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IN MEMORY OF MARY GREEN August 1, 1866 March 30, 1959 |
YAUHANNAH OBITUARIES
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IN MEMORY OF MARY GREEN August 1, 1866 March 30, 1959 |
Mary was a very special part of our family and our family tree would not be complete without her.
She shared most of her life with us and helped raise four generations of the West family.
Her memory continues to live in our lives.
Mary's Obituary
Published in the Georgetown Times Newspaper, April, 1959.
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Mary Green believed to be one of Georgetown County's oldest residents, died Monday. She would have been 94 on August 1.
"Aunt Mary" as she was known to ALL residents of the Yauhannah area. She said she was born "in the second year of freedom." When she was 20 years old she went to work for the West family as a nurse for 10-year-old James Hutto West whose mother had recently died. She never left the family and never married. When her charge grew up and married, she stayed on to help with the house and farm work. As the eight children born to the couple and subsequently grew up and married, she went from home to home helping with new babies and generally taking charge.
Mary had her own little house behind the West home where she lived until about eight years ago. When she and Mrs. West, whose husband had died earlier, grew too feeble to help each other, one of the West daughters, Mrs. H. L. Young, took Mary to her home.
The Young's, who also live in the Yauhannah community, built Mary a house in their backyard. The boys in the family cut wood and kept the heater going for her. Mrs. Young prepared all her meals and took them to her. "She was just like a member of the family;" Mrs. Young said. "We were her only interest outside her church."
Mrs. Young said Mary got a small welfare check every month, but never spent any money except for gifts for the family.....and her only self-indulgence, snuff. She recalls having heard her father talk about Mary's loyalty.
"When Daddy farmed," she said, "he always had some fields away from the house, Mary would go along to help with the work, but she'd knock off earlier than the others to cook Daddy's lunch. She cooked out in the open so he'd have hot food and not have to eat sandwiches."
Mary enjoyed phenomenal good health. She had never been to a dentist and had never had a serious illness in her life. "She just wore out," Mrs. Young added.
Mary Green will be buried Wednesday at 2 p.m. at Trinity AME Church near Yauhannah, where she lived her enire life.
(Mary's birth year is not known for sure.)
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