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- Ursula D[iadama] MONROE GREEN
was the oldest child of Henry MONROE
- and Sarah Jane HUMPHREY MONROE,
and was born in Alfred, New York, in December, 1848, and died
in Milton, Wisconsin, June 24th, 1908, in the 60th year of her
age. Of her own family, the aged mother and two sisters, Mrs.
Chauncy GRAY, of Milton Junction, and Mrs. Alfred DUNHAM,
of Harriman, Tennessee, and one brother, Mr. Fremont MONROE
of Battle Creek, Mich., survive her. When a babe her parents
moved to Wisconsin which has ever since been the family home.
In her girlhood she made good use of the opportunities offered
for obtaining an education, attending several terms at the Milton
Academy and College, and became a successful teacher.
- At 21 years of age, Dec. 25, 1869,
she was happily married to Mr. Clark Witter
- GREEN
who, with their two children, Mrs. Rena GREEN HALL
and Clark Wendell GREEN Jr., and a large circle of friends
mourn her departure. From early youth Mrs. GREEN has
been a devoted Christian, having professed faith in Christ by
baptism, administered by Eld. James C. ROGERS, when but
a child. She found fellowship in the Seventh-day Baptist Church,
successively, at Rock River, Milton Junction, and at Milton.
Her last sickness, which was long and painful, she bore with
sweet Christian fortitude.
- The funeral was held at her late home
on Madison Avenue conducted by her Pastor,
- Dr. Platts, and was attended by a large
concourse of friends and neighbors who deeply sympathize with
the bereaved family. [Thursday edition, p. 4]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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