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Cemetery Records of Macon County, Missouri Volume XI

Name: James N. Greenstreet was born in Byron county, Kentucky in 1844 , and has been a resident of Macon county, Missouri fifty-five years, except for a short time during the Civil war. His parents were Thomas and Sarah (Williams) Greenstreet the former born and reared in Kentucky and the latter a native of Virginia . They came to Missouri in 1854 and located in this county.

Here they were actively and profitably engaged in farming until death ended their labors, that of the mother occurring in 1900 , and that of the father in 1889 . They had nine children and five of them are living: Elizabeth , the wife of E. T. Davis ; James N. ; Newton; Joseph , and Mary , the wife of James Golden . The parents were married in 1832 . James N. grew to manhood on his father's farm and completed in the district schools of Linn county , in this state, the education he had begun in those of his native county in Kentucky . When he was seventeen years old the great Civil war began, and believing firmly in the cause of the Confederacy, he enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of Company ??, First Missouri Infantry. He was married twice, in 1866 to Miss Mary E. Nagel of Linn county, Missouri . They have had nine children and now have five living: Robert , Walter , Ernest , Ralph and Lizzie . After the death of his first wife, in 1893 , he was married to Miss Martha T. Johnson , of Elmer, Missouri . They have one child, Eugene .

(Cemetery records found on page 32)
Cemetery: Bell
Description: Located 3 miles northwest of Elmer, Missouri.
Copied October 10, 1963

Source Information: Ancestry.com. Macon County, Missouri, Cemetery Records, Vol. 1-11. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2001. Original data: Ellsberry, Elizabeth Prather, comp. Cemetery Records of Macon County, Missouri Volume I-XI. Chillicothe, MO: Elizabeth Prather Ellsberry, circa 1963.

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County Coordinator note: A search of all past and current Kentucky Counties shows that there never has been a county by the name of Byron. The county listed in the first paragraph as Byron, should be Barren Co., Ky. kk

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