George William (Greene) Green Sr. (1812 - 1901)

Born 1812 in New Brunswick

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Pineo) Green — married 1834 in Nova Scotia

Husband of Sarah Ann (Pineo) Green — married 15 Dec 1852 in Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia

Descendants

Died 1901 at about age 89 in Kings, Nova Scotia, Canada

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Biography

George "William" Green was born in New Brunswick about 1812, and died possibly after 1901. He was the son of Willet Green and Hannah Vincent. William married first, Elizabeth “Betsy” Pineo, and second, her sister Sarah Ann “Sally” Pineo, daughters of John "Jack" Pineo and Sarah Ells.

Elizabeth “Betsy” (Pineo) Green was born in 1814 in Blomidon, Kings, Nova Scotia. She died on 21 Jun 1851 In Nova Scotia and was buried in 1851 at Habitant Cemetery, Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia. William Green was left a widower with six children.

Children of William Green and Elizabeth Pineo

1. James4 GREEN b. circa 1836 Cornwallis Twnshp, Kings, NS, Canada; m. Martha PERRY; m. Eliza Adelia HUNTLEY
2. Harriett Ann GREEN b. Jun 1838 Pereau, Kings, NS, Canada; m. 13 Mar 1857 Cornwallis, Kings, NS, Canada, Bartholomew Elman HILTZ b. 5 Mar 1837, New Ross, NS, son of Alexander & Sarah (Bezanson) Hiltz; d. 5 Aug 1916, buried in Anglican cem; Harriett d. Mar 1919 at age 80; bur. 1919 Anglican Church Cemetery, Forties, NS, Canada
3. Vincent GREEN b. 4 Apr 1841 Blomidon, Kings, NS, Canada; m. Sapphronia WEAVER of David WEAVER and Harriet PINEO
4. Emma GREEN b. between 1842 and 1847
5. Nancy M. GREEN (Huntley) b. 1848 Blomidon, Kings, NS, Canada; d. 28 Mar 1915 Kingsport, NS, Canada; bur. 1915 Habitant Cemetery, Cornwallis Twnshp, Kings, NS, Canada; (not found in Kings Co. Cemeteries records)
6. Prudence Jane GREEN (Martin Bennett) b. 21 Sep 1848 Pereau, Kings, NS, Canada; m. 7 Feb 1867 Pereau, Kings, NS, Canada; William MARTIN b. 1835. They had 8 children: Cassie Dallas, Etta Ethel (m. Frank PINEO 7 Feb 1900, had 4 children, she lived to be 103), Rupert, Alfred, Fred, Edgar, Alexandera “Allie”, and Lena M; m. 21 Oct 1909 Kingsport, NS, Canada, Charles Rufus BENNETT, son of William & Margaret Bennett. He died in 1933; she d. 22 Mar 1935 Glenmont, NS, Canada, at age 86

While William Green’s first wife, Elizabeth Pineo, is buried in Cornwallis, Kings, Nova Scotia, no records have been found in Kings County for the death or burial of William Green or his second wife, Sarah Ann Pineo. Sarah Ann “Sally” (Pineo) Green was born circa 1829 Cornwallis Township, Kings, Nova Scotia. She died after 1871.

Children of William Green and Sarah Pineo

1. Benjamin4 GREENE b. circa 29 Dec 1852 Pereau, Kings, NS, Canada; m. Annie SLATTERY
2. Hannah Augusta GREEN (Connors) b. circa 1854
3. George William GREENE Jr. b. 11 Jun 1856 RI; m. Rebecca “Beth” Maria LEWIS
4. Charles Edgar GREENE b. 24 Apr 1857 Lower Pereau, Kings, NS, Canada; m. Idella WEAVER; m. Nanna MAYNARD (HART GREENE)
5. Martha E. GREEN b. circa 1860 Lower Blomidon, Kings, NS, Canada; m. 18 Feb 1888 Canning, NS, Canada, Abraham RAFUSE b. ca. 1866 at L. Mill Village, NS; son of Ephraim and Ann Rafuse; Martha d. after 1888
6. Esther GREENE (Pineau Nowell), b. 10 Jul 1866, NS, Canada; m. Charles H. Dunton; m. Freeman Emery; “(Great) Aunt Esther and her sisters, Bertha and Waite were each almost six feet tall. The Greene men were also generally tall,” remembers Charlene Strout Custer
7. Annie GREENE (Russell) b. circa 11 Jun 1864; m. James W. RUSSELL
8. Bertha GREENE (DUNTON EMERY)
9. Ruben R. GREENE b. 15 Jul 1868 Cornwallis, Kings, NS, Canada; d. after 1901. Ruben Greene’s children — Charlene Custer said their names were Rufus, Hilbard, Maude and Benjamin, born around 1900 or after. Could there be some confusion with Vincent Green’s children, Rufus, Hibbert, and Maude of a previous generation? Bertha Strout’s picture album contain several pictures identified as Uncle Reuben’s farm in Anson, ME and one has a little girl, “Maude”
10. Waite GREENE (Glass) b. 22 Jan 1871 Pereau, Kings, NS, Canada
11. Laura GREENE b. say 1872 NS, Canada; d. --

William Green appeared on the census of 1871 Lower Pereau, Kings, Nova Scotia; occupation farmer. There is a William Green, farmer, age 78, listed in the 1891 Census for Wickham Parish, Queen’s Co. New Brunswick. However, his wife’s name is shown as Elizabeth. A 40-year old son Charles Green is living with them and William Green did have a son named Charles, but that Charles Green also had a wife and children and they emigrated in the summer of 1891 from Blomidon, Kings County to Kenduskeag, Maine.

On the 1901 Canada Census for Wickham there is also a William Green, lodger (living with the family of George and Ada McLean), age 89, born July 28, 1821 (should be 1812?). William Green’s family was from Queen’s County, New Brunswick. If he retired back to his ancestral land, then this could be the same person and he died after 1901.

It is said that George William Green was one of James Green’s three grandsons who came to Kings County, Nova Scotia.

He used the name William Green, dropping the “George” completely, even for most public records. The name “George William Green” appears on birth certificates for two of his children, however. The grandchildren of Charles E. Greene knew of him only as William Green(e). An LDS Family Group Record lists him as William G. Green.

“Old Billy was how the family referred to him in later years (followed by a little giggle),” remembers Barbara Fluck. (Barbara knew his grandchildren, Rufus, Fred and Hibbard Greene from her childhood in Nova Scotia.) The children of William Green generally started spelling their surname “Greene” by the 1890s.

Sources

• Canada Census 1871 for Canning, Kings, Nova Scotia Green, William (59), Sarah (42), and 11 children
• Bryan, Jan Custer. Descendants of Sergeant James (Caleb?) Green. Sourced. 2001.
• Crowe, Leslie. Descendants of Joseph Green.