H. Greene

GREENE, SLAYTON, BASSETT

Posted By: Diane (email)
Date: 2/24/2002 at 20:58:37

Colonel H. Greene is a son of John and Orphy (Slayton) Greene, and was born in Claybourne county, Tennessee, January 16, 1837. Two years after his birth, the family moved to Rockcastle county, Kentucky, where they lived about seventeen years, and then moved to Scott county, where the Colonel lived two years. He then moved to Owen county where he remained until the opening of the war of the rebellion. September 25, 1861 he enlisted in Company K, Fourth Kentucky Infantry, and served until honorably discharged December 29, 1863, at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
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Upon returning to civil life he came to Bridgeport, Indiana, where he remained until 1864. In the spring of that year he moved to Piatt county, Illinois, where he engaged in general work until 1866. From there he moved to Bremer county, Iowa, and afterwards to Butler township, Butler county; and in 1873, he settled on his present farm on section 28 of Shell Rock township, where he now owns 160 acres of land. He was married in 1861, to Miss Susan A. Bassett. Seven children have been born to them, of whom four are now living – Amanda, Mason, Adelbert and George P.
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Source: History of Butler and Bremer Counties, Iowa
Union Publishing Co., Springfield, IL, 1883
Page 702