Ananias Green Family 1824-1950
File — Box: 9, binder: 1
Scope and Contents
Includes family history of Ananias Green. The binder was compiled by Roberta Haldane a descendent of Ananias Green a pioneer in the Territory of New Mexico. The binders contain news clippings of events pertaining to the Green family and their descendants, written family histories, copies of wills, Family group charts, photocopies of birth, marriage, and death pages recorded from the family bible elsewhere in the collection. Also included are obituary and death notices clipped from newspapers, correspondence, deeds, receipts. Handwritten letters and notes with transcripts are included. Manuscripts of John Lee Green and Anna Gilmore Green Texas Pioneers (1847-1887); Texans John Lee and Anna Gilmore Green Find a life in the Territory of New Mexico (1887-1912); and Frontier Life in Seven Rivers; The Sacramento Mountains, and Capitan, New Mexico As Lived by the Green and Key Families (1887-1919). Two interesting pieces of information located on the tab lab led “Ananias Green Jr 4th son” that show the stark difference of newspaper reporting of accidents and trial by jury are included describing the death of Mrs. Ananias Green (Carrie Cox Green) and the trial by jury a day after the automobile/train accident that occurred in Miami, Arizona (Aug 4, 1926 and Aug 5, 1926. A braid of hair belonging to Anna Gilmore Green cut after her death in 1892 was photographed and then removed from the binder and placed in archival box 2. Tabs include, Genealogy, Ananias Green Family History; Anna Gilmore Green Family History (1st son); James Wiley Green (2nd son); Jesse Filmore Green (3rd son); Ananias Green, Jr (4th on); William Harris Green (5th son); Thomas G Green (6th son); Susan Green Gilmore (2nd daughter) and Sallie Green Pierce (4th daughter), and other research materials on the family.
Dates
- 1904-2013
Conditions Governing Access
Open. All materials in this collection are available for research in the Caroline E. Stras Research Room.
Extent
From the Collection: 8 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections Repository