Lewis Green was born in the State of North Carolina in 1792 to Jeremiah Greene & Ann Hartley.

Lewis was a soldier in the War of 1812, serving two terms in the East Tennessee Militia. Once as a substitute and once drafted. He enlisted in Rogersville, Hawkins County, and was mustered into service in Knoxville, Knox County. He was discharged in Mobile, Alabama.
Lewis received Land Military Warrants later in his life for this service. The land he received was in Missouri.

Lewis married Nancy Morgan in Hawkins County, Tennessee circa 1815 or 1816. This marriage produced 13 children. The first four born in the state of Tennessee. One child, a son born circa 1837 died before 1850, name unknown, leaving 12 children who survived to adulthood.

In 1824 Lewis moved his family from Tennessee to the Little Coon Valley area in Jackson County, Alabama. His next seven children here born here. Lewis bought 160 acres in the Little Coon Valley at Gibsons Cove and build a home for his family.

In 1842 Lewis sold his land and moved his family to the Wayne/Bollinger County area of Missouri. His last two children were born in this area.

In January of 1849 three of his sons and a son in law were involved in a heated dispute over land with four other men, ending in the death of three of the other men, as well as serious injury to the son in law and one of the Green boys (both survived). in May of the same year A Supreme Court Trial followed.
Two of the Green boys as well as the son in law were found guilty of second degree murder in the shoot out. They were all three sentenced to prison time in December of 1849. By the summer of 1854 all three were released home to family on full Legal Pardon.

In 1849 (after the trial)the Lewis Green family moved west to the Greene/Webster/Christian County area of Missouri. This family is in the November 1850 Greene County Census.

Nancy, the wife of Lewis passed away in this time frame, either in the Wayne/Bollinger area or in the Greene County area. She had their last child in May of 1846 in the Wayne/Bollinger area but is missing from the November 1850 Census in Greene County. In that four and a half year period she must have passed away. Death date unknown and burial place unknown. A good guess would be between 1846 & 1849 in Wayne/Bollinger County.

The Green clan are in the July 1860 Webster County Census (they did not move, but the land changed ie. that part of Greene County, became Webster County in the mid 1850's.)

Lewis applied and recieved his land Warrents for land in this part of Missouri. He kept some, and sold some. From my research, he recieved three plots of land. Two 40 acre plots and one 80 acre plot. He sold one of the 40's as well as the 80. The remaining 40 he signed over to one of his daughters. Lewis in turn bought other plots of land in the same area.

Lewis is listed in Webster County in the July 1860 Census.

I never found him living alone or with any of his children in the 1870 Census. There are military Pension application's dated 1871 and 1872 for this Lewis Green, although he has never been found in the 1870 Census. Possibly out of town, or simply missed by the Census taker.

Death date unknown, burial place unknown. A good guess would be early to mid 1870s in Webster County, near/on his homestead South of Fordland near the Greasy Creek.

He might possibly be buried in the Green Hill Cemetery, on Green Hill Rd. This is sitting on land across from Lewis Green's original land. Green Hill Rd. & Cemetery were possibly named for one of TWO large Green families in the direct area. There is no stone for Lewis there, but he might have been one of the original burials back in the 1870's. OR he could have been buried on his farm close by or even in Bruner Cemetery which was located on his son Alfred's farmland.

*JFS