Philip Green (1810 - 1892)

Born 6 Sep 1810 in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, USA

Ancestors

Husband of Diane (Olin) Green — married about 1829 in Vermont

Descendants

Died 6 Feb 1892 at age 81 in Geauga County, Ohio, USA

Problems/Questions Profile manager: Mel Green [send private message]

Biography

Philip was the youngest son of Asa Green and his wife Sarah Olin who emigrated from Rhode Island to Vermont. The Greens and Olins were Seventh Day Baptists, a strict sect who believed that Saturday was the Sabbath, and who migrated to spread the word in a typical Yankee migration pattern. He was born in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, 6 September 1810.

Family legend^[1] and census records^[2] gave us Anson's birthplace as Vermont. Another item from family stories was that after Anson and Mag's untimely deaths they got help from an aunt who had married a man named Henry Newcomb (This turned out to be Charles Newcomb, husband of Anson's sister Jane. Green-20 12:40, 28 March 2015 (EDT)) According to the story this uncle had helped Anson's son Fred get a job working at the roundhouse in Kansas City, Missouri after his parents had died.

We know from school records that Philip Green of Shaftsbury, Bennington County, Vermont had at least four children: Aleista, Jane, Anson, and Sarahett.^[3] According to these records, in 1848 Anson lived with Asa Green, in 1849 he (along with Philip's other children Jane, Aleista, and Sarahett) lived with Philip, in 1850-52 he lived with Charles Newcomb and his new wife Jane Green, and in 1853 he was back with Philip again.

In the 1850 census of Shaftsbury, Bennington Co, Vermont, Philip and Diana had living with them Eleista, Charlotte (Sarahett?), and Mary. Five pages previously Anson was enumerated with Jane Newcomb and her new husband Charles. (My belief is that Jane is Anson's sister and Philip's daughter, referenced in the earlier school records.) ^[4]

In 1860 in Geauga Co, Ohio we find Elesta and her husband sharing a house with Philip, wife Diana, and children Sarah E. (perhaps Sarah Etta?), Mary A., and Russell (aged 7, b. Vt). Next door is Charles Newcomb, wife Jane, and children Harriet (8, b. Vt) and George (2, b. Ohio). (Lucima Newcomb is listed as 12, but I in fact believe her to be 72-year-old Lucima Newcomb, mother of Charles who was incorrectly listed as "Rosina" in 1850...)^[5]

In this same county Anson Green (no birthplace listed) was living in 1860, with his wife Margaret and two small children Nellie and Asa. The name Asa is circumstantial evidence, since Asa was the father of Philip Green of Bennington Co., VT.^[6]

I believe Philip and his children (Anson, Elesta, Jane, Sarah, Mary, and Russell) migrated together sometime after Russell's birth in 1852 but before Jane's son George was born in 1857. Elesta may have come separately since she and her husband were apparently living in New Hampshire before coming to Ohio (their daughter Lizzie was born in New Hampshire around 1855).

By 1870 both Anson and his brother-in-law Charles Newcomb had moved to Missouri. They settled two counties apart; Anson living in Caldwell County,^[7] and Charles settling in Harrison County.^[8] (As noted above, I believe that Charles Newcomb is "Henry Newcomb" mentioned in family legend.Green-20 12:40, 28 March 2015 (EDT))

Philip remained in Geauga Co, OH in 1870^[9] and 1880.^[10]

He died 6 Feb 1892 in Geauga County.^[11]

He and his wife Diana are buried in Munson, Geauga County, Ohio at Maple Hill Cemetery.^[12]

Sources

1. ↑ "Letter from Cleo Draper Howard to Barbara S. Green regarding her memories of Fred Green's family," 1978, in 2004 in the possession of Cleo's granddaughter, Mel Green, Durham, North Carolina.
2. ↑ "1900 U.S. census, population schedule," Woodland Twp, Logan County, Oklahoma Territory, National Archives microfilm T623, roll 1339; ED 140, Sheet 10, dwelling 188, family 190.
3. ↑ "Shaftsbury (Vt.), Town Clerk, Town and vital records, 1766-1906," film # 0028924, Salt Lake City: filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1952.
4. ↑ 1850 Census: "1850 United States Federal Census"
   The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M432; Residence Date: 1850; Home in 1850: Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont; Roll: 921; Page: 6b; Line Number: 20
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 8054 #1130913
   Phibip Green (37), Laborer, in Shaftsbury, Bennington, Vermont, USA. Born in Vermont.
5. ↑ 1860 Census: "1860 United States Federal Census"
   The National Archives in Washington D.C.; Record Group: Records of the Bureau of the Census; Record Group Number: 29; Series Number: M653; Residence Date: 1860; Home in 1860: Munson, Geauga, Ohio; Roll: M653_967; Page: 719; Family History Library Film: 803967
   Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7667 #43387036
   Phillip Green (48), Farmer, in Munson, Geauga, Ohio. Born in Vermont.
6. ↑ "1860 U.S. census, population schedule," Geauga County, Ohio, National Archives microfilm M653, roll 967, page 909, dwelling 92, family 88
7. ↑ "1870 U.S. census, population schedule," Mirabile Twp, Caldwell County, Missouri, National Archives microfilm M593, roll 763; page 11, dwelling 78, family 78; (microfilm page 191). (This census confirms Anson's birthplace as Vermont.)
8. ↑ "1870 U.S. census, population schedule," Bethany, Harrison County, Missouri, National Archives microfilm M593, roll 778, page 38, dwelling 246, family 246
9. ↑ "1870 U.S. census, population schedule," Munson, Geauga County, Ohio, National Archives microfilm M593, roll 1204, page 229, dwelling 104, family 94
10. ↑ 1870 Census: "1870 United States Federal Census"
    Year: 1870; Census Place: Munson, Geauga, Ohio; Roll: M593_1204; Page: 229A
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7163 #38822594
    Philip Green (58), Farm Laborer, in Munson, Geauga, Ohio. Born in Vermont.
11. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (www.findagrave.com/memorial/93373103/phillip-green : accessed 10 June 2021), memorial page for Phillip Green (1810–1892), Find A Grave: Memorial #93373103, citing Maple Hill Cemetery, Munson Township, Geauga County, Ohio, USA ; Maintained by KBSkala (contributor 48225033) .
12. ↑ Geauga County Genealogical Society, "Geauga County, Ohio Munson Township Cemetery Files," http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/oh/geauga/cemeteries/munson/graves.txt, 3 June 1999.

• Birth: "Vermont, U.S., Vital Records, 1720-1908"
  New England Historic Genealogical Society; Boston, Massachusetts; State of Vermont. Vermont Vital Records through 1870
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 4661 #207851
  Phillip Green born on 6 Sep 1810, son of Asa Green & Sarah Green, in Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA.
• 1880 Census: "1880 United States Federal Census"
  Year: 1880; Census Place: Munson, Geauga, Ohio; Roll: 1019; Page: 103d; Enumeration District: 075
  Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 6742 #17708559
  Phillip Green (65), married, Farmer, head of household in Munson, Geauga, Ohio, USA. Born in Vermont.
• Obituary: "Ohio, U.S., Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Obituary Index, 1810s-2016"
  Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center; Spiegel Grove, Fremont, Ohio; Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Ohio Obituary Index, 1830s to 2011; Newspaper Information: Newspaper: Geauga Republican, Newspaper Date: 10 Feb 1892, Newspaper Page: 05 Column: ; Repository: Chardon Public Library; Years Available: 1872-1910
  Ancestry Record 1671 #2236442
  Name: Philip Green; Death Date: 6 Feb 1892; Death Place: Munson, Ohio, USA; Spouse: Diena.