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
- John W. Green (Beaver Island storyteller, 1870–1963)
- Elizabeth Roddy Green (1963 obituary record)
- Ivan Walton papers and sound recordings
- Music and folklore
- Commercial fishing
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, October 1963, “Old Friend Passes.”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, or civil record.