Pike-Dale-Macon 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 W. 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 a gentleness, kindness and sweetness of spirit
from childhood.  Arrived a 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 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 affections.  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 suffiency of grace divine to
comfort and sustain her.  Amid affliction she would  speak words of cheer and
comfort  to her sorrowing husband and relatives.  For the last 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

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 us one that is felt
a thousand fold more keenly.

Ah, what a pity it seems, that the young should fall victims beneath the scythes
of time. Cruel old time!  Why could he not be satisfied to put his scythe in
among the aged only, and so let the sere and yellow leaf be gathered, and
blooming flowers bloom on to sweeten the pathway of life.  But no, since the
world began, he has gathered his harvests in season and out of season – cutting
down the ripe fruit as well as the tender budding flowers.  But oh what a
comfort it is to remember that the flowers are cut down here to be transplanted
to the garden of God in the great beyond there to make up the jewels of eternity.


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