Thomas Jackson GREEN Mary Melissa GREEN Alpharetta Mae GREEN Birdie GREEN Minnie Lee GREEN Norah Nettie GREEN David Homer GREEN Lou Ada Caldonia WEST Mollie STROUD Paul Donald GREEN Margaret Druscilla CRENSHAW James Taylor GREEN Susie GREEN Daniel David GREEN Clarinda BARNETT Mini tree diagram
Toliver Jorile GREEN

Toliver Jorile GREEN3,4,1,6,2,8,14,15,9,9

also known as 7,13,8,12

22nd Nov 18733,4,5,1,6,7,8,9,9 - 1st Dec 19479,1,3,2,10

Life History

22nd Nov 1873

Born in Hill County, Texas.3,4,5,1,6,7,8,9,9

10th Dec 1894

Married Lou Ada Caldonia WEST in Marlow, Pickens, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.3,9

21st Oct 1895

Birth of daughter Alpharetta Mae GREEN in Marietta, Pickens County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.16,7,17,3,1,18,19,20

7th Jan 1898

Birth of daughter Birdie GREEN in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.1,21

16th Feb 1898

Death of daughter Birdie GREEN in Center, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.1,21

3rd May 1899

Birth of daughter Minnie Lee GREEN in Center, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.7,3,5,22,1

22nd Jan 1902

Birth of daughter Norah Nettie GREEN in Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.21,3,1,21

1st Sep 1902

Death of daughter Norah Nettie GREEN in Center, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.1,21

12th Dec 1906

Birth of son David Homer GREEN in Center, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.7,2,23,24,5,25,1,14,26,27,15,25

22nd Feb 1907

Death of Lou Ada Caldonia WEST in Pontotoc County, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory.28,1

between 1910 and 1947

Resident in Richland Township, Stephens, Oklahoma.10,5,11,8,12

12th Sep 1918

Residence2: Address at Route 1, the contact source was reported as his daughter Minnie Lee Green, Marlow in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma.6

Feb 1919

Married Mollie STROUD.13,6,12,31

between 1920 and 1926

Death of Mollie STROUD in Richland, Stephens, Oklahoma.9,13

12th Jun 1926

Married Margaret Druscilla CRENSHAW in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma.9

27th Jul 1927

Birth of son Paul Donald GREEN in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma.24,29,9,8,30

23rd Jan 1941

Death of daughter Minnie Lee GREEN in Oklahoma.3,1

1st Dec 1947

Died in Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma.9,1,3,2,10

after 1st Dec 1947

Buried in Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma.1,2

Notes

  • Family sources report that Toliver Jorile Green was born on 22 November 1873.  This is the date on his grave.  However, his WWI Draft registration reports his birth as 22 November 1872.

    Toliver Jorile was born in Hill County, Texas.  The 1930 census agrees with this information from family records.  However, in other censuses Joe reported (or the enumerator recorded) that he was born in Oklahoma.

    Joe's cousin, James Toliver Jackson, was born In Hill County, Texas, 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 had come from Georgia to Cooke County, Texas before 1860, and moved to Hill County later.  James Toliver Jackson's parents, Abraham and Talitha Jackson (Jackson Green's sister), appear to have moved there from eastern Indian Territory, probably Cherokee Nation, to Hill County in about 1871.

    Toliver Jorile moved with his family to the Marlow, Oklahoma, area in 1908.  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.  His draft card records his name as Toliver Jorile Green, as family records have it.

    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.

    He married Luada (or Lou Ada) Caledonia West in 1894.  I don't have a record for them in the 1900 census.  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 this census.  Joe's WWI Draft Registration provides his full name and other details in 1918.  The fact that he gives his daughter as nearest of kin would seem to indicate that he had not yet married Mollie Stroud.  On these registration cards, normally the wife is reported as next of kin.

    U.S. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
    Toliver Jorile Green
    Residence Route 1, Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma
    Born 22 Nov 1872, place not given
    Occupation Farmer
    Nearest Relative Minnie Lee Green (daughter), Rt 1 Marlow
    Medium Height and Build, Eyes and hair "dark"
    Signed Toliver Jorile Green
    Registration 12 Sept 1918 Marlow, Stephens, Oklahoma

    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 wife Maggie 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

    1940 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 18 April, Richland Township, District 69-24, page 6B, Hse #118, Owns $200
    Green, T J  Head M W 66 Grade 5 b Oklahoma Same house in 1935 Farmer
    Green, Maggie D Wife F W 56 Grade 7 b Tennessee Same house in 1935
    Green, Homer Son M W 33 Single Grade H-4 b Oklahoma Same house in 1935
    Green, Paul Donald Son M W 12 Single Grade 7 b Oklahoma Same house in 1935

    Next door is Maggie's son Berley J Welch and his wife Treasure.

    1940 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma, 18 April, Richland Township, District 69-24, page 6B, Hse #119, Rents $2
    Welch, Berley J  Head M W 20 Grade 8 b Oklahoma Stephens County OK in 1935 Truck Driver, Milk Route
    - page 7A -
    Green, Treasure Wife F W 18 Grade H-3 b Arkansas Altus, Jackson Co OK in 1935 Sales Clerk, Variety Store

    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"
    --  Marlow Cemetery,  http://www.rootsweb.com/~okstephe/MarlowCem2.txt

    Toliver Jorile "Joe" Green
    Birth Nov 22, 1873 Hill County, Texas, USA
    Death Dec 1, 1947 Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma, USA
    Spouses:
    Lou Ada Caldonia West Green 1877-1907 (m. 1894)
    Margaret Druscilla Crenshaw Green 1883-1974 (m. 1926)
    Children:
    Alpharetta Mae Green Gregory (1895 - 1963)
    Birdie Green (1898 - 1898)
    Minnie Lee Green Thornton 1899-1941
    Norah Green (1902 - 1902)
    David Homer Green (1906 - 1989)
    Burial Marlow Cemetery, Marlow, Stephens County, Oklahoma
    Created by Jean Dec 01, 2007
    --  Find A Grave Memorial #2319825, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=23198256

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