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- Mrs. Abbie [Abigail] McHENRY GREEN,
wife of the Hon. Paul M. GREEN,
- died at her home in Milton, Wis., on
March 9, 1910, about 10 days after returning with her husband
from their winter sojourn in Florida.
- Mrs. GREEN was born near Almond,
N.Y., July 11, 1839, and therefore at the time
- of her death was in the seventy-first
year of her age. She was the daughter of James and Abbie VINCENT
McHENRY, whose home was situated in what is known as the
McHENRY Valley, In Allegany County. The McHENRY
family from pioneer times was prominent in that part of the country
and the McHENRY homestead was a center of influence socially
and morally, so that the place was always a point of interest
for strangers.
- In her youth Mrs. GREEN attended
school at Alfred. The influences that
- surrounded her in early life were those
that formed her character and assisted a noble heredity in producing
the harmonious and beautiful Christian life that all her friends
have known. Mrs. GREEN's grandfather, Col. Henry McHENRY,
who served in the Revolutionary War, when he settled in Allegany
County in early days, cut a road for seven miles through the
valley that thus came to bear his name, to the place where he
made his home. After the death of Mrs. GREEN's parents,
she and nearly all of fourteen brothers and sisters continued
to live for years together in the old colonial homestead. One
of these brothers, Mr. Vincent McHENRY, removed to Wisconsin
at about the year 1855. In 1857, Mrs. GREEN also went
to Wisconsin and lived in his family on a farm situated near
Milton on Rock Prairie until her marriage to Mr. GREEN.
- Mr. and Mrs. GREEN were married
in Milton by the late Pres. William C.
- WHITFORD,
May 19, 1859. The young people began housekeeping on the Rock
River road, on a farm that belonged to Mr. GREEN's father.
They lived there until they moved to Milton in 1868. During
their life at Rock River their only child was born and died.
This was a little son, Eldon L., who came to gladden their
life for the brief period of fourteen months. Had he lived,
he might now have been a comfort to his father, whose memory
often reverts to the time when he and his beloved wife cherished
the little one. During this same period Mrs. GREEN gave
her heart to Christ and united with the Rock River Seventh-day
Baptist Church, being baptized by the Rev. James C. ROGERS.
After going to Milton she united with the church of the same
faith at that place, of which she always thereafter remained
a member.
- She was always a steadfast Christian
and faithful in her attendance at all services of
- the church seldom failing to attend
the Sixth-day afternoon covenant meeting preparatory to the communion
service. In these covenant meetings she always took part in
a very touching and appropriate manner. She was interested
in all the activities of the church, was always generous, and
supported every moment to advance the churches welfare. Besides
the Church of Christ, many useful and benevolent organizations
claimed her devoted adherence. She was a member of the Janesville
chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, at Janesville,
Wis., and also a member of the Women's Relief Corps of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Milton. In these two organizations
she gave expression to her sincere and deep seated patriotism.
She was a member of the Daughters of Rebecca, connected with
the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. She was a member of the
Women's Village Improvement Club of Milton. She was a member
of the Women's Benevolent Society of the Milton Seventh-day Baptist
Church, serving as its president and in various ways by which
its efficiency has been increased. Mrs. GREEN was a
Christian lady in the fullest sense of the word. She was gentle
and kindly in word and deed, always charitable in her judgment
of others and uniformly gracious in her manners. She was very
careful in forming her opinions, but extremely tenacious of those
opinions when once formed. She was a true friend, a faithful
and devoted wife, a sweet lady, admired and loved by all that
knew her. She and her husband have always been known as wise
counselors, public-spirited citizens, cheerful and helpful friends
and neighbors.
- It was not generally known that Mrs.
GREEN's health was in a precarious condition
- when she and her husband left Milton
last October to pass the winter in the south, though she noticed
a slight failing of her powers and was herself somewhat apprehensive
that her condition might grow worse. They made a visit with
relatives near Boston, Mass., till after Thanksgiving, and then
went to Panama City, Fla., near St. Andrews Bay. A tour was
planned for the spring to be followed by a return home in April.
But early in February Mrs. GREEN was suddenly taken
very ill and remained so till toward the end of the month, when
it was deemed necessary to take her home without delay. She
reached her home on the evening of February 26 and died early
on the morning of the ninth of March.
- Of Mrs. GREEN's family there
are four surviving brothers and sisters: Mr. Morris
- McHENRY
of Dow City, Ia., Mrs. William COON of Denison, Ia., Mrs.
George STEVENS, of Boone Ia., and Mr. William A. McHENRY,
of Pasadena, Cal.
- Funeral services were held Sabbath
afternoon, March 12, 1910, at her home and at
- the Seventh-day Baptist Church in Milton,
conducted by Pres William C. Daland, assisted by the Rev. F.
D. Jackson of the Congregational Church in Milton. Interment
was made in the village cemetery at Milton. W. C. D. [Vol.
68, No. 13, p. 411]
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- Courtesy of Jon Saunders
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