Life History

Notes

• Most genealogies of this family lack this person.  He appears under the name Daniel Redric Green in only in a few genealogies, and they do not document this person from other sources.  Note that this middle name appears to be a form of the first name of Fannie and Daniel David's first son Reddick (Redie) Jackson Green.  In several sources he is David G Green, but no source has been found to explain what name the G stands for.
  
  No son named Daniel is reported by the well-documented and detailed Chickasaw History I cite in this genealogy for many details of the Colbert Chickasaw family.  I do not find any Daniel Redric in any censuses.  I have listed the person as Daniel G Green, based on documentation I discovered in September 2010.  (See further notes below.)
  
  Birth in genealogies reporting two brothers, birth dates are for Reddick Jackson as about 1869 and for Daniel Redric as 1 April 1872.  The Chickasaw history reports a birth date for Reddick Jackson as about 1871.  The 1900 census reports Reddick's birthday as February 1869.
  
  One genealogy (Powell family of Reddick's daughter Myrtle Emma Green Powell) reports Reddick's birth as in 1872, matching the year reported by a couple of others for the child named Daniel.  The 1900 census for Frances Colbert East reports her son Dan was born in April 1872, which is close to the birth date on Reddick's grave marker 7 Feb 1872.
  
  1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory, 1 June, Township 8, South Range 1 East, District 151, page 1A, Hse #2
  East, Francis J  Head Indian Female Aug 1844  55 Widow  Ind Territory Mississippi Mississippi Farmer  Owns Farm  Can read and write
  Adams, Oliver L  Son Indian Male Dec 1881  18 Single Ind Territory Texas Ind Territory Farm Laborer  Cannot read and write
  Green, Dan  Son Indian Male April 1872  28 Widow  Ind Territory Georgia Ind Territory Farm Laborer  Cannot read and write
  
  One genealogy reports that Daniel Redric married a Sarah Powell in 1907, and they had a son named Julius, born in 1914.  This matches our Daniel G Green, who did indeed marry Sarah F Powell.
  
  Daniel Redric Green
  Born 1 Apr 1872 Indian Territory
  Died abt 1943 Indian Territory
  Spouse Sarah F Powell
  Born Jun 1879 in Arkansas
  Died Unknown
  Marriage abt 1907
  Son Julius H Green M born abt 1914 in Oklahoma
  --  http://trees.ancestry.com/owt/person.aspx?pid=89844632
  
  This genealogy appears to have confused Daniel and his brother Reddick Jackson.  Reddick appears to be the older and is reported in some sources to have been born in 1869 (before his parents' marriage).  The date of birth on Reddick's grave, however, is 7 Feb 1872.  But this conflicts with Daniel's reported birth in April 1872.  There is another conflict, since the reported marriage of Reddick's parents was in October 1871.  They may have been married in a Chickasaw ceremony earlier.
  
  The Powell genealogy reports a Julius (Andrew Julius Powell) as the husband of Reddick's sister Myrtle.  They had one son named Daniel Redrek Powell.  The censuses below indicate that Julius Powell was Sarah Powell's brother, and would explain why Daniel and Sarah named their son Julius.
  --  Powell Family, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/12163053/family
  
  These similarities seem to support the idea of confusion of names of Fannie's children. On the other hand, Myrtle's naming one son Daniel Redrek could indicate she is naming him after both brothers.
  
  The Chickasaw History reports the second son as simply Daniel, but estimates a later birth year than that reported by the family genealogies.  Ages in censuses vary:
  "Daniel Green (#26910) was born in IT circa 1874. Daniel enrolled in Marietta, Pickens Co., Chickasaw Nation, IT for the Dawes Chickasaw Roll on 3 OCT 1898 and appears on Dawes card number 1615."
  --  Chickasaw History, Francis Colbert, http://www.chickasawhistory.com/colbert/i0026899.htm#i26899
  
  Another Powell genealogy I found in September 2010 also has information on Sarah Powell as the wife of Daniel Redric Green.  But no documentation or sourcing information is provided in this genealogy.  Dan's older brother's name was Redrick Green.
  
  Sarah F Powell
  Birth JUN 1879 in Arkansas Death ?
  Parents Ambrose Powell 1840-1929
  Minerva R. Foster 1844-1925
  Spouse Daniel Redric Green 1872-1943
  --  Powell, http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/14599074/person/131623046
  
  U.S. Native American Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914, www.ancestry.com
  Chickasaw Nation, Marietta, Census Field #1615, 25 Sep 1898, All Enrolled 1896 Pickens Co, p 26 (updates through 1902)
  1 Dawes' Roll #4315, Frances East, Age 67, Birth Abt 1831, 1/2 Chickasaw, Father David Colbert Dead Chickasaw, Mother Mamie Colbert Dead Chickasaw
  No 1 on Chickasaw Roll as Francis East
  Nos 1, 2 & 3 origially enrolled on Choctaw card #336 and transferred ot this card Oct 13, 1902
  2 Dawes' Roll #4316, Daniel Green, Age 24, Birth Abt 1874, 1/4 Chickasaw, 26 Father Daniel Green Dead Non-Citizen, Mother No 1
  3 Dawes' Roll #4317, Charles Adams, Age 18, Birth Abt 1880, 1/4 Chickasaw, Father Charles Adams ---- Non-Citizen, Mother No 1
  4 Dawes' Roll #648, Theophilus East, Age 50, Birth Abt 1848, Intermarried White, Father Alvis H East Dead Non-Citizen, Mother Jane East Dead Non-Citizen
  No 4 Enrolled by Department 1907, Transferred from Chickasaw Card No C-209
  Nos 1,2 & 3 hereon approved by the Secretary of the Interior Mar 6, 1903
  No 4 hereon approved by the Secretary of the Interior Mar 4, 1907
  
  Daniel was listed in the 1902 Indian Census, in the household of his mother Frances East.
  
  U.S. Native American Enrollment Cards for the Five Civilized Tribes, 1898-1914, www.ancestry.com
  25 Sep 1902, Dawes' Roll #4315, Census Card #1615
  Frances East, Age 71, Birth Abt 1831
  Dawes' Roll #4316, Census Card #1615
  Daniel Green, Age 28, Birth Abt 1874
  Dawes' Roll #4317, Census Card #1615
  Charles Adams, Age 22, Birth Abt 1880
  Tribal Affiliation Chickasaw By Blood
  
  Daniel is in his mother's hosuehold listed on the Chickasaw final roll of citizens by blood.  Next door is his sister Minnie Lee Thompson and next to her is their half-brother William Hunter Cochran.
  
  Chickasaw Roll, Citizens By Blood 1903
  Roll #4315  East, Frances 71 F  1/2  Census Card #1615
  Roll #4316  Green, Daniel 26 M  1/4  Census Card #1615
  Roll #4317  Adams, Charles 22 M  1/4  Census Card #1615
  
  Roll #4318 Thompson, Minnie Lee 28 F  1/4  Census Card #1616
  Roll #4319 Thompson, Mamie Frances 11 F  1/8  Census Card #1616
  Roll #4320 Thompson, Robert Lee 9 M  1/8  Census Card #1616
  Roll #4321 Thompson, Emma Augusta 5 F  1/8  Census Card #1616
  Roll #4322 Thompson, Jessie May 3 F  1/8  Census Card #1616
  
  Roll #4323 Chochran, William Hunter 34 M  1/4  Census Card #1617
  Roll #4324 Chochran, Willie 7 M  1/8  Census Card #1617
  Roll #4325 Chochran, Vertis 7 M  1/8  Census Card #1617
  Roll #4326 Chochran, Samuel T 2 M  1/8  Census Card #1617
  
  Several documents have become available from the ever-growing digital library of Ancestry.com, and these have his name as Daniel G Green.  One is a postal registered letter receipt dated in May 1907.  In November that year, Indian Territory became part of the new State of Oklahoma.  It was sent from Muskogee, Indian Territory (seat of the Creek Nation with a large white settlement.  He received it at the Marietta, Indian Territory, Post Office.  This is near the Texas border.  Marietta is in what became Love County, Oklahoma.
  
  Registry Return Receipt
  From Postmaster at Marietta IT
  Registered Letter  #41944 Issued Muskogee, Indian Territory
  Addressed to Daniel G Green (signed)
  4 May 1907
  Agent M G Norvell
  Chickasaw Roll #4316
  
  I found some census entries that appear to match Daniel, with a wife name Sarah F.  The 1910 and 1930 census has David G, indicating a different name from that of Redric reported by the series of undocumented genealogies that appear to be copying each other.  Some of these also have mixed various random records for other individuals with the name Green so that they report various members of our family dying in Maine.  One of these careless coompilaitons even reports this Daniel as born in Maine!  It is ludicrous to think that any of our Green family was ever in Maine.  I wrote two or three times to the compiler of the first such genealogy, and never received an acknowledgment.
  
  In the 1910 census, Daniel and Sarah are in Washington Township of Love County, Oklahoma, the right place for this family.  Both Daniel (D G) and his wife Sarah are reported as White.  But in 1930, Daniel is an Indian, as well as his son.  Interestingly also, this is reported as the second marriage for both Daniel and Sarah.  To confirm the identity of the family, we find Sarah Powell's parents in the household.  I find that for Sarah's father, the enumerator says this is also his 2nd marriage, but Ambrose and Minerva have been married 44 years.
  
  1910 Federal Census, Love County, Oklahoma, 5 May, Washington Township, District 171, page 17A, Hse/Fam #314
  Green, D G Head M W 40 Marriage 2 Married 3 years [mar abt 1907] OK US US Farmer Owns Farm [b abt 1870]
  Green, Sarah Wife F W 28 Marriage 2 Married 3 years AR AR TN No Occupation [b abt 1882]
  Powell, A Father-in-Law M W 70 Marriage 2 Married 44 years TN TN TN Own Account [b abt 1840]
  Powell, Manervia Mother-in-Law F W 67 Marriage 1 Married 44 years [mar abt 1866] TN US US No Occupation [b abt 1843]
  
  Daniel's age here is greater than we expect from the birth date reported in family genealogies, 1 April 1872.  A typical variation in census ages.
  
  By the 1930 census, they are living in farther east in McCurtain County, near Broken Bow, in the Washita Mountains.  Genealogies tell us that Sarah's father died in this area.
  
  1930 Federal Census, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, 17 April, Eagle Township, near Broken Bow, District 3, page 15B, Hse #312, Fam #324
  Green, Daniel G  Head Rents $12.50 M Indian 63 First Married at age 20 Okla  Mixed Blood  Chickasaw Farmer Owns [b abt 1867]
  Green, Sarah F Wife F W 56 First Married at age 20 AR AR TN
  Green, Julius H Son M Indian 16 Single Okla Father: Mixed Blood Mother: Chickasaw  Laborer, Odd Jobs
  Winton, Edith Niece  F W 15 Single Okla Texas Arkansas Washes Dishes, Cafe
  Winton, Ruth Niece  F W 12 Single Okla Texas Arkansas
  
  Daniel is reported as an Indian.  His father is Mixed Blood and his mother Chickasaw (in place of a place of birth).  This is the first report I have seen that reports Daniel David Green as part Indian.  This would mean that Talitha and Jackson and other siblings also passed on their Chickasaw blood, but I have not heard or seen any family evidence or records of this.  What we know indicates the Green lineage comes from Cherokee.  But they did not overtly maintain this identity; this was not part of the common family oral history.  I think this is an enumerator error.
  
  My research indicated that farther back we have Eastern Cherokee in the Green line, from Meshack's wife Lucretia, and possibly other Green sources.  This is uncertain.  But in the 1850 and 1960 censuses where I had records for Daniel David, race was not reported.  Daniel David Green died in 1878, and I have found no census for this family in 1870.  No censuses were taken in Indian Territory until 1890 for Oklahoma Territory and 1900 for Indian Territory.
  
  In December 2012 I found the 1940 census for Daniel's niece Myrtle Emma Green and her husband Andrew J Powell. In their household is reported a Daniel Green, age 72 (born about 1868).  We would expect Daniel to be about 68 years old in 1940.  The age of 72 matches Daniel's older brother, Myrtle's father Reddick Jackson Green, but he is reported as Andy Powell's brother-in-law.  Daniel married Andrew Powell's sister Sarah and he is also Myrtle's uncle.
  
  1940 Federal Census, Bowie County, Texas, 9 April, Justice Precinct 3, District 19-25, page 5B, Spring Hill & River Rd, Hse #93, Rents $2
  Powell, Andy J  Head M W 50 Grade 2 b Arkansas Rural Bowie County in 1935 Farmer
  Powell, Myrtle Wife F W 48 Grade 4 b Oklahoma Rural Bowie County in 1935
  Powell, William B Son M W 23 Grade 2 b Oklahoma Rural Bowie County in 1935 Farm Laborer
  Powell, Melvin D Son M W 21 Grade 2 b Oklahoma Rural Bowie County in 1935 Farm Laborer
  Powell, Julious Son M W 16 Grade 7 b Oklahoma Rural Bowie County in 1935 No Occup
  Powell, Wanda Sue Dau F W 12 Grade 3 b Oklahoma Rural Bowie County in 1935 No Occup
  Green, Daniel Brother-in-Law [also Uncle-in-Law] M W 72 Grade 0 b Oklahoma Rural Bowie County in 1935 No Occup [b abt 1968]

Sources

• 1. Ancestry Trees
  • Colbert, http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2862548&id=I467&ftm=1
• 2. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 1 June, Township 8, South Range 1 East, District 151, page 1A, Hse #2
• 3. 1930 Federal Census, McCurtain County, Oklahoma
  • 17 April, Eagle Township, near Broken Bow, District 3, page 15B, Hse #312, Fam #324
• 4. 1903 Chickasaw Roll, Citizens By Blood
• 5. Ancestry Trees
  • L Sherman, http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/pid=-1984798304
• 6. 1940 Federal Census, Bowie County, Texas
  • 9 April, Justice Precinct 3, District 19-25, page 5B, Spring Hill & River Rd, Hse #93, Rents $2
• 7. Registry Return Receipt, US Postal Service
• 8. 1910 Federal Census, Love County, Oklahoma
  • 5 May, Washington Township, District 171, page 17A, Hse/Fam #314
• 9. 1940 Federal Census, McClain County, Oklahoma
  • 5 April, Washington, District 44-19 Page 3B, Hse #55, rents $6
• 10. Oregon, Death Index, 1898-2008
• 11. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
• 12. Find a Grave Memorial Registry