Elihu Greene

Elihu Greene

Greene is a nephew to Continental Army Major General Nathanael Greene.

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Elihu Greene (1802-1878) was born on Potowomut Neck in Warwick, Rhode Island to Christopher Greene (1748-1830) and Deborah (Ward) Greene (1758-1835). He married Matilda Ray Sumner (b.1810), daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth (Hubbard) Sumner of Brookline, Massachusetts.

They had seven children: Matilda Elizabeth (b.1831), William W. (1834-1879), Emily Anna (1837-1841), Charles Richard (1840-1866), Thomas Sumner (b. 1842), Samuel W. (b. 1848), and Alice Sumner (b. 1850).

Elihu was a merchant and was involved in the family's iron forge at Potowomut. He and his family moved from Potowomut to Brookline, Massachusetts and then onto Cincinnati, Ohio in 1832, where Elihu continued his work as a merchant. He died from injuries sustained stepping off a streetcar.

Bibliography:

Clarke, Louise Brownell. The Greenes of Rhode Island with Historical Records of English Ancestry, 212, 336. New York, 1903.

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Cemetery Ref.: < https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/78942106/elihue-greene >, Elihue Greene, Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio; Plot: Garden LN, Section 99, Lot 76, Space 2.