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W. P. Greene, a prominent farmer of Mississippi County, is the fifth in a family of eleven children born to Abraham and Elizabeth (Lathrage) Greene, natives of South Carolina and Georgia, respectively. The father was a well-known and extensive farmer, who died January 15, 1872, the mother surviving him until the year 1882. Mr. Greene was born in Georgia, in the year 1839, and remained in that State until he reached the age of seven years, when he moved to the State of Mississippi, which he made his home until 1882. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he enlisted in Company D, Fourth Mississippi Infantry, and took part in the battles of Fort Donelson and Port Gibson, was through the siege of Vicksburg, at Chickasaw, and in all the battles through the celebrated campaign in Georgia, with Johnston and later on with Hood. He also took part in the battle at Franklin, Tenn., and finally surrendered in South Carolina, on May 6, 1865, returning to his home in Mississippi, after the war was over. On December 4, 1864, he was married to Miss Anna Ray, of Alabama, and resided with his bride in Mississippi until 1882. He was engaged in government work for three years at Plum Point, and during this time lost his wife and three of their five children. The names of the children are Charles Henry (de ceased), John Wesley (deceased), Harvey Calhoun (deceased), Mary Ella, wife of Mr. Andrews, a resident of Mississippi, and Kate Elizabeth, who makes her home with the married sister. On September 5, 1884, Mr. Greene was married a second time, his next wife being Mrs. Bettie Biales, a widow lady of Alabama, and this union has given them one child, a boy named Walter. His present home is a few miles south of Osceola, in Mississippi County, and during his five years’ residence in Arkansas, he has never failed to make a good crop. During the summer of 1889, he bought and entered 320 acres of land in the northern part of this county, intending to take possession of it in the fall, and to improve it on an extensive scale. Mr. Greene has been in the best of health during his five years’ stay in Mississippi County, and speaks in the highest terms of this section and its productions. In addition to his farms, he owns a small herd of very fine cattle, and a magnificent team, and his present prosperity has sprung from almost nothing, his first start in life finding him comparatively poor. Mrs. Greene has one child by her previous marriage, Lee B., and the entire family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South.