John Silas Green was born June 19, 1821, and died Nov. 17, 1901.
He was the fifth of a family of six children born to John and Sarah Green, of Berlin, N. Y. He resided there until the years of manhood, and Oct. 31, 1847, was married to Miss Caroline Saunders. Six children blessed this union, all of whom are married and live near the old homestead. In the autumn of 1854, Bro. Green emigrated from Jefferson County, N. Y., to the then Far West, and settled on the farm where he has ever since lived and where he died. He was a member of the Farmington Seventh-day Baptist church, only two living members of which remain, Mrs. Surrilla Saunders and Irvin Bumpus. Funeral services were held at the house, three and a half miles west of Farmington, conducted by Rev. Elsa Anderson, of the Free-will Baptist church.
L. B.
