Last Tuesday evening news reached this place that Felix Green, an Irishman who lived in Jordan Township, engaged in farming near Thomas Station, had been run over by a train on the narrow gage, about 3 miles west of West Lebanon and instantly killed. The accident occurred about 6 o'clock in the evening.
During Tuesday he was in this place and it is said was drinking. When killed he was lying across the track, his head was lying on his arm and he was fast asleep. He leaves a wife and had he lived until yesterday, would have been married seven weeks.
His wife, at the time of the accident, was on a visit to her father, Patrick Haberlin, residing a short distance from this place.
This Vicinity Again Visited by the Dread Messenger.
Mrs. Margaret Haberlin-Green, aged 63 years, died Sunday, at the home of her brother, James Haberlin, just north of this place, froma complication of diseases.
The funeral services were held Tuesday at 9 o'clock a.m., at the Catholic Church in Attica and interment was made at that place.
Deceased was married to Felix Green, in 1879, but her married life was cut short when the husband was killed about nine weeks later in a railroad accident near West Lebanon. Since that time she made her home at old family homestead with her brother, James, who is the last one of the family remaining and who will feel her loss keenly.
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Mrs. Margaret Green
Mrs. Margaret Green was born in Williamsport in October 1854, and died at her home near Williamsport, March 18, 1917, aged about sixty-two years.
She had been in failing health for some time and was confined to her bed for a period of several weeks, but always cheerful and hopeful to the last. Everything that a kind brother could do was done for her welfare and comfort, but without avail, as her disease was too deep for human aid.
She was a good woman in health and gentle in affliction. She was devoted to her home and her domestic duties, that gained for her the praise of all who knew her. No one ever came to her needing help and went away empty handed, and none ever came to her discouraged and cast down but that she sent them away with their burdens lightened. Nothing was too good for those she loved.
The writer can never forget the tender care and kindness extended to her in her girlhood days while with her attending school. Many friends remain to mourn her departure. All remember the many kind deeds that she has done. Never were her troubles or work so great that she could not extend a helping hand to those in need.
She will be sadly missed by her brother and by the motherless girl to whom she gave a mother's care for many years. She has passed out of the old home forever, to go in no more.
The funeral services were held at the Catholic Church in Attica, conducted by Rev. John Oberholtz, after which the remains were laid to rest in the Catholic cemetery.
L.G. H.
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Card of Thanks
I return my heartfelt thanks to the many kind friends and neighbors who so generously assisted in the late fatal illness and death and burial of my sister, Margaret Green.
