Cornelia Greene
(1778-1862)
BIRTH
1778
PLACE
Coventry, Kent, Rhode Island, United States
NAME
Cornelia Lott Greene
DEATH
1862
PLACE
DeSoto, Mississippi, United States
FAMILY
CHILDREN
Nathanael Greene
(1742-1786)
CHILDREN
Catharine Littlefield Greene
(1755-1814)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Cornelia Lott Greene was a daughter of General Nathanael Greene and Catharine Littlefield. Widowed after her marriage to Peyton Skipwith, she married Edward Brinley Littlefield in 1810; they built Skipwith Hall in Tennessee in 1815–1816. She preserved her father’s papers, passing them to her son Peyton, and her Washington recollections appeared in a family account. Sources disagree on her lifespan, giving 1778 or 1779 for birth and 1862 or 1865 for death.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Cornelia Greene’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Cornelia Greene is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Cornelia Greene died in 1862, in DeSoto, Mississippi, United States. Cornelia Lott Greene was a daughter of General Nathanael Greene and Catharine Littlefield. Widowed after her marriage to Peyton Skipwith, she married Edward Brinley Littlefield in 1810; they built Skipwith Hall in Tennessee in 1815–1816. She preserved her father’s papers, passing them to her son Peyton, and her Washington recollections appeared in a family account. Sources disagree on her lifespan, giving 1778 or 1779 for birth and 1862 or 1865 for death. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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