Daniel M. Green, 1842-1916

GREEN, BLINN, WALSTRON

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 11/19/2011 at 15:24:07

Monday, the third of this month, death called another member of the G.A.R. Post, Daniel M. Green. He was born in Addison, Steuben County, N.Y., December 3, 1842, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. P. Greene. At the age of ten he was apprenticed in a printer's office, where he remained till he was sixteen. On May 15th, 1861, although only nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the Union army, Company E of the 34th N. Y. Volunteer Infantry.

At the end of his service in this regiment, he joined Captain Stanford's company of the 2d New York Cavalry. Throughout the five long and strenuous years of the Civil War, Mr. Green served his country courageously and faithfully, only ceasing to fight when peace was declared. In December, 1865, he received his papers of honorable discharge.

At the close of the war he returned to Addison, only to bid farewell to his parents, then to depart for Iowa. Arriving here, he settled in Decorah. It was there that he married Miss Adelaide Blinn; four children were born to them.

In the early seventies Mr. and Mrs. Green moved to Clay County, homesteading in Lake township. They lived there over ten years and then came to Spencer. In 1892 Mrs. Green died and a year later he married Miss Matilda Walstrom, who, with their five children, survives.

While a resident of this city, he was an expressman, always willing to oblige his patrons and performing his duties happily. Of Mr. Green, the members of the Post said: "He was generous, and self-sacrificing, a man who would gladly share his last crust with a needy stranger." His friends were cheered by his genial presence and his fund of humorous stories and anecdotes.

Mr. Green was always interested in the welfare of Spencer and Clay County and in the growth and prosperity of the Annett chapter of the G.A.R. post of which he was a loyal member.

Mr. Green died from a stroke of paralysis on Monday, the third, and on Wednesday he was laid to rest in Riverside. The services were conducted by Rev. Baier, pastor of the Christian church of this city, assisted by the G.A.R.

Mrs. Green and the children wish to express through the News their heartfelt thanks for the sympathy and kindness of their friends and neighbors in their recent bereavement.

Source: Spencer News, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; January 11, 1916.

Daniel M. Green, son of William P. Green, and Armena Green, was born at Addison, Steuben county, New York December 3, 1842. At the age of ten years he entered a printing office as an apprentice and followed that profession until he was sixteen years of age. Some time during this period he went to Wisconsin, but when the Civil War broke out he returned to his native state and enlisted May 15, 1861, in Company E, 34th Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry. At the end of this term of service he enlisted again in Captain Stanford's Second New York Company of the Veteran Cavalry, serving until the close of the war and was discharged December, 1865.

After returning home he moved to Decorah, Iowa, where he was married to Adelaide Blend, the date of this union is not known. To them four children were born. Mrs. Green died in the year 1892. In the year 1893 he was married to Matilda Walstrom. To this union five children were born, four boys and one girl, all of whom together with their mother survive.

In the early seventies he moved to Clay county, Iowa. He took a homestead in Lake township where he was engaged in farming until he moved to Spencer, where he has since resided, until the day of his death, January 3, 1916, aged 73 years, and 1 month. Mr. Green was well known in this county, having lived here for over forty years, and was highly esteemed for his many good qualities, and genial disposition. He was a valued member of Annett Post of the G.A.R. in this city, and will be remembered for many a day as one of the pioneer settlers of the county. The present generation can never understand or appreciate the debt they owe these early settlers, who at the cost of all manner of suffering and privation laid the foundation for the upbuilding of the present beautiful and magnificent community in which we so comfortably and luxuriously dwell.

The funeral services were held at the Christian church last Wednesday afternoon, the interment being made in Riverside cemetery.

Source: Spencer Reporter, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; January 12, 1916.

Interment in Riverside cemetery
 

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