Jacob GREEN Nora A GREEN Lois Cleo OVERTON Walter Jacob GREEN Thomas Gilbert GREEN John GREEN Arthur Toliver GREEN Susan A BARNETT Mini tree diagram
Pink GREEN

Pink GREEN1,6,2,13,10,7,4,5,9,14,15,16,7,17,18,19,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,25

10th Dec 18866 - 5th Apr 19683,7,4

Life History

10th Dec 1886

Born in Marietta, Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.1,2,3,4,5

(most likely)

Sep 1887

Born in Indian Territory.10,12

(less likely)

1888

Born in Oklahoma.6

(less likely)

1900

Resident in Township 15, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory.9

1910

Residence2: Ft Gibson area in Nash, Muskogee, Oklahoma.10

1920

Residence3: marriage license in 1900 gives Ft Gibson as residence in Ft Gibson, Muskogee, Oklahoma.11

9th Jun 1920

Married Lois Cleo OVERTON in Ft Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas.11,17,6

between 1925 and 1968

Residence4: Obituary says moved to Fresno in 1925; but this would mean they made this hard move while Walter's wife Maggie was pregnant; possibly 1926; all records report him in Fresno till death in Township 5, Fresno, California.6,7,7

after 1925

Divorced from Lois Cleo OVERTON in Santa Cruz County, California.26,6,17

5th Apr 1968

Died in Fresno, Fresno, California.3,7,4

8th Apr 1968

Buried in Fresno Memorial Gardens, Fresno, Fresno County, California.8,7

Notes

  • The first formal record I found of Pink Green was the 1900 census, when he is 12 years old.  This indicates he was born in September 1887 in Indian Territory.  The family is living in Cherokee Nation in 1900.  Later sources including his death record, indicate the birth year was actually 1886.  And the month of birth is different too, with date of birth being 10 Dec 1886.

    1900 Federal Census, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory, 13 June, Township 15, District 40, Page 6B,  Hse/Fam #126:
    Green, Jacob Head  M W Nov 1848 51 2nd marriage  married 18 years  GA NC GA Farmer
    Green, Susan Wife  F W Aug 1858 41 1st marriage,  married 18 years,  6 children, 6 living MS MS GA
    Green, Pink  Son M W  Sept 1887 12  Ind Terr GA MS

    In 1910, Jacob and Susan (Barnett) Green have moved to Nash Township of Muskogee County, in eastern Oklahoma.  Nash Township is where Ft Gibson is.  The town of Ft Gibson was established in 1898, but due to several factors the town was moved to higher ground nearby in 1900.  The town of Ft Gibson, Indian Territory, was established in 1904.  I have not seen any documentation stating they were in the actual town of Ft Gibson.

    This is in the Creek (Muscogee) Nation, which became part of the new State of Oklahoma In December 1907.  This is a little east of where they were living in Cherokee Nation in 1900.

    The town of Ft Gibson was established in 1904 (a reestablishment of the earlier town begun in 1898, and moved to higher ground in about 1900).

    1910 Federal Census, Nash Township, Muskogee, Oklahoma, 30 April, District 107, Page 13B,  Hse/Fam #104
    Green, Jacob Head  M W 60 2nd marriage  married at age 27  GA NC SC Farmer
    Green, Susan Wife  F W 51 1st marriage  married at age 27  6 children, 5 living  MS MS GA
    Green, Pink  Son M W  23  OK GA MS Farm Laborer

    Two genealogies of other families that include Pink Green report erroneously that he was born in Indian, Penobscot Maine.  This is obviously a mechanical error from some search engine which has associated "Indian" in "Indian Territory" with other sources and picked up this totally alien location in Maine, which the genealogy compiler did not analyze and correct.  Our Green family has no association with the Penobscot Indian Nation or New England.

    Pink Green was my 4th cousin.  The spotty records we have show that his family was living in Indian Territory, in Cherokee Nation in 1900 then Muscogee (Creek) Nation in 1910.  Records for the 1800s are missing, since there were no formal records for the area that became Oklahoma.  None of our Greens have ever been to New England.

    Another genealogy also wrongly reports that Pink was born in Oklahoma City.  Oklahoma City was not founded until 1889, and that was in the Unassigned Lands, neither Indian Territory nor Oklahoma Territory.

    Pink's father Jacob died in 1917.  I have not been able to find a record in the 1920 census for Pink or his mother.  The only members of this Green family I have found in the 1920 census is Pink's brother Walter with his wife Maggie in Ottawa County, Oklahoma.

    In 1920, Pink got married across the border in Ft Smith, Arkansas.

    Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
    Lois Overton
    Age 20
    Birth Year abt 1900
    Residence Fort Gibson, Muskogee, Oklahoma
    Spouse's Name Pink Green
    Spouse's Age 32
    Spouse's Residence Fort Gibson, Muskogee, Oklahoma
    Marriage Date 9 Jun 1920
    Marriage License Date 9 Jun 1920 Sebastian County (Ft Smith)

    They were reported in they Muskogee City/County Directory in 1921, along with Pink's mother Susan Barnett Green and his brother Thomas.

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Muskogee and Muskogee County, Oklahoma, City Directory, 1921, p 547
    (Phoenix Directory Company)
    Pink (Lois) Green farmer
    Susan (wid Jacob) Green
    Thomas Green

    Pink is reported in a 1925 city directory with his wife Lois Overton.

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Santa Cruz County, California, City Directory, 1925
    Pink Green (Lois) Lab[orer]  Residence 229 Hanover

    A Pink Green in Fresno, California in 1930 appears to be the same Pink Green who is the son of Jacob and Susan Green.  The birth year from the age in the census matches the birth date reported in the 1900 census, September 1887, and birth in Oklahoma matches.  There are other Greens with the same name as his siblings in Fresno also, which seems to support the move of Pink and some of his family to California.  Other factors in discoveries in 2012 indicate they moved to California in 1925 or 1926.

    At first it was not clear that this was our Pink Green. One discrepancy is that the birthplace of the parents of Pink Green in Fresno is Tennessee, while the information we have for Jacob and Susan is that Jacob was born in Georgia and his wife Susan is reported as born in Mississippi. This is a common error or variation, but is a signal requiring more definite confirmation.

    A further confirmation came when I received Pink's obituary from cousin Beverly Hill in late May 2011. Beverly was working with another of our cousins, Linda Hanks. Linda had the newspaper clipping in her huge library of family information gathered over the years. The obituary says Pink moved to Kerman in 1925 (see below). The obituary reports Pink's brother Tom also in Kerman and two other brothers Jake and Jack Green in Fresno.

    1930 Federal Census,  Fresno County, California, 18 April, Township 5, District 76, page 7A, Conejo Avenue, Hse #150, Fam #151
    Green, Pink Head M W 42 First married at 32 [but no wife in the household] OK TN TN Farm Laborer
    Glory, Maggie Sister-in-law F W 35 First married at 34 [but no husband in the household] OK MO MO
    Green, Eva Lee Niece  F W 7 OK OK OK
    Green, Jack Nephew  M W 6 OK OK OK
    Green, Junior Nephew  M W 4yrs 4mos OK OK OK [b abt Dec 1925]

    Pink is reported as married first at age 32, which would be in 1920.  Yet there is no wife or children reported in his household.  A sister-in-law Maggie is in the household, age 35, but reported as first married at age 34.  There is no husband reported for her in this household.  I surmised at the time in these Notes that perhaps Maggie was married to a brother of Pink, who died shortly after she became pregnant or soon after the baby was born.  Sources confirming this came to light later, indicating that Maggie was the widow of Pink's brother Walter Jacob.

    Another cousin working with me on this family, Beverly Hill's brother Marion Mixon, discovered a couple of Find-a-Grave memorials on Pink and members of his family.  This brought Winnie Yandell into our circle of research and her information, clues and contacts led to a flurry of gap-filling information.  Winnie initially commented:

    "Another brother, Walter Jacob, had died in 1925 (OK) and the widow with three small children were staying in [the household] with Pink in the 1930 census, Fresno CA, Township 5. The three children--Eva L., Jack, and Walter Jacob (Jake), are bur. in this cemetery as is Pink's brother, Thomas (Tom) Gilbert GREEN."
    --  Find A Grave Memorial #73346170, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73346170

    Now the really odd part of the 1930 census record.  Maggie is reported to have married for the first time at age 34, just one year earlier!  This is probably meant to say that she has been married to the current spouse 1 year, the spouse named Glory.  She is reported married but there is no spouse in the household.

    But in light of some question about her last name, it may be that Maggie had remarried already (a year or less before) but her husband was working away.  He may have been ill and in a hospital.  It long appeared he may have died not long afterwards.  However, then new records were discovered in 2015 for R H Glory in Fresno City Directories for 1932, 1933 and 1934.

    In the 1930 voter rolls Pink is recorded along with his wife Lois Overton.  I do not find the date of the voter records in the collection.  I wonder if this listing was made before the census in April 1930?  It is strange that Pink is reported as married in the 1930 census, but there is no wife in the household.

    California Voter Registrations, 1900-1968, Ancestry.com Collection
    Fresno County, California, 1930
    Green, Mrs Lois hswf Address 1/76, Selma
    Green, Pink  Frmr  Address 1/76, Selma

    When the 1933 directory entry for R H Glory was found, he turned up in three Fresno County directories.  Green entries matching Pink also were found, along with some discrepancies and new questions.

    U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1932, p 734-735
    Glory R H rt 7 Bx 219 (p 734)
    Green P rt 7 Bx 218 (p 735)

    The address appears to mean Rural Route 7, Box 219, which fits their earlier living situation.  Note that P Green and R H Glory live one Rural box number apart, either next door to each other, or across the road.

    In 1933 R H Glory is at a different address, but still on a rural route in the county.  Again his is the only entry for the surname Glory.  This entry is a bit puzzling, complicating the seeming picture of relationships and arrangements.  There are two similar entries now for a Green P and Green Pink.  The entry for Green P has the address Rt 9 Box 221a, which is a couple of houses away from either of the 1932 entries.  Then Green Pink is at the very same address as R H Glory, Rt 9 Box 433a.  This makes us less certain who the Glory entry might represent and who P Green is in contrast to Pink Green.

    U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1933, p 753-754
    Glory R H rt 9 Bx 433a
    Green P rt 7 Bx 221a (p 754)
    Green Pink rt 9 Bx 433a (p 754)

    In the 1934 entry, R H Glory and Pink Green are again at the same address as in 1933.  There is no entry this time for P Green.

    U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1934, p 746
    Glory R H rt 9 Bx 433a
    Green Pink rt 9 Bx 433a

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1935, p 766
    Pink Green rt 9 bx 433a

    In the next record I have seen, Pink appears alone on 1936 voter registration rolls in Fresno.

    California Voter Registrations, 1900-1968, Ancestry.com Collection
    Fresno, Fresno County, California, 1936
    Green, Pink  Farmer  Address Rt 9, Box 423, Fresno
    --  http://search.ancestry.com/browse/view.aspx?dbid=1249&iid=fresnocounty_9-0259&rc=1185,564,1247,579;1270,564,1416,579&pid=1987802329&ssrc=&fn=Pink&ln=Green&st=g

    He also appears again in the 1936 and 1937 city directory.

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1936, p 781
    Pink Green rt 9 bx 433a

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1937, p 801
    Pink Green rt 9 bx 433a

    In 1938, we have both a directory entry and voter registration rolls for Tom and Susan Green.

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Santa Cruz County, California, City Directory, 1938, p 827
    Pink Green rt 9 bx 433a

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1940, p 840
    Pink Green rt 9 bx 433a

    The 1940 census confirms that they live on a farm.  Note that Pink is reported as widowed, even though we know Lois Overton lived until 1972.  They were actually divorced.  In 1930 he was reported as married but there was no wife in the household.

    1940 Federal Census, Fresno County, California, 9 April, Judicial Township 11, District 132, page 2B, Belmont Ave, Hse #43, Rents $10, Live on a Farm
    Green, Pink Head M W 53 Widow First  Grade 3 b Oklahoma  Place under 2000 population in 1935 Farmer
    Glory, Maggie Housekeeper F W 48  Widow Grade 3 b MO lived in same house in 1935
    Green, Eva Dau F W 17 Single Grade 8 b OK lived in same house in 1935
    Green, Jack Son M W 16 Single HS-1 b OK lived in same house in 1935 Farm Laborer
    Green, Jacob Son M W 14 Single Grade 8 b OK lived in same house in 1935

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1941, p 850
    Pink Green rt 9 bx 433a

    U.S. City Directories, 1822-1995
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1942, p 852
    Pink Green rt 9 bx 433a

    Pink's WWII Draft Registration card in 1942 confirms that he has no middle name.

    WWII Draft Registration Cards
    Pink (None) Green
    Residence Corner of Golden Red and Whites Bridge, Kerman, Fresno, California
    Mailing Address Rt 1, Box 345, Kerman, Fresno, California
    Telephone None, Age 55
    Born 10 Dec 1886 Marietta, Oklahoma
    Name of contact:  R H Groly [Glory?], Rt 1, Box 345, Kerman, Fresno, California
    Own Employer, Farm, Rt 1, Box 345, Kerman, Fresno, California
    Signed Pink Green

    On the addresses on his draft card, there is a residential address, but it is a description, not an address, on the corner of Golden Red and Whites Bridge (apparently two street or road names).  Apparently they had not yet assigned street numbers, though it seems to be in the town of Kerman.  I note that in 1930, though he was living in Fresno town, Pink was a Farmer.

    Notice that Pink's mailing address in 1942 was the same box number in Kerman as his brother and mother in 1938.  The format of the box is a Rural Route number, Rte 1, Box 345.  Note that his mailing address is the same as that of the person he gives as his contact.  The box number is in Kerman, while his residence is reported as being in Fresno.  Later other members of his family also have this same box number, but live in Fresno.  Kerman is a few miles west of Fresno.

    Since Pink's mailing address and this is a RFD box.  Perhaps this was the mailbox at the main farmhouse of R H Groly.  We might think this was his employer, and maybe he was working on the farm of Mr Groly (but we do not even know if R H G was a man or a woman.)  But under employer, Pink wrote (or stated) "Own Employer" which I would think means "Self-Employed."  So who was R H Groly?  We don’t have any other info about Pink’s residence in 1942 when he would have filled out (or dictated) the draft card.

    The 1940 census conforms that Maggie's surname is Glory.  She must have married R H Glory (written dyslectically as Groly) then he died shortly after.  He may have owned the farm where they were living and where apparently Pink was working.  But even in 1940, they are reported as renting their home, and perhaps the farm land Pink was working.

    The California Death Index reports the birth of Pink Green as 10 December 1886.  This was one of the early records that seemed to be for our Pink Green (among numerous people named Pink Green at that time in Texas and Oklahoma) so it was uncertain at first if I had the right one.  This birth date differs from the other source, the 1900 census, which says September 1887.  The latter is also problematic, though, since there are so many errors in the birth dates reported in the 1900 census, for whatever reason.  Other sources found after this report the birth date of 10 Dec 1886.

    Maggie Green is found also under the name Maggie Glory in city directories and the 1940 census.  Perhaps she married this R H Glory, misrecorded as Groly, who later died?  In the 1940 census, Maggie Glory, a housekeeper in Pink's household, is listed as a widow.  Her three children are reported as the children of Pink.  Did Pink adopt Maggie's children?  If so, why were they not married.

    Or is this an enumeration error?  It seems most likely that the relationship is in reference to Maggie, instead of the head of the household, who is these children's uncle.  This kind of relationship error occurs very often in these mixed-relationship households.  Aside form these details, it seems pretty well established that Maggie married R H Glory before the 1930 census, it looks like only about 1929.

    But in July 2015 another record was discovered that indicates he did not die about the time of the 1930 census as previously thought.  There was an entry at an expected rural Fresno address, next door to Pink Green, for R H Glory.  This fits the living situation we have seen in past records.  So in 1932, R H was still living, still next door to Pink Green.  In this case, Maggie probably reported herself to the enumerator as a widow in order to avoid the stigma or questions related to a divorce.  No divorce record has been found.

    But Maggie does not appear under the name Glory or Green, and no other name is associated with the two rural box addresses for R H Glory or P (Pink) Green.

    U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989
    Fresno, California, City Directory, 1932, p 734-735
    Glory R H rt 7 Bx 219 (appears to mean Rural Route 7, Box 219, which fits their living situation, p 734)
    Green P rt 7 Bx 218 (p 735)

    The Death Index had one fact that was an early supporting factor for this being Pink Green, son of Jacob Green.  The maiden name of Pink's mother is reported as Barnett.  Jacob Green's wife was named Susan Barnett.

    California Death Index, 1940-1997
    Pink Green
    b 10 Dec 1886
    Mother's name Barnett
    d 5 Apr 1968, Fresno County, California

    This identification with a Barnett family was rather definitive.  Greens lived around Barnetts in Texas an Oklahoma, and Clarinda Barnett married Pink's uncle Jackson Green (my ancestor).  Clarinda was the daughter of Jorile (Jorial) and Nancy Barnett, from North Carolina and Illinois.  Susan's father appears to be a cousin of Clarinda's father Jorial.  Susan's family moved to Texas from Georgia.  Some of the Alabama group of this Virginia-Carolina-Alabama Barnett lineage also moved into East Texas in two different waves.

    Social Security Death Index
    Pink Green
    Born 10 Dec 1886
    Died 15 Apr 1968
    Last Residence Kerman, Fresno, California 93630
    SSN 558-78-5458 issued: California (1965)

    This SSDI record has a different death date from that reported by the California Death Index, 15 Apr 1968 instead of 5 Apr 1968.  This could be an entry error or a mistranscription error.  5 April 1968 seems to be the correct date of death.

    Pink and his brother Tom have identical gravestones in the Fresno Memorial Gardens, which give only the name, year of birth and year of death.  Interestingly, they both died in the year 1968.

    Gravestone of Pink Green, Fresno Memorial Gardens, Fresno, Fresno, California
    "Pink Green 1886 - 1968"

    A brief obituary was published in the Fresno Bee, 7 April 1968 (Sunday).

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    Pink Green

    KERMAN -- Funeral Services will be held tomorrow [Monday 8 April 1968] at 2 p.m. in the Bragg and Sons Kerman Chapel for Pink Green, who died Friday in a Fresno hospital after a long illness.  Burial will be in Fresno Memorial Gardens.

    Green was a native of Oklahoma and lived in Kerman since 1925.

    Surviving are a brother, Tom Green of Kerman; five nephews, Jake and Jack Green of Fresno, Paul Birch of Lubbock, Tex., Walter Smith of Ripon and Robert Smith of Texas, and two nieces, Eva Green of Kerman and Mrs Irene Sherman of Portland, Ore.
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    A memorial on Find A Grave has additional information on Pink and his family. Comments here, that appear to come from family info, clarify the identity of the other individuals with Pink in the 1930 census in Fresno, California.  This was the widow of Pink's brother Walter who died in Oklahoma in 1925, with her children, according to the following memorial.

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    Pink Green
    Birth Dec 10, 1886 Marietta, Love County, Oklahoma, USA
    Death Apr 5, 1968 Fresno, Fresno County, California, USA

    Son of Jacob and Susan A (Barnett) GREEN. Born in Marietta, OK. His parents then moved to the Ft. Gibson, Muskogee Co. I.T. area. Later, sometime around 1930, the Green family moved to central California, along (we believe) with Susan Green, and her son Pink, and his brother, Thomas G.

    Another brother, Walter Jacob, had died in 1925 (OK) and the widow with three small children were staying in household with Pink in the 1930 census, Fresno CA, Township 5. The three children--Eva L., Jack, and Walter Jacob (Jake), are bur. in this cemetery, as is Pink's brother, Thomas (Tom) Gilbert GREEN.

    Burial Fresno Memorial Gardens, Fresno, Fresno County, California, USA

    Maintained by wvy, Originally Created by Lora Nehring Jul 14, 2011
    --  Find A Grave Memorial #73346170, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=73346170
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