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Preferred Citation

Ardath Jo Green Genealogical Research Files, 1965-2006 (bulk 1981-2006). Accession 50241. Personal papers collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Gift of Ardath Jo Green via Barbara P. Owens, Richmond, 28 November 2011.

Biographical Information

Ardath Jo Green was born on 24 June 1923 in Pennington Gap, Lee County, Virginia, the daughter of Etta Ellison Green (1886-1980) and John Wallace Green (1867-1937). The family later added a brother, Fred Hamilton Green (1930-1989). On 19 August 1943, Ardath Jo Green enlisted with the Women's Reserve of the U.S. Navy. In 1948, she and a colleague were the first two women in the Fifth Naval District to be sworn in as members of the regular Navy, following the passage of the Women's Armed Service Integration Act in June of that year. Her 24-year military career included three tours at the Recruit Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland (from which she retired as a Chief Disbursing Clerk in 1967). Among the many roles she took on over the course of her military service were Chief Master-at-arms, WAVE barracks, U.S. Naval Hospital, St. Albans, N.Y.; assisting in planning the WAVES barracks at Brooklyn, N.Y.; working in the Disbursing Office at the Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Florida; and serving as Company Commander for eight recruit companies (in her second tour at Bainbridge). Green has also resided in Prince George and Henrico Counties, Virginia.

Scope and Content

Genealogical research files, 1965-2006 (bulk 1981-2006), compiled by Ardath Jo Green (1923- ) of Lee, Prince George, and Henrico Counties, Virginia, include extensive files on the Green family, as well as information on related Blankinship, Drake, Ellison, English, Grigg, Harber, Hopper, Kilgore, Ludlow, Marshall, Morgan, Payne, Snavely, Tobler, Vannoy, and Witt lines. Green compiled this research in part to secure membership to various lineage-based organizations, including the Daughters of the American Revolution, National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor, and The Guild of St. Margaret of Scotland. Some of her application paperwork is also contained in the collection.