Life History

Notes

• Toliver Green was the son of Daniel David Green and Mary.
  
  The name Toliver appears in several Green lineages from east to west, which may indicate some relationship between the lines of Greens.  There are several lines of Greens, however, that we find in Texas and Oklahoma, that I have not been able to tie together.  The name Toliver or Tolliver is a family name, but until July 2009 I had not been able to determine the origin of this.  Only then did I discover the origin of this unusual name.
  
  This is an anglicisation of the Italian name Talliaferro.  I knew this family name from my childhood in North Texas.  But I had never known that this name was associated with a noble English family involved in the early settlement of Virginia.  The Greens and Talliaferros, along with several other prominent families, intermarried and signs of their linkage shows up in the use of the family names as given names for the lines with other surnames.  A good example is the individual named James Green Tolliver (1886-1981) in Summers County.
  --  Taliaferro/Toliver Times, Issue 25, http://www.spingola.com/TaliaferroTimes/TT25.htm
  
  We would then expect our Toliver Green to have ancestors with the surname Toliver or Tolliver.  Perhaps this clue will lead to the link between the other Green lines who are otherwise unrelated but also have a recurrence of the name Toliver/Tolliver as a given name in Oklahoma.
  
  "The (M) stands for Mary.  I have my great grandmother's supplemental application.  Her name was Fannie Bryant Bruce.  Her father was Hardy Bryant.  Hardy's mom was Fannie Green, daughter of Daniel Green & Mary Green.  There was the name Mashack in the old Green Bible, said William Bryant, brother of Hardy Bryant.  They were rejected on their Cherokee blood, but I know they were Cherokee.  Fannie Green was born in 1808, had a brother Isaac 1801, John 1804, Thomas 1806, Fannie 1808, Daniel 1810, Elizabeth 1812, Andrew Jackson 1815, Toliver 1817, Enoch 1820, Isona 1823."
  --  Gary Cruce, message on profile for Mary Green, wife of Daniel John Green, on OurFamily genealogy, 10 July 2015, http://www.ourfamtree.org/browse.php?pid=60396
  
  Toliver is mentioned among early settlers in Cooke County, Texas, under the name Taliferro Green.
  
  "By 1860, there were nearly 40 families listed in the census from Fish Creek to the river bottoms of Sivells Bend, Warrens Bend and Blue Hollow. Among them were William Blue, Orastus Blue, Randolf Bateman, Taliferro Green, William Kuykendall, Dr. J.B. Stone, Richard Corn, Thomas Rose, Lankston Pace, D.C. Wheeler, Wm. H. Hobbs, James Potter, Ben Scanland, Garrot Addington, James L. Corbitt, William Simpson and Robert Ragsdale"
  --  Barbara Pybas, Sivells Bend Community History, http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txcooke/sivells_bend_history.htm
  
  Read more about the Taliaferro/Toliver family in Taliaferro/Toliver Times, Issue 25, http://www.spingola.com/TaliaferroTimes.
  
  Gilmer County, Georgia Marriages 1840-1841
  License 7 December 1841 authorizing the marriage of
  Toliver Green and Winney Ann Beardin
  Issued by William Ervin, County Clerk
  Executed 9 December 1841 by A N Miles, Minister of the Gospel
  Registered 24 February 1942 in Gilmer County, Georgia, Marriage Book, p 19
  
  Gilmer County, Georgia Marriages 1840-1841
  Toliver Green and Winney Ann Beardin
  License issued 7 December 1841 by William Ervin, County Clerk
  Ceremony 9 December 1841 by A N Miles, Minister of the Gospel
  Registered 24 February 1942 in Gilmer County, Georgia, Marriage Book, p 19
  
  Toliver Green and his wife Winney are found in Gilmer County, Georgia, in the 1850 census.  They moved to northern Texas a little before 1860.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gilmer County, Georgia, page 397B (scan #100), Hse/Fam #691
  Toliver Green 33 M Farmer born SC
  Winney Green 28 F born GA
  Telitha Green 7 F born GA
  Daniel Green 6 M born GA
  Mary Green 4 F born GA
  Jacob Green 1 M born GA
  
  A match to Toliver's parents and siblings was made by comparison to a genealogy from World Family Tree, Volume 4.  The date range estimated in WFT for Toliver's birth matches the birth year we have based on census information on the known Toliver Green in our family.
  
  The father's birthplace in this tree was South Carolina, matching two different family sources for South Carolina as the birthplace for Toliver.  This also matches the information in WFT that Toliver's brother Thomas Perry Green, the last brother born before Toliver, was also born in South Carolina.
  
  Toliver is listed in the court records of Hall Co, GA dated 8 Apr 1859 as receiving $77.00 as part of his distribution share of the estate of Daniel Green.
  --  World Family Tree, Volume 4, Pedigree #1286
  
  This family was known to the Greens of Oklahoma who were descendants of Toliver Jorile Green, son of Jack Green.  Loretta Gregory Gay (granddaughter of Toliver Jorile Green) had compiled the names remembered by her mother's family.  The name of Toliver, grandfather of Toliver Jorile, was not known.
  
  Other names and information, including the name of Toliver and his wife Winnie Ann Bearden, was provided by Linda Hanks of Weatherford, Texas, who discussed this family on a RootsWeb email discussion group.
  
  Linda reported all the children she knew were all born in Georgia.  Not all the children listed by Linda were known to the family in Oklahoma.  Linda, likewise, did not have the name of James Toliver Green, last-born child of Toliver Green.  James was the brother of Jackson (Jack) Green, father of Toliver Jorile.
  
  James Toliver was born in Texas, in January 1861.  Linda reported that Toliver and family were in Cooke County, Texas, in 1860.  I found the census record showing them in or near Gainesville.  This information on children thus meshes.  Toliver Jorile was born in Hill County, Texas.
  
  Here is a reconciliation list of the persons as reported by Loretta Gregory Gay and Linda Hanks.
  
  Hanks               Gregory
  ======             =======
  Delitha              Talitha
  Daniel (David)   Dan
  Mary
  Jacob               Jake
  Jackson            Jack
  Winna
  Elizabeth           Lizzie
  Cynthia             Cynthia
  James Toliver
  
  Jackson was no doubt named for Toliver's brother Andrew Jackson.  No documentation has been found, but we suspect that Toliver's son Jackson was also Andrew JAckson.  He always went by Jack.
  
  Other lists found since then have similar names for these children shown in the census.  Another variation of Talitha's name is Delithia, provided by Marion Mixon, also researching this family.  Other variations in various records and genealogies are Telitha, Telithia and Delthia.  The spelling on her marriage certificate is Delitha.  But most censuses have some form of the name starting with a T.
  
  Loretta also had information that matched Linda's on the husband of Talitha/Delitha.  Her Green family know her husband as Abe, while the full name was reported in Linda's information: Abraham Jasper Jackson.  (The middle name Jasper has been proven to be an error, from an erroneous association of our Abraham with an Abraham Jasper Jackson of Montgomery, Alabama, whose further details and family configuration conflict with other known facts of Abraham Jackson who married Talitha Green and moved to Indian Territory.)
  
  In 1860, we find this family near Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas.  They are living on a farm, but their post office is Gainesville, the county seat.  This is straight north of Denton, on the Red River [now on I-35].  Toliver's name is unusual here.  Ancestry has transcribed the entry as Taifeno, which has, of course, been reported and copied by various genealogies.  THe current spelling on Ancestry is Taifern, ignoring the final O.  In May 2011, in rethinking details about this family, a sudden connection lit up.  In rechecking the Green family entries, I realized this name in the 1860 census is Taiferro, not Taifeno.
  
  This directly relates to the original form of this name, the family name of Taliaferro.  The two Rs here, written as print Rs linked to adjoining letters and seen by most as an N, look just like other Rs on this page!  This probably indicates that Toliver knew and reported the name as a from of that original name Taliaferro.  The pronunciation may have modified the name as Toliver said it, or the enumerator may not have heard or represented it accurately.  In one tax roll, his name was also spelled as Talapher.
  
  1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas, 21 July, Gainesville, page 58, Hse #481, Fam #496
  Taiferro [Taliaferro or Toliver] Green  48 M Farmer [No real estate value] $250 Personal Estate  born SC
  Winna [Winney] Green  38 F Georgia
  Daniel Green  16 M born Georgia
  Mary Green  14 F born Georgia
  Jacob Green  12 M born Georgia
  Jackson Green  10 M born Georgia
  Winna Green  8 F born Georgia
  Elizabeth Green  6 F born Georgia
  Cyntha Green  3 F born Georgia
  
  Other names in the family are quite readable and match exactly those known otherwise.  Four children have been born since the 1850 census in Georgia:
  Jackson 10, Winna 8, Elizabeth 6 and Cyntha (Cynthia) 3
  
  The census shows all children born in Georgia.  The youngest, Cynthia, is 3, so the family moved sometime after June 1857.  No further record has been found of Mary and Wina.  these daughters may have died young.  These names were not even known to Toliver Jorile Green's family.
  
  Many genealogies report Daniel as the father of Toliver and his siblings.  The information I have on Daniel (or Daniel John) Green, reported to be the father of Toliver, is that his wife's name began with an M, but I have found no source with the full name of the wife.  There may have been an earlier Daniel I have not yet found in sources.
  
  A cousin and researcher on our Green and Jackson lines, Kati Cain, in February 2015 discovered some Texas tax rolls naming Toliver Green and his son Daniel in Cooke County.  Both appear in several years' tax rolls.  The first year we find them is 1862
  
  Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910
  Cooke County, 1862
  Green, Toliver  Poll Tax $1.00  State Tax $2.14
  --  FamilySearch.org
  
  Kati also found records referring to pioneers in the Gainesville area indicating that Toliver Green owned land north of Gainesville in the Sivells Bend area.  This is a little peninsula of Texas surrounded by a meander of the Red River where it curves north to a point just southwest of the city limits of Marietta, Oklahoma, then flows back south, then a little bit southwest before continuing in a somewhat eastern direction, to give the Texas-Oklahoma a jigsaw puzzle look.
  
  Also in February 2015 another cousin and coresearcher on the Greens and Jacksons, Marion Mixon, found some military records that appear to be for our Toliver Green  He was in Cooke County, Texas, where he was enumerated in the 1860 census.  In 1864, he served for a short time as a Private in the Texas State Troopers, a frontier force cooperating with the Confederate States of America army during the Civil War.
  
  The name Cook is discernible, and appears to be saying Cook County, though the name of the Texas county where Toliver lived was spelled Cooke.  This was about 18 months before the end of the Civil War.  This is the first indication I have had that he was in the military after moving to Texas.
  
  Military Record Card
  Toliver Green, Pvt, age 47 [b abt 1817]
  Commanding Officer Capt James Hill
  Co Cook [Cooke] Co 1st Frontier District, Maj William Quayle, Commanding, TST
  Mustered in Feb 1, 1864, Discharge:  Served 20 days at $2 = $40
  Muster Roll dated Jan 30, 1864, mustered out June 1 1864
  
  This apparently means "Cooke County Company, 1st Frontier District."  The designation TST indicates a Texas state military defense force called Texas State Troops.
  
  "Texas State Troops, 1861-1865 - From the Texas State Archives -- Texas was divided into military brigade districts for the purpose of organizing State Troops for the defense of the state. Many people confuse military records they receive from the Texas State Archives that show the initials "TST" or "TM". Persons with these designations were members of the various State Troop brigades and not the regiments, battalions, companies, legions, etc. that bore Confederate States Army designations."
  --  Texas State Archives, http://gen.1starnet.com/civilwar/tstbrigs.htm
  
  "Texas State Troopers & the CSA -- Texas State Troopers would be enrolled for a period of 6 months to a year. These TST were eligible for pensions and then all TST during the time period were made eligible."
  --   Sherry Hightower, Texas History Hunters, Genealogy Wise Network, February 9, 2010, http://www.genealogywise.com/group/texashistoryhunters/forum/topics/texas-state-troopers-the-csa
  
  William Quayle, mentioned on Toliver's TST muster card, and associated cards for his troop, was a commander responsible for protecting the westernmost territory of the State of Texas during the Civil War.
  
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  William Quayle commanded the First Frontier District. The First was the northern most of the districts and was made up of the present day counties of Archer, Baylor, Clay, Cooke, Foard (not organized until 1891), Hardeman, Haskell, Jack, Jones, Knox, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Shackelford, Stephens, Throckmorton, Wichita, Wilbarger, Wise, and Young.
  
  All of these volunteers were meant to do the work once performed by the Rangers. Many men answered the call and helped to defend their homes against the dangers presented by living on the frontier.   These men were not members of the Confederate States Army, but were members of the State Troops of Texas.  They were organized, supplied and paid by the government of Texas.   It was the mission of these men to protect the western most settlements of Texas against attacks from all enemies. Unfortunately, not a lot of publicity has been given to their service.
  --  Texas State Troops, http://www.ctmcm.com/TexasStuff/TXStateTroops.html
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  Toliver was listed again on the Cooke County tax rolls in 1884 and 1866.  In 1884, his name was closer to the original Italian form Toliver comes from, Talliaferro.  It is faded, but appears to read Talapher.  Toliver is not on the rolls in 1867, which I have been through page by page.  From the lack of a record in 1867, it would suggest that Toliver died before the tax roll in January 1867.  But he is also missing from 1865, so that is not definitive.
  
  Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910
  Cooke County, 1864
  Green, Talapher  Livestock Value $236 Poll Tax $1.00  State Tax $2.14 County Tax $2.06
  --  FamilySearch.org
  
  Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910
  Cooke County, 1866, p 7
  Green, Toliver  Poll Tax $1.00  State Tax $.50
  --  FamilySearch.org
  
  In 1866, listed just above Toliver in the roll is a D Green, which would be his son Daniel (Daniel David).  Neither owns land, but Daniel has 1 horse and 5 cattle.  In 1864, Toliver was listed as owning cattle, but not in 1866.
  
  Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910
  Cooke County, 1866
  Green, D  1 horse & 5 cattle $75
  Ad Valorem Tax $.15 Poll Tax $1.00  State Tax $.59
  --  FamilySearch.org
  
  Many other tantalizing clues went unconfirmed for years of research and collaboration by a number of Green-Jackson researchers.  One of these was on site in the Chickasaw Nation, a registered Chickasaw cousin in the Jackson line, Kati Jackson Cain.  Cati was able to do original research on the actual tribal records in their archives and reported in late October 2015 to her cousins Marion Mixon and Orville Boyd Jenkins on some critical discoveries from these tribal records, which fill in some gap[s in our knowledge of the Greens and Jacksons in the late 1860s nd 1870s..
  
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  The Chickasaw Nation issued permits to White citizens so they could work and live in the Chickasaw Nation.  We know that the Greens and Abraham and Telitha moved in Chickasaw Nation after 1868.  I have found permits for "T. Green" and his license is issued under Francis (Colbert) Cochran, now we also know how Daniel Green and Francis Colbert met.  There's also a permit for a William Jackson.  He ended by married to a Chickasaw woman named Annie Donovan.  Here's a link to the enrollment card he shows up on:
  http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&indiv=try&db=ftworthenrollmentcards&h=66885
  
  His father is shown as James M Jackson.  And guess what?  Three days later two permits are issued for J. M. Jackson & family and A. S. Jackson and family.  A. S. Jackson matches the last tax record Abraham shows up on in Cooke County.  I think this is a pretty good start to more clues.
  --  Kati Linn Cain, report on findings in Chickasaw National Records, Chickasaw Cultural Center, email to Orville Boyd Jenkins and Marion Mixon, 24 October 2015
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  Permits  No 9  Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation Jan 13th 1870
  "This is to certify that T Green is duly employed by Mrs Frances Chockrain [Cochran] for one year from date.   As farmer.  Given under my hand, this day and date above written.
  Wm P Worthington District Clerk"
  
  By 1900 several of the Green and Jackson children had moved to Indian Territory.  Abraham Jackson does not show up in the 1900 census, but his wife Talitha (Telitha/Delitha) Green is in Township 8, which seems to be in the south, what became Love County, Oklahoma. Her brother Jacob Green and her son Sam are in Nash Township of Muskogee County (Creek or Muscogee Nation), in the west central area of Oklahoma.  There is some indication that Abe was in the western areas in 1870, but we cannot find a family listing for Telitha.
  
  In the 1870s, Muskogee was part of Creek Nation, with Cherokee Nation to the north and east.  A Jacob Green, who may be Talitha's brother Jacob, and what appear to be other members of the same Green family, were in some scrapes with the law in Fort Smith, Arkansas.  Ft Smith was on the Arkansas River, on the border of Arkansas with Indian Territory, and authorities there managed the justice for Oklahoma and Indian Territory.  I have not found details of their residence during the 1860s to 1890s.  Jacob is enumerated in the Cherokee Nation census of 1900.
  
  There are two main lines of Greens in Oklahoma, with a minor third one that might be related at a great historical distance.  Our family came from Gilmer County, Georgia, with some of them in Whitfield and neighbouring counties at some times.  They came earlier from South Carolina, and either from Pennsylvania or Maryland, as I discuss in various Notes.  They came into Indian Territory from Texas, as did our Jenkins line.  These Greens are mostly dark haired and dark-eyed.  Several of this line married Indians.
  
  Another line came into Oklahoma from Missouri and have antecedents in Illinois and Indiana, it appears, to where they could have also come from Pennsylvania or Maryland or even some of the North-South Carolina Greens appear to have gone through the northwest route of the Mid-West.  These from Missouri into Oklahoma, however, are mostly blond and blue or green-eyed.  Some of these also married Indians.
  
  Another line that also shows up in central Oklahoma, Pottawatomie and Garvin Counties, came into Indian Territory and Oklahoma around the turn of the century.  They could be a branch of our Gilmer County Greens, a group of whom also went from Georgia to Arkansas.  I have not clearly connected them.  They show up in my genealogy also in central Arkansas over to central Oklahoma and connect to some other families we are also related to by marriage.  See entries in this genealogy for Isaac Tipton Green and descendants.
  
  There are additionally some Indians named Green who do not seem to be at all related to these white settler lines named Green.  I have talked to one descendant of a Jim Green, whom I have not clearly identified, who is mixed Cherokee and African-American.  This Gerald Green lives in the Dallas, Texas, area.

Sources

• 1. 1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas
  • 21 July, Gainesville, page 5B, Hse #401, Fam #496
• 2. Military Muster Card
• 3. Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910
  • 1862
• 4. Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910
  • 1864
• 5. Texas, County Tax Rolls, 1846-1910
  • 1866
• 6. OurFamily Genealogy
• 7. RootsWeb Discussion Lists
• 8. 1850 Federal Census, Gilmer County, Georgia
  • 15 Oct, Subdivision 33, Hse/Fam #691
• 9. World Family Tree Vol. 4
  • Pedigree #1286
• 10. Sivells Bend Community History by Barbara Pybas
• 11. Gilmer County, Georgia Marriages 1840-1841
  • Name: Name: http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0025437;;
  • Gilmer County, Georgia, Marriage Book p 19
• 12. Chickasaw Nation Archives
• 13. Ancestry Trees
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=*v25t1081&id=I295
• 14. 1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas
  • 21 July, Gainesville, page 59 (scan 254), Hse #484, Fam #502
• 15. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 8 June, District 151, Township 8S, page 5A, Hse #60, Fam #65
• 16. Love County Burials
  • Name: Name: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ok/love/cemeteries/list2.txt;;
  • Lakeview Cemetery
• 17. Texas, Muster Roll Index Cards, 1838-1900
• 18. Millennium Files, Ancestry.com
• 19. 1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas
  • 21 July, Gainesville, page 58, Hse #481, Fam #496
• 20. 1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas
  • 21 July, Texas, post office Gainesville, page 5B, Hse #401, Fam #496
• 21. 1900 Federal Census, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
  • 13 June, Township 15, District 40, Page 6B, Hse/Fam #126
• 22. Marion L Mixon, Bearden-Langston Genealogy
• 23. Gravestones of Oklahoma
• 24. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 12 June, Township 3, District 124, page 7A, Hse #107, Fam #109
• 25. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 20 July, Township 4, District 120, page 52B, Hse/Fam #949
• 26. Marlow Cemetery List, Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma
  • Location: http://stephenscogen.org/~okstephe/MarlowCem2.txt;
• 27. Loretta Gregory Gay, Personal Communication
• 28. 1920 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 2 February, Richland Township, District 262, page 10A, No house or family numbers on this page
• 29. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 25 April, Richland Township, District 243, page 6B, No Hse or Fam #s on this page
• 30. Find a Grave Memorial Registry
• 31. Gilmer County Marriages
  • Book 1 1835 - 1852, p 19, http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gilmercountyrecords/marriages/marriagebookone.htm