Author: Jon Green

Winter Solstice

The shortest day of the year brings time for reflection and rejuvenation, there is less daylight, fewer blue skies, and more things that push us inside. Mother Nature is resting and some animals just...

Green Family Reunion – 2008

Shared by Jon Green in Lincoln City, Oregon I would like to take just a minute to discuss a couple of items. We all know that we inherit certain traits from our parents; an...

MTC

Just over thirteen years ago we dropped our son Eli off at the Missionary Training Center (MTC), he was preparing to serve a mission in Mexico. I thought how brave he was to leave...

Newell Dayton Green 1856-1931

Grandfather of Jesse Grant Green I’ve seen much of the west in my lifetime – The scorchin’ heat of the southern deserts, the stagnant winter deep-freeze of Idaho winters, even the annual flooding of...

John McLaughlin – 1774-1860

John McLaughlin – 1774-1860

Great Great Grandfather of Norma (Hamilton) Green I have witnessed the taming of the Ohio frontier and the virgin forests of the valley cleared for the industry of civilization. My father came to America...

John Alexander Hamilton – 1860 -1934

Grandfather of Norma (Hamilton) Green My family helped tame the wilds of Ohio. The big city ports on Lake Erie and the fertile farmlands of the Ohio Valley made the state prosperous and influential...

Iva Alice Reid Hamilton 1897-1977

Mother of Norma Faye Hamilton Green My parents, grandparents, and great grandparents are tenaciously anchored to the American Midwest. From the most modest soddy homes like where we lived when my little sister Blanche...

David Follick – 1860-1921

Maternal Grandfather of Jesse Grant Green I was born in Egypt…not that Egypt, but Egypt, Iowa – That’s about 50-miles west of Nauvoo, Illinois. My family bounced around a little bit when I was...

When The Dust Has Settled-

When the dust has settled all ’round about And the curtain lifted dissolving all doubt When we’re once again counted as a body of one And the divisions of time and age are undone...