Tryphena Hoxsie GREENE
1827 - 1866 (38 years)-
Name Tryphena Hoxsie GREENE Born 19 Aug 1827 [1] Gender Female Died 9 Jul 1866 Coventry, Kent Co., RI 
[1, 2] Buried Maple Root Cemetery, Coventry, RI Person ID I00331 Sorensen-Remington Family Tree Last Modified 7 Aug 2018
Father Hiram GREENE, b. 12 Jun 1807, Coventry, Kent County, RI , d. 26 Oct 1829, RI (Age 22 years) Mother Abigail JOHNSON, b. 25 Oct 1802, West Greenwich, RI , d. 12 Sep 1856, Coventry, RI (Age 53 years) Married Abt 1826 Family ID F00165 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Philip JOHNSON, Jr., b. 30 Mar 1822, Marion County, Ohio , d. 30 Jun 1914, Coventry, Kent Co., RI (Age 92 years) Married 25 Nov 1849 West Greenwich, RI [3, 4] Notes - I have a photocopy of the original record from the official book of the Town of West Greenwich for 1851, p. 77. They were married on 25 Nov 1849 by Caleb Green, Minister of the Gospel, and the marriage was recorded by John James, Town Clerk, about a year and a half later. The minister, Elder Caleb Green(e) (elsewhere it is spelled with a final "e"), was married to Lucetta Nichols, daughter of Susanna Whitford and Ambrose Nichols.
Children 1. Harty Potter JOHNSON, b. 12 Apr 1850, Coventry, Kent Co., RI , d. 27 Nov 1917, Coventry, Kent Co., RI (Age 67 years)2. Philip Rhodes Johnson, b. 28 Apr 1852, Coventry, Kent Co., RI , d. 12 Apr 1916 (Age 63 years)3. Tryphena Hoxie Johnson, b. Abt 1854, Coventry, Kent Co., RI , d. 21 Aug 1899 (Age ~ 45 years)4. Edna Priscilla Johnson, b. Between 1861 and 1862, Coventry, Kent Co., RI , d. 1940 (Age ~ 79 years)5. Patience Jane Johnson, b. Between 1864 and 1866, RI , d. 13 Jan 1882 (Age ~ 18 years)Last Modified 7 Aug 2018 Family ID F00163 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Her gravestone has been photographed. Her surname has been spelled as Green and Greene, as has the name of the clergyman who married them, Caleb Green(e).
"Tryphena Greene-Johnson, daughter of Hiram, m. her second cousin, Philip Johnson [Philip, Philip, Ezekiel, EIizabeth Greene-Johnson, Usal Greene, John, John]. Their children have five strains of Greene blood. Harty Johnson-Whitford, m. Carmi Whitford. Philip R. Johnson. Has a son and a daughter." (source: "The Greene Family and its Branches" by Lora S. LaMance, Mayflower Pub Co.)
The following is a partial quote from "Acts and Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations" pub. by Henry Ward, Sec'y, 1846, p 7: "Upon the petition of Abigail Greene of Coventry, A. Greene, in this State, guardian of the persons and estates of Tryphenia H. Greene and Benjamin Greene, minors, children of Hiram Greene, late of said Coventry, deceased, praying for the reasons therein stated, that . . . "
- Her gravestone has been photographed. Her surname has been spelled as Green and Greene, as has the name of the clergyman who married them, Caleb Green(e).
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