Green
Wood
Born in Washington, Georgia, United States
Son of Solomon Wood
and Elizabeth Eason
Husband of
Unknown Hollinger
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Husband of
Mary Wilkie (Hall) Wood
— married
1817 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Green Mark Wood and Elizabeth Green (Wood) Powell
Died
at age 74
in Montgomery, Texas, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 31 Jan 2019
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Biography
Green was born in 1792. He was the son of Solomon Wood.
Green established the Greenwood Plantation in 1850 in Montgomery County, Texas, bringing his family and several slave families from their previous home in Montgomery County, Alabama. His plantation daily account book, which survives, describes some of the events of the move and the process of planting at the new plantation.
He passed away in 1866.
Slaves Owned
- Archable Guilford [1]
- Others listed in [1]
See also: Slaves of Green Wood
Sources
- Lucas, Rev. Silsa Emmett, Jr., “Some Georgia County Records, Vol. 1,” Southern Historical Press, Greenville, SC, 1st printing 1977, 2nd printing 1994.
- Wood, Green. Greenwood Plantation, Montgomery County, Texas, 1850-1866. Compiled, digitized and transcribed by E. Vorwerk and W. B. Wood Jr. DVD-ROM. Georgetown, TX: Vorwerk/Wood, 2006.Family research and transcription of plantation records, private collection of Elsa Vorwerk
See also:
- Greenwood Plantation Accounts, images of original documents, 1856-1857, https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth611889/
- Find-a-grave #84888162
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Katie (Cooper) Bryant
Katie (Cooper) Bryant
As a member of the US Black Heritage Project, I have added a list of the slaves owned by Green Wood on this profile with categories using the standards of the US Black Heritage Exchange Program. This helps us connect enslaved ancestors to their descendants. See the Heritage Exchange Portal for more information.
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