James Monroe Green is the second of two sons born to Furnifold Green of North Carolina and Nancy B. Ruble of Kentucky, who married in Hunt County in December 1850. After their father died in April 1854, their mother Nancy remarried to David Davis, when the family removed first to Dallas County and then Tarrant County during the Civil War. In what seems a classic case of rejection of the stepfather despite a dozen or more years of support, James and his brother first went with Joshua Lafayette Smith of Dallas in 1867 (former mayor of that town) but Smith was murdered in Dallas in July 1867. James and his brother then went with Smith's younger brother, the Rev. William Robert Smith. James Monroe's birth and death year are rough estimates from the sources, but he is buried in the family plot with William R. Smith.
James Monroe Green is the second of two sons born to Furnifold Green of North Carolina and Nancy B. Ruble of Kentucky, who married in Hunt County in December 1850. After their father died in April 1854, their mother Nancy remarried to David Davis, when the family removed first to Dallas County and then Tarrant County during the Civil War. In what seems a classic case of rejection of the stepfather despite a dozen or more years of support, James and his brother first went with Joshua Lafayette Smith of Dallas in 1867 (former mayor of that town) but Smith was murdered in Dallas in July 1867. James and his brother then went with Smith's younger brother, the Rev. William Robert Smith. James Monroe's birth and death year are rough estimates from the sources, but he is buried in the family plot with William R. Smith.
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