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- North Carolina, Wills and Probate Records, 1665-1998
Name: Major William Green
Probate Date: Dec 1832
Probate Place: Rutherford, North Carolina, USA
Inferred Death Year: Abt 1832
Inferred Death Place: North Carolina, USA
Item Description: Wills, Vol 1-2, Ace-Pai
Names a wife: Mary
Maj William Marion Green
Birth: May 16, 1753
Rutherford County
North Carolina, USA
Death: Nov. 6, 1832
Rutherford County
North Carolina, USA
William Green was born in Buffalo Creek, NC 16 May 1753. Billy died 6 Nov 1832 in Rutherford Co., NC, at 79 years of age. He was the first white child born in what is now Cleveland County, NC.
His body was interred in a family cemetery at the old Bostic Brickyard, Rutherford Co., NC. According to an old survey of the cemetery by C. Kenyon Withrow, William Green's tombstone gave his death date and then age at death as 81. This would make his birth date 1751 or 1752. The graveyard has been destroyed since the survey.
Billy married Drucilla LNU bef 1775. Drusy was born about 1754. Drusy died 28 March 1828 in Rutherford County, NC at 73 years of age. She is buried beside William.
William first became well known in the Rutherford Co. area during the Revolutionary War. Like many men in the area, he fought on both sides during the war. His mother and stepfather were strong Tories; Billy was a Major (Tory) captured at King's Mountain. He was sentenced to hang, but escaped and joined the Continental Army.
From 1781-1782, Billy served with the Ten Months Men under Sumter. He fought in the Battle of Eutaw Springs.
He settled in Rutherford County, after the War. Billy was a Charter member of the Sandy Run Baptist Church and later founded Concord Baptist Church.
Billy served in the NC House of Commons in 1798 and served 14 terms as a NC legistlator (Whig) from 1800-1824.
(DAR Lineage Book Vol. 130 p 235-237 under application #129796, Mrs. Tempe Boddie Hill Carraway}.
Family links:
Children:
James Lee Green (1776 - 1845)*
Abner Green (1786 - 1878)*
Inscription:
"Sacred to the memory of William Green who departed this life November 6, 1832, aged 81 years.
How still and peaceful in the grave.
To sleep in death's dark gloom.
Until the eternal morning wake,
the slumbers of the tomb."
Burial:
Green Cemetery
Bostic
Rutherford County
North Carolina, USA
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1753 - 1832 (79 years)
