It's hard to decide which of my ancestors I would really like to meet most, but I think I'm going to choose Nacky Ford Green. I have so many questions for her!
Nacky was born in about 1839 in Tennessee. Nacky was the granddaughter of Lloyd Ford. Lloyd is famous (or infamous) for creating a will in the 1840s in Tennessee in which he left his entire estate to the enslaved people he owned. The family disputed the will but lost. I would ask Nacky if that's why the family moved to Kentucky in the 1850s.
In 1856 she married John M. Green in Monroe County, Kentucky.
In the 1860 census Nacky and John were living in Monroe County, Kentucky. They had three kids. Polly Green was born in 1857 and Charles Reeves Green was born in 1859. Rebecca Emeline Green came along in 1861.
Nacky's husband John volunteered for the Union Army in 1861 shortly after the beginning of the Civil War. On April 7th of 1862, John was shot at the Battle of Shiloh. Severely wounded, he was taken to Marine General Hospital in St Louis, Missouri, where he died of his wounds about 2 years later in February 1864. John is buried at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis.
I would love to know about Nacky’s experience in the Civil War. Did she stay home in Kentucky? Did she go to St Louis to be with John and stay in Missouri? By 1867 I know Nacky and her three children were living in Sullivan County, Missouri where she had family.
The censuses of 1870 and 1880 show that she stayed in Missouri, living in Milam with her sister Rebecca Ford. The 1883 Civil War pension census roll lists Nacky Green in Sullivan County. The only record I’ve found so far of Nacky’s death is probate records of Sullivan County, Missouri, dated April 1889.
Nacky's oldest daughter Polly Green married Andrew Helms in 1871. Yes, she was 13 years old. She lived in Missouri for the rest of her life, dying in Livingston County in 1922. Son Charles Reeves Green also stayed in Missouri for the rest of his life; he died in 1938 at the age of 79. I don't know what happened to daughter Rebecca. She is listed in the 1870 and 1880 censuses but I have no record of her marriage or life beyond 1880. I would ask Nacky about Rebecca also.
Grandma Nacky, I have so many questions for you! The first one: Is Nacky your real name? Is it a variation on Nancy?
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