Mrs. Martha Zellner, died at her home near Brentwood Tenn., the 21st day of May, 1889. She was married when quite young to Henry Zellner, with whom she lived in happy wedlock fifty years and one day. Although afflicted all her life with asthmatic and bronchial troubles, so that she was most of her time an invalid, yet by the judicious, careful, economical management of her household affairs and her sound judgement as an adviser, she was a true helper to her husband in all his undertakings.
One of her chief characteristics as a woman was a modest womanly self respect, that commanded the respect of all who knew her. Another was her frankness and sincerity in all she said and did. With her there was no guile or hypocricy, no deceit or falsehood. She was scrupulously honest in little things, having a great aversion to using even the smallest things that belonged to another and while she loved the comforts of life and strove to make her family and all about her comfortable, she could not bear the idea of enjoying them at the expense of another. So she had a great aversion to going in debt or buying any thing without paying for it. Nothing brought comfort to her until it was paid for.
Soon after she was married, she became religious, was baptized and united with the Baptist Church on Knob Creek, Maury County Tenn. Her husband was not then a Christian, but from the beginning of her religious life she became constant in prayer for her husband and children.
There was no ostentation in her religion but she was an earnest, pious conscientious worshiper of the Lord. In the year 1860 she heard Bros. Trimble, Davis and others preach the truth as presented by the disciples. She and her husband soon united with the Church of Christ, of which she lived a faithful member, conscientiously doing her duty to her God and her fellow man till her death. She was fond of reading the Bible, especially delighted in the sayings and life of Jesus, so simple, plain and direct in their teaching. They had a reflex in her own life.
She bore seven children, three of whom died in infancy and childhood. She tried anxiously to train her children for usefulness in life and sought faithfully their spiritual and everlasting good. As they grew up she prayed that they might be good Christian men and women and that they might find good Christian husbands and wives. The things that were nearest her heart she carried to the Lord in prayer. Her sufferings great through life, increased as the end approached, but she never grew sour or became impatient and fretful. She had no morbid desire for death. She preferred to live with those she loved and that loved her. But she did not fear death nor try to hide its approach from herself. She spoke of it with composure and sometimes in a vein of pleasantry. During her last illness her children watched over and nursed her with the self denying love that her mother-love had inspired. After death she was dressed by their own loving hands, and carried back to her old home to mingle her dust with that of her children that had gone before, and there to rest till the morning of the resurrection.
D. L. [David Lipscomb]
Gospel Advocate, June 12, 1889, page 371.
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Mrs. Henry Zellner's remains were brought from Brentwood Thursday and buried in family cemetery near Knob Creek. She was reared and lived here most of her life.... (Married 50 years and 1 day.)
-- Newspaper not named, published on 26 May 1889.
One of her chief characteristics as a woman was a modest womanly self respect, that commanded the respect of all who knew her. Another was her frankness and sincerity in all she said and did. With her there was no guile or hypocricy, no deceit or falsehood. She was scrupulously honest in little things, having a great aversion to using even the smallest things that belonged to another and while she loved the comforts of life and strove to make her family and all about her comfortable, she could not bear the idea of enjoying them at the expense of another. So she had a great aversion to going in debt or buying any thing without paying for it. Nothing brought comfort to her until it was paid for.
Soon after she was married, she became religious, was baptized and united with the Baptist Church on Knob Creek, Maury County Tenn. Her husband was not then a Christian, but from the beginning of her religious life she became constant in prayer for her husband and children.
There was no ostentation in her religion but she was an earnest, pious conscientious worshiper of the Lord. In the year 1860 she heard Bros. Trimble, Davis and others preach the truth as presented by the disciples. She and her husband soon united with the Church of Christ, of which she lived a faithful member, conscientiously doing her duty to her God and her fellow man till her death. She was fond of reading the Bible, especially delighted in the sayings and life of Jesus, so simple, plain and direct in their teaching. They had a reflex in her own life.
She bore seven children, three of whom died in infancy and childhood. She tried anxiously to train her children for usefulness in life and sought faithfully their spiritual and everlasting good. As they grew up she prayed that they might be good Christian men and women and that they might find good Christian husbands and wives. The things that were nearest her heart she carried to the Lord in prayer. Her sufferings great through life, increased as the end approached, but she never grew sour or became impatient and fretful. She had no morbid desire for death. She preferred to live with those she loved and that loved her. But she did not fear death nor try to hide its approach from herself. She spoke of it with composure and sometimes in a vein of pleasantry. During her last illness her children watched over and nursed her with the self denying love that her mother-love had inspired. After death she was dressed by their own loving hands, and carried back to her old home to mingle her dust with that of her children that had gone before, and there to rest till the morning of the resurrection.
D. L. [David Lipscomb]
Gospel Advocate, June 12, 1889, page 371.
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Mrs. Henry Zellner's remains were brought from Brentwood Thursday and buried in family cemetery near Knob Creek. She was reared and lived here most of her life.... (Married 50 years and 1 day.)
-- Newspaper not named, published on 26 May 1889.
Mrs. Martha Zellner, died at her home near Brentwood Tenn., the 21st day of May, 1889. She was married when quite young to Henry Zellner, with whom she lived in happy wedlock fifty years and one day. Although afflicted all her life with asthmatic and bronchial troubles, so that she was most of her time an invalid, yet by the judicious, careful, economical management of her household affairs and her sound judgement as an adviser, she was a true helper to her husband in all his undertakings.
One of her chief characteristics as a woman was a modest womanly self respect, that commanded the respect of all who knew her. Another was her frankness and sincerity in all she said and did. With her there was no guile or hypocricy, no deceit or falsehood. She was scrupulously honest in little things, having a great aversion to using even the smallest things that belonged to another and while she loved the comforts of life and strove to make her family and all about her comfortable, she could not bear the idea of enjoying them at the expense of another. So she had a great aversion to going in debt or buying any thing without paying for it. Nothing brought comfort to her until it was paid for.
Soon after she was married, she became religious, was baptized and united with the Baptist Church on Knob Creek, Maury County Tenn. Her husband was not then a Christian, but from the beginning of her religious life she became constant in prayer for her husband and children.
There was no ostentation in her religion but she was an earnest, pious conscientious worshiper of the Lord. In the year 1860 she heard Bros. Trimble, Davis and others preach the truth as presented by the disciples. She and her husband soon united with the Church of Christ, of which she lived a faithful member, conscientiously doing her duty to her God and her fellow man till her death. She was fond of reading the Bible, especially delighted in the sayings and life of Jesus, so simple, plain and direct in their teaching. They had a reflex in her own life.
She bore seven children, three of whom died in infancy and childhood. She tried anxiously to train her children for usefulness in life and sought faithfully their spiritual and everlasting good. As they grew up she prayed that they might be good Christian men and women and that they might find good Christian husbands and wives. The things that were nearest her heart she carried to the Lord in prayer. Her sufferings great through life, increased as the end approached, but she never grew sour or became impatient and fretful. She had no morbid desire for death. She preferred to live with those she loved and that loved her. But she did not fear death nor try to hide its approach from herself. She spoke of it with composure and sometimes in a vein of pleasantry. During her last illness her children watched over and nursed her with the self denying love that her mother-love had inspired. After death she was dressed by their own loving hands, and carried back to her old home to mingle her dust with that of her children that had gone before, and there to rest till the morning of the resurrection.
D. L. [David Lipscomb]
Gospel Advocate, June 12, 1889, page 371.
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Mrs. Henry Zellner's remains were brought from Brentwood Thursday and buried in family cemetery near Knob Creek. She was reared and lived here most of her life.... (Married 50 years and 1 day.)
-- Newspaper not named, published on 26 May 1889.
One of her chief characteristics as a woman was a modest womanly self respect, that commanded the respect of all who knew her. Another was her frankness and sincerity in all she said and did. With her there was no guile or hypocricy, no deceit or falsehood. She was scrupulously honest in little things, having a great aversion to using even the smallest things that belonged to another and while she loved the comforts of life and strove to make her family and all about her comfortable, she could not bear the idea of enjoying them at the expense of another. So she had a great aversion to going in debt or buying any thing without paying for it. Nothing brought comfort to her until it was paid for.
Soon after she was married, she became religious, was baptized and united with the Baptist Church on Knob Creek, Maury County Tenn. Her husband was not then a Christian, but from the beginning of her religious life she became constant in prayer for her husband and children.
There was no ostentation in her religion but she was an earnest, pious conscientious worshiper of the Lord. In the year 1860 she heard Bros. Trimble, Davis and others preach the truth as presented by the disciples. She and her husband soon united with the Church of Christ, of which she lived a faithful member, conscientiously doing her duty to her God and her fellow man till her death. She was fond of reading the Bible, especially delighted in the sayings and life of Jesus, so simple, plain and direct in their teaching. They had a reflex in her own life.
She bore seven children, three of whom died in infancy and childhood. She tried anxiously to train her children for usefulness in life and sought faithfully their spiritual and everlasting good. As they grew up she prayed that they might be good Christian men and women and that they might find good Christian husbands and wives. The things that were nearest her heart she carried to the Lord in prayer. Her sufferings great through life, increased as the end approached, but she never grew sour or became impatient and fretful. She had no morbid desire for death. She preferred to live with those she loved and that loved her. But she did not fear death nor try to hide its approach from herself. She spoke of it with composure and sometimes in a vein of pleasantry. During her last illness her children watched over and nursed her with the self denying love that her mother-love had inspired. After death she was dressed by their own loving hands, and carried back to her old home to mingle her dust with that of her children that had gone before, and there to rest till the morning of the resurrection.
D. L. [David Lipscomb]
Gospel Advocate, June 12, 1889, page 371.
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Mrs. Henry Zellner's remains were brought from Brentwood Thursday and buried in family cemetery near Knob Creek. She was reared and lived here most of her life.... (Married 50 years and 1 day.)
-- Newspaper not named, published on 26 May 1889.
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wife of Henry Zellner, married 21 May 1839, daughter of Kibble Terry Hughes and Elizabeth Hamlett
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