Birdie A. Cole

Birdie married Ezra Embros Breckenridge on 15 Oct 1905 in Beech Grove, Greene Co, Arkansas. Ezra (son of Daniel W. Breckenridge and Mariah Abigail Spain) was born on 23 Apr 1886 in Arkansas; died in Oct 1966 in Beech Grove, Greene Co, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Neva Breckenridge was born on 11 Apr 1907 in Arkansas; died on 4 May 2003 in Paragould, Greene Co, Arkansas.
2. Maurice Breckenridge was born in 1910 in Arkansas; died after 1920 in of, Crowley, Greene Co, Arkansas.

Robert married Ida L. Kaminer on 27 Dec 1888 in Greene Co, Arkansas. Ida was born in May 1870 in Arkansas; died after 1910 in of, Greene Co, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1830, Wake Co, North Carolina
• Residence: Abt 1857, Cache Twp, Greene Co, Arkansas
• Census: 1870, Union Twp, Greene Co, Arkansas

Notes:

Pioneer of Greene Co., AR. The Founder of Epsaba Community. Father of 26 children. Husband of Zilphy Nowell and Lucy Nipper.

"Lived for a long time on Sugar Creek(Walcott Area) near where Owen's Chapel stands. He settled at the same place that B.M. Grambling owned and died on. He left this place and bought out M.T.C. Lumpkins on Locust Creek(Paragould East), near Gainesville. He had the largest family the writer ever knew anything about, in Greene County, having twenty seven children." From 1906 issue of the Paragould Soliphone.
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FATHERS OF THE RIDGE, Vol. I by George W. Rowland. Copyright 1978 by George W. Rowland. Printed by College Bookstore and Press, Route 4, Box 196, Paragould, Arkansas 72450. [Excerpted here with permission of author.]

GENEALOGICAL SKETCHES
Cole I
The patriarch of the Cole family in Greene County was Dennis Cole, born in North Carolina in 1800. In 1830 the Cole family was in Wake County, North Carolina. Eight children were born in the Cole family while they were still in North Carolina: Oscar, 1831; Dennis Jr., 1835; Ransom, 1839; Mary, 1841; Henry H., 1842; Sidney, 1844; and Carey T., 1846.

The family moved to Henderson County, Tennessee in about 1847 and several more children were born there: N. C., 1848; Calvin, 1850; Mary C., 1852; Patrie Dowd, 1854; Louis W., 1856; and Edna L., 1857.

The family moved to Greene County in about 1857 and took up residence in Cache Township. More children were born here: Permelia N., 1858; Clara A., 1859; and Robert H., 1866.

While the Dennis Cole family was still in Henderson County, Tennessee, a John T. and Elizabeth Cole were living next to them. John was born in North Carolina in 1827 and Elizabeth was born in Tennessee in 1829. It seems likely that Dennis and John T. were related. The John T. Cole family came to Greene County in about 1870 and they lived in Union Township. In 1880 their children at home were: Zilpha, 1854; John, 1855; Edward, 1862; Vicy, 1864; Sarah E., 1866; and Caledonia, 1871. The five older children were born in Tennessee and Caledonia was born in Arkansas.
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Census:
1870 Union Twp, Greene Co, Arkansas
22 Cole Dennis 70 1800 North Carolina farmer 500 400
22 Cole Lucinda 48 1822 North Carolina
22 Cole Mary 18 1852 Tennessee
22 Cole Patric D 17 1853 Tennessee
22 Cole Edney L 15 1855 Tennessee
22 Cole Melia N 13 1857 Tennessee
22 Cole Arminta 11 1859 Tennessee
22 Cole Louis 12 1858 Tennessee
22 Cole Robt N 4 1866 Arkansas

23 Cole John 43 1827 North Carolina farmer 400 225
23 Cole Elizabeth 37 1833 Tennessee
23 Cole Zilfa Jane 16 1854 Tennessee
23 Cole John H 15 1855 Tennessee
23 Cole Mary E 13 1857 Tennessee
23 Cole Ned R 9 1861 Tennessee
23 Cole Visa A 5 1865 Tennessee
23 Cole Sarah E 4 1866 Tennessee
24 William 36 1834 Tennessee

Dennis married Lucinda "Lucy" Nipper about 1851. Lucinda was born in 1822 in North Carolina; died after 1870 in of, Union Twp, Greene Co, Arkansas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Thomas married Mildred Bagwell. Mildred was born in 1775 in Wake Co, North Carolina; died in 1860 in Wake Co, North Carolina. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]