The Atlanta constitution., 1898-08-01

.,,r. rr.ifo or Henry Willis. and had ny
him two chiIdron-a son, Lewis ana oauS u
tor Anne. Their residence was on '"e
height now known as Mary's HH!' NH'Ie
General Robert f. Lee gained ms h'e"'
victory over burnside.
Lewis Willis born in 1884. married MAY
daughter Of Colonel John Champe' whose
sister. Jane, was the first vile Oh 0''i''O~
Washington. o,,,l
"Rvrd son Of Lewis and Mary Champe
WiI.s married Mary, daughter Of George
Lewis and granddaughter of Colonel Fl'Ia-
ing Lewis. by his second Wile. b'''S
WASHINGTON, the only sister OF the gen
eral Ryrd's WilHs's daughter, FAnn''
married Achii]e Murat, son OF CaFollh'
Bonaparte and Napoleon's great mar
shaI. ~
first wife was a Miss Barbour, and by MN
had three sone-Wliis, Henry ana "lIhaH'
and one daughter-Eleanor.
''Duff Green dying intcstate before the
revolution, his eldest son, John' by MS
first wife, took the bulk of his large prop
ertv leaving u sCant patrimohS LOT tI''
children by the second MARRIAGE 10y In'
advice and assistance of relatives i"leH
cousin the general being most int1uenuap'
WILLIS ana Henry made contracts TO locate
land warrants in kentucky. leaving ther
Youngest brother IN charge of his mother
and sister Henry died Young and unmN-
ried Willis married Sarah, eldest dauSh-
ter Of John Reed. Their oldest son was
Or Duff Green. who was the tatheF OF
Dr. Willis Duff Green, of MT, vernon, il'''
and of Judge William II. Green, OF caro-,
Ill Lewis Warner Green, the learned an"
eloquent divine was Willis Green's young
est son and the father of Mrs. NJ. T.
Scott. of Bloomington, H., ana Oh MIS-
AdIai e. Stevenson wife Of the eX-Flce
president.
THE oldest daughter Of Willis Green
married Major James Barbour, Of the war
OF 1872 and was the mother of James Bar
bour president of the Bank or May5Nl'e'
Ky. and was the mother of DR.. Lewis O.
Craig, of the Presbyterian seminary OF the
northwest. at Chicago.
william. Youngest son Of Duff and Anne
Willis Green, was a pet of his cousin. the
general and at fifteen years OF age, was
with him at Valley Forge. AT eighteen
he was with Morgan in the battle or Cow
pens. He married Anne, daughter OF Marx
ham Marshall a first cousin of the chief
justice. by whom he had four sons and two
daughters. General Duff Green, who died
at Dalton, Ga, in 1875. was the oldest son;
Or. Willis Green, the second son, died
without issue at Nicksburg, Miss, many
years ago: William NJ. and Henry willis
Green were twins. The former had one
daughter, who married William ii. Speh-
Ger, and the latter left two sons, Donald
Robinson Green, of the Kansas legislature,
and William S. Green. of Colusa. Cal
SARAH daughter OF William and Anne
Marshall Green, married Rev William
Neale and resides near Glasgow, Ky. She
gave her two sons-William and Duff-as
volunteers to the confederacy. They fought
gauantly and William was killed in the
sk.rmish at Jonosboro. Ca, before he was
twenty years old
"On page 2l7, second volume. 'Lossng's
Pictorial Field Book of the Revo,uton,' [
find this brief notice of General George
Wash.ngton's ancestry:
" 'Ite is descended from an Old family or
tho English arlstocracy. The name of
Washington as a family was first known
Il bout the middle of the thirteenth century.
Previously there was manor of that name
in the county of Durham, owned by Will
liam de Hertburne. who was the GUS
tom in those days, took the name of his
estate. From that gentleman have de-
scended the branches of the Washington
family in England and America. The name
is frequently mentioned in the local histo-
ries of England belonging to persons of
wealth and distinction. Sir Henry Wash
inEton was renowned for his bravery at
the siege of Worcester against the parlia-
mentary troops and at the taking of Bris