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Missouri Ann Green Castleman

1834 – 1880

Birth1834
Death1880
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Missouri Ann Green Missouri Ann Green was born in Marshall County, Tennessee, about 1834 to John Simpson Green and his unknown first wife. Missouri was the second of 5 children born to John and his first wife. She appears with her parents in the 1840 Marshall County census; also present are her two sisters Mary Ann and Sarah Elizabeth. John and his wife had two more daughters, Jane and Henrietta, in the 1840's. There are no known children born to them after 1844; presumably John's first wife died not long after. Missouri does not appear in any documentation, such as a census or birth record, that links her by name to John Simpson Green and his first wife, but the link is proven by numerous DNA links between her descendants and descendants of John Simpson Green's other children, and descendants of John's siblings, as well as overlapping life histories and locations. John and his wife do not appear in the 1850 census, nor do Missouri, age 16 at this time, and her sister Sarah Elizabeth, age 11. Presumably the two daughters are with John and perhaps his wife, if still alive, or with other family. Sisters Jane, age 8, and Henrietta, age 6, are living with John's eldest daughter, Mary Ann, and her husband James McGaw, in Marshall County. John may not have been able to care properly for all of his children at this time, prompting him to lodge his younger children with their elder sister. Missouri reappears, in 1854 at age 20, in Ozan, Hampstead County, Arkansas, marrying widower William Castleman. Also present is her sister Henrietta, who married William Sipes, also in Ozan, in 1857, when Henrietta was 13 years old. Both apparently had accompanied their aunt [John Simpson Green's sister] Jane Agnes Green, recently widowed, who had moved from Maury County Tennessee [adjacent to Marshall County] in the early 1850's, and was living in Ozan. Their sister Sarah Elizabeth would also eventually move to the area, settling with her family in Howard County [created from Hempstead County] in the 1870's. The widow Jane had moved to be near her more prosperous brother Henry Green, who had settled there in the early 1840's, when the area was still the western frontier, and who had become a successful rancher and a leading citizen in the area. The assumption is that she brought Missouri and Henrietta with her, as their father John was unavailable to care for his children. William Castleman's first wife, Susannah Sanders, died in 1850, leaving him with 5 children to raise: James, Mary George, William and Andrew. After William and Missouri married, they had five more children: Ellen, Sarah Jane, Calvin, Ruth, and Susan. By 1870 the family moved to Lamar County, Texas, where William is shown as a farm laborer in the census. William died one year later, on 16 August, 1871. By 1880, Missouri was living in Lamar County, Texas, with her daughter Ellen and her family; also in the household is Missouri's youngest daughter Ruth. Missouri disappears from the record after 1880. Details of her death and burial are unknown.

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