Obituary for Catherine Rulison-Green, Vermontville, Eaton County, Michigan

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Newspaper source unknown, Scrapbook 1928-1932, Vermontville Library,
Vermontville Michigan
CATHERINE M. GREEN
        Catherine M. Rulison was the oldest of the three children of William and
Polly Rulison, born in Newark, Monroe County, New York, December 4, 1840.
She passed away at the home of her daughter Mrs A. L. Barningham, August
13, 1929. She was married December 24, 1857 to James L. Green whose death
occurred April 17th, 1908. All of her twelve children except two sons Homer
aged 69 and George aged 44 are living and have been present at her bedside
to help care for her during her last sickness.
        Mrs Green's life has been one of toil having come to Michigan in 1854 with
her parents in a covered wagon. She fully realized all the hardships of the
first pioneers. With his axe her father cleared a spot for a little log
cabin in the virgin forests of Michigan three miles northeast of
Vermontville. Thus the labor of making a home for themselves was started.
        Mrs Green exemplified true Christian living and her faith and trust in God
was complete. She was a life long member of the M. E. Church. She came down
to the close of a long useful life with the same smile and kind word that
all that had characterized her through her life.
        She leaves to mourn their loss ten children, Mrs Lillian Campbell, Mr
Andrew Green, Mrs H. W. Dikeman, Mrs George Downs, Mrs. E. J> Sprague, Mr
Philip Green, Mr Charles F. Green, Mr Albert Green, Mrs A. L. Barningham,
and besides these many grandchildren, great grandchildren,
great-grandchildren and friends.


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