General Notes

PROMINENT MORA WOMAN PASSES AWAY SATURDAY

Mrs. George Green Dies After Lingering Illness.

The people of this village received the sad news early Saturay morning of the death of Mrs. George Green, one of Mora's best loved citizens.  Her death does not come as a complete shock to her many friends, as she had been very ill and confined to her bed for the last few months.  Death was caused by heart disease.

Carrie E. Richmond was born in Utica, Wisconsin, on September 2nd, 1855.
When a year old she moved with her parents, Daniel C. and Arvilla Richmond, to Colona, Wisconsin, where she resided with her parents for nineteen years.
At the age of sixteen she was baptized and became a member of the Seventh Day Baptist Church of Dodge Center, which she remained loyal to until her death on Saturday morning, April 9th.  She was 71 years, 7 months and 7 days old at the time of her demise.

In the year 1876 she came to Minnesota and two years later was united in marriage to George Green at Freeborn, Minn.  After her marriage she made her home at Freeborn until 1898, when the family moved to Kanabec county, where she had since resided.

The deceased was a loving wife and a kind and willing mother.  From a child she was interested in temperance reform work and has for over forty years been a loyal worker in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.  In Mora she has held the office of President of the local union for twenty years.  She was also the president of District 16 for sixteen years and her entire life was devoted to solving of the prohibition problem.

She leaves to mourn her loss her husband and three daughters, namely:  Mrs.
A Churchward, of Chetec, Wis.: Mrs. Dick Hardie, of Kallispel, Mont., and Miss Florence Green of Cumberland, Wis., who for the past number of weeks has been at her mother's bedisde; three grandchilren also survive.

Funeral services were held Monday at 2:30 from the Presbyterian Church, Rev.
Stanley R. Wexler and Rev. John Blackhurts officiating.  Interment was made in the Oakwood cemetery.

Pallbearers were A. S. Olson, Wm. Hueller, John Nisbet, Jay Tomson, Walter Edgard and Lewis Nelson.

The bereaved relatives had the sympathy of all.

         —  obituary from Kanabec County Times

~~~~~~~~~

  Recorded Events in Her Life

• She appeared on the 1860 US Federal Census on 4 June 1860 in Coloma, Waushara County, Wisconsin, USA. ² Coloma, Waushara County, Wisconsin, USA (Carrie E., age 4)