The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1905-07-28
THE DEATH OF
GEN. ". S. GREEN.
a Noted Citizen, Editor and Politician
Of California.

The many warm friends OF Mrs. VIII
S. Green, nee Miss sallie Morgan OF this
county, will read with much regret the
news OF the death of her estimable hus.
band, Gen. Will S. Green. We clip the
following from the San Francisco Call
Of 3rd inst:
Will s. Green, editor OF the Colusa Sur
and one Of the best known newspaper
men and political leaders of California
died yesterday afternoon at st. Luke's
Hospital Of CASTRO enteritis. The illness
that caused his death seized him only a
few days ago, and he was taken to st
Luke's to undergo an operation. He
failed rapidly, however, and passed away
yesterday afternoon. His wife and chill.
dren were at his bedside when the end
| came.
As a newspaper man and a political
leader Mr.. Green was absolutely fear.
less. Even his strongest opponents ad.
mired his integrity. He was considered
the greatest authority in California or
irrigation and much Of his time was Civ.
en- to a study of this subject. He was
also well known as a writer Of essays
and short stories.
In 1857 he was elected County Sur.
veyor, which Office he held for ten years.
His first newspaper work was in 1866,
when began writing short stories and
essays for the Golden Era, California
Farmer and other papers. The Sun,
which had been started in 1862 by C. r.
Street, was purchased by J. G. Adding
on and Mr.. Green in 1869, when he began
his editorial career amid the exciting
scenes of the Civil War. He maintained
ultra State rights doctrines. He wrote
as he believed, without regard to conse-
quehces. Hence the Sun became a con-
s~picuous mark for opposing journals. In
1867 Mr.. Green represented Colusa and
Tehama counties in the Assembly. He
was Surveyor General of California in
1889 and State Treasurer in 1898. In
1862 he married Miss Josephine Davis
and seven children we're the result of
this union, five of whom survive him.
The mother of his children died in
May, 1881, and he married his second
wife. Miss Sallie Morgan Of Mississippi,
in 1890. She survives him and with his
children was at his bedside when the
final summons came. The funeral will
take place from the Catholic Church,
Colusa, at 3 p. m. tomorrow.
COLUSA, July 1.-The news of the
death of Will s.. Green was a great shock
to his friends and neighbors and fellow
townsmen generally. The flags of all
the county and public buildings are at
halfmast.
AS a man, a husband and father he was
held in universal esteem. Plain and I'M
pretentious of manner and bounding in
human sympathy, he was essentially a
man of the people. He was a represent
alive California citizen with exalted
ideas Of the obligations which citizen
ship imposes. He was a man to be
trusted in any emergency. He was I'M
faltering in his loyalty to any cause he
espoused and was firm to faultiness in
his friendships. He stood ~squarely up
on his merits as a man and citizen in all
the actions Of his life.
The ~facile, fearless and powerful pen
that in death has fallen from the hands
of that great and good editor, who was
revered and loved by the good people Of
his state, and feared by the bad, has
been picked up, by his accomplished
and gifted widow, whose noble self
sacrificing love for the Lost Cause is
evidenced by the marble shaft in the
Capital of Jackson, Miss, which is
crowned with the Confederate Soldier,
and under which, in the cript, stands
the life-size statue of Jefferson Davis,
the work of the Confederate Monumen.
tai Association of Mississippi, of which
she was the president and which erect
ed the first monument in Mississippi to
the Confederate Soldier and his Chief
tain. Miss sallie Morgan was then the
leading spirit, and it is due to her in
defatigable and persistent efforts, to-
gether with tho aid of the noble women
of the state, that this monument was
erected. With a sad heart, we clip from
the Calusa Sun of 18th inst. the follow
ing:
The broken wheel must be turned.
The master hand is stilled. BY the
teaching Of that master spirit another
must guide the pen along the lines he
loved 80 well. The policy of the
must remain unchanged, and the efforts,
tho SO much more feeble, must be made,
to advance the causes he advocated and
the developments he desired. 1t was
his life's work and in it's interests The
Sun will be directed by her to whom
these duties have been delegated.
MRS. W. s. GREEN.
Mrs. Green was here on a short visit
last fall to her relatives, Mrs. Judge A.
Nee. Kimbrough, Mrs. L. P. Yerger,
W. II. Morgan, and her numerous
friends at this place, all of whom we
sympathize with, in the loss that seems
Irreparable.