The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-22
Amazement Of Gentlemen Who
Dressed the Corpse.
RELATIONS IGNORANT OF IT
The Wife Overcome With Grief, But Now
That George is Dead, Cares Not That the
Secret Kept for Forty Years in Her
Own Breast Is Known TO The
RorId-Peoplc of Ettricks
Arc Much Exercised.
Especial Dispatch TO Tho Ti,ncs)


PETERSBURG. VA, March 2l.-The
little manufacturing town of Ettrick,
across the river from this city, is under
intense excitement over the greatest
sensation known to its Oldest inhabi-
tants- George Green, a citizen known to
every man, woman and child in the vi
cinaEe as a man, turns out 10 be a wo-
man.
George Green. who was scventy-two
hal been known 10 the world as the hus-
band of Mary Green, who, had mixed
with men. consumed a. mans daily ration
Of tobacco, worn boots, trousers. sus-
pcnders, coats ana waistcoats, was a
female
A REMARKABLE LIFE.
George Green died at homo in Ettricil,
near this city, at 3 o'clock this morning.
Green came here three months ago from
Raleigh, n. c.. near which place he
owned large cotton plantation. Being
an invalid from complication of heart
disease and dropsy, Green he'd done no
work for year. and vas supported by
his wife and sisters children, most of
whom worked in the cotton mills III Et-
trick. When GREEN'S death became
known the sympathy of the little town
aroused. and men. out of pity for human
fly, offered their assistance to the widow.
I,nree gentlemen went in to prepare the
body for burial
ATTENDANTS AsToUNDED.
When the apparel had been removed.
and the identity of the form became a1,-
parent TO these gentlemen. they stood
apeechiess gazing at each other.
j., seemed moments before a word
was spoken. and one of the number. al
most overcome by surprise. declared IN an
audible whisper. .1ic is a woman. These
words relieved the awful silence. but the
evident fact remained in the minds of
these gentlemen that they were preparing
Tho body of a woman for burial
They did not rush hastily at conclusions
hut were satisfied that their first impress
.5ions were correct. They proceeded with
the utmost care to examine and prepare
The body and so it was dressed III us
accustomed masculine apparel and was
ready for the undertaken. When the men
loft the homo. they could hafdiS speak
Of il for CONSERVATION.
From the innocent expressions OF the
faces OF the little family it is evident
that they have been ignorant of the fact.
whom they called uncle was indeed a
woman. They disdained the suggestion.
and when it was told them that such was
reported to be true. they said The face
Itself would show he was a man
CHANGE FROM BAD HEALTH
Green, thirty-five wears ago, weighed
over two hundred pounds. Disease and
age have wrought their work upon the
FORM and in death it weighed probably
one hundred and twenty pounds. The face
showed no sign of beard. and the man
who went through tho. process of shaving.
said only two or three white hairs were
TO he found OH the face. Daily has Green
. .,,l i1in
that their companion was A woman.
Everywhere Green's identity has been
undiscovered. and but for the fact that
men were called to sllroud the form the
sublic would never have known that
Green. the husband. was a woman. The
body in form and figure. and every re-
tpect. resembles that of a woman. The
face. rather dark in complexion. is de-
.idediv feminine when carefully looked
into. shows unmistakable feminine lines.
Green was the last born of triplets, and
fhe mother died at their birth.
7hc mother died at their birth
Green came to America from England
when only a child, and lived for many
years in Canada. going from there TO
Rochester. New York. then 10 the OIL
district OF Pennsylvania. then to Erie
county and several Years ago moved TO
Make county. North Carolina, about i've
miles from Raleigh.
In Erie county thii'tS-firc Years aSo
Green married Mrs. John Biddle, of War
9oYd. Pa, who was Miss Mary GiScns,
" Ohio. Green and the wife came to
petersburg about three months ago MIS-.
Lizzie Ccover now living in Eric. Pa,
Is daughter of Mrs. Green by her first
marriage and is a woman about forty
one years of age.
GREENS FAMILY.
Green had a brother and a sister, the
latter, Mrs. John MoriartY. who. With
four sons and three daughters. lives IN
this city.
When Green went to Raleigh twenty
seven years ago. the now emaciated
body weighed about two hundred ana
twenty-five pounds. For the past year
s.reen has been an invalid. suffering
srom dropsy and heart trouble. and it
,-as this complication of diseases that
ca,sed death. The entire family dis
claim the idea that The body is that OF
n woman and say that idle sianderous
tongues are responsible Tor the report
Tor which there is not the slightest ioun-
Cation. From the evidence OF the lhIee
men who shrouded the BODY not ts,c
slightest doubt prevails that Green Was
a woman. and Mrs. Green herself, no"
that death has revealed the truth. makes
no further denial of her strange mat
Ing between women.
OVERCOME WITH GRIEF.
The wife is almost overcome with gr1er.
No sorrow more profound or deeper was
eyer seen. AS soon as the body had been
prepared Mrs Green. the wife, was IN
ferptewed Ibid you know your nus
band was woman before you married
him. she was asked No. replied
as ARMY as her grief would permit her
70 emphasize her words.
1shan she WAS asked If one save
herSe!f knew that Green was a woman.