Our American Family - Person Sheet
Our American Family - Person Sheet
NameWilliam Graham GREENE 
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26Birth Date27 Jan 1812
Birth PlaceOverton County, Tennessee
Death Date30 Jun 1894 Age: 82
Death PlaceMenard, Randolph County, Illinois
Burial PlaceMenard, Randolph County, Illinois, Greenwood Cemetery
Spouses
Birth Date22 Nov 1819
Birth PlaceWhite, Tennessee
Death Date3 Apr 1893 Age: 73
Death PlaceMenard, Randolph County, Illinois
FatherWoodson Phillips WHITE (1783-1839)
MotherNancy MITCHELL (1792-1871)
Family ID3605
Marr Date31 Mar 1837
Notes for William Graham GREENE
Information received in Mar 1998 from Donna Lee Sandusky Plummer. AFN: L8X7-3J. He was a school teacher. At the time of their marriage, he was the principal of Priestly Academy. He was of English descent. Was born on a farm on the Cumberland River in Overton Co., Tennessee. After several years of moving throughout Tennessee, Kentucky, and Miss., he settled in Illinois where he became a friend of Abraham Lincoln.
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HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS
And HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, Vol 1
Chicago Munsell Publishing Company 1912
Page 208
GREENE, William G., pioneer, was born in Tennessee in 1812; came to Illinois in 1822 with his father (Bowling Greene), who settled in the vicinity of New Salem, now in Menard County. They younger Greene was in intimate friend and fellow-student, at Illinois College, of Richard Yates (afterwards Governor), and also an early friend and admirer of Abraham Lincoln, under whom he held an appointment in Utah for some years. He died at Tallula, Menard County, in 1894.
HIstory of Menard and Mason Counties
The house of William G. Greene's father, William Greene Sr. was within a few miles of New Salem, and the lived close to Abraham Lincoln and beacame one of this acquaintances and this friendship lasted until his death. From W. G. Greene, Lincoln
In 1832 when W G Greene entered into this first speculation
On Ancestry from dianeclemmons_1
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HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS
And HISTORY OF SANGAMON COUNTY, Vol 1
Chicago Munsell Publishing Company 1912
Page 208
GREENE, William G., pioneer, was born in Tennessee in 1812; came to Illinois in 1822 with his father (Bowling Greene), who settled in the vicinity of New Salem, now in Menard County. They younger Greene was in intimate friend and fellow-student, at Illinois College, of Richard Yates (afterwards Governor), and also an early friend and admirer of Abraham Lincoln, under whom he held an appointment in Utah for some years. He died at Tallula, Menard County, in 1894.
HIstory of Menard and Mason Counties
The house of William G. Greene's father, William Greene Sr. was within a few miles of New Salem, and the lived close to Abraham Lincoln and beacame one of this acquaintances and this friendship lasted until his death. From W. G. Greene, Lincoln
In 1832 when W G Greene entered into this first speculation
On Ancestry from dianeclemmons_1
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Notes for Louisa Hurt (Spouse 1)
Information received in Mar 1998 from Donna Lee Sandusky Plummer. AFN: 13TW-XR4 [Born on a Sunday] Had nine children, 6 sons and 1 daughter grew to maturity.
Notes for William Graham & Louisa Hurt (Family)
!information received in Mar 1998 from Donna Lee Sandusky Plummer.