John GREEN

                   SHORT HISTORY OF ALICE ELISABETH GREEN:
       Alice was born in Cambridgeshire, England, to John Green and Alice Hopper. (Note: This is not the family with the same name that joined the LDS Church in Ohio.) John was run over by a loaded wagon when Alice was about 4 years old, and her mother died 3 years later. So, at 7 she became an orphan and went to live alternately with two aunts. The first had money but she and her husband had alcohol problems. The other aunt was very poor. There was a grandmother in London and Alice liked to go there because she had such good things to eat. When Alice was about 11 years old a cousin, Rhoda Mitchell, joined the LDS Church and took Alice with her to Utah. Even though they came by steamship it still took 6 weeks. It was foggy and Alice believed they were protected because of the missionaries on board. Soon after arriving in Salt Lake City Alice was baptized a member of the LDS Church (1865).
       First Alice worked for a Sister Corbet in return for board and room, and went to school. Later she worked for the Neal family, and it was here she met Erastus Carter. She was about 17 at this time. The story of their courtship and marriage is in Erastus Carter's history. She was a devoted wife and caring mother to her 11 children.
       Vera described her grandmother as, "small ... and yet kind of large boned. She wore her hair pulled straight back with a bob at the back and always wore skirts and waists with a tie apron. Sometimes the apron would have a ruffle at the bottom of it...around her shoulders was a black shawl." If you went to Grandma's and whe wanted to be especially nice she would give you a piece of bread with pear preserves, and I tell you they were good."
       Alice participated in church and social activities. She made quilts, sewed carpet rags for rugs, cooked for threshers, worked in the garden, canned fruit and helped with the chores. She trimmed the caskets Erastus made for the dead. She was a compassionate and caring person.
       Alice lived 9 years after Erastus died, but life was not the same. She had no family of her own and Erastus was an only living child. She spent more time with her children but basically was most comfortable in her own home. Vera said she helped with her washing and cleaning, for which Grandma may give her some material for a dress or something, but not money. When Alice became ill she was placed in an Ogden hospital and when she returned home a nurse came to care for her. The nurse was very protective which made it difficult for the family to visit like they had done. Alice lived another 2 years and died in 1921. She was buried in the Parl Valley Cemetary.    SCJ