Robert Robinson Green, my ggggrandfather, born August 10, 1811 at Kettle Creek, Cumberland County, Kentucky. Parents and siblings are ujnknown and have remained elusive for many, many years!!!! 1810 census of Cumberland County, Kentucky shows only two Green households--a Robert and a George. The Robert is a better fit. Between 1810 and 1820 a Robert Green and wife Elizabeth sold some land. In 1820 census there is no Robert Green, but there is an Eizabeth with children that fit the Robert family from 1810 plus one that could be my Robert R. Here the trail goes cold!!! There is nothing to link Robert R. to these people with any certainty. Where the family was after 1820 is a mystery. They are not in Cumberland County in 1830. There was one mention of Missouri along the way. I do know for a fact that Robert Robinson Green was in southwestern Wisconsin, near Platteville, by July 4, 1832. This is the date he enlisted for service in Captain Irvin O'harra's unit of volunteer militia for the Black Hawk War. Whether he travelled to Wisconsin alone as a young man, or with family members is uncertain. I do find a Benjamin and an Emerson Green in the vicinity although I lose Emerson quickly. Benjamin appears to be a year older than Robert, also born Kentucky and in 1836 was living just a few households away. In 1834 Robert R. Green married Cinderella Farmer. I do not know her parents names. They reportedly had seven children, all but one dying before adulthod. Ihave only been able to document two. One son William born about 1835, shows on the 1850 census and died sometime after, probably before 1858. The pother, Robert Allen Green, born 1845, served in the 7th Wisconsin Infantry, part of the famed Iron Brigade, during the Civil War. He was taken prisoner at the Battle of the Wilderness and died shortly thereafter at Locust Grove Hospital, Wilderness Virginia in 1865. Wish I knew where he was buried!! In 1835, Robert purchased land in what is currently the far northwest corner of Lafayette County, Wisconsin, near the town of Belmont, which is near Platteville. This is where he resided until he went west about 1853. Cinderella Farmer Green died September 23, 1846. Robert Robinson Green married his second wife, Nancy Jane Ashmore, on March 16, 1847. Nancy was the daughter of Samuel M. C. Ashmore and Margaret Lovelace and was born in Coles or Clark County, Illinois. They were the parents of eight children. The first six or seven were born while the family was still living near Platteville, Wisconsin. The last one or two were bon after the family went west to Elk Point, Union County, South Dakota. They went west around 1863. Robert and Nancy Green's children are James Stanford 1848, Albert Shelton 1850, George Washington 1853, Eliza Caroline 1854, William Robert 1858, Ida Edith 1860, Nancy Jeanett 1863 (my gggrandmother), and Raphael Samuel 1871. Robert Robinson Green was involved in a murder in 1859 with some other men over a lead mining dispute. He served a year and a half at the Wisconsin State Prison in Waupun (it is still in operation!). He was granted a complete pardon by the Wisconsin governor. After he moved to Dakota territory, in addition to continuing farming (but not lead mining!), he operated the first store in Elk Point with a Mr. Fairchild for a few years. He also served two terms on the territorial legislature. Robert Green purchased land in South Dakota. Robert Robinson Green died September 27 1890 and his wife, Nancy Jane Ashmore Green died August 22, 1905. They are buried in the Elk Point Cemetery, Elk Point, South Dakota. I have sources for all of my information, as well as photographs of many of these people. I even have a copy of the Governor's pardon! Descendants have been easy--I currently have a database of about 1300. Please, please help with the ancestors if you can!! Joni Vella