GREEN, JOSIAH
, was born in 1800, in South Carolina. Rebecca Long was born in South Carolina also. The father of each of them were Baptist preachers. Josiah Green and Rebecca Long were married in Kentucky. They had six children there, and the family moved to Sangamon county, arriving in 1828, in what is now Mechanicsburg township, where five children were born. Of their ten children--CATHARINE B., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, in her fifteenth year, to Hugh Dickerson. See his name.
JOHN L., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, July 28, 1848, to Martha D. Giger. He was a traveling preacher in the M. E. Church for seven years, and died Feb., 1850. His widow married Lewis Eyman. See Giger family.
WILLIAM H., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Sarah E. Burch. They have one living child, LULU, and reside at Kearney Junction, Nebraska.
ELIZA A., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Robert T. Penn, have ten children, and live near Frankfort, Ky.
LEANDER
SOWEL M., born in Sangamon county, spent several years in California, returned, and was married in Sangamon county to Eliza Keller. She died June 11, 1864, leaving one child. Mr. Green was married in 1867 to Mary Powell. They have three children, and live in Sullivan, Moultrie county.
SAMUEL, born in Sangamon county, married Mary McIntyre, have six children, and live in Gainesville, Texas.
MARTHA A., born August 9, 1835, in Sangamon county, married at Mechanicsburg, Jan. 9, 1856, to Samuel K. Skeen, who was born Dec. 31, 1828, in Rockbridge county, Va. They have four children, namely: ARABELLA, born Feb. 24, 1857, married Dec. 28, 1873, to Samuel Hearing, a native of Reading, Pennsylvania. They live in Springfield. ELLA M., ROLVIN B. and JENNIE MAUD reside with their parents, at Illiopolis. Mr. Skeen is Station and Express Agent of the T., W. and W. R. R. at that place.
FRANCIS M., born May, 1839, in Sangamon county, married in Moultrie county to Caroline Steutsman, and she died in 1860. He enlisted in 1861 in the 7th Ill. Inf., for three years; served full term. He then raised Co. I, 41st Ill. Inf., was commissioned 1st Lieutenant, and promoted to Captain. Served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He was married Sept., 1865, in Smithland, Ky., to Hannah Richardson. They have four children, and his family reside near Hutchison, Kan.
ELIZABETH, born May 28, 1841, in Sangamon county, married Mr. Snyder, and died six months after marriage, at Sullivan, Ill.
Mrs. Rebecca Green died Aug. 11, and Mr. Green married March, 1848, to Mrs. Eliza Smith, whose maiden name was Burch. She died, and Josiah Green died August 11, 1855, all in Sangamon county.