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Waupaca County Post

January 6, 1927

AGED PIONEER, IS LAID TO REST

CAME TO WAUPACA COUNTY IN APRIL 1858

AND SETTLED IN FARMINGTON

DIED AT ASHLAND

Carleton Leveren Green died at the home of his son, Frank Green, at Ashland, Dec. 24, 1926, after a decline of more than a year due to old age. Deceased was born at Rochester, Michigan. July 27, 1837, and when he was six years of age his parents returned to Richmond, New York, and for fifteen years resided on the old homestead of Asa Denison, the maternal grandfather of the subject.

When in his twenty-first year the old farm at Richmond was sold and the family came to Wisconsin and settled on a farm in Farmington, west of Indian Crossing, which was purchased from John Jordan for $2,000.

On May 12, 1861, Mr. Green was married to Cordelia S. Mynard of the town of Dayton. She died three months ago, after this estimable couple had traveled life’s pathway together for more than sixty-five years.

Fourteen months ago the couple left Waupaca and went to Ashland to make their home with their only son, Frank Green and family.

The funeral was held Dec. 27 and the remains were interred in Ashland cemetery beside those of the late Mrs. Green, who died three months before.

About ten years ago Mr. and Mrs. Green left the farm home and came to reside in this city and were greatly esteemed by all who came to know them. In the half century and more that they resided in Farmington their friends were limited only by their wide circle of acquaintance.

Mr. Green used to enjoy telling how in September, 1858, he, as the delegate from the town of Farmington, walked from west of Indian Crossing to Mukwa, near the present village of Northport, to attend the county convention to nominate county officers. He walked home that evening after the close of the convention and stopping in the office of the Waupaca Spirit, he subscribed for the home paper. That was sixty-eight years ago last September and in all that time he took pride in being able to say that his subscription was always paid in advance.

In all his dealings this habit of prompt discharge of any obligation, however small, was one ofhte reasons why this man bore an enviable reputation for honest and uprightness.