Life History

Notes

• I was given two dates for the birth of Toliver Jorile Green, 10 yearsapart.  It would appear the date 1873 matches better with other family members and generational patterns.  He married Luada Caldonia West in 1894.
  
  Toliver Jorile was born in Hill County, Texas, in November 1873.  Hiscousin, James Toliver Jackson, was born there also about 1.5 years earlier.  T J's parents, Jackson and Clarinda (Barnett) Green, married in Hill County, where both their families were living.
  
  The Barnetts had moved there from Illinois after 1860.  The Greens has come from Georgia to Cooke County, Texas before 1860, and moved to Hill County later.  James Toliver's parents, Abraham and Talitha Jackson (Jackson Green's sister), had moved there from western Indian Territory, probably Cherokee Nation, to Hill County about 1871.
  
  Toliver Jorile moved with his family to the Marlow, Oklahoma, area in1908.  He is listed as Joe Green in the 1910 Richland, Stephens County, Oklahoma census.  In 1920 and 1930, he is listed as Joe T.  This reverses the order of his names Toliver Jorile.  He also signed Retta's school report card as J T Green.
  
  These census entries indicate how he preferred to refer to himself, using the more common Joe as the primary name, rather than Jorile or Toliver.  I have known of other people reversing the order of first and middle for public or business purposes.  My son Christopher Kevin Jenkins goes by Kevin, and is known in his company as Kevin C Jenkins.  T J's use of the name Joe is confirmed in the obituary report of his youngest son Paul Donald (Donnie) Green (d 10 March 2008).  Donnie's parents are reported as Toliver Jorile "Joe" and Margaret Crenshaw Green.
  
  In the 1910 Stephens County, Oklahoma, Toliver Jorile is a widower living next door to Dock Gregory.  Toliver Jorile's daughter Alpharetta Mae (Rettie) later married Dock Gregory's son Andy.
  
  1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 25 April, Richland Township, District 243, Page 6B (No House or Family numbers)
  Green, Joe Head M W 34 Widowed OK AL AL
  Green, Re-a   Dau F W 14  OK OK OK
  (the loop of the e is just extended up and forward.  No letter)
  Green, Minnie Dau F W 11  OK OK OK
  Green, Homer  Son F W  3  OK OK OK
  
  Since Joe (Toliver Jorile) is a widower In the 1910 census, he married his second wife Mollie Stroud Williams Lane (twice widowed) sometime after 25 April 1910.  (Technically the census date is 15 April.)
  
  In 1920, T J is married to his second wife Mollie Stroud.
  
  1920 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 2 Feb, Richland Township, District 262, page 10A (No house or family numbers given)
  Green, Joe T  Head M W 46 OK GA AL Farmer
  Green, Mollie  Wife  F W 48  AL AL AL
  Green, Minnie Dau  F W 20  OK AL AL
  Green, Homer Son M W 12  OK AL AL
  
  Note the change in birthplace for the children's mother, from Oklahoma to Alabama.  This means they put the birthplace of the Stepmother Mollie, instead of the birth mother, Lou Ada Caldonia West.  Joe's mother is also reported as born in Alabama, as reported also in 1910.  However, on his brother James Taylor Green's report, his mother's birthplace is shown as Illinois.  In 1930 Illinois is also reported as the birthplace for Toliver Jorile's mother.
  
  We learned from Barnett family census enumerations, however, that their mother Clarinda Barnett was actually born in Tennessee before her father moved the family to Illinois after the death of Clarinda's mother.  (See notes for Clarinda Barnett and Jorile R Barnett.)
  
  In 1930, Toliver Jorile is listed again as Joe T, with his third wifeMaggie D.  This would be Margaret Drucilla Crenshaw Welch, whose first husband has died.  In the household with Joe and Maggie are Joe's son Homer (listed here as Homer B), Joe and Maggie's son Paul D (Donnie), and Maggie's four children Annie, Thomas J, and twins Berley J and Pearl I Welch.
  
  1930 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 23 April, Richland Township, District 22, page 12A-B, Hse #226, Family #227
  Green, Joe T  Head  Owns M W 56 TX GA IL Farmer
  Green, Maggie D  Wife F W 56 TX AR AL
  Green, Homer B  Son M W 23 OK TX GA Farm Laborer
  Green, Paul D  Son M W 2yrs 8mos OK TX GA
  Welch, Annie StepDaughter F W 17 OK US TX
  Welch, Thomas J  StepSon M W 15 OK NC TX
  Welch, Berley J  StepSon M W 10 OK NC TX
  Welch, Pearl I  StepDaughter M W 10 OK NC TX
  
  Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins gave me the date 01 Dec 1947 as the death date for Toliver Jorile Green.  This is the date in the Marlow (Oklahoma) Cemetery listings:
  "Green, T. J. -- Nov 22, 1873 - Dec 1, 1947"
  -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~okstephe/MarlowCem2.txt

Sources

• 1. Lou Ila Gregory Jenkins, Family History Dates
• 2. Loretta Gregory Gay Genealogical Research
• 3. U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
• 4. 1920 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 2 February, Richland Township, District 262, page 10A (No house or fam
• 5. 1930 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 23 April, Richland Township, District 22, page 12A-B, Hse #226, Famil
• 6. Marlow (Oklahoma) Cemetery List
  • Name: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okstephe/MarlowCem2.txt;
• 7. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 25 April, Richland Township, District 243, page 6B (No house of famil
• 8. Obituary of Maggie D Green, newspaper unknown
• 9. Loretta Gregory Gay, personal communication
• 10. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 25 April, Richland Township, District 243, page 6b (No house of famil
• 11. Gravestone of Andy and Alpharetta Mae Gregory, Green Hill Cemetery, Lindsay, Oklahoma
• 12. Alpharetta Mae Gregory, names in a Bible
• 13. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 25 April, Richland Township, District 243, Page 6B (No House or Famil
• 14. Center (Oklahoma) Cemetery List
  • Name: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ok/pontotoc/cemeteries/center.txt;
• 15. Obituaries -- Funeral Remembrance Card, David Homer Green
• 16. SSDI Broderbund Family Archive #110, Vol. 1, Ed. 6
  • Date of Import: 27 Jun 2007, Internal Ref. #1.111.6.96605.112
• 17. Loretta Gregory Gay Genealogical Research
  • Toliver Jorile Green Family Sheet
• 18. Social Security Death Index
• 19. 1920 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 2 February, Richland Township, District 262, page 10A (No house of fam