Addie Green
- Name
- Addie Green
- Biographical Information
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Addie V. Green is assumed to have been the first teacher at the McComas Institute. Miss Green first appears in the Freedmen’s Bureau Records in the “Records of Complaints, 1865-1872.” A complaint was filed on June 30, 1868 by Addie V. Green, on behalf of a woman named Amy Preston. Preston was living as a servant to Jessie Thompson at Carroll Manor in Harford County. Thompson was refusing to pay Preston wages for her labor, had mistreated her, and refused to let her leave. She requested help from the Bureau in order to get away from Thompson. The record also states that the “complainant is 65 years old and mute.”[1]
Green appears in several more Superintendent of Education records and reports from October to December of 1868.[2] She then falls out of the Bureau’s records as a teacher for the McComas Institute. She appears again briefly in July of (year) in a complaint record from Fallston, where she is requesting the assistance from the Bureau to help with the release of four children to the custody of their uncle and aunts as they were being unlawfully kept by a man named Lee Magness.[3] This complaint helps to show how much Miss Green cared for her students and her willingness to advocate for both their education and wellbeing.
- [1] "Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872," images, FamilySearch: 22 May 2014. Register of complaints, vol 2 (18), Jan 1868-Mar 1872; citing NARA microfilm publication M1906 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- [2] Search Results, "Addie V. Green, Harford, MD, 1870," FamilySearch.
- [3] "Maryland and Delaware, Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872," images, FamilySearch: 22 May 2014. Register of complaints, vol 2 (18), Jan 1868-Mar 1872; citing NARA microfilm publication M1906 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
- School Affiliation
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Magnolia aka McComas, Mountain School, Clayton, or Joppa
Part of Addie Green