Green Family Burial Ground on Beck's Knob

Date: About 1800 to about 1870
Location: Fairfield, Ohio, United States
Surname/tag: Green

John Green (1765-1831) and his wife, Ruhama (Nichols) Bilderback Green (1769-1842), moved from Virginia to Ohio soon after 1798 and settled on Beck's knob, west of Lancaster. Several deceased family members were said to have been buried on the west slope of their property. No markers of any kind are visible today and only the family history remains. This page will be a gathering place for any and all of this family history that mentions individuals who may have been buried here. Further, any immediate or extended family members who have no confirmed burial place anywhere else and died during the time that John and Ruhama owned the property will be listed in a section labeled as such. No information regarding burials of anyone other than family is known.

The eight children of Ruhama Nichols Bilderback Green:
By Charles Bilderback;

1. Ephraim Bilderback (1787-bef.1823). 1823 Will and death in Greene County, Ohio before 1823. His wife, Sarah (Fletcher) Bilderback Hempleman (abt.1789-abt.1847), died about 1847 in unknown place.
2. Martha (Bilderback) Green (abt.1789-abt.1850). Died in Union County, Ohio about 1850. Her husband, William Green (abt.1790-) (son of Regnal and Sarah Green), also died about the same time and place.

By John Green;

1. Sarah Green (1792-1834). Death in Fairfield County, Ohio in 1834. Her husband, William Green (abt.1790-) (parents unknown), Had an unknown death date and place.
2. Deborah (Green) Williamson (1794-aft.1850). Died in Franklin County, Ohio after 1850. Her husband, John Williamson (abt.1790-aft.1850) (parents unknown), died after 1850 in Franklin County, Ohio.
3. William Green (1797-1847). Died in Hocking County, Ohio in 1847. His wife, Rebecca (McBride) Green (1799-1883) died in 1893 in Farfield County, Ohio. Their burials were both probably in Union Church Cemetery, Good Hope Township.
4. John Green, Jr. (1799-1846). Died in Hocking County, Ohio in 1846. His wife and widow, Elizabeth Unknown, died after 1846. Her husband's estate may have allowed her to remain in her home and be buried with John.
5. Delilah (Green) Green (1804-1849). Died in Fairfield County, Ohio in 1849. Her husband, Jacob Green (abt.1793-1874), died in 1874 in Ffairfield County, Ohio. Both of their burials were in Dutch Hollow Cemetery, Amanda, Fairfield County, Ohio.
6. Susan Green (1806-). Death place unknown.
7. Rhoda (Green) Sprague (1808-aft.1880). No known death date or place. Her husband, Nehemiah B Spragg (abt.1804-aft.1880) died after 1880 in probably Lewis County, Kentucky.
8. Reginald Green (1811-aft.1850). Died in Pickaway County, Ohio after 1850.

There is some other history and information relevant to Beck's knob and Hunters Run.

John & Ruhama Green along with their 3 children; Sarah, Deborah and William and also Ruhama's older children by Charles Bilderback, Ephraim and Martha, moved to Fairfield County Ohio in 1798. "The elder John Green settled just south of Van Burton's and on land near. When Green came, he followed this run up until he came to the knob, now the Beck property, here he killed a bear and a deer and afterwards located on the spot. It is claimed by some that Allen Green, his son, was the first white child born in this county".
(Note: Allen Green was John's brother. The son referred to is John Green Jr.). (Fairfield & Perry Counties; A.A. Graham; 1883).
John is on the 1801 Ross Co. Tax List (Gateway to the West Vol & #1, Jan-Mar 1974) for what later became Fairfield County, Ohio, 30 Jul 1801. He is listed as a Taxpayer in 1806. He is again on the 1810 Tax List of Fairfield Co., Ohio with 320 acres in Range 19, Township 14, Section 9.
John finished paying for his land on September 30, 1806 in Fairfield Co., Ohio. Thomas Jefferson President and James Madison Secretary of State to John Green of Fairfield. E ½ section 9, township 14, range 19. Recorded 19 Mar 1836. This was probably his place of residence in 1820^[1] and 1830.^[2] The 1820 census shows (see image), two males over age 45 are in his household. One is himself and the other may be his father, Regnal, age 96. His brother, Allen, is on the next page.
John Green passed away on November 22, 1831 at the age of 66 years (Lancaster Eagle - newspaper). John spent his life as a pioneer, a hunter, a husband, a father and a respected member of the community. He traveled from his home in Berkeley County, Virginia, while still in his teens, to the dangerous frontier along the Ohio River. Then he was there again after marrying Ruhama and they both ventured into the new settlement along the Hocking River of Ohio, New Lancaster.

The cemetery where John and Ruhama Bilderback Green are buried is at the base of the west slope of Beck's Knob and overlooks Hunters Run.^[3]

Beck's Knob looking south, with burial ground on the right.

No grave markers remain at this early cemetery of Fairfield County where members of the Green family were laid to rest. To our knowledge there are no records from this burying ground.
(Beck's Knob Neighborhood; Crossroads & Fence Corners). ^[4]

Sources

1. ↑ FamilySearch.org, [1], 1820 US Census.
2. ↑ FamilySearch.org, [2], 1830 US Census.
3. ↑ FamilySearch.org, [3], Burial Index.
4. ↑ From "Frank L.M. Wolford & Laura May Green, Their Ancestors & Descendants," [4], Compiled by Loraine Russell Kerns & Alma Wolford Russell 2004