OBIT: Sarah Ann (SHANNON) GREEN, 1890, native of Blair County, PA

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Death of a Former Resident of Blair County.

  A correspondent of the TRIBUNE, writing from Summit, Scott county, 
Iowa, gives the particulars of the death of a former resident of Blair 
county.  He says:
  It is our sad duty to chronicle the death of Mrs. Green, the 
estimable wife of Allen J. Green.  After a short illness she departed 
this life on Sunday, November 16, aged 70 years, 7 months and 29 days.  
The immediate cause of her death was cancer of the stomach.  Her maiden 
name was Sarah Ann Shannon.  She was born in Frankstown, Blair county, 
Pa., on March 17, 1820, and was married to Allen J. Green on February 
6, 1845.  As a result of this union four children were born, two of 
whom are dead.  Edwin, Westley and Father Green survive and mourn the 
lost of a kind and affectionate wife and mother.  Her parents were 
members of the Presbyterian church, and at an early age she united with 
that denomination.
  They moved to Iowa in 1855 and located in this county on the present 
homestead, where for the past thirty-five years they enjoyed the 
respect and esteem of their numerous friends and neighbors.  The 
subject of this sketch with her husband has [sic] been efficient and 
consistent members of the Summit Presbyterian church since 1858.  The 
interment was at Summit, attended by a large concourse of friends and 
neighbors.  The services were conducted by Rev. Francis J. Moffatt, who 
based his remarks on the thirteenth verse of the fourteenth chapter of 
Revelations: "And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, write - 
blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth, yes, saith 
the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors and their works do 
follow them."

Morning Tribune, Altoona, Pa., Saturday, November 22, 1890