Funeral To Be Held Friday For Mrs. Henry L. Green

Funeral services for Mrs. Henry L. Green, 86, will be held Friday at 12 noon in the Vernal Second Ward Chapel. Seriously ill since last fall Mrs. Green has been confined to her home and the hospital. She had improved sufficiently last Thursday to celebrate her 88th birthday anniversary with her family and friends but the following evening was taken again to the hospital where she succumbed Monday evening at 5 o'clock. Interment will be in the Maeser Fairview Cemetery. The body will be at the Vernal Mortuary and at the home, 138 South 1 West from 8 a.m. until time of service.

Mrs. Green, born in what was then called Mill Creek Ward in Salt Lake Valley, was one of thriteen children of George A. Williams and Emily Maria Crosby Williams. Her father was a pioneer to Salt Lake valley in Captain Allred's company in 1953. Her mother came to Utah in 1855.

Married In Salt Lake
On November 25, 1886, she was married to Henry L. Green in Salt Lake City. Sixty years ago, the couple and their three children left Salt Lake in a covered wagon to seek a home in Ashley Valley. Traveling for twelve days on a road that was little more than a cow trail, and which made the fording of large streams necessary, the family arrived in the valley July 1, 1895. A few head of sheep which the couple brought with them, and their farm were their only sources of livelihood from then on.

The Greens settled in Davis Ward, and built a log cabin where the Davis Chapel now stands. Of all the hardships endured during early pioneer days Mrs. Green recalls most vividly the days and nights of caring for the sick, when no medical aid was available, and helping to cover and trim the homemade caskets to bury the dead. It was one of her desires to live to see beautiful caskets made by professional hands.

Move To Maeser
In the year 1909, the family moved to Maeser Ward where they lived for eighteen years, then moving to Vernal Ward in May of 1927, where Mr. Green died on February 9, 1935.

Always an active member of the Latter-Day Saint Church. Mrs. Green for many years acted as chairman of a committee apointed to aid and care for the older folk. She was also a Relief Society visiting teacher.

Mrs. Green was an active member of Camp Tokawana D.U.P.

Five Generations
She is the mother of five children, four of whom are living. They are Mrs. Eliza Williams of Delta, Colorado; Mrs. Arlean Chivers, Mrs. Alberta Slaugh and Mrs. Evelyn Richardson of Vernal; also two sisters, Annette Smith and Miss Cora Williams, Salt Lake City. Her posterity numbers 13 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and seven great great grandchildren--five living generations.

Vernal Express
January 20, 1955
transcribed by Rhonda

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Parents; George A. Williams & Emily Marie Crosby Williams.
Information from death certificate - State of Utah.