Leyla,
Glad to hear someone else on the web is researching this. I am not too handy with using this webpage, so hope you receive this reply okay. I couldn't figure out how to display your email so am replying to your posted reply.
Richard Green was listed in my family
Bible as the father of George Green, my gr-gr-grandfather. I confirmed that much in the 1870 census for
Campbell County,
Tennessee which shows George, age 1.
George married
Polly Ann
Wilson and their daughter
Nannie Mae Green is my great-grandmother. Nannie Green married William Franklin
Lambert, my great-grandfather. Their son Edward
Lambert is my Grandpa. Edward married Pauline
Barton and their son Dwight
Lambert is my father.
All of this is in my Grandmother's
Bible which was filled out during an interview with
Nannie Mae Green in the 1940s. The family left the
LaFollette,
Tennessee and
Harlan,
Kentucky area in the 1930s and ended up in
Oregon where my dad was born. They sometimes returned to visit
Campbell County,
Tennessee to visit. I have a few pictures and recently spoke with Nannie's brother Charlie Green, now over 90 years old, who told me that Richard Green, his grandfather, was supposedly 1/2 Indian, although he admitted that he never met him. Supposedly Richard hunted with a knife and hatchet. I also have a newspaper clipping on
Elijah Wilson (father of the above mentioned
Polly Ann
Wilson) that says the "aging" Richard Green was a Reverend at a
Baptist Church. Must be refering to Richard Sr.?
Three questions you may be able to answer:
1) Was Richard in the Civil War?
2) Why was Richard G. Green born in
Virginia and his father, Richard G. Green, Sr. born in
Carolina? How did you prove the tie between the two?
3) Where does the Indian blood come in? I assume it was Cherokee?
Please send me your email address to:
mauser96@fls.infi.netSincerely,
Dobbie Edward
Lambert