John Harvey Green LAST NAME: Green FIRST NAME: John MIDDLE NAME: Harvey NICKNAME:  MAIDEN NAME:  AKA 1:  AKA 2:  AKA 3:  TITLE: Sgt. GENDER: M MILITARY: WWI BORN: 31 Oct 1895 DIED: 9 Mar 1920 BURIED: Mar 1920 ETHNICITY:   OCCUPATION:   BIRTH PLACE:  Atwood, Rawlins Co., Kansas DEATH PLACE: Fort Sheridan, Illinois NOTES:  Name of father Cyrus Harvey Green Maiden name of mother - Mary E. Kirlin Spouse - - Ann Elvery Green OBITUARY:  GREEN, JOHN HARVEY  Wounds Cause Green’s Death  Former Salem Man, Hero of Belleau Woods, Dies at Fort Sheridan.  Sergeant John Harvey Green, a member of Company 9, 147th machine gun battalion, but formerly a well known Salem young man, having been connected with the Rodgers Paper company, died March 9 at Fort Sheridan, Ill., after a long illness resulting from shrapnel wounds received on June 11, 1918, in Belleau Woods, France.  Sergeant Green enlisted November 2, 1917 from Goldendale, Wash., and after being wounded was invalided home in September 1918. He had been in numerous hospitals in France and in the States. He had been sent to Ford Sheridan again after a visit with his relatives only a short time, and the immediate cause of his death was titanus, following an operation.  He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Annie E. Green, to whom he was married on April 19, 1919; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Green, four sisters, Edith, Estelle, Ruth and Freida Green; and by two brothers, Oren and Charles Green, all of Mabton, Wash.  The body will arrive in Salem on Tuesday morning and the funeral services will be held from the Rigdon chapel at 2 o’clock. Rev. Mr. Gillespie will conduct the service and burial in the Odd Fellows cemetery will be under the direction of the Capitol Post No. 9, American legion.  Oregon Statesman 14 March 1918 2:4 INSCRIPTION:  Husband  Sgt. J. Harvey Green  2nd M. G. Bn. Co. A.  1895 - 1920 SOURCES:  LD  S&H pg 42  Saucy Rigdon Records Vol 8 #529  OS 14 March 1918 2:4 CONTACTS:  LOT: 564 SPACE: 4 NW LONGITUDE: N 44° 55.210' LATITUDE: W 123° 02.881' IMAGES: