OBIT: Joshua GREENLAND, 1887, Huntingdon, Huntingdon County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Jil Loewit July 17, 2008, 6:29 pm Copyright 2008. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm __________________________________________ Joshua Greenland, Esq. Joshua Greenland, Esq., one of our most widely known and high esteemed citizens, departed this life at his residence in this borough on Sunday morning last, in his 79th year. His grand-father when a resident of Baltimore county, Md., purchased a large farm in Trough Creek Valley, now Cass township, Huntingdon county, which after his death was divided among his three sons. Nathan, one of the sons, reared a family of ten children, the sixth of whom is the subject of this notice. All have been called hence except two sons. Joshua Greenland married a daughter of Rev. Jesse Wright and they took up their residence in Cassville, where he carried on blacksmithing. Much of the ironwork used in the construction of Paradise and Hopewell furnaces and other iron establishments was made in his shop. He served several terms as Justice of the Peace; was elected County Commissioner in 1847 and Sheriff in 1853. In the last mentioned year he became a citizen of this borough and returned to Cassville but resumed his residence in Huntingdon in 1866. Mrs. Greenland died in 1881. Their union was blessed with six children, all of whom married and have families. The eldest, wife of J. Simpson Africa, present Secretary of Internal Affairs, died November 15 last. The surviving children are: Walter W., late Prothonotary of Clarion County; J. Wilson, Deputy Secretary of Internal Affairs; Mrs. John S. Elway, of Altoona; Mrs. John W. Black, of this borough; and Mrs. J. Pierce Bell, of Sabbath Rest, Blair County. Sheriff Greenland was a member of the Presbyterian church. He was a man of fine presence and possessed a wonderfully retentive memory and took pleasure in recounting with surprising accuracy of detail, the incidents of by-gone years. Huntingdon Globe, Huntingdon, Pa., Thursday, March 31, 1887, page 3 This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/