Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 241, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1914 — Obituary of Mrs. J. P. Green. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Mrs. J. P. Green.

Mrs. Marilla Carr Green was horn at Derby, Erie county, New York. Sept. 8,1849, and died in Rensselaer, Indiana, on October 8, 1914, aged 65 years 1 month and 5 days. She was the sixth ehild of nine children born to Riley and Clarinda Carr, and a d‘iect descendent of Caleb Carr, one of the early governors of Massasnusetts. When she was ten years of age her parents with their family removed to Michigan, where they resided until,, her father’s death about ten years later. After her father died she made her home chiefly with her youngest sister. In her childhood she was converted and united with the Free Will Baptist church. When her brother, Noitnan Carr, became a minister in the regular Baptist church, she united with it also and has remained a consistent member of that body all her life. Mrs. Green received her academic training at Mrs. Sh rimer’s school Jot girls in Wisconsin tnd later attended the Baptist Training School at Chicago. She then engaged in home missionary work among the negroes of the south. In this work she was associated with Miss Johanna P. Moore. She returned from the south to her sisters home in llinois. There she met and on July 2, 1889, married Rev. Joel P Green, at that time pastor of the Baptist church at Somonauk, 111. One son, Joel Carr Green, was born to them. While an .infant, this son suffered a severe illne«-> from which he never recovered and during the 17 years of his life his care was the chief concern of his mother. During these years of constant nursing and anxiety, she not only did 'her work hut met all of the obligations that came to her as a minister’s wife. She served as president of various women’s societies of the churches of which her huband was pastor, organized the children into classes and taught them, and wrote articles for certain periodicals. She was especially interested in missions and besides supporting the regular missionary enterprises of the church, through her own effort, furnished half the support of a native missionary in China. While Rev. Green was pastor at Muncie, Ind., Mrs. Green joined the Eastern Star and sFnee moving to Rensselaer she beeame a member of the G- A. R. and of the Woman’s Relief Corps. She enjoyed her fellowship in all of these orders. Three adopted children were reared in this home, Nancy Helen Boone Green, who died in 1906; Belle Boone Green Hopkins, who, with her family, is living in Kearney, Neb, and Howard Green, who Is still with them. In 1910 Rev. and Mrs. Green moved to Rensselaer to take charge of the Baptist church of this city. Of their life in this community no eulogy need be spoken, for the conk munity has expressed its appreciation in the quiek sympathy which it has sought to make felt during the long illness which resulted in her death. She took to her bed Feb. 1, 1914, with an illness whieb taxed her body and mind beyond endurance and on Oct. 8, 1914, relief came in death. She leaves to rejoice in the memory of her life among them, her ’husband, Joel P. Green, two adopted children, four grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Helen Herrick, of Shelby, Mich.; Mrs. Mittie Rishel, of Emporia, Kans.; and a brother, Martin R. Carr, of Whitehall, Mich., besides many other relatives and friends who have been privileged to know her. Mrs. Green was naturally reticent and to only a few has it been given to know the richness of her nature, her faith, her courage, her deep convictions, her generosity. To her acquaintances it may seem that into her life came an undue amount of sorrow, a too heavy burden, but accompanying the sorrow and the burden bearing was the joy of service and the faith that did not mistake the end.—Contributed.