The Washington herald., 1916-07-04
simple FUNERAL
FOR HETTY green
Will Lie Beside Husband in
Quiet Vermont Town, as
She Wished.
lBy the Sun News seryicc.l

New York, July 3.-Hetty Green is dead.
The richest woman in the world
passed away peacefully this morning at
her home. West Ninetleth street. On
November q, she celebrated her eighty
first birthday, by putting in a days work.
Mrs. Green leaves a fortune variously
estimated at between sls9 900. 900 and sl25,
100000 She died without having realized
her lfe's ambition, to make her son, Col.
7. II. r. Green, the richest man in the
world.
The funeral will take place at Bel
lows Falls, Vt. Wednesday morning.
Mrs. Green, originally a Quaker, became
an Episcopalian eighteen years ago so
that she might be buried in the little Yer
mont towns cemetery beside her hus-
band. The burial will be simple, in ac-
cordance with her expressed wish. There
will be no pomp about 1t. for Hetty Green
loathed pomp. There will be no serv-
ices in her Manhattan home.
Son Was with Her.
Her son, Col. E. H. r. Green, and his
sister. Mrs Matthew Astor Wilks, were
at her bedside when she passed away.
Mrs. Green had been unconscious for
several hours. The last time she was
copscious she tried to speak, but could
tlOl utter WOTu. Sn6 seemed 10 De
aware that the end was near
Hetty Green suffered more from the
realization that she could not do things
than she did from her ailment She
hated to be sick" Col. Green, knowing
that the presence of uniformed nurses
would be obnoxious, had the women
dressed as seamstresses.
Before dawn Of each day she was
wheeled to the window Of her sick cham
Der. There she sat. sometimes for hours.
gazing out upon the slowly awakening
metropolis. Her eyes beheld. good deal
of the 100000 worth of property she
called her own in Manhattan. Now and
then she would rise a little in her sick
chair. her wrinkled face showing the
evidences Of a great struggle between
determination and pain.
Resigned to Fate.
Then. despairingly. she would sink back,
resigning to her fate of inactivity. Her
death was hastened chiefly by her in
ability to sleep, caused, It is believed,
by the ever-active planning and schem-
Ing OF her mind.
Much curiosity centsrs about Hetty
Green's will. When It will be read de-
pends entirely upon her lawyer Charles
W. Pterson, OF the firm OF Alexander
and Green There is not the slightest
mint as 10 "nat, II any, charitable be-
quests are provided in her testament.
Career in Brief.
Hetty Green's career in brief follows:
Born Noyermebr q, 1884, at New Bed
ford. Mass.
Went to a Quaker school in Cape Cod
and later attended a seminary in Boston
Married to Edward H. Green. then
United States consul general at Manila,
in 1861
At age OF 80 she inherited 100000 from
her father.
Inherited several millions about the
same time from Sylvia Ann Rowland. an
aunt
In her youth she loved gayety. often
dancing ''the whole night through" at
New York society events.
Once she wanted to transfer s1.Ooo. 900
worth of securities from New York to
Philadelphia. Told the transfer would
cost 800. she Indignantly replied. why.
I can take them over myself for 81.
To guard against annoyance. she ran
the name OF her dog Dewey on the door
plates Of her New York home.
Loaned large sums to many wealthy
New Workers caught in the panic OF 1907
1903.