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Below is a family biography included in The History of Sumner County, Tennessee published by Goodspeed Publishing Company in 1887.  These biographies are valuable for genealogy research in discovering missing ancestors or filling in the details of a family tree. Family biographies often include far more information than can be found in a census record or obituary.  Details will vary with each biography but will often include the date and place of birth, parent names including mothers' maiden name, name of wife including maiden name, her parents' names, name of children (including spouses if married), former places of residence, occupation details, military service, church and social organization affiliations, and more.  There are often ancestry details included that cannot be found in any other type of genealogical record.

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Louis A. Green, of Gallatin, was born in 1836 in Sumner County, Tenn., a son of Z. F. and Mary Jane (Brown) Green, and grandson of Zachariah F. Green, who was a native of Ireland. The father was born in 1808, and was a farmer by occupation. He married in 1830, his wife being five years his junior, and in 1839 moved to Texas, where he afterward died. Mrs. Green afterward married M. R. Moore, and died in 1866. Until sixteen years of age Louis A. lived with his mother, then clerked for a number of months, farmed, traded and engaged in diver’s occupations. In 1860 he wedded Eliza Key, who died in September of the same year. The breaking out of the war served, in a measure, to divert his mind from this great loss. He enlisted in Company I, Fifty-fourth Regiment of Confederate Tennessee Infantry, which was later consolidated with the Forty-fourth Regiment, and was a participant in the battles of Chickamauga, Knoxville, Petersburg and other important engagements. He received a severe wound in the left arm which necessitated the removal of five inches of bone, and this effectually ended his military career in the field, but he was detailed in the quartermaster’s department. After the war he resumed farming and speculating, and has so continued until the present with much success. He is a Democrat, an Encampment Degree Odd Fellow and an ancient member of the K. of P. He married, in 1870, Miss Ella Green, of Columbus, Miss., and they are the parents of five children: Nellie, Elizabeth, Louis, Robert and Zachariah.

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This family biography is one of 115 biographies included in The History of Sumner County, Tennessee published in 1887.  The History of Sumner County was included within The History of Sumner, Smith, Macon & Trousdale Counties of Tennessee. View the complete description here: History of Sumner, Smith, Macon and Trousdale Counties of Tennessee

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