Samuel Love and Elizabeth Nation had multiple children, including Sarah Elizabeth Love who married William Ragsdale and Kiziah Love who married John Lawley/Lolly.
William and Sarah Love Ragsdale have several connections to Britta Green and the McGuires. First, William and Sarah's son James Marion Ragsdale and wife Drucilla lived next door to Britta and John McGuire in Jefferson County in 1860. While there's no smoking gun, I believe that Britta named her second daughter Mary Drucilla after her sister and Drucilla Ragsdale.
Also William and Sarah Love Ragsdale's children married McGuires: Sidney Jackson Ragsdale married Sarah Ann McGuire, and Louisa Caroline (Carrie) Ragsdale married Robert McGuire. The website below doesn't list all its sources, but everything I have checked has checked out, so I am inclined to accept its data:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mytexasroots/wmragsdale.htm
In another Love line...
Kiziah Love married John Lawley and had umpteen children, among whom was Lurana Lawley who married William Henry Davis.
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/20465111/person/951564645
And Carolyn E. Davis married Elisha Lawley.
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/20465111/person/951564754
Is William H. Davis brother to James B. Davis who married Mahala Green?? How about Caroline Davis?
And what's Love got to do with it, anyway????
Friday, December 21, 2018
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Nancy E.E. Green—Just the facts, ma'am
For a long time I have suspected that Nancy Elizabeth Greene, aka Nancy Ellen Green, was related to Britta Ann and Mary Ann Green. While there's still no smoking gun (direct DNA comparison via Gedmatch.com), there are enough matches on Ancestry to convince me that it's true. Here then are facts I can prove about her with documentary evidence.
Nancy E. Green/e was born in either AL or more likely Georgia about 1832. Hmmmmm....We know this from the 1860, 1870 and 1880 U.S. Censuses.
1860:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7667/4211196_00246/12616698?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1860usfedcenancestry%26gsln%3dGarrett%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3d1%26msrdy_x%3d1%26msrpn__ftp%3dshelby%252c%2balabama%252c%2busa%26msrpn__ftp_x%3d1%26msrpn%3d2683%26msrpn_x%3d1%26hc%3d20%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3d000&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
1870:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7163/4257737_00249/13047121?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1870usfedcen%26gsln%3dadams%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3dNS%26msbdy%3d1833%26msbdy_x%3d1%26msbdp%3d2%26msrdy_x%3d1%26msrpn__ftp%3dshelby%252c%2balabama%252c%2busa%26msrpn__ftp_x%3d1%26msrpn%3d2683%26msrpn_x%3d1%26hc%3d50%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3dwy5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
1880:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6742/4239792-00406/6402469?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1880usfedcen%26gsfn%3dNancy%26gsln%3dadams%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3dNS%26msbdy%3d1833%26msbdy_x%3d1%26msbdp%3d2%26msrdy_x%3d1%26msrpn__ftp%3dshelby%252c%2balabama%252c%2busa%26msrpn__ftp_x%3d1%26msrpn%3d2683%26msrpn_x%3d1%26hc%3d50%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3dwy5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
The 1880 Census tells us that her father was born in SC and her mother was born in GA. Maybe...
On Sunday, February 24, 1856, she married Sanford V. Garrett in Shelby County as Ellen Green. Minister of the Gospel L.B McDonald officiated with a license signed by J. M. McClanahan, Judge of Probate.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9HV-W62P?i=433&cc=1743384
Nancy Ellen had several children with Sanford, including James B., born 1857; Thomas G., born and died about 1860; and Mary Elizabeth, born 1863. Hmmmm...More on that tidbit anon. There may have been a boy named Josh; several Ancestry trees list him but I have never seen any documentary proof of his existence. Maybe he existed—I would love to see the evidence.
Nancy Ellen and Sanford were married for about five years. I really hope they were happy years because it was all over when Sanford left to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He enlisted and served in Company K, AL Third Infantry and then moved to the White Plains Rangers, Company C, Fifth Alabama. Various family trees and online sources say he died anywhere from 1861 - 1864. The best source, his Confederate death record, says he died on October 11, 1861, at the Clay St. Hospital, Richmond, Henrico County, VA.
https://www.fold3.com/image/11497496
Sanford is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA. In an odd discrepancy, his death is listed at Findagrave.com as December 16, 1862.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93141573/sanford-v-garrett
Hmmmm....
The 1866 State Census for Alabama shows Mrs. Ellen Garrett living in Township 24, Range 12 East, Shelby County. The location is near/in Montevallo. The census entry agrees completely with the the household that should be showing: one male under 10 (James Garrett, about 10), one female under 10 (Mary E., about three), and one female over 30 (Nancy Ellen, about 34). Thomas Garrett died young and Josh (if he existed) probably died young as well.
Significantly, Mrs. Brittan McGuire (Britta Ann), James Adams (NEG's future husband), and Henry Backus (father of JG's future wife) live in the same area. It makes total sense for Nancy and Britta to have moved closer to each other after losing husbands to the War, doesn't it?
According to this site, Ellen Garrett married James Adams in Shelby County on January 21, 1868. James Adams was about 66 and she was about 36; ages extrapolated from the 1870 Census.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7163/4257737_00249/13047121?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1870usfedcen%26gsln%3dadams%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3dNS%26msbdy%3d1833%26msbdy_x%3d1%26msbdp%3d2%26msrdy_x%3d1%26msrpn__ftp%3dshelby%252c%2balabama%252c%2busa%26msrpn__ftp_x%3d1%26msrpn%3d2683%26msrpn_x%3d1%26hc%3d50%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3dwy5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
By the 1870 US Census for AL, James and Nancy E. had a five-month-old son named James R. While the child's age doesn't jive with the dates on his tombstone (December 1869), it is clear that young James—later to be known as Robert Lee—was born in wedlock. Hmmmmm....
Note the difference in the name our gal is using between 1866/68 and 1870: Mrs. Ellen Garrett to Nancy E. Adams. We know it's the same person because of the other children listed in the household.
Nancy E. Green/e was born in either AL or more likely Georgia about 1832. Hmmmmm....We know this from the 1860, 1870 and 1880 U.S. Censuses.
1860:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7667/4211196_00246/12616698?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1860usfedcenancestry%26gsln%3dGarrett%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3d1%26msrdy_x%3d1%26msrpn__ftp%3dshelby%252c%2balabama%252c%2busa%26msrpn__ftp_x%3d1%26msrpn%3d2683%26msrpn_x%3d1%26hc%3d20%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3d000&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
1870:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7163/4257737_00249/13047121?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1870usfedcen%26gsln%3dadams%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3dNS%26msbdy%3d1833%26msbdy_x%3d1%26msbdp%3d2%26msrdy_x%3d1%26msrpn__ftp%3dshelby%252c%2balabama%252c%2busa%26msrpn__ftp_x%3d1%26msrpn%3d2683%26msrpn_x%3d1%26hc%3d50%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3dwy5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
1880:
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/6742/4239792-00406/6402469?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1880usfedcen%26gsfn%3dNancy%26gsln%3dadams%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3dNS%26msbdy%3d1833%26msbdy_x%3d1%26msbdp%3d2%26msrdy_x%3d1%26msrpn__ftp%3dshelby%252c%2balabama%252c%2busa%26msrpn__ftp_x%3d1%26msrpn%3d2683%26msrpn_x%3d1%26hc%3d50%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3dwy5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
The 1880 Census tells us that her father was born in SC and her mother was born in GA. Maybe...
On Sunday, February 24, 1856, she married Sanford V. Garrett in Shelby County as Ellen Green. Minister of the Gospel L.B McDonald officiated with a license signed by J. M. McClanahan, Judge of Probate.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9HV-W62P?i=433&cc=1743384
Nancy Ellen had several children with Sanford, including James B., born 1857; Thomas G., born and died about 1860; and Mary Elizabeth, born 1863. Hmmmm...More on that tidbit anon. There may have been a boy named Josh; several Ancestry trees list him but I have never seen any documentary proof of his existence. Maybe he existed—I would love to see the evidence.
Nancy Ellen and Sanford were married for about five years. I really hope they were happy years because it was all over when Sanford left to fight for the Confederacy during the Civil War. He enlisted and served in Company K, AL Third Infantry and then moved to the White Plains Rangers, Company C, Fifth Alabama. Various family trees and online sources say he died anywhere from 1861 - 1864. The best source, his Confederate death record, says he died on October 11, 1861, at the Clay St. Hospital, Richmond, Henrico County, VA.
https://www.fold3.com/image/11497496
Sanford is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA. In an odd discrepancy, his death is listed at Findagrave.com as December 16, 1862.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/93141573/sanford-v-garrett
Hmmmm....
The 1866 State Census for Alabama shows Mrs. Ellen Garrett living in Township 24, Range 12 East, Shelby County. The location is near/in Montevallo. The census entry agrees completely with the the household that should be showing: one male under 10 (James Garrett, about 10), one female under 10 (Mary E., about three), and one female over 30 (Nancy Ellen, about 34). Thomas Garrett died young and Josh (if he existed) probably died young as well.
Significantly, Mrs. Brittan McGuire (Britta Ann), James Adams (NEG's future husband), and Henry Backus (father of JG's future wife) live in the same area. It makes total sense for Nancy and Britta to have moved closer to each other after losing husbands to the War, doesn't it?
According to this site, Ellen Garrett married James Adams in Shelby County on January 21, 1868. James Adams was about 66 and she was about 36; ages extrapolated from the 1870 Census.
https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/7163/4257737_00249/13047121?backurl=http%3a%2f%2fsearch.ancestry.com%2fcgi-bin%2fsse.dll%3fdb%3d1870usfedcen%26gsln%3dadams%26gsfn_x%3d1%26gsln_x%3dNS%26msbdy%3d1833%26msbdy_x%3d1%26msbdp%3d2%26msrdy_x%3d1%26msrpn__ftp%3dshelby%252c%2balabama%252c%2busa%26msrpn__ftp_x%3d1%26msrpn%3d2683%26msrpn_x%3d1%26hc%3d50%26new%3d1%26rank%3d1%26redir%3dfalse%26uidh%3dwy5&backlabel=ReturnSearchResults
By the 1870 US Census for AL, James and Nancy E. had a five-month-old son named James R. While the child's age doesn't jive with the dates on his tombstone (December 1869), it is clear that young James—later to be known as Robert Lee—was born in wedlock. Hmmmmm....
Note the difference in the name our gal is using between 1866/68 and 1870: Mrs. Ellen Garrett to Nancy E. Adams. We know it's the same person because of the other children listed in the household.
In the 1880 US Census for AL, Nancy Adams is living on Beat 4, Village of Montevallo. She is widowed, at home, born GA, father born SC, mother born GA. Also in the household is son Robert Lee, 10. Neighbors: Elbert Nelson (husband of daughter Mary E.), Mary Large, John Bradford, Shortridge, Stephen Dill, Acker, West, Wilson, Bradford, E. M. Carleton (one of Britta and her neighbors in 1866). So James Adams left or most likely died between 1870 and 1880. Children James Garrett, Mary Garrett Nelson, and Robert Lee are still living.
From a letter shared by Robert Lee's granddaughter, we know that Nancy also included "Elizabeth" among her given names. Robert Lee wrote:
“I was a six year old boy on the train with my mother (Nancy Elizabeth Greene) enroute from our hometown Montevallo, Ala. to Selma, to visit my brother...”
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/19413000/person/818356771/media/1?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum
Nancy Adams disappears after the 1880 Census. She died in Montevallo, Shelby County, AL, probably after 1890, according to another letter Robert Lee wrote about his life:
{I was married} "...June 4, 1890, about 8 pm by Rev Rice. Left on our honeymoon the next evening for Rome Ga where I was a train dispatcher for ETValley Ry. We stopped at my sister's home, Mrs Ed Nelson, in Rome GA. The RR transferred me to Selma Alabama. From Selma we moved to Paduca Ky with C&O Ry. My mother died at Montevallo Ala."
http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/19413000/person/818356771/media/2?pgnum=1&pg=0&pgpl=pid%7cpgNum
These letters contain lots of useful nuggets about the lives of Nancy's descendants, but as this blog post is specifically about the documented facts of Nancy Elizabeth Ellen Green's life, that's all I can prove. Other guesses and theories will just have to wait for the next post.
Hmmmm.....
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