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- Former Resident Dies in Hospital
Mrs. Tessa Smith Green Potter, 77, former resident of Pulaski and Dugway, and widow of the late Samuel W. Potter, died early Sunday morning in the Mercy hospital in Watertown
where she had been a patient only a few hours. Death was attributed to a heart condition and pneumonia.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 p.m. from the Howard funeral chapel with the Rev. Harold C. Johns, pastor of the First Baptist church, officiating. Interment will be made in Riverside cemetery at Pulaski in the spring.
Surviving Mrs. Potter are two children, Mrs. James T. (Ellen D. Green) Leonard, 647 State st., Watertown, with whom she
had made her home, and Col. Fernando M. Green U. S. Army,
Washington, D.C.
She was born May 22, 1873, at Woodville, a daughter of the late Fernando and Rebecca Fox Smith, and spent her early girlhood in the vicinity of Pulaski.
She was married to Charles D. Green of Pulaski in 1889 and lived here for many years. After his death in Sandy Creek in 1907 she went to Harrisville and on Oct. 12, 1912 she was married to Mr. Potter in that village. Two years after her marriage to Mr. Potter they moved to a farm near Dugway where they resided for eight years, then going to Watertown. Mr. Potter died May 8, 1948.
She was a member of the First Baptist church in Watertown.
Source: Pulaski Democrat, Feb 15, 1951
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Abt 1872 - 1951 (79 years)