Obituary Martha Moore
Our dear Heavenly Father in His wise providence has seen fit to remove from Ruth Chapter Order of Eastern Star No. 37 of Saulsbury, Tenn., our dear and beloved sister, Miss Martha Moore. She was dear to our hearts. Her seat is vacant in our chapter, for she was a faithful member, always ready to do what she could for the good of our chapter and for the advancement of God’s cause. She was a consistent member of the Baptist church. She departed this life Dec. 23rd, 1913. Funeral services were conducted in her home by her former pastor, Rev. A. S. Wells, assisted by Rev. E. H. Stewart, pastor M. E. Church, attended by her relatives and a large host of friends, after which the Eastern Star Fraternity with becoming reverence paid the last sad tribute of respect to the memory of their dearly beloved sister. As a tree is fertilized by its own broken branches and falling leaves, so our souls are ripened out of broken hopes and blighted affections. The nightingale is said to sing more sweetly when resting against a thorn; so too the touch of sorrow brings out the minor chords and fashions anew the music of our lives into more perfect consonance with the choir invisible. We see there is a lesson to be learned when we are called upon to give up some object around which our affection clings. It is in order that Christ might reign supreme in our hearts. Therefore, be it resolved:
1st, That in her death we have lost one of our honored and esteemed members, the father and mother a dutiful daughter, the brother and sister a kind affectionate sister, the church a zealous member, living in the Christian hope and whose religious qualities commanded the respect and esteem of all who knew her. Though we deeply deplore her death, our hearts are comforted in the belief that she rejoices in hopes realized.
2nd, That we condole with the family of our departed sister in their bereavements whose broken circle can only be reunited in the undiscovered country from whose borne no traveler ever returns.
3rd, That we ever cherish her memory in our hearts and strive to imitate her virtues that we too may hear the glad welcome: “Well done thou good and faithful servant, enter thou into the joys of the Lord.”
4th, That the chapter room be draped in mourning for thirty days; that these resolutions be spread upon the minutes of Ruth Chapter No. 37, also published in the county papers and a copy furnished the family of the deceased sister.
J. W. Wright
Bettie Press
Lizzie Sauls
Source: original newspaper clipping in scrapbook created by Ada Clark Stroup of Saulsbury
