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Note of editor Don Smith Most of the Green Genealogy was given to me by Marilyn Janette Everhart Kowalski, wife of Jerome “Jerry” Carl Kowalski, grandson of Willard "Will" Davis Green, who was brother to Francis Edward "Dusty" Green, George Green and John “Jack” Maxwell Green.

 

Gardner Green

            (Also see the 1850 Census page for Gardner Green)

                Birth: About 1783, New York

                Death: Unknown death date

        

                Wife: Phebe Green

                                (Maiden name unknown)

                                Birth: About 1787, New York

                                Death: Unknown Death Date

 

                 Child Of Gardner Green and Phebe Green
                               1. Robert T. Green (Birth: 23 Aug 1820, Herkimer County, NY)

        

Robert T. Green

                Birth: 23 AUG 1820, Herkimer County, New York

                Death: AFTER 10 AUG 1875 in Arcadia, Trempealeau County, Wisconson 

                  

          Wife: Fannie Marie Bray.

                                Birth: 13 FEB 1840, in Jefferson (near Edwardsburg), Cass County, Michigan

                                Death: 10 APR 1915, Wisconson Veterans Home, King, Waupaca County, Wisconsin

                                Buried: In the cemetery of the Veterans Home, King, Wisonsin (Her second husband

                                                was a veteran of the Civil War.)

 

                                Fannie’s Father: Birth: Oct 1811, NY. Maxwell Bray was of Scottish descent.           

                                Fannie’s Mother: Dolly Orrissa Davis.  Birth: March 1821, NY. Dolly’s father,

                                                David Davis, Jr.,  was born in Connecticut about 1792 and died about 1864

                                                in South Bristol, Ontario County,  New York. He was a veteran of the War

                                                of 1812. Both his wife and daughter were named Dolly. The father of David

                                                Davis, Jr. was David Davis, Sr. and he was born about 1755 in Connecticut,

                                                and was a veteran of the Revolutionary War.  He received his military pension

                                                as a resident of Canandaigua County, New York. He was found in the 1820

                                                Census there. Both Dolly Orrissa Davis and her son Dave Bray are listed in

                                                the 1900 census for Howell County, Missouri, so both died after the 1900

                                                Census was taken. Dolly was of Irish descent.

 

                                                Children of Maxwell Bray and Dolly Orrissa Davis:

                                                1. John Wesley Bray Birth: 7 Sep 1849, Palmyra, Wayne County, NY.

                                                (Editor Note: John’s Wesley Bray’s great-granddaughter, Mary

                                                                Foster Ludvigsen, supplied me with useful Green genealogy

                                                                information and put me in contact with Jerry and Marilyn

                                                                Kowalski. Marilyn was an enormous help with this Green

                                                                Genealogy.)

                                                2. Fannie Marie Bray Birth: 13 Feb 1840, Jefferson, Cass County, Michigan

                                                3. David M. Bray. Birth: May 1854, Erie County, PA. Listed in the 1900 Census for                                                                Willow Springs, Howell County, Missouri. He was listed as divorced                                                                and an invalid. Aunt Minnie (Lucille Green) said she understood that he                                                                had crippled feet.

                                                4. Emma Louise Bray. Birth: 18 Aug 1844, Jefferson, Cass County, Michigan.
                                                               Married: George Provost.     

 

                                After husband Robert T. Green died, Fanny married Horace Rockwell, Jr.:

                                                Horace Rockwell, Jr.

                                                                Birth: 2 JUL 1833, Buffalo, Erie County, Pennsylvania

                                                                Death: 9 APR 1906.

                                                                Buried: Pentwater, Michigan

                        Civil War:

                                                                                Horace Rockwell, Jr. was in the Civil War. He received a

                                                                gunshot wound to the left knee on 20 SEP 1863 at Chickamauga,

                                                                Georgia. He was discharged NOV 1864 at Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

                                                                He is listed in 1861 as having navy eyes, brown hair and stature of

                        5' 11" tall.

 

                Children Of Robert T. Green and Fannie Marie Bray:

                                1. Francis Edward "Dusty" Green (Birth: 27 APR 1859, Amity, Erie County,

                                                Pennsylvania)

                                2. Willard Davis Green (Birth: 31 MAY 1860, Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania)

                                3. John "Jack" Maxwell Green (Birth: 23 SEP 1870, Arcadia, Trempealeau County, WI)

                                4. George Green (Birth: 13 MAY 1863, Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania)

                                5. Nellie Green (Birth: 28 JUL 1873, Arcadia, Trempealeau County,Wisconsin)

 

                Robert T. Green and wife, Fannie Marie Bray are listed for homesteading in Trempealeau

                County, Wisconsin. Robert T. Green died and Fannie Marie Bray married Horace Rockwell.

                Horace Rockwell's son from his 1st marriage talked his father Horace and Fanny into moving

                to Wisconsin. Willard Davis Green and Ollie Mae Ures also moved to Wisconsin.

 

Francis Edward ("Dusty") Green

Birth:  26 APR 1859, Amity, Erie County, Pennsylvania. Railroad Engineer. He was known all his                               life in Louisiana as “Dusty”. The nickname “Dusty” is even on his tombstone.

                Death: 6 JAN 1953. Died at the home of daughter Elsie Elnora Green Self  due to complications

                                of old age. He outlived three wives and died in Grandma Elsie’s house there on the

                                little hill outside Hornbeck, Louisiana. She put a bed in the dining room so she could

                                hear him at night. She took care of him until he died. He was ninety-four years old.

                                He is buried in the Oak Grove Cemetery, 3 mile east of Hornbeck, Louisiana.         

                Marriage: To Alice Elnora “Nora” Dumbleton 16 SEP 1883, Arcadia, Trempeleau Co, Wisconsin.

                Father: Robert T. Green    Mother: Fannie Maria Bray  

                Brothers: Willard Davis “Will” Green, John Maxwell “Jack” Green and George Green.

 

                Wife: Alice Elnora (“Nora”) Dumbleton

                                Birth: 15 SEP 1864

                                Death: 25 JUL 1910, Oak Grove Cemetery

                                                Father: Horace Dumbleton (7 JUL 1823 to 26 SEP 1893)

                                                Mother: Harriett Deavitt (14 MAY 1830 to about 1874)

                               

                                                Children of Horace Dumbleton and Harriett Deavitt:

                                                                (1) David Dumbleton (Birth: 22 NOV 1849)

                                                                (2) Adelia L. Dumbleton (Birth: 1 SEP 1851)

                                                                (3) Hiram L.Dumbleton (Birth: 22 MAY 1857)

                                                                (4) Abba Dumbleton (Birth: 8 SEP 1857)

                                                                (5) Milton Dumbleton (Birth: 19 APR 1862)

                                                                (6) Alice Elnora (Nora) DUMPLETON (Birth: 15 SEP 1864)

 

                Children of Francis Edward Green And Nora DUMPLETON:

                                (1) Hiram G. Green (Birth: 12 NOV 1884)

                                (2) Ralph W. Green (Birth: 22 OCT 1886)

                                (3) Robert H. Green (Birth: 16 NOV 1889)

                                (4) Elsie Elnora Green (Birth:  19 JUL 1893)

                        (5) Frances Merle Green (Birth: 21 MAR 1902)

                               

                                Information on Grandma Elsie’s brothers and one sister:

                                                In a 1949 letter written to her cousin Francis Willard “Frank” Green

                                (His father, Willard Davis Green, was Grandma Elsie’s uncle), Elsie Elnora Green

                                relates that her older brother Hiram lived in Malvern, Arkansas, living alone on a

                                small place. He had married but his wife died eight months after the wedding. Elsie

                                goes on to say that her brothers Bert (has to be Robert H. Green)  and Ralph (Ralph

                                W. Green) lived in Ogden, Utah. According to the letter, Bert had 3 girls, all married,

                                with 2 children each and worked as a road builder. She relates that Ralph had no

                                children and worked in a railroad office. Bert and Ralph used to come to Louisiana

                                every year or so to visit their dad, Francis Edward Green. Elsie said that her sister

                                Merle (Frances Merle Green) lived on a farm 12 miles from Leesville, Louisiana.

                                Aunt Merle had six children, two boys who were grown and four in school. She was

                                married to a barber. Grandma Elsie commented that her sister Merle was short like

                                Grandma Green. By “Grandma Green” she must have meant Grandma Fannie Marie

                                (Bray) Green.    

 

          Elsie Elnora Green

                                Birth: 19 JUL 1893, Van Buren,  Crawford County, Arkansas.

                                Death: 30 DEC 1986, Byrd Memorial Hospital, Leesville,

                                              Vernon Parish, Louisiana                                

                                Father: Francis Edward Green.

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                                Mother: Alice Elnora “Nora” Dumbleton

                                Social Security Number: 439-11-9190

 

                   Husband: David Edgar Self

                                                Birth: 03 DEC 1890, Sabine Parish, Louisiana.

                                                Death: 25 MAR 1969, Kurthwood Manor Nursing Home, Leesville, Louisiana

                                                Buried: Oak Grove Cemetery, 3 mile east of Hornbeck, LA.  Died of throat

                                                               cancer.

                                                Married: 15 SEP 1912

                                                Editor’s Note: But for the last year, David Edgar Self took all of his

                                    medical training to become a doctor like his father, Dr. Christopher

                                    Columbus Self, M. D.  He contracted typhoid fever, and was sick for

                                    about a year. Never completing his medical training, he instead

                                    became a building contractor.

 

                Children Of Elsie Elnora Green and David Edgar Self:

                                1. Edna Margaret Self (Birth: 1 OCT 1913, Barham, Louisiana. Married: Ralph KING)

                                2. Raymond Ralph (“Jack”) Self (Birth: 14 MAY 1915, Vernon Parish, LA. 

                                                Married: Laura Nell DRENNAN on 16 MAY 1936. (Laura Nell DRENNAN:

                                                Birth: 23 MAY 1918, Comanche, Texas)

                                                Children of Raymond Ralph Self and Laura Ness DRENNAN:

                                                                (1.) Donald Raymond Self (Birth: 10 AUG 1944, Mercedes, Texas)

                                                                (2.) Janell Jewel Self (Birth: 1 AUG 1949, McAllen, Texas.

                                                                                Married: 21 APR 1967 to Jerry Wayne GATHRIGHT)

                                3. Mildred Frances Self (Birth: 27 JUN 1917. Death: 21 SEP 2003. Buried in the

                                                Eagle Point National Cemetery, Eagle Point, Oregon. Married: Hurtis

                                                Alvin Smith on 27 MAY 1935.

                                                Children Of Mildred Frances Self and Hurtis Alvin Smith:

                                                                (1.) Rita Yvonceile Smith (Birth: 26 JUN 1936).

                                                                (2.) Barbara June Smith (Birth: 25 AUG 1937). 

                                                                (3.)  Donald Bernard Smith (Birth:  23 JAN 1940).

                                4. Eva Elnora Self (Birth: 22 SEP 1919 )

                                                Married: Herman Burean Davis on 31 AUG 1940

                                                                Birth of Herman Burean Davis: 15 NOV 1917 Gandy, LA.

                                                                Father: Bernie Davis. 

                                                                Mother: Charlotte GEOGHAGAN

                                                Children Of Eva Elnora Self and Herman Bureau Davis:

                                                                (1.) Rose Sharon Davis (Birth: 5 NOV 1941. Married William ROE)

                                                                (2.) Donna Sue Davis (Birth: 15 SEP 1943.  Married Michael DOYLE)

                                                                (3.) Gloria Ann Davis (Birth: 25 OCT 1944, Hornbeck, Louisiana)

                                                                (4.) David Herman Davis (Birth: 26 DEC 1948, Many, Louisiana)

                                                                (5.) Lisa Denise Davis (Birth: 27 AUG 1960, Leesville, Louisiana)

                                5. Floyd Wilson SELF

                                               Birth: 21 AUG 1921, Louisiana

                                               Death: 18 MAR 1977, Vernon Parish, Louisana

                                               Buried: In Oak Groove Cemetery,  3 miles east of Hornbeck, LA

                                               Social Security Number: 439-10-0435

                                               Married: Helen LEE during World War II . Aunt Helen served  

                                                                           As a WAVE for two years during the war. She

                                                                           remarried a man named Osborne.

                                                Uncle Floyd served in World War II in the Naval Air Force

                                                from JAN 1942 to JAN 1946. He reentered the Navy in 1948 and

                                                served in Norfolk, Virginia, Brunswick, Georgia and had some

                                                overseas tours of duty. It is unclear when he was discharged from

                                                the Navy. If he served for twenty years, he would have been

                                                discharged in 1963.  At some point, he entered a Naval or VA

                                                Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia from which he was discharged

                                                 in 1969.

 

                                                Children of Floyd Wilson Self and Helen Lee:

                                                1. Darrell Self  (Birth: 9 MAY 1945,  Many,  Sabine Parish, LA)

                                                2. Cassandra Ann Self  (Birth: 3 JUN 1948)

 

                                6. Paul Harold Self

                                               Birth: 18 AUG 1923

                                               Death: 3 JUL 1924

                                               Buried: Donna, Hidalgo County, Texas

                                              A ten-month old child who died of  dysentery caused from

                                               drinking impure water. 

                                  

                                7. Donald Edgar “Donnie” Self               

                                                Birth: About 1927-28 

                                                Death: 26 AUG 1934, Hidalgo County, Texas

                                                At six years of age, he drowned while swimming with  

                                                his family. He was a very special and sweet kid. His

                                                death hit the family hard.                                                

 

                               8. Gerald Lamar “Pete” SELF

                                               Birth: 13 JAN 1930, Donna, Texas

                                               Married:Ora Katherine DENTON

                                                                Birth: 5 JUL 1932, La Feria, Texas

                                                                Death: 2 JAN 2006, Jasper, Texas

 

                                Children of Gerald Lamar SELF and Ora Katherine DENTON:

                                1. Paul Glenn SELF (Birth: 20 NOV 1954, Alice, Texas)

                                2. Michael Wade SELF (Birth: 24 JUN 1959, McAllen, Texas)


Willard Davis (“Willie/Will”) Green

                Birth: 31 MAY 1860, Waterford, Erie County, Pennsylvania

                Death: 16 JAN 1946, Taylor County, Wisconsin

                Marriage: Olive Mae “Ollie” Ures in Howell County, Missouri in 1897. In 1903, Willard and wife

                                    Ollie removed to Wisconsin. Willard was known as W. D. Green in newspaper write ups.

                Militia: Aunt Minnie (Minnie Lucille Green) said that Willard Davis Green was in the Missouri

                               Militia. So far no records have been found to show that. He would have been 38 years old

                               for the Spanish American War of 1898, so he probably wasn’t in that war.

               

                Wife: Olive Mae “Ollie” Ures

                   Birth: SEP 1880 in Missouri

                                Death: 22 FEB 1950, Medford, Taylor Co, Wisconsin

 

                                Ollie’s last name, when pronounced, sounded like “Yours”. Ollie’s mother died

                                 when she was very small. Her father, Gus, left when she was 5 years old, in 1885.

                                She was raised by the McGoldSmith or Mach GoldSmith family. At age 17 she had

                                to get permission to marry Willard. A man there took out guardianship papers on

                                her and gave her permission to marry. The guardianship papers and marriage

                                certificate have the same date in 1897. Ollie’s sister, Matilda “Lena” Emmaline,

                                married a John Oliver.

 

                Children Of Willard Davis Green and Ollie Mae Ures:                                                          

                                1. Althea Emmaline “Aldie” Green. (Birth: 24 FEB 1898, Howell County, Missouri.

                                                Death: 30 NOV 1974)

                                2. Mabel Green. (Birth: JAN 1900, Willow Springs, Missouri. Death: NOV 1900, died

                                                as a 9 month old baby. Buried in Willow Springs, Missouri)

                                3. Elsie Mae Green. (Birth: 21 APR 1902. Death: 1984)

                                4. Elnora Alice “Norie” Green. (Birth: 22 JAN 1904, Morse, WI. Death: 25 JUN 1997)

                                5. Francis Willard “Frank” Green. (Birth: 5 AUG 1906, Ashland County, Wisconsin.

                                                Death: 28 JUL 1951)

                                6. Leslie Howard “Les” Green. (Birth: 1 JUN 1915, Mellen, WI. Death: 4 DEC 1966)

                                7. Martha Ann Green. (Birth: 2 APR 1912, Butternut, Ashland County, Wisconsin.

                                                Death: 23 JAN 1960)

                                8. Minnie Lucille Green. (Birth: 2 AUG 1917. Goodrich, Taylor County, Wisconsin.

                                                Death: 27 Feb 2008, Rib Lake, Taylor County, Wisconsin)

 

          Althea Emmaline “Aldie” Green

                                Birth: 24 FEB 1898, Howell County, Missouri

                                Death: 30 NOV 1974, Princeton, Wisconsin. Aunt Aldie had 14 children, but 7 died

                                                young, 4 from scarlet fever.

                                Marriage #1: To Edward Kautzer 19 SEP 1915, Mellen, Wisconsin.

                                Marriage #2: To Feliz Briske, 28 MAY 1960

 

                                Husband #1: Edward Kautzer

                                                Aldie Green and Ed Kautzer had 14 children but 7 died young from scarlet fever.

                                                Birth: 21 DEC 1892, Dorchester, Wisconsin.

                                                Death: 28 NOV 1957.

 

                                                Children of Althea Emmaline “Aldie” Green & Edward Kautzer:

                                    The numbers below in blue are those children who either died at birth or died young.

                                                1. Zella  Mae Kautzer. Birth: 23 JUN 1916. Death: 1989, Wisconsin.

                                                2. Garnet Kautzer. Birth: 1919. Death: 28 OCT 1930 at age eleven of scarlet

                                                                fever. Buried: EverGreen Cemetery, Medford, Taylor County, Wisconsin.

                                                3. Baby died shortly before birth, 19 JUL 1920.

                                                4. Buddy Leroy Kautzer. Birth: 11 SEP 1921. Death: 29 OCT 1930 of scarlet

                                                                fever. Buried: EverGreen Cemetery, Medford, Taylor County, Wisconsin.

                                                5. Baby died at birth.

                                                6. Fern Kautzer. Birth: 3 NOV 1923. Death: 23 May 1925 of scarlet fever.

                                                                uried: EverGreen Cemetery, Medford, Taylor County, Wisconsin.

                                                7. Ray Willard Kautzer. Birth: 19 MAY 1925. Death: 27 NOV 2002, Princeton,

                                                                Wisconsin.

                                                8. LeRoy Edward Kautzer. Died at birth.

                                                9. Frances Kautzer. Birth: 24 APR 1928. Death: 27 OCT 1930 of scarlet fever.

                                                                Buried: EverGreen Cemetery, Medford, Taylor County, Wisconsin.

                                                10 Gerald Arthur “Jerry” Kautzer. Birth: 27 JUN 1930. Death: 17 APR 2000

                                                11 Jacqualine Ruth Kautzer. Birth: 23 FEB 1932. Death: After 1980.

                                                12. Earl Russell Kautzer. Birth: 18 NOV 1933. Death: 14 FEB 2001.

                                                13. Dxxx Mxxxxx Kautzer. Birth: 27 AUG 1935. Still living.

                                                14. Fxx Exxxx Kautzer. Birth: 14 OCT 1938. Still living.

               

                             Note of Marilyn Janette Everhart Kowalski: Most of the Kautzer men had heart

                                                surgery when they were 50 or older. Ray Willard Kautzer was headed out to go

                                                deer hunting and fell over dead in his yard of a  heart attack. Jackie (Jacqueline

                                                Ruth Kautzer) and Jerry (Gerald Arthur Kautzer) both died of cancer. Jerry was

                                                also diabetic.

 

                   Husband #2: Felix Briske

                                                After her first husband died in 1957, Aldie married Feliz Briske, 28 MAY 1960

                                                Birth: 14 NOV 1897

                                                Death: 23 SEP 1973, Princeton, Wisconsin.

         

          Elsie Mae Green

                                Birth: 21 APR 1902, Wisconsin.

                                Death: 1984.

                                Buried: EverGreen Cemetery, Medford, Taylor County, Wisonsin.

                                Marriage #1: To William “Bill” Strebe, 23 NOV 1921

                                Marriage #2: To Albert J. Rogers, 9 JAN 1926

 

                                Husband #1: William Strebe

                                                Birth: 1895

                                                Death: Unknown Date. He was up in a tree and somebody shot him, thinking him

                                                              to be a bear.

               

                                Child of Elsie Mae Green and William Strebe

                                                1. Nora Evagilene Strebe. (Birth: 20 AUG 1922. Death: OCT 2004)