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Subject: Re: [AL-PIKE] Autobiography of Rev. Aaron Green
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 19:04:35 -0400
Thanks for that! I have pictures of Amy's grave. Yes, that is where she is buried. If you would like me to send you one, I will be glad to.
Have you found out anymore about there being Indian blood on the Browning side?
Thanks again! Have a great evening.
Kathy
GGGrand-daughter of Rev. Aaron Green
>
> From:
> Date: 2004/06/16 Wed PM 03:34:46 EDT
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> Subject: [AL-PIKE] Autobiography of Rev. Aaron Green
>
> THIS ARTICLE WAS PREPARED BY REV. AARON GREEN FOR PUBLICATION IN "THE ALABAMA
> BAPTIST"(newspaper) ABOUT FIVE YEARS BEFORE HIS DEATH.
>
> My father was born August 8. 1799 in troy, N.Y.. My mother was from South
> Carolina. her maiden name was Browning. My father was irish. My mother was
> Scotch. My father was a brick mason. His wife and three children died and he joined
> the Navy and served ten years. He was given a land warrant and he came to
> Montgomery, Alabama to investigate. The land was on the Pea River. He gave the
> papers to Bill Manor and he never succeeded in getting the land.
>
> He met and married my mother in Montgomery, Ala.. Her name was was Amy
> Browning. They settled in Russell County, between Opelika and Phenix city. Then he
> came to Pike County and settled in Union Springs. at that time Union Springs
> was in Pike County. It was a hunting ground. People would go there to hunt.
> fish, and camp.
>
> My mother was the mother of twenty-three children. My father was the father
> of twenty-six. Only fifteen of them lived to be grown. Four of my brothers
> went to the Civil War. Three of them went before I was born and I never saw them.
> Brother Will was the only one that returned. The other three died on a ship
> with measles. I am the youngest of the twenty-three children. My sister Tabitha
> DeShields who lives in Montgomery, Ala. and I are the only ones living at
> this time.
>
> When I was five years old we moved to Montgomery County to a place called
> Athens. It is now called Ramer. My father swapped land for land about four miles
> from Greenville. There my father died and was buried there. I was eight years
> old at the time of my father's death. I had one sister at home. All the other
> chilfren were married. At that time one had to pay to go to school. My mother
> lost her home and I had to go to work to support her and my sister. I was
> hired out for twenty-five cents a day. I cut cross-ties and plowed. Mother cooked
> bread and peas with no seasoning. This was a short while after the Civil War.
> At fourteen I started doing public work with machinery, and I followed this
> work for several years.
>
> When I was about fourteen a group of young people were going to a church in
> Russell County and for fun we planned to go to the Alter for prayers. I backed
> out because of the text, which was the "The summer months have ended, the
> harvest has past and ye are not saved." That was me. Instead of going for prayer I
> started to join the church. The others laughed and I did not join. I did not
> join until I was thirty-eight years old. I lived with my mother until I was
> married. I was seventeen years old and I married Mattie Martha Meredith. Her
> mother was a Reeves. I ran a grist-mill and a cotton gin.
>
> We were blessed with nine children, eight boys and one girl. All are living
> at this time except the girl. She and her husband died during the flu epidemic
> of 1918.
>
> I was born in 1861, married in 1879 on the 11th of March. I bought my first
> land about 1883 or 1883. I paid approximately $500 for 250 acres. I bought
> several places around the vicinty of my home including my present home place. My
> wife and I settled right where my home is today.
>
> My father is buried at old Liberty Church at Greenville, Ala. and my mother
> is buried at Ramer.
>
> (Don't know the author of the following, apparently not Aaron as his mother
> was Amy.)
>
> Someone, I think my mother has added: Primitive Baptist Church Union Springs
> Hwy. #29 Pike Co. Tomb reads
> Amy
> Wife of W.M. green
> Born Aug 8, 1817 Died Nov 21, 1896
>
> ........................
> Thanks to Ewell Green who sent the above to me. Also, I thought he told me
> Amy was buried in Josie which is north of Monticello. (Not sure.)
>
> Adrian Davis
> Descendant of Amy's brother Samuel Browning.
>
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