Lydia Green

Lydia Green

ID:	I464
Last:	Green
First:	Lydia
Middle:
Birth:	11 Jul 1854 at Cedar Plains Plantation, Sumter Co.(now Lee Co.), South Carolina ¹
Death:	27 Dec 1887 at Piracicaba, Sao Paulo Province, Brazil ²
Burial:
Sex:	F
Notes:	Lydia Green was the first wife of Dr. James William Wolling, Methodist missionary to Brazil where Lydia died at age 33. Research shared by Jackie McInnis confirms a common ancestor (William Green 1795 - 1847) for Lydia Green and Samuel Loraine Shaw - - who married, respectively, James Wm. Wolling and his daughter Marcia M. Wolling (by J.W. Wolling's 2nd wife, Elizabeth Morgan Rice). Ms. McInnis also shared the following, based on family history compiled by W. Hughson Green (1958): "Lidie died in Brazil at the age of 33.There is a marble tablet in her memory on the wall of St. Luke's Methodist Church in Elliott, SC (as of 1958) and the inscription on it is as follows: 'In loving remembrance of Lidie Green Wolling who fell asleep in Jesus Dec. 27, 1887. She went with her husband as a missionary to Brazil and closed her life in the city of Piracicabo, Province of Sap Paulo and there now sleeps waiting for the coming of the Lord.'" All entries in the sc-families database showing ancestry of Lydia Green are drawn from Ms. McInnis' database on Ancestry.com: "McInnis and Phillips of the Carolinas", contact: <mcinnis4@bellsouth.net>.
Sources:	³

Mother:	UNKNOWN
Father:	UNKNOWN

Marriage 1	James William Wolling b: 27 Dec 1850 d: 15 Mar 1928
	Wedding: 7 May 1878 St. Luke's Church, Sumter Co., South Carolina ⁴ ⁵


Sources:
1	Title: Internet Note: Ancestry.com database: McInnis and Phillips Families in the Carolinas. Contact: Jackie McInnis mcinnis4@bellsouth.net. Database also gives parentage and ancestry of Lydia Green.

2	Title: Correspondence Date: 23 Jan 2005 Note: Email from Jackie McInnis (mcinnis4@bellsouth.net - McInnis and Phillips Families in the Carolinas) 23 Jan 2005, citing research by W. Hughson Green dated 1958. Piricicaba, Brazil is located at the confluence of major rivers to the northwest of Sao Paulo. Text: "They were missionaries to Brazil. Lidie died in Brazil at the age of 33.There is a marble tablet in her memory on the wall of St. Luke's Methodist Church in Elliott, SC ( as of 1958 ) and the inscription on it is as follows: " In loving remembrance of Lidie Green Wolling who fell asleep in Jesus Dec. 27, 1887. She went with her husband as a missionary to Brazil and closed her life in the city of Piracicabo, Province of Sao Paulo and there now sleeps waiting for the coming of the Lord. "

3	Repository: --Name: South Caroliniana Library - Univ. So. Carolina --Address: University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 --Phone: (803) 777-3132 Title: South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, SCMAR Publication: Brent H. Holcomb, ed., P.O. Box 21766, Columbia, S.C., 29221 Call Number: 929.205 So8s Date: Spring 1986 Page: xiv, no. 2, p. 115 Note: First wife of James William Walling

4	Repository: --Name: South Caroliniana Library - Univ. So. Carolina --Address: University of South Carolina Columbia, South Carolina 29208 --Phone: (803) 777-3132 Title: South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research, SCMAR Publication: Brent H. Holcomb, ed., P.O. Box 21766, Columbia, S.C., 29221 Call Number: 929.205 So8s Date: Spring 1986 Page: xiv, no. 2, p. 115 Note: The Rev. James William Walling was m. three times, 1st Lydia Green... JWW was already married to second wife Elizabeth Morgan Rice by the birth of Marcia Marvin Walling on 2 June 1891 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

5	Title: Internet Note: Source: The Southern Christian Advocate, official newspaper of the Methodist Episcopal Church, published by a committee of ministers for SC, GA, FL Methodist Conference. Repository: South Caroliniana Library, Univ. of SC, Columbia, SC 29208. Extracted on rootsweb.com/~scsumter/newspaper/obits2.html. Text: May 21, 1878 Married by Rev. James C. Stoll, May 7, 1878, at St. Luke's Church, Sumter County, S.C., Rev. James W. Wolling of the South Carolina Conference, to Miss Lida Green, of Sumter County, S.C.