Jennie Kidder Green

Obituary from Jan 12, 1934

Former Resident of Stanton Succumbs

Mrs. Jennie Green, 75, Buried Sunday at Boyne City After Long Ailment

Mrs. Jennie Green, former well known resident of Stanton, died at her home at Boyne City January 12, aged 75.  She was the sister-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. A.T. Green.

Mrs. Green had been ailing for two years, but had been bedfast only a short time.  She was born in Irondale, Mo., and moved in childhood to Stanton. In.  1886 she was married to Clark V. Green who passed away four years ago.

A kindly lady, she was known to young and old as Grandma Green, and had assisted at the time of the birth of many of those who loved her.

She is survived by three sons, Claude, who made his home with her, Emmett and Philmore, both of Boyne City; and eight grandchildren.

Funeral services were held from the Methodist church of Boyne City Sunday afternoon with Rev. W. A. Eley officiating, assisted by Rev. Guy E. Smock.  Interment in Maple Lawn cemetery.

Mrs. Green was the daughter of Daniel Kidder, pioneer lumberman of Montcalm county, and her mother was the first person to be buried in Forest Hill cemetery.

My SWEET Dutch Genealogy!

I was reading the newest issue of the Family Tree Magazine (August 2010) today and was on page 6, checking out the readers responses. The first one jumped out at me called "Dutch Sweet". This man in Lockport, Ill. (I won't put his name here since I don't know him but you can look in the magazine!) responded back with two websites covering Groningen and Friesland provinces which have SCANNED images of the ledgers recording birth, marriages and deaths! I was so excited! I went to the Friesland site, www.allefriezen.nl, and put in my maiden name since that family came from the Friesland area. WOW! I immediately found my 3rd great grandfather, Gerben Groenhof who died in 1871. I posted the copy I downloaded above. I totally cannot believe I have never heard of these sites before! The other site is www.allegroningers.nl and I feel to overwhelmed by the one document to look for more! (Maybe I will print it out so I can drool over it :) The genealogist work is never done, especially with the greatest invention on earth, the internet!

Update

So I was listening to the Genealogy Guys and George mentioned that his New Years resolution was to organize his paper files. Which he did. Now I have been working on organizing computer stuff into Bento but my paper files are so not well organized. Or I should say, they are in folders but I really do not have any idea what I have. So I not only need to reorganize the papers so that I know what I have, I also need to scan and update my Bento file so that they are linked to each person. So I decide to start redoing my files. I have been pulling all the files apart and adding to Bento. I did find I have a lot of stuff I printed off the internet so that means I need to go back and digitally link to my computer rather than all the paper. Serious amount of work.

But I did add some obituaries to my files and this is one of the ones I found. This is the woman in the picture from the last posting I did!