Pike-Dale County AlArchives Obituaries.....Kolb, Marietta Blackman December 4, 1885
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The Southern Star, December 9, 1885
The Southern Star
Ozark, Dale County, Ala.
Wednesday, December 9, 1885
Page Two

Marietta Kolb, daughter of Green and Sarah F. Blackman, was born in Pike County,
Ala., April 26, 1852.  Brought up under church influence, and trained by a pious
mother, she was noted for gentleness, kindness and sweetness of spirit from
childhood.  Arrived at young womanhood she professed saving faith in Christ
Jesus and joined the Baptist church in Ozark.  She was baptized by the Rev.
Caswell Smith.  October 5, 1879 she was married to Mr. Leonidas W. Kolb, of
Macon County, Ala.  For fifteen months they lived in that county in the full
enjoyment of tender and loving affection.  Thence they removed to Dale County
and settled in Ozark and he engaged in mercantile business.

In young womanhood Miss Marietta was admired and loved by a large circle of
friends for her beauty and friendly affection.  Wherever she moved she imparted
sunshine and joy.  She was the light and charm of the home circle.  She was the
idol of a devoted husband who lavished the wealth of a manly heart upon her, a
pure, Christian wife.  Her life as a church member was cheerful and blameless. 
She rejoiced in the work of the Church.

Last July she realized the great pleasure of seeing her own loving father join
the church of which she was a member.  It gave her great satisfaction for her
beloved husband to be a good and true member of the Methodist church.

Although faithful in the church and useful in Society as a good neighbor and
tender nurse of the sick, yet, in the wise and mysterious providence of God, she
was subjected to great bodily affliction.  During the last ten months of her
life she endured much suffering with great fortitude and uncomplaining patience,
as seeing him who is invisible; and realized the sufficiency of grace to comfort
and sustain her.  Amid affliction she would speak words of comfort and cheer to
her sorrowing husband and relatives.  For the past two weeks her bodily powers
gave way most rapidly.  As death approached she expressed herself as fully ready
and entirely resigned to the righteous will of her Father in heaven.  While
dying, she said to the loved ones in the room, as they were weeping and sobbing
in heart-breaking grief, “Weep not for me; but promise to meet me in heaven,
where I will soon be at rest.”  With the mind clear and calm, she gently passed
from earth to heaven, dying in her father’s home at 2 p.m. Friday December 4th,
1885, aged 33 years, 7 months and 8 days.  Saturday at 2 p.m. her funeral sermon
was preached in the Baptist church in Ozark to a large company of devout people,
by the writer, and then gently and tearfully her body was committed to the grave
in bright hope of the resurrection morning.

Angus Dowling

The Southern Star
Ozark, Dale County, Ala.
Wednesday, December 9, 1885
Page Three

Local Intelligence

At two o’clock on Friday last Dec. 4th, Mrs. Mollie Kolb, wife of Mr. L.W. Kolb
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Green W. Blackman, departed this life, after a
lingering illness of many months.  Miss Mollie, as she was called by nearly all
her friends, was a good woman, esteemed and loved by all who knew her, kind,
gentle and sunshining in disposition and manner, she won her way to the good
opinion of all with whom she came in contact and so leaves a large number of
friends to regret her departure hence.  When the aged die it seems to be in
accordance with the fitness of things, and in pursuance of a universal law of
nature, but when those are taken from us, who like Mrs. Kolb, are in the very
zenith of happiness and usefulness the sorrow which follows is one that is felt
a thousand fold more keenly.



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