The Greene family and its branches from to . his life profession. He bore a striking resemblance to Daniel Webster,having the same massive brow, square jaw, thin-lipped mouth and darkcomplexion. He was a man of intense energy and resolution. He wasmarried June 22, 1856,10 Mary Jane Strayer, the oldest daughter of Michaeland Melinda Nichols-Strayer. She was, and is, a comely woman, fair andblue-eyed, with rippling, curly hair that frames in a face always illuminedwith smiles. Hartwell suffered long from asthmatic, heart and nervous troubles. Hetaught for years, when only sheer wi
The Greene family and its branches from to . his life profession. He bore a striking resemblance to Daniel Webster,having the same massive brow, square jaw, thin-lipped mouth and darkcomplexion. He was a man of intense energy and resolution. He wasmarried June 22, 1856,10 Mary Jane Strayer, the oldest daughter of Michaeland Melinda Nichols-Strayer. She was, and is, a comely woman, fair andblue-eyed, with rippling, curly hair that frames in a face always illuminedwith smiles. Hartwell suffered long from asthmatic, heart and nervous troubles. Hetaught for years, when only sheer will power kept him up. No man everhad a more devoted family. Jane Barnes did mans and womans work, in-door and out, to spare him. When even his iron will had to yield to physicalweakness, Emma, the oldest daughter, began to teach at a month past , the second daughter, commenced teaching at 15. The children allworked hard, but their struggle but bound them the closer together. Theentire family moved to Iowa in 1880. Here Hartwells health improved,. ABXER EUGENE PALMER ^be (5reene famili? and he i^ros^^ered also. There was a romance connected with the older daughters husband used to say that he fell in love with her before he ever sawher, because she was so good to her parents. He proposed the second dayafter he met her, and wooed with such earnestness that they were marriedtwo months and a day from the time they first met. Emma J. Barnes-Sockridek, b. March II, 1S5S ; m. John W. Sockrider, Feb. 26,1879. ^I5- Sockrider is now a widow, and lives at Jennings, Louisiana, near the Gulf, ona rice farm. Guy W. Sockrider, born in the summer of 1880. M. Myrtle Belle Clark, ofLouisiana, Jan. 16, 1901. They have a son, Clyde, born in igo2. Norah Gay Sockrider-Norton, b. June 30, 1S82. She is the wife of Carl , of Jennings, Louisiana. They have one son, Ernest, b. in J. Barnes-Sells, b. June 16. 1S60, and ra. to B. W. Sells of Webster, Iowa,Sept. 2
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