Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1914 — Obituary of Mrs. Manilla C. Green. [ARTICLE]

Obituary of Mrs. Manilla C. Green.

Mrs. Marilla Carr Green was born at Derby, Erie county, New York, September 3, 1849, and died at Rensselaer, Ind., Octoberaged sixty-five years, one month and’ five days. She was the sixth of nine children born to Riley and Clarinda Carr, and a direct descendant of Caleb Carr, one of the early governors of Massachusetts. When she was ten years of age, her parents with their family moved 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 girlhood she was converted and united with the Free Will Baptist church. When her brother, Norman 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. Sheiiner’s school for girls in Wisconsin and 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 sister’s home in Illinois. 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 illness from which he never recovered and during the seventeen 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 in the house but met all of the obligations that came to her as a pastor $ wife. She served as president of various women’s societies of the churches of which her husband 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 efforts, furnished half the support of a native missionary in China. While Rev. Green was pastor at Muncie, Ind., Mrs. Green joined thf Order of the Eastern Star and since moving to Rensselaer she became a member of the ladies of the G. A. R. and of the Woman's Relief Corps. She enjoyed her fellowship in all of these orders. I hree adopted children were reared in this home, Nancy Helen Boone Green, who died in 1901; Belle Boone Greene Hopkins, who. with her family is living in Kearney, Nebr., -gind 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 community has expressed its appreciation in the quick sympathy which it has sought to make felt during the long illness which resulted in Mrs. Green’s death. Mrs. Green took to her bed Feb. 1. 1914. with an illness which 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 and in their assurance of her victory, her husband, Joel P. Green, tw r o adopt- 1 ed children, four grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Helen Herrick of Shelby. Mich., Mrs. Kittie Riskel of Emporia, Kan., and a brother, Martin R. Carr, of Whitehall, Mich., besides vmany other relatives and the numerous 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 beating was the joy of service and the faith that did not mistake the end. . I -- Throughout the struggle, she, too, said: “But I need, now as then, Thee, God; who mould’st men; And since, not even while the , whirl was worst,- 1 Did I-—to the wheel of life With shapes and colors rife, Bound dizzily—mistake my end, to slake thy thirst: So take and use thy work: Amend what flaws may lurk, What strain o’ the stuff, what warpings past the aim! My times be in thy hand! Perfect the oup as planned! Let age approve of youth and death complete the same!” xx Obituary of Solomon C. Spoor. Goodland Saturday Times: u Solomon C. Spoor was born in Newark, New York, Oct. 16, 1830, and died in Goodland, Ind., Oct. 16* 1914. At the age of nine years the deceased left home and begah the bat-

tie of life alone and unaided. At the age of nineteen years he came west and settled in Plainfield, 111., where he was married to Charlotte Virgil, wsho died several years ago. Two daughters were bom to them, the older one dying in infancy. In 1886 he was married to Martha Little who died within a few months of their marriage. In i,BS9 he was unitedin marriage with Emma Shear, who, with the only daughter, Mrs. A. J. Kitt, survives him. For several yoan he farmed and worked at the carpentering trade. In 1868 he came to Goodiand, when this town was a mere hamlet. For eight years he engaged tn the lumber and stock business. In 1877, in company with Blake Wilson, he established the Goodland bank, later buying Mr. Wdspn’s interest and conducting the business very successfully for several years. In 1889 ha sold the bank to Baldwin & Dague, and shortly afterward, having purchased a large farm near the town of North Vernon, removed to that place where he lived for three or four years. Ten years ago, having acquired interests at Elwood, Ind., he moved to that pi» z, e and since made it his home. _A.le.iv j;ears ago be purchased an interest m the Citizens' Stateßankln that city and was vice-president of that institution at the time of his death. Mr. Spoor was a man of high moral character, and his long life was a record of good citizenship and business integrity. He was a man of strong convictions, but considerate for others in the expression of his opinion. He was a man of good intel--1 t and sound busness methods. He was of a genial disposition, and always found time to pass a cheery word with the boy as well as the man. ■ His early life in Goodland at the head of one of the most important financial institutions, made him an important factor in the development and future prosperity of the town. He was among the last of a line of men to whom Goodland owes a debt of gratitude for past services. Funeral was held from the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. J. Kitt, conducted by Rev. Geo. E. Deuel, pastor oY the .Methodist Episcopal church, and interment was made in the Goodland cemetery, where the beautiful ritualistic service of the Odd Fellows, was held, the deceased having been a member of that order for nearly fifty years. Lodges from Goodland, Brook and Remington followed the remains to the cemetery and took part in the service. Charles Osborn, cashier of the Elwood Citizens' State Bank, and Bennett Lyons, of the Bank of Brook, were in attendance. The floral emblems were very beautiful, and were the contributions from friends here and at Elwood, including magnificient pieces from the bank and the Elk's lodge, of which deceased was a member, of the latter place. It was a fitting tribute. In his life Mr. Spoor had planted flowers of friendship and good-feeling among his fellowmen, and it was fitting that these emblems of God’s love to man j-hould testify to the love and respect that he had instilled in the life of those who know him best. The pall bearers were: Chas. E. Burgess, H. Murray, J. W. Baer, J. A. Wickersham, J. W. Oswald and E. A. Peck. The honorary pall bearers were: Henry Butler. S. R. Johnson, John Cochrane, Sr., Ben P. Davidson, George Orimston, A. T. Stephens, Charles Fox and Joseph Laing.