The Greenes of Rhode Island, with historical records of English ...

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Children :
The Greene Faf)ii/y.
4699. Charles Greene Cu.mston (Dr.), born June 28, 1868, in Boston; is a surgeon
of that city.
4700. Janet McArthur Cumston, born Boston, August 24, 1878.
3929. SAMUEL SAUNDERS « GREENE (Jacob ^ Jacob", Peter
W.'', Richard % Peter-*, Peter 3, John -, John ') was bom at Gihiiantown
(Belmont), N. H., October 11, 1810. He married, in New Orleans, La.,
January 16, 1837, Margaret Gary of Troy, N. Y. He died December 10,
1 87 1. He was a highly esteemed citizen of New Orleans, having been en-
gaged in business there under the firm name of Greene & Elder for thirty-
five years before his death. The family residence was "Orange Grove,"
Mississippi City, Miss., for some years. Mrs. Greene, widow of Samuel
Saunders, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph R. Davis, at Biloxi,
Miss., October 4, 1896, aged seventy-eight. She was buried in New Orleans.
Children;
4701. Albert Gardiner, born November, 1838, died August 5, 1869.
4702. Samuel Fisk, born November, 1840, died June 13, 1878.
4703. Margaret Gary, born May 18, 1847, married General Joseph Robert Davis.
4704. Alice Taylor, born September 2, 1849, died December 22, 1884.
4705. Edith Richardson, born July 25, 1851, married Williain Burton Hayward.
4706. Walter Hazeltine, bom May 28, 1853, living 1902. He bears the name
of his great-grandmother's family.
3934, (Admiral) JOSEPH FOSTER
" GREENE (Peter H.^, Jacob ^,
Peter W.", Richard \ Peter *, Peter ^ John -', John ') was born at Topsham,
Me., November 4, 1811. He was warranted a midshipman in the United
States Navy, November i, 1827, and was promoted passed midshipman,
June 10, 1833; Lieutenant, February 28, 1838; Commander, September
14, 1855; Captain, July 15, 1862; Commodore, July 24, 1867; and Rear-
Admiral, July 13, 1870. He was retired from active service, November
25, 1872. Admiral Greene married, at Bath, Me., August 26, 1840, Ruth
Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel Gardner and Marcia (Stockbridge) Bowman.
Samuel G. was born at Gorham, Me., October 9, 1790, died at Bath, Me.,
March 29, 1841. His wife, Marcia, whom he married May 19, 1816, was
bom at Hanover, Mass., April 7, 1795, died at Bath, May 18, 1862. They
were both of Revolutionary descent. Their daughter, Ruth, wife of Admiral
Greene, was born at Bath, Me., September 17, 1820, died at her home
in Brookline, Mass., January 8, 1900.
It is noted in family correspondence that both Admiral Greene and his
wife possessed a strong feeling of kinship and interest in family history.
(This branch of the family omitted the final e in their name.)