The Sunday News, Charleston, S.C., May 6, 1906, has a sketch of one of the secession signers from that state,
Rev. Henry Davis Green, prepared by his grandson, T. M. Green.
Henry Davis Green was born in Georgetown District in 1791, the son of John Thompson Green who rose to the
rank of major in the continental army during the Revolutionary War, being the son of an Englishman who had
secured a grant of a large tract of land in South Carolina. John Thompson Green's wife was Jane Davis, the
daughter of Henry Davis of Revolutionary fame. Henry D. Green was of a studious mind and became a Methodist
preacher at the age of 19 and rode on circuit for five years.
In 1814 he married Miss Mathis, of Camden, and settled near Rembert's Church in Sumter County. He was
very successful in the management of his business affairs and maintained like his father and grandfather a kind of
baronial style, having a plantation of several thousand acres. He was an intense Union man, bitterly opposing
Calhoun's doctrine of nullification, but towards 1860 became convinced that the interests of the south were being
endangered by the centralizing tendencies of the National Government. He was unanimously elected a secession
delegate in the convention at Sumter along with A. C. Spain, Thos. R. English and M. Mayes. He was too old to
enter the field himself but sent all of his sons into the army, one, Rufus A., being only 16 years of age. Another
son, Henry Davis, became an excellent surgeon in Virginia. Like others of his class he suffered materially by the
results of the conflict and was too far advanced in life to repair the damages, dying some years after the war and
being buried at Rembert's Church.
He was twice married. Of the first union were two children: Rev. Samuel, of Greenville, S.C., and Mrs. Jas. W.
Rembert. His second wife was Rebecca W. Abbott, of Camden who bore him ten children: Mrs. Colonel John E.
Muldrow, Dr. Henry D. Green, Mrs. Hannah Coachman, Mrs. Rebecca Brown, Misses Emma L. and Jane Davis
Green, Mrs. Theodosia Williamson, Mrs. Robt. E. Muldrow, Rufus A. Green and Mrs. Dr. Robt. E. Dennis.