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RO-KLBG-0183
Record Date:
14 May 2016
Graveyard:
Exact wording of epitaph:
JOHN GREENE
DIED
FEB 18 1848
AGED 47 YEARS.
INCSCRIPTION ON BOOK.
GODS WILL BE DONE
ALONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
Memorial Type:
Open book
Number of people commemorated:
1
People commemorated:
Name:
John
Surname:
Greene
Date of death - day:
18
Date of death - month:
February
Date of death - year:
1848
Age:
47
Notes:
This monumuent is unusual in that it is a pedestal with a very thick base and an open book. It is carved from good limestone and the monumental masons are Beegan Ballinasloe who also carved the adjacent headstone for Greenes of Society Street Ballinasloe. The message on the open book is significant 'alone but not forgotten'.
There is a strong possibility that this headstone is likely the father of John A Green of Stone City Iowa. John A Green was born in Moore in 1844. His parents were John Green and Bridget Kenney. John Green died and afterwards his wife and children left Ireland about 1850. One of the children was John Aloysios Green, an Irish emigrant and later politician, who achieved great success in the Quarry Business in Stone City, Iowa, USA in the late 19th century. Family researchers connect John A Green to Merchant Greene Society Street Ballinasloe and therefore to the parish of Moore. Local knowledge (2015) is that there was an American connection to this headstone.
For more on Stone City and John A. Green, see:
http://www.thestonecityfoundation.org/
