Narcissus Hesentine GREEN5,3,2,4
3rd Nov 18553 - 15th May 19341
Life History
before Sep 1854 |
Born in North Carolina.4 (less likely) |
3rd Nov 1855 |
Born in North Carolina.1,3 (most likely) |
between Jul 1857 and Jun 1858 |
Born in North Carolina.3 (less likely) |
between 1870 and 1880 |
Resident in Township 2, Cleveland, North Carolina.3,4 |
25th Mar 1893 |
Married Barry Ezell MCSWAIN in Rutherford County, North Carolina.2 |
16th Dec 1928 |
Death of Barry Ezell MCSWAIN in Cleveland County, North Carolina.6,1 |
15th May 1934 |
Died in Cleveland County, North Carolina.1 |
after 15th May 1934 |
Buried in Boiling Springs Cemetery, Cleveland County, North Carolina.1,2 |
Notes
- 1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina, 21 August, page 159 (scan 396), Hse/Fam #1146
Reubin Greene 36 M Farmer $400 Real Estate $348 Personal b NC
Juda Greene 32 F NC Cannot read or write
Hesentine Greene 5 F NC
According to her burial information, Narcissus Hesentine Green was born on 3 November 1855. The 1870 census reports her age in September 1870 as 16, which would mean she had to be born before September 1854, over a year earlier than her reported birth date on the cemetery register. The 1860 census reprots her as 5 years old in the August census, which would make her born as early as 1 August 1854 before 1 August 1855.
With the precision we have coem to expect in the modern rationalist era, we might conclude that she was born in August or September 1854. This is another of those many indications that exact dates were not the obsession for that generation that they became as the 20th century progressed. Similarly her age in 1880, 22 years, is only 8 years older than 1870, and would indicate she was born between July 1857 and June 1858, about 3 years later than the birth date reported by the family on her death information.
Sources
- 1. Rutherford/Cleveland County, NC, Burial Information
- Name: Name: http://www.rfci.net/wdfloyd/cemm5.html;;
- 2. Marriages of Rutherford County, North Carolina 1779-1868
- Name: Name: Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc.; Location: Baltimore; Date: 1986;;
- 3. 1880 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
- 1 June, Township 2, District 66, page 2B, Hse #15, Fam #17
- 4. 1870 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
- 9 September, Township 2, PO Mooresboro, page 7 (scan p 133), Hse/Fam #47
- 5. 1860 Federal Census, Cleveland County, North Carolina
- 21 August, page 159 (scan 396), Hse/Fam #1146
- 6. Ancestry Trees
- John Ellis Family Genealogy, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=edhellis&id=I09688