In a message dated 1/23/2003 8:47:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, sjblackmon@digitalpassage.com writes: > Could GREEN be a > family name that has been carried over to a given name? > Here's another one: <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~alrandol/query030.htm">http://www.rootsweb.com/~alrandol/query030.htm</A> <A HREF="http://216.239.39.100/suri.htm#MCCLURE">MCCLURE</A>, <A HREF="http://216.239.39.100/suri.htm#MCCOWN">MCCOWN</A>, <A HREF="http://216.239.39.100/surn.htm#RIDDLE">RIDDLE</A> posted by <A HREF="http://216.239.39.100/ress.htm#1241">Frances Wimberly</A> on Sunday, May 14, 2000 Green Joseph RIDDLE b. Ala.1829;marries Missouri A. B. MCCLURE in 1850 Port Gibson Ms. (Claiborne Co.); traced her family to 1831 Choctaw census. 1860 Green, Missouri, Mammie (their slave), kids: Green, Lula, Mary (Minnie), and George 10 mi. So. of Vicksburg. Green sends women to safety; he sends Mammie with little girls to Shreveport La.; they later wind up in Tx.; Mammie's in care of Lula; they're bur. Bosqueville Cem. near Waco. Mary m. MCCOWN, also in Tx.; what happened to Missouri?, and the boys? Green Joseph back in Ala., and alone in Randolph Co. in 1870; he states fa. foreign born, mo. b. So. Car. There's a George and a Joseph RIDDLE nearby counties Ala. Want his line.