Greene - Mary Evans
Source: Crawfordsville Weekly Journal Friday, 5 October 1900
Died, Oct. 2, 1900, at the home of her son, C. J. Evans, at Ellsworth, Kansas, Mrs. Mary M. Greene, aged 78 years. Mrs. Greene was the mother of Mrs. H. H. Talbot of near this city, and also of Merle Evans, of St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Greene is better known to the older people of this and other counties of this state and Illinois, as the wife of the Rev. Samuel Evans, one of the pioneer preachers of the Presbyterian Church in Indiana. He is a well remembered pastor of Thorntown, Darlington, Russellville, Waveland and other towns of Indiana. He was killed by lightning in Illinois many years ago. His widow later married the late Harvey Greene, of Waveland.
Mrs. Green was one of the most lovely Christian characters the writer has ever been privileged to know. A woman well educated and with fine conversational powers, it was always a pleasure to meet and talk with her. Her talks of the early times, when she and her husband, some times on horseback, journeyed among their parishioners in the performance of their varied work, betrayed a heroism remarkable in one so highly cultured and of such delicate frame.
Her words of counsel and of cheer showed that she had read much and considered well the contents of her loved Bible. She said to the writer on one occasion, “We enjoy what we have today by the best people having done their best; should we not do our best to make life a little more tolerable for those who have been borne down in the struggle.” This was her aim. When looking at her pale, mild face one would involuntarily say, “Here is one that knoweth the peace that passeth understanding.” The remembrance of her life will be a consolation to her friends, “until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.” – thanks so much to “S” for her great work on the obituaries on this site