obit: AVERY, George Green
b: Jul 23 1862, near Calhoun, Henry Co, MO
d: n/a, Tulsa, OK
Clinton MO - Green Avery died in Tulsa, Okla., Monday, according to a telegram received by his brother, Henry Avery, northwest of Calhoun. Green Avery was born near Calhoun, July 23, 1862. He married Miss Mollie Merritt, December 10, 1884, who died January 21, 1909. Two daughters were given this marriage, who survive, as follows: Miss Eula, of California, and Mrs. Myrtle Cook, Memphis, Tenn. The later has two sons. Mr. Avery was married the second time at Colorado Springs, in 1916. This wife survives with three children: Millicent, Jacklequin, and Etta May. He is also survived by a sister, Mrs. Addie Avery Brown, in the Home for Aged Baptists at Ironton, Mo., and two brothers, Pleas and Henry Avery, northwest of Calhoun. Mr. Avery and his family lived in Clinton many years at the home now owned by Mrs. Flossie Adair on South second street. He went to Tulsa in 1916 and has been employed in the city water department. Funeral services were held in Tulsa Wednesday. His daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Cook, attended.