Mrs. Selinda Green, daughter of Wm. and Mercy Sheldon Green, and wife of Gideon Green, was born at Berlin, N. Y., May 23, 1811, and died September 23, 1902, at the home of her son, Alvaro J., of Canisteo, N. Y.
She was married in the year 1832, and became the mother of eight children, three of whom are still living: Alvaro J.; Mrs. Elvira I. Howland, of Seattle, Wash.; and Mrs. Mercy A. Holt, of Norwich, Conn. Most of her early life was spent in Jefferson County, N. Y. In 1840 the family moved to Alfred, N. Y., and later to Nile of the same state. Mr. Green died in 1859, and in 1860 Mrs. Green returned to Jefferson County, which was her home until the death of her youngest daughter, about twelve years ago, since which time she has lived with her other children.
It is supposed she held her church membership at the time of her death with the Adams Seventh-day Baptist church of Adams Centre, N. Y. She was much attached to her church and people, a woman strong in body, in intellect, and in religious faith. She has seen much sorrow in her long life of ninety-one years, having been a widow forty-three years. She also lost five children, two of them by accident, but she did not murmur. Much of the time of her last few days was spent in audible prayer, until at last she came to her grave, like a shock of corn cometh in its season. I. L. C.
