Leroy "Buck" Hammond Green

Another Trip to Ryo

Pictures of Pleasant Grove Baptist Church Cemetery

My Great Aunt says that it wasn't always called this, she said it was just called "Ryo"

When John R. Green started the church it was a Methodist church, note that it is now a Baptist church. Interesting.

Vada Green Roper

(I thought this was a nice shot of the church and cemetery in the background)

Balous Green

Louisa A Stone Wife of W. J Green

William Jasper Green

Well, we tried it again but to no avail. We did not locate Lou Allen Green's grave. We attempted it believe me, but the land is being leased to a hunting club and we could not get back the approx 3/4 of a mile into the woods and down a logging road, to locate him. So we spent some time at the church taking photos. I will post what I have. Both "lines" are included. Jeremiah Green's line and Balous Green's line. One thing that I did notice as I was reading the inscriptions was that they proudly displayed their religion of choice. For example Jane M Cook (wife of L.A. Green ) reads.....She was a member of the baptist church 34 years. Interesting to me. Beautiful country that our ancestors lived in. Tough living though, you can tell by the lay of the land. Very "hilly" and parts are ridge-like. Pretty land though. I can see the appeal.

Green Cousin Sharon

I have yet to mention my cousin Sharon Marshall from Texas. She is connected through Martha Green who is one of Lou Allen Green's daughters. She is an avid Green researcher and we have been communicating for about a year now about Green Family history. She is probably the most enthusiastic researcher that I exchange information with and I Love that!
Sharon has connected with yet another Green Cousin named Robin Greene Wilson. She is connected through Balis E Green, who is connected to Samual Balos Green who is connected to Samual Lee Green, who is connected to George Balos Greene whew! Anyway, it is great to have another connection and thanks to Sharon's detective work we have found "new information".
Robin has a copy of a page out of a Bartow County history book that cites Balous Green as Lou Allen Green's father. Interesting to see that. Of course we know that Jeremiah was Lou Allen's father, mainly because of Jeremiah naming Lou Allen in his will. These Green's were so intertwined it is hard to sort them out. I know Lou Allen's line is connected to the Balous Green line but I am not sure how. We still have yet to figure that out.

Greens Buried at Ryo Church - Fairmount, GA

Green/Greene’s
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church Cemetery (Ryo)
Gordon County Cemetery Book
(pgs 290-292)
L. H. Green 10 Jan 1842 - 28 Oct 1907
Estell Green 9 Feb 1900 - 8 Feb 1907
Mary Green w/o L. H. Green 11 Oct 1843 - 15 Nov 1896
Katie Green 28 Jan 1883 - 17 Dec 1896
Maggie Green 20 Oct 1877 - 9 Nov 1896
Infant Green s/o m/m J. M. Green B & D 16 Jan 1910
Malona B. Green d/o m/m J.M. 17 Mar 1908 - 3 Apr 1908
Mary C. Green w/o T. G. 25 Nov 1842 - 25 Oct 1894
Jefferson F. Green 9 Aug 1867 - 28 Oct 1895
Thelma L. Green d/o m/m J. M. 24 Dec 1905 - 10 Jan 1906
Mary L. Green w/o J. M. 28 Oct 1879 - 18 Jan 1910
J. M. Green 9 Aug 1873 - 25 Oct 1927
Agnes Green 28 May 1888 - 15 Aug 1972
Marion M. Green 9 Aug 1864 - 22 Oct 1934
Sarah C. Green 2 Oct 1869 - 22 Apr 1954
Reuben V. Green 1895 - 1968
Evalyn S. Green 1898 - 1974
Maurice D. Green s/o R.V. & Evalyn B & D 17 May 1920
Jesse M. Green s/o James R. & Viola 15 Dec 1884 - 31 Aug 1905
James R. Green 10 Sept 1862 - 3 Apr 1899
Francis Viola Green w/o James R. 16 Apr 1866 - 2 Apr 1899
Henry O. Green s/o James & Viola 2 Aug 1893 - 30 Jul 1894
Balous 1st Mil Cherokee War ND
John R. Green 5 Sept 1835 - 28 Dec 1899
Mary Green 2 Aug 1837 - 21 Dec 1914
(pg 294-295)
Jane M. Cook Green w/o L. A. 26 Jul 1828 - 18 Aug 1909
Louisa A. Green w/o W. J. 1856 - 1922
W. J. Green 16 Nov 1851 - 30 Apr 1944
Inf Son Green of H. O. & Rosa B & D 12 May 1900
Stella May Green d/o H. O. & Rosa 17 May 1901 - 12 Jun 1901
Horace Green s/o H. O. & Rosa 19 Dec 1903 - 28 Dec 1903
Alma Gertrude Green d/o H. O. & Rosa 29 Oct 1905 - 25 Nov 1905
Inf. Green of H. O. & Rosa 23 Jan 1911 - 1 Feb 1911
Rosa E. Green w/o Rev. H.O. 20 Oct 1878 - 11 Jan 1914
Henry Oscar Green 1 Jul 1877 - 16 Jul 1938
Katie Elizabeth Green w/o H. O. 16 Feb 1881 - 24 Apr 1939
H. V. Green 8 Jul 1855 - 7 Nov 1928
Mary M. Gentry Green w/o H. V. 30 May 1861 - 3 Feb 1913
A. J. Green s/o H. V. & M. M. 4 Oct 1882 - 8 Jan 1903
H. M. Green 18 Jul 1873 - 5 Feb 1931
Inf. Green d/o H. M. & Mattie B & D 27 Apr 1930
Sybil Green 13 Jun 1918 - 20 Apr 1928
Beulah Green w/o H. M. 7 Mar 1876 - 26 Nov 1925
Mabel Green 6 Jul 1913 - 30 Sept 1915
Inf. Green s/o H. m. & Beulah 18 Feb 1908 - 2 Mar 1908
Pleasant Grove Methodist Church Cemetery (Ryo) (pg 297-298)
Bunia Thompson Greene 24 Jan 1883 - 1 Dec 1951
Eulus L. Greene 13 Nov 1882 - 27 Jun 1962
Charles M. Greene (Jr.) 11 Apr 1912 - 10 Jan 2005
(pg 301)
Charles Larry Greene Sgt. US Army Vietnam 19 Jan 1948 - 23 Dec 1977
Gayle Green B & D 15 Dec 1958

Eliza Nalley

Eliza Nalley Ca.1860's

(Wife of Jeremiah Green & Mother of Lou Allen Green)

Cousin Kris O'Hayre

I have connected with yet another cousin! Kris O'Hayre is connected through Veda Green who married a Roper. I am very excited about this connection. I do not have much info on the Ropers! I will have to let my Great Aunt Sue know about this - she might remember some of the Ropers. Every new connection is very exciting to me! We are all connected to each other somehow-we just have to figure out how!!!

Cousin Phil Green - Info on John R. Green

It's been a while since I posted........but this does not mean I haven't been busy researching!
I have connected with a new cousin! Phil Green, in Boaz, Alabama. He has been researching since the 1970’s, well, really since he was a young boy, but he says no one would ever tell him anything!
He has done a lot of work on the Greens, it was a joy to talk to him. Hopefully we can meet up in North West GA sometime.
He has sent me a map (snail mail) of where Lou Allen Green’s grave is located. Very exciting to be getting that information. He is connected to Leroy “Buck” Green, who was Lou Allen Green’s brother. Their father was Jeremiah Green. Somehow they are connected to Balis/Balous Green and John R. Green also. We have yet to figure that mystery out.
I have also emailed with Mitzi Soward, in Tennessee. She is connected though William Jasper Green, another one of Lou Allen Green’s brothers.
The following is from Phil Green, Boaz, Alabama.

Transcription of John R. Green’s Will
Research done by Phil Green, Boaz Alabama
On June 12th 1980 in Calhoun, Georgia
Will Record B
1st
To my wife Mary Green the entire property belonging to me at my death during her natural life.
2nd
At her death all land east of Scott Branch and north of Ellijay Road including home and outbuildings except 1 acre for graveyard and 1 acre for the benefit of the M.E. Church when repaired said acre lying joining and being west of graveyard and 1 acre deeded to J.N. Green where public well now is in forks of road, off of lot land number 43, 23rd district 2nd Section Gordon County shall belong to ____?____(Hean) (Harvey) M. Green on the following condition if he remains on said land and takes care of Mary Green his mother during her lifetime after my death.
3rd
At her death strip of land south of Ellijay Road, running to home of J.N. Green land including store house and barter house shall belong to John N. Green and Harvey M. Green.
4th
All other property notes and accounts on land and land lying west of Scott Branch at her Mary Green’s death, shall be equally divided between all legal heirs also fifty dollars from my estate to go to the rebuilding of M.E. Church on the one acre of land west of Graveyard donated for that purpose.
5th
Appointed sons, John N. and Harvey M. Green Executioners….this last day of November, 1899.
Witness
T.J. Dodd
H.F. Shellhorse
T.S. Holmes
T.C. Neal N.P. & J.P.
{Freeholders}
Will proved by witness T.C. Neal

Ryo, Georgia

Jane M. Cook (Wife of Lou Allen Green)

Elias Devers and Mille Frances Green Neal

Ryo, Georgia

The Neals/Nails

The Neal family ties into the Green family by way of Millie Green, she married Elias Devers Neal, December 28th, 1884, in Gordon County, GA.
The Neal's are a very interesting bunch! Elias Devers Neal's father is Joseph D. Neal. Joseph was a JP I have discovered in Cherokee County, GA. His name shows up a lot in the Stiplins war of 1812 document (see earlier post).
This set of Neal's are descended from the Neal's that fought in the Battle of Kettle Creek (Second Picture down, Capt. Joseph Nail, Sr. and Ensign Joseph Nail, Jr.) in Wilkes County, GA. They were known as Nail's back then. Not sure why they changed it to Neal except for the way it might have sounded. I think it was originally Neal and then went to Nail and then back to Neal. Anyway this was a very important battle in Revolutionary war history. Reuben Nail also fought, he is believed to be Joseph Nail, Jr.'s brother.
Joseph Nail, Jr.'s cause of death was murder by gunshot. And no, he didn't die in the war. The Nails owned a trading post on Old Federal Road, now GA Hwy 51, near a creek which was later (and still is) known as Nails' Creek (Banks County, GA, originally Franklin County, GA). John Nail and Julian Nail, Joseph's brothers, eventually caught the man accused of murdering him, his name was Cormack Higgins. Eventually the brothers were both tried for murdering Cormack Higgins but were found not guilty in avenging their brothers death. This occurred in 1800 in Franklin County, GA, now Banks County.
A great quote from the Neal side of the family is from Mable Neal, she said "Your Great-Grandmother Devers was captured by the Indians when she was a young married woman and taken to Ball Ground, GA. They kept her blindfolded all the time and the Chief told her if she would talk he would make her his wife but she would not talk....to him. A group of white men rode into camp and jerked her up on a horse, and a young white boy about 16 years old. They took her back home." WOW. Talk about history. This info was obtained from Joseph Neal, Emory Neal's grandson in Augusta. He has a letter that Mabel wrote that contained this memory. How great is that!?!?!?!
Now you also know where the Devers middle names come from, Elizabeth Devers married Alexander Neal, Joseph Devers Neal's father. That's a whole new post!! Will save that for later!
I will post photos of the Neal's later and I have more info on them so I will post that later also!
Happy Searching!!

Calhoun Obituaries

I met the nicest guy recently (on-line) he lives in Adairsville, GA which is right up the road from Calhoun, GA. Calhoun GA has a great library where you can go and look up obits of your relatives. We do go to Calhoun but it seems like we are never there when the library is open. Anyway, I emailed him and asked if he would be willing to do some look-ups for me. He kindly went to the library and had success with most of the names I sent him. Moses Foster is the most interesting to me simply because it confirms what I have been trying to prove since I started this, that Moses was a confederate solider. The obit also mentions heart trouble which is the first I have heard of that. He died suddenly. He "was only sick a day or two". He was 45 years old. He had six children at the time of his death. He owned one of the finest farms on the river. At an early age he volunteered to serve his country and at the close of the conflict he was paroled an honored confederate soldier being then not quite twenty years old.
I have Judge Thomas Allison Foster family's obit's. His wife, daughters and son.
Malissa Foster, Moses wife, my great- grandfather's, Samuel Robert Foster, and his brother "Dud". Have Kate Foster & Julia Foster.
From the Neal Line I have Flonnie Neal Bentley, and Elias and Millie Green Neal's obituaries.

Lou Allen Green

Lou Allen Green - Sergeant in the 1st GA Cavalry during the Civil War, oops I mean during the War between the States, as our ancestors would have said, " There was nothing Civil about it! "

Stripling Cemetery, Lou Allen Green's Grave & Jerusalem Baptist Church

Pictures of Jerusalem Church in Pickens County GA. We have several relatives buried here. Beautiful area.

Elias Devers Neal and Millie Frances Green Neal

Thought I would tell this story. I am always on the hunt for cemeteries I have not searched and new locations our ancestors frequented. I found two cemeteries that I had not been to, in a book and on-line, so I figured on our last trip to Gordon County we would venture off and try and find these cemeteries. No such luck. But it was truly an adventure trying to find them. The Findley, Franklin, Striplin Cemetery is in Fairmount, GA. The directions were landmarks, not roads. We spent about two hours trying to find the "log cabin" and the barn, which the cemetery is behind, with no luck. We asked a few people to no avail. So we set off the find Lou Allen Green's grave. He is one of our Confederate Soldiers and is buried on land that the Paper Company now owns, somewhere near, Ryo Church. We looked down two logging roads and never found him. I have since been in touch with another family researcher, not from our line, but lives in Adairsville. I asked him for some tips and I will try a new area next time I am up there. I am determined and will eventually find him!
We did find Jerusalem, GA. Not really a town, just a church. I have some great photos of that cemetery that I will post later. Some of the Neal's are buried there. Such a beautiful area up there, I understand why our ancestors were drawn to this area.

First Post!!!

O.K. I am new to this but I figured this would be a great way to keep track of all of my research that I do on our family lines. I am constantly finding new cousins and new information so this way anyone who is interested will be able to keep up with the new finds!! I guess I will start with my most recent find.
The STRIPLIN line has been one of my most challenging lines. I started researching in October of 2006 and I had very limited information on my G,G,G Grandmother. I knew of course that she had married into the Neal line but that was it. Mary Ann Striplin married Joseph Devers Neal December 4th, 1845. They are both buried in Jerusalem, Georgia.
Then I came in contact with our cousin from Michigan, Darin. He is Mable Neal Pettit's great-grandson. He emailed a handwritten document where someone had written down Mary Ann Striplin Neal's brothers and sisters. I thought that would crack the Striplin line wide open, but it did not. You see, there was a lot of confusion because Mary Ann had half siblings too. Then there was the duplication of names and that's always hard to sort out. I took a break on this line and settled back in with the "familiar" lines once again. Until.........I got in contact with another Striplin researcher, her name is Debbie King. She did not have any info on my Mary Ann Striplin but she provided me with info on Mary Ann Striplin's brothers and sisters. Debbie is from the Rial B. Striplin line. That is Mary Ann's brother. Debbie tried to put me in contact with Ann Davis, who knows a lot about the Striplin line, but the email came back to me. So I waited some more. One day while I was searching on-line I came across Ann's new email address and contacted her. By this time I knew Mary Ann Striplin was connected to this particular Striplin line because of the document I came across on-line. Chad Williams had posted it. (We will talk about him in a second.) It was the pension packet of William Stripling (Mary Ann Striplin's father) War of 1812!!! Wow! What a wealth of information. I will post a link to it soon, once I figure out how. William Stripling married Mary Taylor first. That is where the half siblings come in. She passed away and William married Sarah Findley. This opens up a whole new line! Sherry Osburn has done a lot of research on the Findley line.
When I finally contacted our cousin, Chad Williams, I found out for sure that this was Mary Ann's correct line. She was in the Striplin/Stripling/Striblin family bible. Chad has done a ton of research on this line, he emailed me his report and it is 189 pages!! I am still reading through it. He has some interesting Neal info also.
Well, now that this is started, I will try and keep up with my new findings and post them!
Happy Searching!!!!