Cephus Ernest Greene

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• Social Security Number: 266-10-6184
• Residence: 1935, Rural, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1940, T 4 S, Columbia, Florida, USA; StreetAddress: Camphenor; Age: 25; Grader Occupation: Grader; AttendedSchool: No; ClassofWorker: Wage or salary worker in Government work; EmploymentCode: 2; EmploymentDetails: No; EmploymentHistory: No; EnumerationDistrict: 12-20; GradeCompleted: High School, 1st year; HomeOwnership: Rented; Income: 410; IncomeOtherSources: No; IsEmployed: No; MonthsUnEmployedPastYear: 52; OwnsFarm: No; PublicEmergencyWork: Yes; ResidenceFarmNineteenThirtyFive: Yes; SeekingWork: No; ValueOfHome: 5; WeeksWorked: 0; Married MaritalStatus: Married; Head RelationToHead: Head
• Residence: 1951, Florida, USA; Age: 37
• LastKnownResidence: 2000, Slidell, St Tammany, Louisiana, USA

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Died:
Age: 85

Cephus married Irma Lee Miller on 11 Jun 1933 in Hamilton, Florida, USA, and was divorced in 1947 in Duval, Florida, USA. Irma was born in 1915 in Alabama, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Agnes Camille Greene was born on 25 Jul 1948 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA; died on 10 Sep 2013 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA.
2. George Albert Greene was born on 29 Jul 1934 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA; died on 1 Oct 2022 in O'Brien, Suwannee, Florida, USA; was buried in Union Baptist Church Cemetery, Suwannee, Florida, USA.
3. Anna L Greene was born in 1943 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA; died on 24 Jan 2022 in Branford, Suwannee, Florida, USA.
4. Living
5. Living
6. Living
7. Ernest Allan Greene was born on 1 Apr 1938 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA; died on 30 Nov 2019 in Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, USA.
8. Living

Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1870, Baker, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 5, Columbia, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1910, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA

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George Washington Green

Builders of Lake City

George Washington Green, who has been a familiar figure about the lumber camps and woods’ mills for more than half a century, has had a varied career. He laughed as he told of his early schooling, which was scattered over a period of twelve years and totaled about fifteen weeks.

He was born in Baker County and as a barefoot lad of 12 met the celebrated Eppinger Russell coming to Olustee from Savannah to found a great lumber mill. Mr. Russell wanted to see Palestine Lake and hired the little Green boy as his guide, for which service Mr. Russell gave the lad eleven cents, a dime and a penny. It was the first dime Mr. Green had ever seen; he knew the value of a penny and had secretly wished the lumber man had give him two pennies, but later when his older brother read the inscription on the coin and told him it was worth ten pennies, the boy looked upon the hoard as riches beyond the dream of avarice!

Mr. Green’s father was Anson Ruben Green, one of the seven boys, sons of a Baptist preacher. The family is of English extraction and can trace the lines back eight generations to the famous Nathaniel Green, patriot and hero. His mother was Anna Williams Green. The Greens and the Williamses migrated from Charlestown , S. C. to Columbia County in 1844 and here Mr. Green’s parents were married in 1850. The senior Mr. Green died here Nov. 20, 1885 ; his wife had passed away in 1871, when the child was but three years old.

Mr. Green’s father was a mill man and the family was living in Baker County when he was born on Jan. 25, 1864 , but they resumed their residence in this community in 1875 and this city has been the Green hometown since that time.

Mr. Green marvels at the facilities for obtaining an education in these days. He recalls the scarcity of schools in his youth. He was fourteen years old before he had ever seen a school house and was fifteen before he ever entered one. His first teacher was the late father of Mayor M. L. Plympton, at the Falling Creek school. He put in five weeks at that school. The family then moved over on Double Run and there he attended school to Mayor Plympton himself; that was in 1887. In 1891 he was employed up about Genoa and had his third opportunity to attend school. The schools those days only operated two to four months each year and the buildings were dark clapboards of mere long buildings, sometimes without either windows or doors, only the openings. He was quite a big boy before he ever saw a glass window.

Mr. Green recalls that his first job was on the farm of W. W. Herrin, who died recently in the Lake Shore Hospital in this city. His father hired him out under a year’s contract for his board and $75 per year. During the twelve months Mr. Green withdrew $9.45 from his salary for clothes and at the end of the year Mr. Herrin gave the senior Mr. Green $65.55 for the boy’s services.

Mr. Green tried railroading for a short time when he engaged as fireman on the Seaboard. He recalls bringing the iron from the boats at Fernandina to Lake City when the Georgia Southern was built through this community. He has done carpenter work and contracting and in 1907 served as justice of the peace in the Third District. He laughed when he stated that he never had a single case to come up in his court, because he always managed to get the contestants to settle without litigations. During his term of office his fees amounted to exactly fifty cents and that amount was paid to him for affixing his deal to an instrument.

The subject of our lines was married Dec. 31, 1894 when Elizabeth Thomas, sister of N. H. Thomas, the mill man, became his wife. They are the parents of eleven children, six of whom are living.

The living children are Nettie, wife of Tom L. Avery, of this city; Gladys Viola, a nurse in the Alachua County Hospital at Gainesville; Ruben of this city, an employ of the State Road Department; John, of Starke, and Ernest, who lives at home and is a member of the Florida National Guards, now at Camp Foster.

Of the children only Nettie has offspring. Mr. and Mrs. Averyhave five children and these are Mr. Green’s grandchildren. Mr. Green has one living brother, the well known Jack Green of Gainesville and one living sister, Elizabeth, widow of the late Louis Griffin of White Springs.

Mr. Green has been a life-long member of the Advent Christian Church and joined the Masons as a young man. Mr. and Mrs. Green reside in Melrose Park , where they have a pretty little home overlooking Featherwood Gorge, a tributary to Alligator Lake and once a great Indian camp.

Note: George W. Greene died June 8, 1942 and was buried in the Bethel Methodist Church Cemetery . Elizabeth T. Greene was born Nov. 15, 1875 , died Aug. 20, 1947, and was buried beside her husband.

Source - Lake City Reporter, July 17, 1931 .

Submitted by Mary Jane Weaver, weaverma@live.com

George married Elizabeth Ann Thomas on 31 Dec 1894 in Columbia, Florida, USA. Elizabeth was born on 17 Nov 1875 in Clinch, Georgia, USA; died on 20 Aug 1947 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA; was buried in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Elizabeth Grean
• Residence: 1910, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA

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• Residence: USA
• Residence: 1850, Prince Williams Parish, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1860, New River, Bradford, Florida, USA
• Military: 16 Oct 1861, Sanderson, Baker, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1870, Baker, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 5, Columbia, Florida, USA

Anson married Samantha Williams in 1854 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA. Samantha was born in 1835 in South Carolina, USA; died in 1886 in Baker, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Susanna Greene
• Residence: 1860, New River, Bradford, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1870, Baker, Florida, USA
• Residence: 1880, Precinct 5, Columbia, Florida, USA

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• Residence: 1820, Barnwell District, Barnwell, South Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1830, Barnwell, South Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1840, St Lukes Parish, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
• Occupation: 1850; Preacher and Planter
• Residence: 1850, Prince Williams Parish, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA

Notes:

Census: 1800 South Carolina, BARNWELL, Roll 47 Book 1, Page 58b, 2m<10
Census: 1810 South Carolina, BARNWELL, Roll 60 Book 1, Page 95, 2m 10-16
Census: 1820 South Carolina, BARNWELL, Roll 119 Book 1, Page 25, 1m 16-26
Census: 1830 South Carolina, BARNWELL, Roll 169 Book 1, Page 121a, 1m<5, 1m 5-10, 1m 30-40, 1f <5, 2f 5-10, 1f 20-30
Census: 1840 South Carolina, BEAUFORT, Roll 508 Book 1, Page 248a, PRINCE WILLIAM, 1m<5, 1m 5-10, 1m 10-15, 1m 15-20, 1m 30-40; 2f 5-10, 1f 10-15, 1f 30-40
Census: 1850 South Carolina, BEAUFORT, Roll 849 Book 1, Page 21b, PRINCE WILLIAM PAR, age 50
Census: 1850 Value of Real Estate $1, 100.00
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The following quote is from Rev. Lewis Hall Shuck's History of Churches and Ministers of Barnwell Association:

"Rev. William Green was next pastor (third pastor of the Mt. Pleasant Church constituted in 1843) and under his ministry, the church became much divided. Rev. Alexander Campbell made a tour through Barnwell District and his preaching and doctrine produced a division. The pastor and a part of the congregation went over to Campbell. The Reverend Green moved to Florida, where he died in 1857."

The old Green home is in Blackville, South Carolina about ten miles Northeast of Barnwell, South Carolina. The family moved to Florida about 1853.

It is believed that William Joseph and Elizabeth are buried in a cemetery near Blounts Ferry on the Suwannee River in Florida.

The following information was obtained from an article which appeard in the Southern Genealogical Exchange Quarterly, Vol 111, Numer 17, Spring of 1961:

Family Records - Green, William Joseph, Sr.
Dicks, Mary Elizabeth

Rev. William Joseph Green, Sr., a preacher and a planter, born about 1800, according to the U. S. Census of Beaufort County, South Carolina, taken 25 Sept. 1850, at which time he lived with his family in Prince William Parish, moved with his children and grandchildren about 1856 to what was then Columbia County, Florida, in the portion that was known as New River County in 1860 census, and by 1860 was Branford County. Some of the information on his children and grandchildren is taken from the Bethlehem Cemetery in Columbia County., a Baptist Church Cemetery, so it seem likely he was a Baptist preacher. His wife was Mary Elizabeth Dicks, born about 1808, South Carolina, and died in Florida, 21 Mar. 1876. Her husband was also born in South Carolina and died 19 July 1856.
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1 Greene Family, Greene Family Group Records, Bible of Eliza Howard, Ella Auten & Maude Greene Wills, Greene Family Records.

2 Greene, Mary L., Mary L. Greene Manuscript, Private: 1997.

3 William Greene Manuscript.

4 Manning, Edna A., Manning Collection, Barnwell County, South Carolina Records, 1717-1965, FHL US/CAN Film #1,841,508., 6:295, Family History Library.

5 Manning, E., Manning Collection, 8:270.

William married Mary Elizabeth Dicks on 25 Jan 1818 in Barnwell, Barnwell, South Carolina, USA. Mary (daughter of Josias Dicks and Sarah Johnston) was born in 1803 in Barnwell, Barnwell, South Carolina, USA; died on 21 Mar 1876 in Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Name: Elizabeth Greene
• Residence: 1850, Prince Williams Parish, Beaufort, South Carolina, USA
• Residence: 1870, Suwanee Shoals, Columbia, Florida, USA

Notes:

1 Greene Family, Greene Family Group Records, Bible of Eliza Howard, Ella Auten & Maude Greene Wills, Greene Family Records.

2 Greene, Mary L., Mary L. Greene Manuscript, Private: 1997.

3 William Greene Manuscript.

4 Manning, Edna A., Manning Collection, Barnwell County, South Carolina Records, 1717-1965, FHL US/CAN Film #1,841,508., 6:295, Family History Library.

5 Manning, E., Manning Collection, 8:270.
Millennium File Record
about Mary Elizabeth Dicks
Name: Mary Elizabeth Dicks
Spouse: Unknown
Birth Date: 1800
Children: Thomas Jefferson Greene

Other Information: Notes