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1.	Carlos Green, Jr. - he married and lived in New Orleans, LA.
He is buried in Lakeshore cemetery. He had one son called Carlos, III.
2.	Justin G. Green - he married, lived, and died in Houston, TX, but is buried in Lakeshore cemetery. He had one son called Thomas.
During an interview in 1973 at her home in Bay St. Louis, Pauline Heitzmann, daughter of Mary “Samantha” Cameron, told us the following about her mother and what happened after the death of Mathias Green around 1867.
Pauline said Samantha, who was bom on June 22, 1847, lived with her parents in Marion County until around the year 1862. She also told us that her mother’s older sister, Premilla Cameron, who was married to Mathias (Lundgren) Green, became sick at her home in Hancock County and could not take care of her large family. In early 1862, Premilla called for Samantha, who was only about 15 or 16 years old at the time, to come down to the Coast and help with the family. Samantha came and Premilla died on August 2, 1862, leaving Samantha a house Ml of children to take care of - some were older than she was! Samantha stayed on at Mathias Green’s place to help with raising her sister’s children. Two years and seven months after Premilla’s death, Samantha married her brother-in-law, Mathias Green, on March 9, 1865. This record is in the Hancock County Courthouse. Samantha was age 17, while Mathias was 52 years old. Pauline told us that Mathias married Samantha to keep “gossip” from starting about the young Samantha “living” with Mathias.
Pauline also said that Mathias “took advantage” of her mother, but would not explain what she meant.
By Mathias Green, Samantha had two children. The oldest child, Anesta, died as an infant and is presumed to be buried at English Lookout. The surviving child was Mary “Josephine” Green, who was age 16 (bom 1864), according to the 1880 census of Mandeville, LA. She was living with her mother, Samantha, and stepfather, John Rhodes. In the 1900 census of Bay St. Louis, MS, she is listed with her husband as “Josephine Sharp” bom in “Jan. 1866.” We made contact with one of Mary Josephine’s (usually referred to as Josephine) grandchildren,
Mr. Edgar L. Sharp, Jr., living in Mandeville, LA. He told us that Josephine married on February 28, 1881, to Joseph W. Sharp. This date is verified by their record in St. Tammany Parish, Marriage Book #2, page 117. Mr. Sharp also said that Josephine died giving birth to her last child, Daniel. Josephine is buried in Mandeville with a headstone but no dates on it. According to the old Sharp’s Family Bible, she was bom on February 28, 1867, and died on September 21,
1907. The 1867 year of birth is possible, but unlikely, for Josephine would have been only age 14 at the time she wed. Josephine was probably bom in 1864 (1880 census), 1866 (1900 census) or between those two years in 1865. With Samantha marrying Mathias Green on March 9, 1865, they may have had a “shotgun wedding” as Pauline implied. Mr. Sharp has a good photograph of Josephine taken around the time of her marriage. According to Mr. Sharp,
Josephine had 15 children.
We do not know exactly what caused Samantha to leave the younger Green children in Hancock County when she moved to Mandeville, LA, but it
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