Do Honor To His Memory
Nelson Henry Green, Pioneer Merchant and Most Prominent Citizen is no More-A long Useful Career- Took an Honored Place in the Civic Life of This City (Ritzville, WA)
The sudden and unexpected death of N. H. Green about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Octobert 12, 1905, startled and shocked this community to a high degree, and records the passing of a well-known pioneer. He spent the forenoon at the Pioneer State Bank, of which moneyed institution he was president. His only complaint on arriving at his residence, on West College Hill, was that of being a little tired. Shortly before his death, he retired to the basement to replenish the furnace of the heating plant. A few moments later his neice, Mrs. Frank Stuart, and a sister, Mrs. W. H. Davenny, heard groans from below, and when they reached his prostrate form, he was fast expiring and never regained consciousness. Heart failure was the cause of death.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania, April 25, 1841 and was, therefore, in his 65th year. In June, 1864, he was married to Miss Lucinda P. Tuttle, who passed on ten months ago. For more than forty years they traveled along life's pathways together, happy in their devotion to each other, their children and their children's children, besides a great host of tried, trusted and much valued friends. Their gentle lives demonstrated, as the most soulful sermon could not, the immutable truths of Christianity. The good husband, the beloved father, the blameless citizen, the devout and consistent Christian gentlemen has gone to join his dear ones beyond the river - gone to that bright home were sorrow never enters and where disease and death are unknown. Death is ever a tragedy; it cannot creep so slowly but that it comes as a shock. There is grief when an innocent babe is taken, without impusle to invade the sanctity of a stricken house hold, it may be said that sympathy of hundreds cluster there today. The people of this part of the state pay the tribute of saying a friend has gone.
The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. W. Morse, pastor of the First Congregational church of this city. Rev. John D. Jones of Dayton, Washington, former pastor here and a close friend of the family preached the funeral sermon. The funeral cortege was formed at the home on the hill with the following Masonic pallbearers: Horace E. Hill, Fred E. Robbins, James Turner, R. P . Smith, Daniel A Scott, and E. Gilson. The quaint, handsome edifice, the First Congregational church, where he had always attended divine service regularly, as he lay upon a bier beside the alter, in a beautiful casket almost hidden uner heaps of fragrant flowers and blossoms, the large throng of patriotic people viewed the familiar face for the last time.
Sunday morning the funeral party, accompanied by many friends and members of the Masonic faternity, conveyed the remains to Spokane, where interment was held in the family plot in Greenwood cemetery. Side by side, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Green repose in their last long sleep that knows no waking, in that charming secluded spot where other relatives lay buried.
To Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Greene were born two children, Mr. Orr H. Greene, cashier of the Pioneer State Bank and Mrs. Mattie E. Martin, who survive them, and who still reside in the city.
Heavy and valuable property interest, both real and personal, is left by the decease. Mr. Greene was an active Free Mason, and was a member of the Ritzville Lodge No. 1010, F & A. M. which attended the funeral in a body and officiated at the grave, In life he was called to several public positions though he never sought them. He was sheriff in 1885-86; re-elected and served during the years of 1887-88. Became the first mayor of the town in November 1888, followed by being city treasurer. He declined the nomination for representative to the state legislature later.
Adams County News October 19, 1905 Courtesy of Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Nelson Henry Green, Pioneer Merchant and Most Prominent Citizen is no More-A long Useful Career- Took an Honored Place in the Civic Life of This City (Ritzville, WA)
The sudden and unexpected death of N. H. Green about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Octobert 12, 1905, startled and shocked this community to a high degree, and records the passing of a well-known pioneer. He spent the forenoon at the Pioneer State Bank, of which moneyed institution he was president. His only complaint on arriving at his residence, on West College Hill, was that of being a little tired. Shortly before his death, he retired to the basement to replenish the furnace of the heating plant. A few moments later his neice, Mrs. Frank Stuart, and a sister, Mrs. W. H. Davenny, heard groans from below, and when they reached his prostrate form, he was fast expiring and never regained consciousness. Heart failure was the cause of death.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania, April 25, 1841 and was, therefore, in his 65th year. In June, 1864, he was married to Miss Lucinda P. Tuttle, who passed on ten months ago. For more than forty years they traveled along life's pathways together, happy in their devotion to each other, their children and their children's children, besides a great host of tried, trusted and much valued friends. Their gentle lives demonstrated, as the most soulful sermon could not, the immutable truths of Christianity. The good husband, the beloved father, the blameless citizen, the devout and consistent Christian gentlemen has gone to join his dear ones beyond the river - gone to that bright home were sorrow never enters and where disease and death are unknown. Death is ever a tragedy; it cannot creep so slowly but that it comes as a shock. There is grief when an innocent babe is taken, without impusle to invade the sanctity of a stricken house hold, it may be said that sympathy of hundreds cluster there today. The people of this part of the state pay the tribute of saying a friend has gone.
The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. W. Morse, pastor of the First Congregational church of this city. Rev. John D. Jones of Dayton, Washington, former pastor here and a close friend of the family preached the funeral sermon. The funeral cortege was formed at the home on the hill with the following Masonic pallbearers: Horace E. Hill, Fred E. Robbins, James Turner, R. P . Smith, Daniel A Scott, and E. Gilson. The quaint, handsome edifice, the First Congregational church, where he had always attended divine service regularly, as he lay upon a bier beside the alter, in a beautiful casket almost hidden uner heaps of fragrant flowers and blossoms, the large throng of patriotic people viewed the familiar face for the last time.
Sunday morning the funeral party, accompanied by many friends and members of the Masonic faternity, conveyed the remains to Spokane, where interment was held in the family plot in Greenwood cemetery. Side by side, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Green repose in their last long sleep that knows no waking, in that charming secluded spot where other relatives lay buried.
To Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Greene were born two children, Mr. Orr H. Greene, cashier of the Pioneer State Bank and Mrs. Mattie E. Martin, who survive them, and who still reside in the city.
Heavy and valuable property interest, both real and personal, is left by the decease. Mr. Greene was an active Free Mason, and was a member of the Ritzville Lodge No. 1010, F & A. M. which attended the funeral in a body and officiated at the grave, In life he was called to several public positions though he never sought them. He was sheriff in 1885-86; re-elected and served during the years of 1887-88. Became the first mayor of the town in November 1888, followed by being city treasurer. He declined the nomination for representative to the state legislature later.
Adams County News October 19, 1905 Courtesy of Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Do Honor To His Memory
Nelson Henry Green, Pioneer Merchant and Most Prominent Citizen is no More-A long Useful Career- Took an Honored Place in the Civic Life of This City (Ritzville, WA)
The sudden and unexpected death of N. H. Green about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Octobert 12, 1905, startled and shocked this community to a high degree, and records the passing of a well-known pioneer. He spent the forenoon at the Pioneer State Bank, of which moneyed institution he was president. His only complaint on arriving at his residence, on West College Hill, was that of being a little tired. Shortly before his death, he retired to the basement to replenish the furnace of the heating plant. A few moments later his neice, Mrs. Frank Stuart, and a sister, Mrs. W. H. Davenny, heard groans from below, and when they reached his prostrate form, he was fast expiring and never regained consciousness. Heart failure was the cause of death.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania, April 25, 1841 and was, therefore, in his 65th year. In June, 1864, he was married to Miss Lucinda P. Tuttle, who passed on ten months ago. For more than forty years they traveled along life's pathways together, happy in their devotion to each other, their children and their children's children, besides a great host of tried, trusted and much valued friends. Their gentle lives demonstrated, as the most soulful sermon could not, the immutable truths of Christianity. The good husband, the beloved father, the blameless citizen, the devout and consistent Christian gentlemen has gone to join his dear ones beyond the river - gone to that bright home were sorrow never enters and where disease and death are unknown. Death is ever a tragedy; it cannot creep so slowly but that it comes as a shock. There is grief when an innocent babe is taken, without impusle to invade the sanctity of a stricken house hold, it may be said that sympathy of hundreds cluster there today. The people of this part of the state pay the tribute of saying a friend has gone.
The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. W. Morse, pastor of the First Congregational church of this city. Rev. John D. Jones of Dayton, Washington, former pastor here and a close friend of the family preached the funeral sermon. The funeral cortege was formed at the home on the hill with the following Masonic pallbearers: Horace E. Hill, Fred E. Robbins, James Turner, R. P . Smith, Daniel A Scott, and E. Gilson. The quaint, handsome edifice, the First Congregational church, where he had always attended divine service regularly, as he lay upon a bier beside the alter, in a beautiful casket almost hidden uner heaps of fragrant flowers and blossoms, the large throng of patriotic people viewed the familiar face for the last time.
Sunday morning the funeral party, accompanied by many friends and members of the Masonic faternity, conveyed the remains to Spokane, where interment was held in the family plot in Greenwood cemetery. Side by side, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Green repose in their last long sleep that knows no waking, in that charming secluded spot where other relatives lay buried.
To Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Greene were born two children, Mr. Orr H. Greene, cashier of the Pioneer State Bank and Mrs. Mattie E. Martin, who survive them, and who still reside in the city.
Heavy and valuable property interest, both real and personal, is left by the decease. Mr. Greene was an active Free Mason, and was a member of the Ritzville Lodge No. 1010, F & A. M. which attended the funeral in a body and officiated at the grave, In life he was called to several public positions though he never sought them. He was sheriff in 1885-86; re-elected and served during the years of 1887-88. Became the first mayor of the town in November 1888, followed by being city treasurer. He declined the nomination for representative to the state legislature later.
Adams County News October 19, 1905 Courtesy of Sue Gardner & gapwork90
Nelson Henry Green, Pioneer Merchant and Most Prominent Citizen is no More-A long Useful Career- Took an Honored Place in the Civic Life of This City (Ritzville, WA)
The sudden and unexpected death of N. H. Green about 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Octobert 12, 1905, startled and shocked this community to a high degree, and records the passing of a well-known pioneer. He spent the forenoon at the Pioneer State Bank, of which moneyed institution he was president. His only complaint on arriving at his residence, on West College Hill, was that of being a little tired. Shortly before his death, he retired to the basement to replenish the furnace of the heating plant. A few moments later his neice, Mrs. Frank Stuart, and a sister, Mrs. W. H. Davenny, heard groans from below, and when they reached his prostrate form, he was fast expiring and never regained consciousness. Heart failure was the cause of death.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pennsylvania, April 25, 1841 and was, therefore, in his 65th year. In June, 1864, he was married to Miss Lucinda P. Tuttle, who passed on ten months ago. For more than forty years they traveled along life's pathways together, happy in their devotion to each other, their children and their children's children, besides a great host of tried, trusted and much valued friends. Their gentle lives demonstrated, as the most soulful sermon could not, the immutable truths of Christianity. The good husband, the beloved father, the blameless citizen, the devout and consistent Christian gentlemen has gone to join his dear ones beyond the river - gone to that bright home were sorrow never enters and where disease and death are unknown. Death is ever a tragedy; it cannot creep so slowly but that it comes as a shock. There is grief when an innocent babe is taken, without impusle to invade the sanctity of a stricken house hold, it may be said that sympathy of hundreds cluster there today. The people of this part of the state pay the tribute of saying a friend has gone.
The funeral services were held Saturday afternoon, conducted by Rev. M. W. Morse, pastor of the First Congregational church of this city. Rev. John D. Jones of Dayton, Washington, former pastor here and a close friend of the family preached the funeral sermon. The funeral cortege was formed at the home on the hill with the following Masonic pallbearers: Horace E. Hill, Fred E. Robbins, James Turner, R. P . Smith, Daniel A Scott, and E. Gilson. The quaint, handsome edifice, the First Congregational church, where he had always attended divine service regularly, as he lay upon a bier beside the alter, in a beautiful casket almost hidden uner heaps of fragrant flowers and blossoms, the large throng of patriotic people viewed the familiar face for the last time.
Sunday morning the funeral party, accompanied by many friends and members of the Masonic faternity, conveyed the remains to Spokane, where interment was held in the family plot in Greenwood cemetery. Side by side, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Green repose in their last long sleep that knows no waking, in that charming secluded spot where other relatives lay buried.
To Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Greene were born two children, Mr. Orr H. Greene, cashier of the Pioneer State Bank and Mrs. Mattie E. Martin, who survive them, and who still reside in the city.
Heavy and valuable property interest, both real and personal, is left by the decease. Mr. Greene was an active Free Mason, and was a member of the Ritzville Lodge No. 1010, F & A. M. which attended the funeral in a body and officiated at the grave, In life he was called to several public positions though he never sought them. He was sheriff in 1885-86; re-elected and served during the years of 1887-88. Became the first mayor of the town in November 1888, followed by being city treasurer. He declined the nomination for representative to the state legislature later.
Adams County News October 19, 1905 Courtesy of Sue Gardner & gapwork90
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