The distance between South Carolina and Arkansas is not that very long, but when walking it must seem like years. This is how my family arrived in Arkansas, by 'walking.' Oral history has it that they walked along side a covered wagon, pulled by an ox team. They washed their clothes in the river, worked on farms along the way, ate and slept outside.

The family came by way of Mississippi where my Great Great Grandmother, Easter fell in a ditch and walked with a limp and a cane for the rest of her life, and where one of her sisters was sold away from the family, never to be heard from again.

This trip took place ca. 1857-58. Final destination (with the people who took them there)..Drew County, Arkansas. There are no records that I have found as of yet to state the fact if the family came with their enslavers or came to the new land with slave traders 'to be sold'. Whatever the case, they were able to remain a family.

Easter was the oldest of the children born to 'Nannie' of record, but, I don't believe she was Nannie's oldest child as she (Nannie) is about 35 years older than Easter, and who unfortunately, died before the 1870 census was taken. This was a young family, on their own in 1870, and now living in Bradley County, Arkansas. with the only brother, Mike, age 18 as head, Easter, 20, sisters Pricilla (aka Puss) and Victoria, ages 17 and 8.

Easter was always listed as 'keeping house' on the census and it seems that this occupation paid off for her in the end because in 1901 she purchased 160 acres of land from J. A. and M. A. Lee for the sum of $100.00, which Easter equally divided and sold to four of her sons for the sume of $1.00 and love and affection. See Warranty Deed

Mike was also a huge land owner and together their land became know as Green Town, by the people who resided there. The small community consisted of the church, Green Chapel, the school, Green School and the small country store called of course, Green's.

Easter died in 1925 at the age of about 80 from maloria, her informant was her brother Mike, and she was buried in Oakalone Cemetery, now known as Hall's Cemetery.

We obtained our Green surname from the following W. H. Green...

1866 Freedman's Bureau Labor Contract Records, field office Monticello, Drew County, entry 393:

           Employer:  W. H. Green
           
           Employees: Name        Age    Terms of Contract

                     Nannie       63            rations/clothing
                     Estes/infant 15      $3.00/rations/clothing
                     Mike         10            rations/clothing
                     Puss/Victor   8            rations/clothing
                     Perry        23     1/10 of all crop raised
                                         on farm except potatoes
                                                 2 suits clothes

Note: The above labor contract information was found by Mike's GG Granddaughter, Michelle Hood.

See Green Family Census Info

See Easter Green Sibling Info

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