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Death of John W. Green, 1963

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TypeEvent
Date1963-09-26
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1963-09-26
Kind
Death
Participants
John W. Green (victim)
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
communityirish-arranmoreheritagemaritimefishing

Summary

John W. Green died on September 26, 1963, according to an October Beaver Beacon obituary. The notice describes him as a Beaver Island-born sailor, farmer, lumberman, fisherman, real-estate worker, and political participant who had preserved local songs and stories.

Evidence and limits

The obituary supplies the death date and a retrospective life sketch but no funeral, burial, civil-record identifier, or complete family chronology. Its statement that Green held more than 200 folk songs and nearly as many stories is preserved as an attributed cultural-memory claim, not an inventory of recordings.

See also

Sources

  1. Reports that John W. Green died September 26, 1963 at age 92, summarizes his Beaver Island birth, work, family, maritime knowledge, and collection of more than 200 folk songs and nearly as many stories; it gives no funeral, burial, civil record, or death location.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1963-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held six-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1963-10_Beaver-Beacon

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

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Beaver Island Archive, “Death of John W. Green, 1963”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/death-of-john-w-green-1963/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, October 1963, “Old Friend Passes.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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