Greene, Emalissa L. (Morss) 1836 – 1924
GREENE, MORSS, HOUCK, COLTON
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Date: 9/3/2014 at 10:41:35
Decorah Journal August 6, 1924, P1 C4
MRS. BARNEY GREENE PASSES AWAY
Mrs. Barney B. Greene passed away Sunday August 3, 1924, at 7:30 p.m. at her home on Court street, Decorah, Iowa. Death was due to old age. She had been confined to her bed about eight weeks.
The funeral was held yesterday morning at 10 o’clock, Rev. Fisher officiating, and burial was made in Phelps cemetery.
Emalissa L. Morss was born April 19, 1836, in Ohio. She was educated in the public schools of Ohio and in Mount Union College. In 1863 she married Barney B. Green and in 1865 they moved here from Ohio. They have no children. Since 1867, Mrs. Greene had lived in the very house in which she died. Her husband died a quarter of a century ago. Mrs. Greene was a member of the Congregational church and had been an officer and a director in the cemetery association.
A friend says this of her, “she was a woman of refinement, fine sensibilities, loyal to her friends, her home, her country, generous to a fault, always anxious to divide with another and always anxious to be of service to others.”
Transcriber’s Note: The marriage certificate shows they were married November 4, 1863.
Transcribed from scans of newspaper clippings provided by Laura Colton
Decorah Public Opinion
MRS. E. M. GREENE PASSES.
One of Decorah’s Most Beloved Women Passed Away Sunday.
Mrs. E. M. Greene, one of the early settlers in Decorah, passed away at her home on Court street Sunday evening, August 3, 1924. Funeral services were held from her home Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock, conducted by Rev. Fisher of the Methodist church, burial in Phelps cemetery.
Mrs. Greene was a daughter of the late J. G. Morss and Harriet A. Morss. She was born in Ohio, April 19, 1836, and grew to maturity in the state of her birth, receiving her education in the public schools and colleges of her time, amid the environment of a Christian home. On November 12 1863, she was married {to} B. B. Greene, and shortly thereafter she and her husband, together with other members of the family, came to Decorah and took up their residence here, her husband entering the mercantile business on Water street. In January, 1867, her husband acquired the property just north of the Methodist church, which for so many years has been her home.
Mrs. Green was the last survivor of her immediate family, her father, mother, brother, sister and husband having preceded her in death. She is survived by her nephew and niece B. B. Morss and Mrs. C. N. Houck of this city, son and daughter of her brother, E. B. Morss, and Mrs. E. B. Morss, her sister-in-law and a step son, Oscar Greene, and a step daughter, Mrs. Alice Colton, of San Diego, California.
On May 2, 1886, Mrs. Greene united with the Congregational church of this city, and so long as her strength permitted gladly contributed of her time and money for church activities. She was one of the original incorporators of the Womens Cemetery Improvement Association, which had charge of the advancement of the cemetery interests until the same was taken over by the Phelps Association. For many years she served as director and officer in the Cemetery Association and gave unsparingly and unstintingly of her time and effort in its behalf. Mrs. Greene was a woman of fine sensibilities and evenly balanced temperament. She was a woman of the old school, a woman of high ideals, devoted to her home, her family, her church and her community. She was generous to a fault and insisted on sharing whatever she had with any one whom she thought in need. Her life was always one of service for others, and so keenly impressed upon her was her duty to serve others that it was with the utmost reluctance in her declining days that she would permit others to serve her. A great heart is stilled and a good soul has passed on. The world is better for her having lived.
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