Truro Twp., a neighboring township in Franklin Co.) ^[4]

In 1850 Ira & wife Elizabeth were living east of Columbus in Jefferson Twp., Franklin Co. beside Eizabeth's presumed mother Ruth Collins, widow of John, with sons (George) Washington and James, and daus Sarah and Mary. (All names of Ruth's children, except Sarah, were given to children of Elizabeth and Ira.) ^[5]

According to census records Ira could not read or write, owned no property and was initially a farmer on the eastern outskirts of Columbus next to his wife's family and ultimately worked as a teamster living in what is now south downtown Columbus. If Ira's father was a land owner, Ira apparently did not inherit any of it.

In 1860 his wife Eliza held a bit of land, probably inherited from her mother. In that census Ira Green was born in 1814 in Ohio; Eliza was born in 1817 in Virginia: their children were Thomas Green 17, John Green 14, James Green 11 Ira Green 8. George Green 6, Alice Green 3, Asa Green 1 ^[6]

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Ira died 18 July 1898 in Columbus Ohio. The funeral was at the home of his eldest living son John, at 1839 E Rich St. Ira's death notice gave his age from which his birth date has been calculated. ^[9] His burial record indicated, in addition to death date, "burial intended to be in Reynoldsburg", an incorporated area containing 3 counties (Franklin, Fairfield and Licking) in the southeastern Columbus Metro area. ^[10][11] There is no extant stone or Civil War marker for Ira at the Methodist Hill Cemetery in Reynoldsburg where a large stone is standing for "Eliza, wife of Ira Green" (d1889) surrounded with empty space. The cemetery was abandoned for some years, now cared for by town of Reynoldsburg with many stone fragments in stacks. Eliza's obelisk stone is engraved on only one side; perhaps the intention was to engrave Ira's vitals on another side but for unknown reasons it was not done after his death 9 yrs. later. ^{[12] [13]}

Military Service

UNION OHIO VOLUNTEERS 178th Regiment, Ohio Infantry

Organized at Camp Chase, Ohio [ Camp Chase was a military staging and training camp established at (now) 2900 Sullivant Ave,, Columbus, Ohio in May 1861 after the start of the American Civil War]. Unit mustered in September 26, 1864. left for Nashville, Tenn., October 8; it was attached to Defences (sic) Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, Dept. of the Cumberland, to January, 1865; then 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, 23rd Army Corps, Army of the Ohio, and Dept. of North Carolina, to June, 1865.

Ira's Service: Duty at Nashville, Tenn., until October 22, 1864, at Tullahoma, Tenn., till November 30. Moved to Murfreesboro, Tenn., November 30-December 2. Siege of Murfreesboro December 5-12. Wilkinson's Cross Roads, near Murfreesboro, "The Cedars," December 7. Wilkinson's Pike, near Murfreesboro, December 13-14. Ordered to Clifton, Tenn. with duty there till January 16, 1865. Movement to Washington, D. C., January 16-29, and to Fort Fisher, N. C., February 21-23; to Morehead City February 24, thence to New Berne February 25. Campaign of the Carolinas March 1-April 26. AdvaBold textnce on Kinston and Goldsboro March 6-21. Battle of Wise's Forks March 8-10. Occupation of Kinston March 14. Occupation of Goldsboro March 21. Advance on Raleigh April 10-14. Occupation of Raleigh April 14. Bennett's House April 26. Surrender of Johnston and his army. Duty at Raleigh and Charlotte, N. C., till June. Mustered out June 29, 1865. ^[14]

See Also: A more expansive summary of the duty of 178th Ohio Volunteer Infantry ^[15]

Research Notes

Adams-16917 12:54, 29 January 2017 (EST)

• Research on DNA close matches (1and 3) to my husband Thomas Green indicates that the North Carolina/Alabama Greens, descend from early Baltimore Co., Maryland Greens (paper records not complete). But since there is no exact match, it is possible that the close matches are from the 'old country'--England? Ireland? Scotland?--there are various traditions in the families of this DNA line.

• Ira's first son was Thomas L (what the L. stood for has not appeared in any record, but my research on descendants of Thomas and Ira has led to a theory that it may have been Ellsworth which was pronounced as if it began with the letter L). Many fathers name first sons after their own father but no Thomas Green has been found that could have been the father of Ira.

• His 2nd son was John, presumably named for his wife's father ( John Collins/Collings/Collier), another early naming convention. John Green had a son named Arthur Edward. Presumably John knew the name of his grandfather but unfortunately he left that space blank on the death record he completed for his father Ira. However, the presumption that Edward was John's grandfather is reasonable.

• In the Methodist Hill Cemetery in Reynoldsburg, where Ira's wife Eliza was buried in 1889, there is a stone for Nelson Green which on Find-a-grave [1] is transcribed by "Zelda" (creator of memorial) to have died in 1853. Since to me the image is unreadable, this date may be erroneous.) Was he a son of Ira and Eliza?, or of John Green and Mary Elizabeth (Nelson) whose marriage was in 1873), or of the Licking Co. Greens, or...

• Oddly there was another Ira Green who also served for the Union in the Civil War, also enlisted in Franklin Co. OH, also died in Columbus, OH (in 1900, 2 yrs. after the Ira of this bio but buried in Green Lawn Cemetery, Columbus, OH with a Civil War marker). He also had a son John (and Lewis, Leonard, James and William.) I refer to him as "the other Ira".

His father was William of Licking Co., Ohio who descends from William Green of Berkeley Co., VA (now WV) according to "A Branch from the Green Tree" by Robert M. Green. Baltimore, Gateway Press: 1978 ; also called "The Green Tree". (No Nelson Green in the index). This line of Greens is grouped at FTDNA as a separate line from the Green line of the Ira Green-11251 profile.

Sources

1. ↑ NPS Soldier Detail
2. ↑ Columbus (OH), Franklin Co., Marriage Record
3. ↑ NARA. Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files,1861-1934:178th B, invalid pension application 321947, 1879 Nov 16, age 59, 6', dark complexion, dark hair, gray eyes", certificate 389830: birth and death dates. (179th xx to 178th). [None of other Iras on Fold 3 are the same Ira.] <http://www.fold3.com Fold3 $>
4. ↑ 1840 United States Federal Census. Truro Twp., Franklin, Ohio; Roll: 393; Page: 177; Image: 360; Family History Library Film: 0020164 [online] Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
5. ↑ 1850 United States Census, Jefferson, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: M432_680; Page: 125B; Image: 262, Ancestry.com <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1850usfedcenancestry&h=19502849&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t69839306_p42204210942_kpidz0q3d42204210942z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid>
6. ↑ United States Census, 1860, index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/MCLW-9X4 : )
7. ↑ "United States Census, 1870," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/M62S-D9P : )
8. ↑ United States Census, 1880, Columbus, Franklin, Ohio; Roll: 1016; Family History Film: 1255016; Page: 95C; Enumeration District: 024; Image: 0309, Ancestry.com <http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1880usfedcen&h=17660511&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt&ssrc=pt_t69839306_p42204210942_kpidz0q3d42204210942z0q26pgz0q3d32768z0q26pgplz0q3dpid>
9. ↑ Columbus DIspatch (Ohio), July 19, 1898, p7, col 8
10. ↑ Columbus (Ohio), Franklin Co., Board of Health. Deaths
11. ↑ "Ohio, County Death Records, 1840-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-99ZY-199J-6?cc=2128172&wc=Q68D-84J%3A1296032501%2C1296571902 : 2 October 2014), Franklin > image 600 of 656; county courthouses, Ohio.
12. ↑ Methodist Hill Cemetery, Reynoldsburg. personal visit, 2013
13. ↑ search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=websearch-3904&h=5688332&indiv=try
14. ↑ https://www.nps.gov/civilwar/search-battle-units-detail.htm?battleUnitCode=UOH0178RI
15. ↑ Eric E. Johnson, "Noah G Johnson of the 178th Ohio Volunteer Infantry", Ohio Genealogical Society Quarterly, v56, n3, pp309-10.