Re: Joseph E. Green
GREEN, SHEFFIELD
Posted By: Joanne Wilken (email) In Response To: Re: Joseph E. Green (Eric Huffstutler)
Date: 9/5/2003 at 16:05:18
Let me make some corrections to what I previously sent you.
1860 Richland Tsp, Jones Co IA p545
John Adams 46 b NJ
Lina 40 b OH
Geo W
Joseph E All are listed as Adams
John
Matthew 7 b IA
Susannah 5 b IA1870 Richland Tsp., Jones Co, IA P 173
John Adams 58(?) b NJ widower
John Adams 21 b OHOn another page (I did't write it down)
Martin Sheffield 60 laborer b OH
Fidelia 30 b IL
Phebe 6 b IA
Franklin 3 b IA
Paulina Green 50 b OH Widow
Geo W Green 30 b IA Farmer
Vestor? Adams 9 b IA
Hannah Adams 12 b IA (Is this Susanah?)8/16/1922 Monticello Express
Death of George W Green
George W Green died at the home of Mrs. Eliza Zeadow (she ran a boarding house) yesterday morning at 5 o'clock, following a long period of illness. A number of months ago, Mr. Green sustained the fracture of one of his hips and since that time had been bedfast. Throughout the entire period of his illness, he was tenderly cared for by Mrs. Eliza Zeadow, who devoted her entire time to him.
Mr. Green was the second oldest living white child born in Jones county. He was born 3 months later than Mrs. Thomas A King, who now lives in Monticello, and who is the second female white child to be born in the county. Mr. Green was born on Bowen's Prairie in Richland township, August 22, 1840, on what used to be known as the Frank Hicks' farm. Therefore at the time of his death he was just a few days short of 82 years of age.
During all this period of time he lived continously in Jones county. He lived in Richland township 69 years, which is the longest period of time of any resident now living within its precinct. This township is the one in which the first settler in Jones county staked out his cabin.
Mr. Green had lived under the administration of every governor of Iowa, both territorial, and state from Lucas to Kendall. At the time of his birth Jones county, had but recently been carved out of Dubuque county, but had not been organized into townships. It was only 7 years after Iowa was opened to settlement by proper Indian treaties. He had seen the birth and growth of a great state and the greatest advance in civilization ever instanced in the history of the world. When a single life spans the achievements recorded, since the settlement of this state, we can not be other than surprised at our nearness to those who struggled bare handed with wild nature.
Mr. Green never married. He has two brothers living, Charles Green of Kansas City, MO and Jefferson Green of Oakland, CA. He also has some half brothers and a half sister. One of his half brothers is Hugh Bowen, a son of the first settler of Jones county, who lives across the IA line in northern Missouri, in the region of Taylor county. Mr. Green retired from farming in 1909, and removed to Monticello at that time to make his home with Mrs. Eliza Zeadow. He sold his farm in Richland township consisting of 100 acres a number of years ago. Until the time that he fell and fractured his hip he was able to get about town, although his sight was very poor.
The funeral services of Mr. Green will be held at the home of Mrs. Eliza Zeadow tomorrow (Friday) afternoon at 2 o'clock. They will be conducted by the Pres. church and interment in Oakwood Cem. (Actually he is buried in Monticello East Cem. -- not Oakwood Cem)Also buried at Monticello East is Paulina and Nathaniel (d 1864).
11/29/1894 Monticello Express
Jones county lost last Thursday, the 22nd inst. one of its very oldest settlers, by the death of Paulina Green of Richland township. Mrs. Green who was born near Cleveland, Ohio, July 15th 1820, came with her husband, Joseph E Green, to Bowens Prairie, then one of the pioneer settlements of the county, and in fact the point of earliest settlement, in May, 1839. They "took up" a piece of land which is now a part of the farm owned by Mr. F M Hicks, being attracted thither by a fine spring. Mr. Green did not live many years, and his widow entered the premises which ever after remained her home, several miles distant from the place of their earlier settlement. The patents for this land were granted to her under the administration of President Fillmore. Mrs. Green had been a resident of Jones county more than 55 years. She was one of the few surviving pioneer settlers who came here before the county had a sufficient organization to levy a tax, or courts were considered necessary for the adjustment of the few differences that arose in the sparsly settled neighborhoods. Much is due the memory of these ambitious pioneers who had the hardihood to press beyond the confines of civilization, and not only explore but settle and improve what was then a wilderness of forest and prairie, and their going should be reverentially noticed. Mrs. Green's bachelor son, George, has lived with her since his birth, or for 54 years, and to him she left all of her property. The services were conducted last Saturday by Rev. Dickensheefs of the U B church of Monticello, and the remains were buried in the East Monticello cemetery.
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