The year of death was incorrectly inscribed on Green's gravestone. Two sources can be cited for his date of death: a death notice appearing in the Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Arkansas City, Kansas dated 17 Jan 1921, page 2; also, both his date of birth and date of death appear in a death certificate issued by the State of Kansas, State Board of Health, which also provides his age as 96 years, 9 months and 21 days.
Green Lee Canada was the son of Absalom Canada and Elizabeth "Betsy" Higgins. He married Nancy Houston in Monroe County, Indiana on 03 Sep 1843. The couple moved to Kansas around 1866. Green was a farmer and wagon maker in Indiana; he was an early merchant in Labette and Montgomery Counties, Kansas and established trading posts where goods were traded with the local Indians for hides, furs and other items of Indian commerce. His trading post in Montgomery County was among those that gave rise to Elk City, Kansas.
Green and his wife, Nancy, had at least six children, all of whom were born in Indiana: Montgomery F.., Floris E., Sarah E., Mansfield H., James H. and Alonzo.
The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, Monday, January 17, 1921, Page 1, Col. 1:
GREEN LEE CANADA, A PIONEER, PASSES ON
Coffeyville's Oldest Citizen Established Clymore Trading Post in 1870
Had Interesting and Varied Career in Early Days of This Section -- Stores at Parker, Coffeyville and Several Other Points.
One of the real pioneers of this section and Coffeyville's oldest citizen passed away at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when Greenlee Canada answered the last summons at the home of his son, James Canada, 112 West New street. He was aged 96 years, 9 months and 21 days. General debility was the cause of death.
The burial was made this afternoon in Fairview cemetery, the funeral party leaving the Skinner undertaking rooms at 2 o'clock.
Mr. Canada first came to this section in 1867, when he homesteaded the place on Pumpkin creek, near Angola, now owned by Snowden Pitts. About three years later he established the Clymore trading post on the farm at the mouth of Pumpkin creek, now known as the Shetland pony farm and owned by C. R. Clemmons. About a year later, when the town of Westralia was founded, about midway between the trading post and what is now known as Old Parker, Mr. Canada opened up a general merchandise store there. Westralia survived only a short time and in 1871 Mr. Canada moved over to the new town of Parker, where he opened up a general merchandise store. He remained in business there until 1874, when he came to Coffeyville, a still newer town. Here he bought the corner lot at the northeast corner of Ninth and Union streets where the Brown building occupied by the telephone office now stands, and there he ran a store for nine years.
The Oregon fever got hold of Mr. Canada then and he sold his store here and went west, but he was back in this section of the country within a year and went down into the Indian Territory, started a store at Red Fork. After a year he transferred the scene of his activities to Vinita, where he operated another store. Later he went over onto the Big Caney, where he opened another store and where a post office named Canadaville was established and he was appointed postmaster. With the coming of the railroad through that section the post office was abolished and Canadaville now is only a memory.
Mr. Canada, leaving Canadaville took up government land on the South Canadian river, south of El Reno, and lived there fourteen years, until his retirement from active pursuits in 1904, when he came back to Coffeyville. He invested his funds in rental properties here and has since made this his home.
Before coming to Kansas, Mr. Canada was a minister of the gospel, having been ordained in the Christian church at the age of 20 years. He held a number of appointments in Indiana, serving as many as four churches at one time. He was born near Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.
Mr. Canada was a widower, his wife having died here sixteen years ago the 6th of last month. She rests in Fairview cemetery. James Canada, 112 West New street, and Mrs. E. S. Savage, 4 1/2 East Fifth street, are his only children.
Green Lee Canada was the son of Absalom Canada and Elizabeth "Betsy" Higgins. He married Nancy Houston in Monroe County, Indiana on 03 Sep 1843. The couple moved to Kansas around 1866. Green was a farmer and wagon maker in Indiana; he was an early merchant in Labette and Montgomery Counties, Kansas and established trading posts where goods were traded with the local Indians for hides, furs and other items of Indian commerce. His trading post in Montgomery County was among those that gave rise to Elk City, Kansas.
Green and his wife, Nancy, had at least six children, all of whom were born in Indiana: Montgomery F.., Floris E., Sarah E., Mansfield H., James H. and Alonzo.
The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, Monday, January 17, 1921, Page 1, Col. 1:
GREEN LEE CANADA, A PIONEER, PASSES ON
Coffeyville's Oldest Citizen Established Clymore Trading Post in 1870
Had Interesting and Varied Career in Early Days of This Section -- Stores at Parker, Coffeyville and Several Other Points.
One of the real pioneers of this section and Coffeyville's oldest citizen passed away at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when Greenlee Canada answered the last summons at the home of his son, James Canada, 112 West New street. He was aged 96 years, 9 months and 21 days. General debility was the cause of death.
The burial was made this afternoon in Fairview cemetery, the funeral party leaving the Skinner undertaking rooms at 2 o'clock.
Mr. Canada first came to this section in 1867, when he homesteaded the place on Pumpkin creek, near Angola, now owned by Snowden Pitts. About three years later he established the Clymore trading post on the farm at the mouth of Pumpkin creek, now known as the Shetland pony farm and owned by C. R. Clemmons. About a year later, when the town of Westralia was founded, about midway between the trading post and what is now known as Old Parker, Mr. Canada opened up a general merchandise store there. Westralia survived only a short time and in 1871 Mr. Canada moved over to the new town of Parker, where he opened up a general merchandise store. He remained in business there until 1874, when he came to Coffeyville, a still newer town. Here he bought the corner lot at the northeast corner of Ninth and Union streets where the Brown building occupied by the telephone office now stands, and there he ran a store for nine years.
The Oregon fever got hold of Mr. Canada then and he sold his store here and went west, but he was back in this section of the country within a year and went down into the Indian Territory, started a store at Red Fork. After a year he transferred the scene of his activities to Vinita, where he operated another store. Later he went over onto the Big Caney, where he opened another store and where a post office named Canadaville was established and he was appointed postmaster. With the coming of the railroad through that section the post office was abolished and Canadaville now is only a memory.
Mr. Canada, leaving Canadaville took up government land on the South Canadian river, south of El Reno, and lived there fourteen years, until his retirement from active pursuits in 1904, when he came back to Coffeyville. He invested his funds in rental properties here and has since made this his home.
Before coming to Kansas, Mr. Canada was a minister of the gospel, having been ordained in the Christian church at the age of 20 years. He held a number of appointments in Indiana, serving as many as four churches at one time. He was born near Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.
Mr. Canada was a widower, his wife having died here sixteen years ago the 6th of last month. She rests in Fairview cemetery. James Canada, 112 West New street, and Mrs. E. S. Savage, 4 1/2 East Fifth street, are his only children.
The year of death was incorrectly inscribed on Green's gravestone. Two sources can be cited for his date of death: a death notice appearing in the Arkansas City Daily Traveler, Arkansas City, Kansas dated 17 Jan 1921, page 2; also, both his date of birth and date of death appear in a death certificate issued by the State of Kansas, State Board of Health, which also provides his age as 96 years, 9 months and 21 days.
Green Lee Canada was the son of Absalom Canada and Elizabeth "Betsy" Higgins. He married Nancy Houston in Monroe County, Indiana on 03 Sep 1843. The couple moved to Kansas around 1866. Green was a farmer and wagon maker in Indiana; he was an early merchant in Labette and Montgomery Counties, Kansas and established trading posts where goods were traded with the local Indians for hides, furs and other items of Indian commerce. His trading post in Montgomery County was among those that gave rise to Elk City, Kansas.
Green and his wife, Nancy, had at least six children, all of whom were born in Indiana: Montgomery F.., Floris E., Sarah E., Mansfield H., James H. and Alonzo.
The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, Monday, January 17, 1921, Page 1, Col. 1:
GREEN LEE CANADA, A PIONEER, PASSES ON
Coffeyville's Oldest Citizen Established Clymore Trading Post in 1870
Had Interesting and Varied Career in Early Days of This Section -- Stores at Parker, Coffeyville and Several Other Points.
One of the real pioneers of this section and Coffeyville's oldest citizen passed away at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when Greenlee Canada answered the last summons at the home of his son, James Canada, 112 West New street. He was aged 96 years, 9 months and 21 days. General debility was the cause of death.
The burial was made this afternoon in Fairview cemetery, the funeral party leaving the Skinner undertaking rooms at 2 o'clock.
Mr. Canada first came to this section in 1867, when he homesteaded the place on Pumpkin creek, near Angola, now owned by Snowden Pitts. About three years later he established the Clymore trading post on the farm at the mouth of Pumpkin creek, now known as the Shetland pony farm and owned by C. R. Clemmons. About a year later, when the town of Westralia was founded, about midway between the trading post and what is now known as Old Parker, Mr. Canada opened up a general merchandise store there. Westralia survived only a short time and in 1871 Mr. Canada moved over to the new town of Parker, where he opened up a general merchandise store. He remained in business there until 1874, when he came to Coffeyville, a still newer town. Here he bought the corner lot at the northeast corner of Ninth and Union streets where the Brown building occupied by the telephone office now stands, and there he ran a store for nine years.
The Oregon fever got hold of Mr. Canada then and he sold his store here and went west, but he was back in this section of the country within a year and went down into the Indian Territory, started a store at Red Fork. After a year he transferred the scene of his activities to Vinita, where he operated another store. Later he went over onto the Big Caney, where he opened another store and where a post office named Canadaville was established and he was appointed postmaster. With the coming of the railroad through that section the post office was abolished and Canadaville now is only a memory.
Mr. Canada, leaving Canadaville took up government land on the South Canadian river, south of El Reno, and lived there fourteen years, until his retirement from active pursuits in 1904, when he came back to Coffeyville. He invested his funds in rental properties here and has since made this his home.
Before coming to Kansas, Mr. Canada was a minister of the gospel, having been ordained in the Christian church at the age of 20 years. He held a number of appointments in Indiana, serving as many as four churches at one time. He was born near Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.
Mr. Canada was a widower, his wife having died here sixteen years ago the 6th of last month. She rests in Fairview cemetery. James Canada, 112 West New street, and Mrs. E. S. Savage, 4 1/2 East Fifth street, are his only children.
Green Lee Canada was the son of Absalom Canada and Elizabeth "Betsy" Higgins. He married Nancy Houston in Monroe County, Indiana on 03 Sep 1843. The couple moved to Kansas around 1866. Green was a farmer and wagon maker in Indiana; he was an early merchant in Labette and Montgomery Counties, Kansas and established trading posts where goods were traded with the local Indians for hides, furs and other items of Indian commerce. His trading post in Montgomery County was among those that gave rise to Elk City, Kansas.
Green and his wife, Nancy, had at least six children, all of whom were born in Indiana: Montgomery F.., Floris E., Sarah E., Mansfield H., James H. and Alonzo.
The Coffeyville Daily Journal, Coffeyville, Montgomery County, Kansas, Monday, January 17, 1921, Page 1, Col. 1:
GREEN LEE CANADA, A PIONEER, PASSES ON
Coffeyville's Oldest Citizen Established Clymore Trading Post in 1870
Had Interesting and Varied Career in Early Days of This Section -- Stores at Parker, Coffeyville and Several Other Points.
One of the real pioneers of this section and Coffeyville's oldest citizen passed away at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, when Greenlee Canada answered the last summons at the home of his son, James Canada, 112 West New street. He was aged 96 years, 9 months and 21 days. General debility was the cause of death.
The burial was made this afternoon in Fairview cemetery, the funeral party leaving the Skinner undertaking rooms at 2 o'clock.
Mr. Canada first came to this section in 1867, when he homesteaded the place on Pumpkin creek, near Angola, now owned by Snowden Pitts. About three years later he established the Clymore trading post on the farm at the mouth of Pumpkin creek, now known as the Shetland pony farm and owned by C. R. Clemmons. About a year later, when the town of Westralia was founded, about midway between the trading post and what is now known as Old Parker, Mr. Canada opened up a general merchandise store there. Westralia survived only a short time and in 1871 Mr. Canada moved over to the new town of Parker, where he opened up a general merchandise store. He remained in business there until 1874, when he came to Coffeyville, a still newer town. Here he bought the corner lot at the northeast corner of Ninth and Union streets where the Brown building occupied by the telephone office now stands, and there he ran a store for nine years.
The Oregon fever got hold of Mr. Canada then and he sold his store here and went west, but he was back in this section of the country within a year and went down into the Indian Territory, started a store at Red Fork. After a year he transferred the scene of his activities to Vinita, where he operated another store. Later he went over onto the Big Caney, where he opened another store and where a post office named Canadaville was established and he was appointed postmaster. With the coming of the railroad through that section the post office was abolished and Canadaville now is only a memory.
Mr. Canada, leaving Canadaville took up government land on the South Canadian river, south of El Reno, and lived there fourteen years, until his retirement from active pursuits in 1904, when he came back to Coffeyville. He invested his funds in rental properties here and has since made this his home.
Before coming to Kansas, Mr. Canada was a minister of the gospel, having been ordained in the Christian church at the age of 20 years. He held a number of appointments in Indiana, serving as many as four churches at one time. He was born near Bloomington, Monroe County, Indiana.
Mr. Canada was a widower, his wife having died here sixteen years ago the 6th of last month. She rests in Fairview cemetery. James Canada, 112 West New street, and Mrs. E. S. Savage, 4 1/2 East Fifth street, are his only children.
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