Parents

Son of Daniel John GREEN & Mary UNKNOWN.

Life History

Notes

• Toliver Green was the son of Daniel David Green and Mary <Unknown>.
  
  The name Toliver appears in several Green lineages from east to west,which may indicate some relationship between the lines of Greens.There are several lines of Greens, however, that we find in Texas andOklahoma, that I have not been able to tie together.  The name Toliveror Tolliver is a family name, but until July 2009 I had not been ableto determine the origin of this.  Only then did I discover the originof this unusual name.
  
  This is an anglicisation of the Italian name Talliaferro.  I knew thisfamily name from my childhood in North Texas.  But I had never knownthat this name was associated with a noble English family involved inthe early settlement of Virginia.  The Greens and Talliaferros, alongwith several other prominent families, intermarried and signs of theirlinkage shows up in the use of the family names as given names for thelines with other surnames.  A good example is the individual namedJames Green Tolliver (1886-1981) in Summers County.
  --  Taliaferro/Toliver Times, Issue 25,http://www.spingola.com/TaliaferroTimes/TT25.htm
  
  We would then expect our Toliver Green to have ancestors with thesurname Toliver or Tolliver.  Perhaps this clue will lead to the linkbetween the other Green lines who are otherwise unrelated but alsohave a recurrence of the name Toliver/Tolliver as a given name inOklahoma.
  
  Read more about the Taliaferro/Toliver family in Taliaferro/ToliverTimes, Issue 25, http://www.spingola.com/TaliaferroTimes
  
  Toliver Green and his wife Winney are found in Gilmer County, Georgia,in the 1850 census.  They move to northern Texas a little before 1860.
  
  1850 Federal Census, Gilmer County, Georgia, page 397B (scan #100),Hse/Fam #691
  Toliver Green 33 M Farmer born SC
  Winney Green 28 F born GA
  Telitha Green 7 F born GA
  Daniel Green 6 M born GA
  Mary Green 4 F born GA
  Jacob Green 1 M born GA
  
  A match to Toliver's parents and siblings was made by comparison to agenealogy from World Family Tree, Volume 4.  The date range estimatedin WFT for Toliver's birth matches the birth year we have based oncensus information on the known Toliver Green in our family.
  
  The father's birthplace in this tree was South Carolina, matching twodifferent family sources for South Carolina as the birthplace forToliver.  This also matches the information in WFT that Toliver'sbrother Thomas Perry Green, the last brother born before Toliver, wasalso born in South Carolina.
  
  Toliver is listed in the court records of Hall Co, GA dated 8 Apr 1859as receiving $77.00 as part of his distribution share of the estate ofDaniel Green.
  --  World Family Tree, Volume 4, Pedigree #1286
  
  This family was known to the Greens of Oklahoma who were descendantsof Toliver Jorile Green, son of Jack Green.  Loretta Gregory Gay(granddaughter of Toliver Jorile Green) had compiled the namesremembered by her mother's family.  The name of Toliver, grandfatherof Toliver Jorile, was not known.
  
  Other names and information, including the name of Toliver and hiswife Winnie Ann Bearden, was provided by Linda Hanks of Weatherford,Texas, who discussed this family on a RootsWeb email discussion group.
  
  Linda reported all the children she knew were all born in Georgia.Not all the children listed by Linda were known to the family inOklahoma.  Linda, likewise, did not have the name of James ToliverGreen, last-born child of Toliver Green.  James was the brother ofJackson (Jack) Green, father of Toliver Jorile.
  
  James Toliver was born in Texas, in January 1861.  Linda reported thatToliver and family were in Cooke County, Texas, in 1860.  I found thecensus record showing them in or near Gainesville.  This informationon children thus meshes.  Toliver Jorile was born in Hill County,Texas.
  
  Here is a reconciliation list of the persons as reported by LorettaGregory Gay and Linda Hanks.
  
  Hanks               Gregory
  =====               =======
  Delitha          Talitha
  Daniel (David)   Dan
  Mary
  Jacob               Jake
  Jackson            Jack
  Winna
  Elizabeth           Lizzie
  Cynthia             Cynthia
  James Toliver
  
  Other lists found since then have similar names for these childrenshown in the census.  Another variation of Talitha's name is Delithia,provided by Marion Mixon, also researching this family.  Othervariations in various records and genealogies are Telitha, Telithiaand Delthia.  The spelling on her marriage certificate is Delitha.But most censuses have some form of the name starting with a T.
  
  Loretta also had information that matched Linda's on the husband ofTalitha/Delitha.  Her Green family know her husband as Abe, while thefull name was reported in Linda's information: Abraham Jasper Jackson.
  
  In 1860, we find this family near Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas.They are living on a farm, but their post office is Gainesville, thecounty seat.  This is straight north of Denton, on the Red River [nowon I-35].  Toliver's name is unusual here.  Ancestry has transcribedthe entry as Taifeno, which has, of course, been reported and copiedby various genealogies.  THe current speling on Ancesstry is Taifern,ignoring the final O.  In May 2011, in rethinking details about thisfamily, a sudden connection lit up.  In rechecking the Green familyentries, I realized this name in the 1860 census is Taiferro, notTaifeno.
  
  This directly relates to the original form of this name, the familyname of Taliaferro.  The two Rs here, written as print Rs linked toadjoining letters and seen by most as an N, look just like other Rs onthis page!  This Probably indicates that Toliver knew and reported thename as a from of that original name Taliaferro.  The pronunciationmay have modified the name as Toliver said it, or the enumerator maynot have heard or represented it accurately.
  
  1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas, 21 July, Gainesville, page58, Hse #481, Fam #496
  Taiferro [Taliaferro or Toliver] Green  48 M Farmer [No real estatevalue] $250 Personal Estate  born SC
  Winna [Winney] Green  38 F Georgia
  Daniel Green  16 M born Georgia
  Mary Green  14 F born Georgia
  Jacob Green  12 M born Georgia
  Jackson Green  10 M born Georgia
  Winna Green  8 F born Georgia
  Elizabeth Green  6 F born Georgia
  Cyntha Green  3 F born Georgia
  
  Other names in the family are quite readable and match exactly thoseknown otherwise.  Four children have been born since the 1850 censusin Georgia:
  Jackson 10, Winna 8, Elizabeth 6 and Cyntha (Cynthia) 3
  
  The census shows all children born in Georgia.  The youngest, Cynthia,is 3, so the family moved sometime after June 1857.
  
  Many genealogies report Daniel as the father of Toliver and hissiblings.  The information I have on Daniel (or Daniel John) Green,reported to be the father of Toliver, is that his wife's name beganwith an M, but I have found no source with the full name of the wife.There may have been an earlier Daniel I have not yet found in sourcesup to this point.
  
  By 1900 several of the Green and Jackson children had moved to IndianTerritory.  Abraham Jackson does not show up in the 1900 census, buthis wife Talitha (Telitha/Delitha) Green is in Township 8, which seemsto be in the south, what became Love County, Oklahoma. Her brotherJacob Green and her son Sam are in Nash Township of Muskogee County(Creek or Muscogee Nation), in the west central area of Oklahoma.There is some indication that Abe was in the western areas in 1870,but we cannot find a family listing for Telitha.  There are nocensuses of Indian Territory until 1900.
  
  In the 1870s, Muskogee was part of Creek Nation, with Cherokee Nationto the north and east.  A Jacob Green, who may be Talitha's brotherJacob, and what appear to be other members of the same Green family,were in some scrapes with the law in Fort Smith, Arkansas.  Ft Smithwas on the Arkansas River, on the border of Arkansas with IndianTerritory, and authorities there managed the justice for Oklahoma andIndian Territory.  I have not found details of their residence duringthe 1860s to 1890s.  Jacob is enumerated in the Cherokee Nation censusof 1900.
  
  There are two main lines of Greens in Oklahoma, with a minor third onethat might be related at a great historical distance.  Our family camefrom Gilmer County, Georgia, with some of them in Whitfield andneighbouring counties at some times.  They came earlier from SouthCarolina, and either from Pennsylvania or Maryland, as I discuss invarious Notes.  They came in to Indian Territory from Texas, as didour Jenkins line.  These Greens are mostly dark haired and dark-eyed.Several of this line married Indians.
  
  Another line came into Oklahoma from Missouri and have antecedents inIllinois and Indiana, it appears, to where they could have also comefrom Pennsylvania or Maryland or even some of the North-South CarolinaGreens appear to have gone through the northwest route of theMid-West.  These from Missouri into Oklahoma, however, are mostlyblond and blue or green-eyed.  Some of these also married Indians.
  
  Another line that also shows up in central Oklahoma, Pottawatomie andGarvin Counties, came into Indian Territory and Oklahoma around theturn of the century.  They could be a branch of our Gilmer CountyGreens, a group of whom also went from Georgia to Arkansas.  I havenot clearly connected them.  They show up in my genealogy also incentral Arkansas over to central Oklahoma and connect to some otherfamilies we are also related to by marriage.  See entries in thisgenealogy for Isaac Tipton Green and descendants.
  
  There are additionally some Indians named Green who do not see to beat all related to these white settler lines named Green.  I havetalked to one descendant of a Jim Green, whom I have not clearlyidentified, who is mixed Cherokee and African-American.  This GeraldGreen lives in Dallas.

Sources

• 1. RootsWeb Discussion Lists, Linda Hanks, 14 Aug 2004
  • Location: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcooke/cookequery04.htm;
• 2. 1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas
  • 21 July, Gainesville, page 5B, Hse #401, Fam #496
• 3. 1850 Federal Census, Gilmer County, Georgia
  • 15 Oct, Subdivision 33, Hse/Fam #691
• 4. World Family Tree Vol. 4
  • Pedigree #1286
• 5. RootsWeb Discussion Lists, Linda Hanks, 14 Aug 2004
  • Location: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txcooke/cookequery04.htm;
  • Linda Hanks, 14 Aug 2004
• 6. Gilmer County, Georgia Marriages 1840-1841
  • Name: Name:http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0025437;;
• 7. 1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas
  • 21 July, Gainesville, page 59 (scan 254), Hse #484, Fam #502
• 8. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 8 June, District 151, Township 8S, page 5A, Hse #60, Fam #65
• 9. Ancestry Trees
  • http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=*v25t1081&id=I295
• 10. Love County Burials
  • Name: Name:http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ok/love/cemeteries/list2.txt;;
  • Lakeview Cemetery
• 11. Marion L Mixon, Bearden-Langston Genealogy
• 12. 1900 Federal Census, Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory
  • 13 June, Township 15, District 40, Page 6B, Hse/Fam #126
• 13. 1860 Federal Census, Cooke County, Texas
  • 21 July, Texas, post office Gainesville, page 5B, Hse #401, Fam #496
• 14. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 12 June, Township 3, District 124, page 7A, Hse #107, Fam #109
• 15. Gravestone of John Wesley Elizabeth Green and Foster, Mountain GroveCemetery, Loco, Stephens, Oklahoma
• 16. 1910 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 25 April, Richland Township, District 243, page 6B, No Hse or Fam #s
• 17. 1920 Federal Census, Stephens County, Oklahoma
  • 2 February, Richland Township, District 262, page 10A, No house or
• 18. Marlow (Oklahoma) Cemetery List
  • Name: Name: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okstephe/MarlowCem2.txt;;
• 19. Loretta Gregory Gay, personal communication
• 20. 1900 Federal Census, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory
  • 20 July, Township 4, District 120, page 52B, Hse/Fam #949
• 21. Gilmer County Marriages
  • Book 1 1835 - 1852, p 19,