Green Berry married Clarissa Elizabeth Harlow Kyser 1839, moved to Bibb County, Alabama, and lived beside Green Berry's father, Wyatt Bailey. By 1841, Green Berry and Clarissa were living on a 602-acre farm on the Pea river in New Hope Community in Coffee County, Alabama, near her kinfolk.
They had eight children the first ten years of their marriage, and five more in the 1850's, and two more after the Civil War, bringing the total to fifteen. Despite the size of their brood, the family fared well for themselves, probably due to good health and hard work. Their land and personal possessions were valued at $7,000. Unfortunately, the Civil War and its aftermath would erase all that they had worked to acquire.
When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, their oldest son, James Ernest, wasted no time in answering President Jefferson Davis' call for volunteers. In 1863, another son, William, 17, joined his brother James' company. That same year, James Ernest Bailey died in the Battle of Chancellorsville in VA. With General Robert E. Lee calling for every able-bodied man to come and serve in the Confederate Army.
In July 1863, Green Berry and yet another son, John, hardly 16, signed up in the Alabama Infantry. Green Berry Bailey joined Company G, 61st Alabama Infantry regiment with his son John B. Wilburn Bailey on 17 July 1863. The last record of his service was on 15 October 1864. He served as a private (Civil War Record). By January 1865, Green Berry had returned to Coffee County. John and William were back home by the Fall of 1865.
In September 1871, due to hardship after the civil war, Green Berry and Clarissa decided to leave Alabama and sold their farm. Two months later, Green Berry and son, William M. "General" Bailey, rode horse back to Panola County, Texas, and paid for a 172-acre farm in the Buncombe Community. Three days after they returned home to get the family, Green Berry, age 52, died of pneumonia. Clarissa buried her husband in the Christopher Kyser family cemetery, marked the top of the grave with a layer of carefully placed brick and a proper headstone, and then prepared to go to Texas with money given by the Pea River Lodge. Clarissa would never know that nearly a century later, the graves in the Kyser family cemetery would be bull-dozed off into a nearby gully by a landowner.
A memorial marker was placed in Bethlehem Cemetery in Carthage, Texas (Panola County) next to the grave of his wife Clarissa. (see photo)
Here is a link to the actual burial cemetery:
Actual burial here
Green Berry married Clarissa Elizabeth Harlow Kyser 1839, moved to Bibb County, Alabama, and lived beside Green Berry's father, Wyatt Bailey. By 1841, Green Berry and Clarissa were living on a 602-acre farm on the Pea river in New Hope Community in Coffee County, Alabama, near her kinfolk.
They had eight children the first ten years of their marriage, and five more in the 1850's, and two more after the Civil War, bringing the total to fifteen. Despite the size of their brood, the family fared well for themselves, probably due to good health and hard work. Their land and personal possessions were valued at $7,000. Unfortunately, the Civil War and its aftermath would erase all that they had worked to acquire.
When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, their oldest son, James Ernest, wasted no time in answering President Jefferson Davis' call for volunteers. In 1863, another son, William, 17, joined his brother James' company. That same year, James Ernest Bailey died in the Battle of Chancellorsville in VA. With General Robert E. Lee calling for every able-bodied man to come and serve in the Confederate Army.
In July 1863, Green Berry and yet another son, John, hardly 16, signed up in the Alabama Infantry. Green Berry Bailey joined Company G, 61st Alabama Infantry regiment with his son John B. Wilburn Bailey on 17 July 1863. The last record of his service was on 15 October 1864. He served as a private (Civil War Record). By January 1865, Green Berry had returned to Coffee County. John and William were back home by the Fall of 1865.
In September 1871, due to hardship after the civil war, Green Berry and Clarissa decided to leave Alabama and sold their farm. Two months later, Green Berry and son, William M. "General" Bailey, rode horse back to Panola County, Texas, and paid for a 172-acre farm in the Buncombe Community. Three days after they returned home to get the family, Green Berry, age 52, died of pneumonia. Clarissa buried her husband in the Christopher Kyser family cemetery, marked the top of the grave with a layer of carefully placed brick and a proper headstone, and then prepared to go to Texas with money given by the Pea River Lodge. Clarissa would never know that nearly a century later, the graves in the Kyser family cemetery would be bull-dozed off into a nearby gully by a landowner.
A memorial marker was placed in Bethlehem Cemetery in Carthage, Texas (Panola County) next to the grave of his wife Clarissa. (see photo)
Here is a link to the actual burial cemetery:
Actual burial here
Inscription
PVT CO G
61 ALA INF
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Gravesite Details
This gravestone is only a memorial. Greenberry died and was buried in Coffee, Alabama, after falling ill on the return home from purchasing land in Texas for his family. His grave was demolished by the construction of a building.
Family Members
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James Ernest Bailey
1841–1863
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Nancy C. "Sis" Bailey Wall
1843–1933
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W C Bailey
1845–1850
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Williams M "General" Bailey
1845–1913
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John Wilburn "Baker" Bailey
1846–1922
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Samantha Bailey
1848–1872
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Martha Lucinda Bailey Lindsey
1850–1909
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Louisa Eliza Bailey Presswood
1853–1915
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Mary Adeline "Pompi" Bailey Satterwhite
1854–1947
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Green Berry Bailey Jr
1855–1923
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Dora Clara Bailey Graves
1856–1925
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Charles Buckner "Charlie" Bailey
1860–1927
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William Francis "Barto" Bailey
1861–1947
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Donnie Ella Bailey Fallwell
1863–1939
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Emma Virginia "Mae" Bailey Ritter
1871–1924
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