Greene, Barbabas B. 1819- 1897

GREENE, COLTON, MORSS

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 12/3/2020 at 15:33:50

Source: Decorah Republican May 6, 1897 P 1 C 3

TWO OLD SETTLERS GONE!
Barney B. Greene Drops in the street and Dies—Jacob Rotnor Passes away.
BARNABAS B. GREENE. Another appallingly sudden death occurred in Decorah on Tuesday afternoon. While walking along west Main street, on his way home from the news office with his daily paper, when in front of Dr. Toye’s residence, Barney B. Greene, suddenly fell to the ground, and before assistance could be rendered or be conveyed a few rods to his house, he breathed his last, The event occurred between 2:15 and 2:30 o'clock. Whether it resulted from apoplexy or a fatal heart difficulty, cannot be known. The father of the deceased died as suddenly and an examination of his body revealed ossification of the heart. Mr. Greene had been quite severely ill for the previous twenty-four hours with a difficulty that had moved from the stomach towards the heart, and these facts tend to the thought that a heart complication caused the death.
Barnabas B. Greene was born in Mantua, Portage Co., Ohio, Aug. 31st, 1819, and lived in that state until he came to Iowa in the fall of 1865. In his early life he was engaged in the manufacture of pottery, and at one time he was the owner of the largest pottery in that part of Ohio. A fire consumed the establishment and impoverished him. During the war of the rebellion he was with the army as a sutler. After coming to Iowa he entered into the grocery trade, and here again fire became a serious disaster to him. He engaged in other occupations; was at one time landlord of the St. Cloud hotel, afterwards in the grocery trade and then manager of that department in C. N. Goddard’s store. Mr. G. was twice married, his first wife bearing to him three children, two of whom survive him. These are Mr. Oscar C. Greene, for years superintendent of telegraphs on the N. P. Railway system, and a daughter, Mrs. Colton, who resides in Ohio. Another son, Clem. G., sleeps in Decorah cemetery.
To Miss Emeline Morss-Greene he was married in 1864, and thirty-three years of happy life they spent together. In his life deceased was kind-hearted, true and upright; a man of more than usual intelligence: a good citizen and faithful husband and father. Peace to his memory.

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