Hi Lisa, Thanks for sending me the Davis web site address, http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~pjdavis/gene.htm I visited the site and as you probably noticed Jennie Strahan , the grandmother of Jefferson Davis, is said to have been related to Gen. Nathaniel Greene. I have seen this statement several times, and did visit the Jefferson Davis "room" at Rice University, but did not find any proof of this relationship. As you know, Jane Cook was the mother of Jefferson Davis, and her father was Rev. William Cook, born 1724 in Virginia, and died in 1791. He married Jean "Jennie" Strahan (or Simplson) in 1756. She died in Mississippi in 1845, but I have not found any connection to the family of General Nathaniel Greene. The father of the General was married 3 times, so I guess there are a number of possible connections, but I have not found any. The only POSSIBLE connection I see, is that this family lived in the same area of Mississippi where Col. Thomas Marston Green built his plantation home, Springfield, north of Natchez, Mississippi. Jane Cook also died near Vicksburg, Mississippi where Duff Green built a plantation home that still stands today. Duff Green descended from Robert Green, born 1695, and Col. Thomas M. Green descended from Thomas "Seagull" Green family, and I have not found a connection between these two families and that of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, but you never know. Please let me know if you find a connection between the family of Jefferson Davis and Gen. Nathaniel Greene. Tom Green TBGreen3@aol.com