Thomas Green #2, 1815-1904

GREEN, STEVENS, REGAN, CRANE

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Date: 11/12/2018 at 11:48:56

The West Union Gazette
West Union, Fayette Co., Iowa
Friday, 05 Feb 1904
Page 1 column six

PIONEER AND VETERAN DEAD.
Uncle Tommy Green Called to His Reward.

We mentioned here last week the accident to Thomas Green. Saturday morning at 4 o'clock be breathed his last, it being the opinion of the physician and the family that bis fall was due to a paralytic stroke, from which he never rallied.

Thomas Green was born in Ireland May 26,1815, so that had be lived to that date this year be would have been 89 years of age, a long and useful life. He emigrated to America in 1842, settling in Hamilton, Ontario, where in 1845 he was married to Ann Stevens. In 1848 they moved into Geneseo county, N.Y., from whence in 1853, with his brother Patrick, they moved to Iowa, locating on public land near Waucoma. Within a year or so the family moved to West Union, and here for years he was the village blacksmith, his work being interrupted by the war, entering the army in Co. F, 7th Iowa Cav., his service being in the Indian country, where he continued to the end of the war. Mr. Green's army experience included several engagements with the Indians, in one of which, at Julesburg, thirteen of his comrades were killed and scalped, while fifty-five of the red devils were sent to their happy hunting grounds.

On his return from the war he resumed his trade, forming a partnership with his son Thomas L., occupying a two-story structure near where the Presbyterian church now stands. In 1880 they turned over the business to his sons James and Charles W., Mr. Green retiring to his farm north of town, where be has since lived a comfortable and happy life—the gradual approach of old age in no sense destroying his peace of mind.

For fifty years Thomas Green was a resident of West Union, and he ever proved himself a "real old Irish gentleman," an industrious, frugal citizen, a kind and generous neighbor, an honest man.

His children were all present at the funeral Tuesday; Thos. L., James and H.R. of this city, John, O.W. and Mrs. Anna Regan of Denver, Colo., and Mrs. Anie Crane of Ottawa, Kan. These, with their mother, are the survivors, one daughter, Etta, having died in 1888. The service was held in the Catholic church, Father Regan officiating, the sons performing the duties of pall bearers. The attendance was large, including many of his comrades of Abernethy Post G.A.R. of which deceased was a faithful member interment at the city cemetery.