The contributor was Mrs. Roy O. (Lorena) Womble. R. Barnes --- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Jackson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 10:18 PM Subject: Re: [Dover] Jesse Mercer Green > I didn't write down the name of the contributor. Seems like the librarian > said Mrs. Roy > something. She definitely said "of Odessa, TX" > > [email protected] wrote: > > > In a message dated 1/7/2004 3:05:08 PM Central Standard Time, > > [email protected] writes: > > > > > I've arranged to have the entire manuscript copied. Turns out this > > > still > > > may not be all of it. A lady in Odessa, TX loaned it to them to make a > > > copy of it. We hope they copied the whole thing > > > > Terry, > > > > The orginal handwritten memoirs by Jesse M Green was written in an old > > store > > ledger. Did they talk like this old store ledger was the manuscript > > that they > > had? The lady in Odessa, TX was probably Lorena (Joplin) Womble who was > > a > > step granddau of Jesse through his 5th wife Mrs Martha Ann (Sharpe) > > Chote who > > had children before they married. Mrs Womble died in 1998. > > > > The original ledger was supposed to be in the museum at the Texas Tech > > University in Lubbock, TX in 1967 when a couple of researchers were able > > to obtain a > > notarized copy of pages from the ledger listing the ancestors of Jesse M > > Green. The ledger had previously been in the possession of Ode Norris > > Green, a > > grandson of Jesse, who lived in Big Spring, TX at some time prior to the > > 1967 > > date as Mrs McCrary had remembered seeing it there. It was a grandson > > of Ode > > Norris Green who went and obtained a copy of these pages for these > > researchers > > at that time. I'm not sure if Ode Norris Green was the person who gave > > it to > > the museum -- I only know that it was in his home sometime prior to > > 1967. He > > had been dead for only a few days when these researchers wrote to him > > and his > > grandson went and made the copy of those pages for them. > > > > It is this old store ledger itself that we have been hunting for as it > > is > > supposed to be the original work of Jesse Mercer Green. Mrs Womble > > submitted > > what has become Version # 2 of the memoirs to a newsletter in AR before > > her death > > that contained more flowery descriptions and added info not found in the > > transcript that was done by Mrs Alline McCrary as Version # 1. My > > impression from > > what I have been told is that neither version of the transcriptions that > > we > > have seen so far covers the entire ledger book. Mrs Womble's version > > was much > > shorter than that done by Mrs McCrary and did not cover as much time > > period. > > At some later date after 1967 is when Mrs McCrary did her transcription. > > She > > is also now deceased. > > > > 1920 JOHNSTON CO, OK > > Green, Jessie?? M (Ancestry IM 4) -- Jesse Mercer Green > > Roll: T625_1464 Page: 2B > > ED: 93 Image: 0925 > > Township: Myrick > > 38 / 39 > > GREEN, Jesse M 83 GA NC SC > > Martha A 56 KS TN AR -- Mrs. Martha Ann (Sharpe) Chote > > JOPLIN, Delbert 10 AR AR AR grandchild > > Nona L 5 AR AR AR grandchild --- Lorena (Joplin) > > Womble > > John D 2 3/12 OK AR AR grandchild --- John Dale Joplin > > > > NOTE: These grandchildren in the above were the children of Ophelia > > Chote / > > John Bluford Joplin. > > > > Sharon S > > > > ==== DOVER Mailing List ==== > > GENEALOGY WITHOUT DOCUMENTATION IS MYTHOLOGY > > > ==== DOVER Mailing List ==== > Genconnect board > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.dover > >