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Marriage Record
Date: 14 Sept 1826 by Jonathan Wright
Place: Mason, West Virginia, United States
Edward Green
Sarah Parsons
1840 Jackson, VA
1m 5-10 John
1m 30-40
3 f 0-5 Elvira, Angelina, & ?
2f 5-10 Elizabeth & ?
1f 20-30
1850 Jackson, VA # 388-392
Green Edward H 42 M Farmer Va
Green Sarah 31 F Va
Green Frances 21 F Va
Green Elizabeth 17 F Va
Green Elvira 12 F Va
Green Angeline 10 F Va
Green Jane 8 F Va
Green Smith 6 M Va
Green Caroline 5 F Va
Green Margaret 4 F Va
Green Melisa 2 F Va
Green Scarlet 1 M Va
Williams Walton 27 M Farmer Va
1860 Jackson Co WV # 416-384
Green, Edward, 55
Sarah, 48
Jane 19
Caroline 18
Smith 17
Mary 15
Melissa 13
Scarett 11
Williams, James, 26, teacher
Elvira, 23
George, 2
1870 Mill Creek, Jackson, West Virginia
Edward H Green 65 VA
Sarah Green 63 VA
Margaret Green 24 VA
Melissa Green 23 VA
Scarler F Green 21 VA
From the works of John House:
EDWARD GREEN
Edward Green, familiarly known as “Old Neddy Green” by his neighbors, was present and a participant in one of the most appalling tragedies with which Jackson County has ever been visited. His father, Charles Green, settled with his family about the beginning of the century, on the Trace Fork of the Poca River. A neighbor, Reuben Harrison about the same time settled on Mud Lick, a branch of Thirteen Mile Creek. He had several sons, among them Josiah and Alexander, and a lad of about twelve years, name Zebulon.
In the spring of 1813, when Edward Green was about ten years old, his father allowed him to accompany him on one of his hunting expeditions on the waters of Eighteen, which he and the Harrisons often made together.
The elder Green and Alexander Harrison had gone out in the morning, and, having killed, dressed and hanged up a deer, found a tree, which, from the marks made by scratching they supposed to contain a bear. Hastening to the Harrison home seven miles distant, they procured axes for chopping the tree, and accompanied by the boys, hurried back, but found no bear when the tree was felled.
As it was now too late to return that night before it became dark, they decided to camp in the woods, as was a common custom. A little search discovered a large sheltering rock, under which they could bestow themselves very comfortably on a bed of leaves the boys prepared while the men built a fire under the outer side of the cave, and prepared supper, after which they lay down to slumber, little dreaming of the terrible fate awaiting them. During the night, the combined effect of the heat and frost caused the rock overhead to burst and fall upon the sleepers below. Both the men were crushed from the hips down, both men died in great agony after two or three days suffering, but the boys, owning to their smaller size, and the mass of rock being partially supported by a rock under the end where they lay, were, though badly bruised, able to extricate themselves, and were found by the neighbors, nearly famished, on the fourth day after the accident.
Both recovered and grew to manhood.
Two of Charles Green’s daughters, Sally and Betsy, married Jesse and Charles Carney, respectively.
Edward Green married Chlora Koontz Pfost, daughter of Henry Koontz.
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