George Washington Greene

1864 - 1942  (78 years)

• Name	George Washington Greene  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	25 Jan 1864	Sanderson, Baker, Florida, USA   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1870	Baker, Florida, USA   [1]
  Residence	1880	Precinct 5, Columbia, Florida, USA   [2]
  Residence	1910	Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA   [3]
  Death	8 Jun 1942	Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA
  Burial	Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA   [4, 5]
  Person ID	I22621	tng Genealogy

  
  

  Father	Anson Reuben Greene,   b. 1823, Barnwell, Barnwell, South Carolina, USA d. 20 Nov 1885, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Samantha Williams,   b. 1835, South Carolina, USA d. 1886, Baker, Florida, USA (Age 51 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	1854	Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA
  Family ID	F1628	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Elizabeth Ann Thomas,   b. 17 Nov 1875, Clinch, Georgia, USA d. 20 Aug 1947, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 71 years)
  Marriage	31 Dec 1894	Columbia, Florida, USA   [6]
  Children	1. Nettie Elizabeth Greene,   b. 3 Dec 1895, Benton, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 25 Sep 1965, MacClenny, Baker, Florida, USA (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Gladys Viola Greene,   b. 3 Feb 1898, Lulu, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 12 Oct 1978, Crescent City, Putnam, Florida, USA (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Thomas Nathaniel Greene,   b. 20 Mar 1900, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 7 Sep 1915, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 15 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Anson Reuben Greene,   b. 25 Jul 1902, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 22 Jun 1974, Duval, Florida, USA (Age 71 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Andrew Jackson Greene,   b. 5 Jan 1904, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 23 Sep 1912, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 8 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. Annie Bell Greene,   b. 31 Jan 1906, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 6 May 1907, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 1 year)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 7. William Alonzo "Lonnie" Greene,   b. 27 Dec 1908, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 6 Jul 1936, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 27 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 8. John Franklin Greene,   b. 7 Jan 1912, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 2 Feb 1981, Alachua, Florida, USA (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural] + 9. Cephus Ernest Greene,   b. 19 Sep 1914, Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 3 Mar 2000, Slidell, St Tammany, Louisiana, USA (Age 85 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   10. Daughter Greene,   b. 3 Jan 1918, Columbia, Florida, USA d. 3 Jan 1918, Columbia, Florida, USA (Age 0 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F7620	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 25 Jan 1864 - Sanderson, Baker, Florida, USA Residence - 1870 - Baker, Florida, USA Residence - 1910 - Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA Death - 8 Jun 1942 - Lake City, Columbia, Florida, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  George and Elizabeth Thomas Greene gravestone

  
  

• Notes

  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

  
  

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