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Green H Fields

4 Nov 1804 – 30 Jun 1866

Birth4 Nov 1804
Death30 Jun 1866
CemeteryElm Grove Cemetery
Anna , Collin County , Texas , USA
Added bySherry on 05 Jun 2009
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6720248

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Came to Collin County in 1853 and settled at Sedalia, six miles northeast of Anna. Green H. Fields was born in North Carolina, the 5th child of the 10 born to James Fields and Sarah/Sally Hinson. Green's father James died at age 45 in Anson County, NC, and the family story is that if not for his untimely death he would have returned to England to collect an inheritance. Green appears on the 1820 census in Anson County, NC with his widowed mother and siblings. By 1836 he and other members of the Fields family are appearing on the Carroll County TN records. In 1848 Green Fields receives a 67 acre land grant in Carroll County. He marries Celia F. Jernigan and their children are born in Tennessee. In 1853 Green and wife Celia and their children remove to Sedalia, six miles northeast of Anna, in Collin County, Texas. Green is a successful land speculator, selling the 640 acres that becomes the city of Fort Worth. He helps found the Elm Grove Presbyterian Church there, the second church he helped organize. Previously he was the first deacon of the Barren Springs Presbyterian Church in Carroll County TN. He and his parents were also slave owners. The Elm Grove church is no longer in existence, but the cemetery remains and Green is buried there, along with his wife Celia and their daughter Lucinda Bratton and other family members. Green and Celia's graves are found at the far back section of the cemetery, if entering on the road by the historical marker and work shed, near the main sign.

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