Miles Green

MILES GREEN DIED AT HOME NEAR KELLERTON, TUESDAY NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 10, AT 10:15 O’CLOCK, AFTER AN ILLNESS OF SEVERAL MONTHS.  HE WAS BORN MARCH 27, 1827 IN WARREN COUNTY, NEW YORK AND IN 1853 HE WAS MARRIED TO MARY DUNN OF NEW YORK.  TO THIS UNION WERE BORN SIX CHILDREN, FIVE OF WHOM ARE STILL LIVING.  SOON AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED, MR. AND MRS. GREEN MOVED TO ILLINOIS, WHERE THEY LIVED UNTIL 1867, WHEN THEY CAME TO RINGGOLD COUNTY, IOWA.  FUNERAL SERVICES WERE CONDUCTED FROM THE HOME YESTERDAY AFTERNOON BY REV. JAMES FARMER, AFTER WHICH THE INTERMENT WAS IN THE KELLERTON CEMETERY.  MR. GREEN WAS THE FATHER OF MRS. GEO. M. LESAN OF THIS CITY.