| MrsNancy Green |
MRS. NANCY GREEN wasborn in Ohio, November 30, 1824, and lived there until two or three yearsof age, and then came to Kentucky with her parent.. They were James andLovey (Tolle) Tolle, both born in Virginia, who had gone to Ohio in anearly day. In 1836 they concluded to move West and sold every thing exceptsome household goods, and with a two-horse wagon came overland and firstsettled in Schuyler county for two months. They then came to Brown countyand entered eighty acres of land and bought 160 more of that partly improved,and hewed out a log hut in which they lived until about 1850. They thensold out again and went to Grundy county, Missouri, where Mr. Tolle boughtan improved farm of 180 acres and there lived until his death, but he hadsold the farm before this. He was living at the home of his daughter Sarahwhen he died, aged about seventy-four years. The mother of our subjectdied at the same place, aged about sixty-five years. There were ten children,four of whom are yet living. The father was a wheelwright and chair-maker.The grandparents on the mother’s side were Reuben and Tolle, and thepaternal grandparents were William and Diana Tolle.The marriage of oursubject took place January 28, 1843, to Mr. Hiram Green, who was born inCulpepper county, Virginia, December 25, 1817. He was the son of John andSarah (Newby) Green, who lived in Virginia all their lives and died aboutmiddle age. The husband of our subject came to Illinois about 1888, withsome of his relatives, and worked by the month for some time, but was acooper at the time of his marriage. He bought a farm of 160 acres in thecounty of Brown from a man who had improved it; but Mr. Green built a loghouse and there they lived for about six years, and then he bought anothereighty acres and built a better house. There the family lived until 1873,when he sold it and bought his present farm of 240 acres on which are allimprovements. He died August 2, 1877. He was a Democrat in his politicsbut did not bother much about them.
Our subject and herhusband started with nothing and at the time of his death had acquiredas fine a farm as there is in the county. They were faithful members ofthe Union Baptist Church for years, and he was an active member, assistingin the building of it and was lamented by all at the time of his death.
Mrs. Greene, the estimablelady whose sketch we are presenting, is well known in the township whereshe and her husband have shown to the world a life of married felicity.She has been the beloved mother of fourteen children and is not only esteemedabove all others by her immediate family but by the neighborhood. We closethis short notice with the names of her family. Mary Jane is at home; Sarahis married and has two children; Lovey M. is married and died leaving fourchildren; Ann G. is married and has seven children; Juliet is married andhas five children; William F. is married and has six children; CelindaF. is married and has five children; Angeline is married and has four children;George W. is married and has three children; Parlina is married and hastwo children; Olive; Almira is married but has no family.
Mrs. Greene looks afterthe farm herself and rents to her son George, who carries on a very successfulmixed farming.
Biographical Reviewof Cass, Schuyler and Brown Counties, Illinois, Biographical ReviewPublishing Co., Chicago, 1892, pages 198-199.
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