Guilford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Green, Margaret July 16, 1840

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From the Greensborough Patriot, Tuesday July 28, 1840

     At her residence in Guilford county, on the 23rd inst. of bilious fever, 
Mrs. MARGARET GREEN, relict of Edward Green, deceased aged 72 years. Mrs. Green 
was an esteemed member of the first and only Cumberland Presbyterian church in 
the State of North Carolina, from the 9th of November, 1839 to the time of her 
exit from this world. She was formerly for many years an orderly and highly 
respectable member of the Haw River congregation of the Presbyterian church, 
she professed to find peace through the pardoning blood of the despised 
Nazarene, under the preaching of the Rev. James McGready, now deceased, 
originally of this county, who under God became the chief instrument in the 
glorious and ever memorable revival of religion of 1800, which swept like 
mighty waters o'er the great valley of the Mississippi and rolled it's healing 
tides back to the mountains and the sea coast.
     It is not my object in writing this obituary to eulogize the dead, but to 
give a simple and unvarnished statement of facts: suffice it to say therefore 
that the lamented subject of this notice was esteemed by all who knew her as a 
kind and benevolent benefactress of the needy and distressed, and also as a 
pious and consistent Christian, consequently she died as she had lived, a 
child of God, an heir of heaven. She has left children and grand children and 
a numerous circle of friends to mourn the irreparable loss, but their loss is 
her eternal gain, for in her death Heaven has gained another trophy, and she 
may say, with the redeemed above - Now
          Safely moored my perils o’er
          I’ll sing first in night’s diadem
          Forever and forever more
          The Star, the Star of Bethlehem.
                                Communicated     

Additional Comments:
Margaret's tombstone indicates she actually died on July 16, 1840. She was 
born on Dec. 16, 1769. Guilford county marriage records indicate that Edward 
Green and Margrit Warnock obtained their marraige bond on Dec. 12, 1790.

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