OBIT: Martha (JENKINS) NEVIN, 1890, Lancaster County, PA

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DEATH OF MRS. DR. NEVIN
THE WIDOW OF THE FAMOUS THEOLOGIAN PASSES AWAY.
Sorrowful News From the Old Home at Caernarvon Place

  It is with deep regret that we record the death of Mrs. Martha 
Jenkins Nevin, widow of the late Rev. John W. Nevin, D.D. LL.D., at her 
home Caernarvon Place, on the Columbia pike, near this city limits, at 
four o'clock, this morning, in the eighty-fifth year of her age.
  Mrs. Nevin had for a year or more been subject to attacks of 
weakness, but was out driving ten days ago and was comparatively well 
until last Tuesday, when she was compelled to take to her bed.
  Mrs. Nevin was the second daughter of Hon. Robert J. Jenkins, the 
famous ironmaster of Windsor Place, in the vicinity of Churchtown, this 
county, and she was married to Dr. Nevin by Rev. John Wallace, pastor 
of the Presbyterian church, of Pequea, on New Year's day, 1835.  Dr. 
Nevin was then stationed at the Western Theological Seminary, Allegheny 
City.  Dr. Theodore Appel, in his life of Dr. Nevin just issued, says: 
"The choice of a wife, a momentous step in the life of men generally, 
was, in the case of Prof. Nevin, a wise and judicious one.  He needed 
just such a partner of his life as he found in the companion of his 
choice.  Subsequent events proved that she was worthy of such a man.  
In very many different respects she was helpful to him in the great 
work to which he was consecrated.  Her home was a happy and cheerful 
one, modeled after that to which she had been accustomed at Windsor 
Place.  Mrs. Nevin, in addition to great personal refinement, was 
versed in literature and could write for the press when occasions 
called for it; but she devoted herself mostly to her sphere in the 
family circle, and drew around her people of cultivation and superior 
social standing.  At the time we write these lines a widow, indeed, 
over four score years of age, at her pleasant residence, Caernarvon 
Place, near this city, she retains much of the vivacity of youth, and 
feels herself to be at home in the society of professors, students and 
cultured people generally, with feelings deeply in sympathy with poor 
in their trials.  Bearing enshrined in her heart the memories of loved 
ones who lived in the past, she looks forward to a happy reunion with 
them in the better land in the great hereafter."
  Mrs. Nevin went with her husband to Mercersburg, in 1840; to 
Carlisle, in 1855; to Windsor Castle, in Caernarvon township, in 1856, 
and in 1858 settled down in their beautiful home at Caernarvon Place, 
where she has since resided.
  The surviving children are Rev. Robert J. Nevin, D.D., pastor of St. 
Paul's Episcopal church, Rome Italy; W. Wilberforce Nevin, of New York; 
Mrs. Robert H. Sayre, of Bethlehem, and Misses Alice and Blanche Nevin, 
the latter the well-known sculptress.

The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Monday, January 13, 1890

DIED.

  NEVIN.  January 13, 1890, at her home, Caernarvon Place, near 
Lancaster, Pa., Martha Jenkins Nevin, widow of the late John W. Nevin, 
and daughter of Robert Jenkins, Esq., of Windsor Forges, in the 85th 
year of her age.
  Notice of funeral hereafter.

The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Monday, January 13, 1890

DIED.

  NEVIN.  January 13, 1890, at her home, Caernarvon Place, near 
Lancaster, Pa., Martha Jenkins Nevin, widow of the late John W. Nevin, 
and daughter of Robert Jenkins, Esq., of Windsor Forges, in the 85th 
year of her age.
  Funeral on Wednesday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock.

The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Tuesday, January 14, 1890

Funeral of Mrs. Martha Jenkins Nevin.

  The funeral of Mrs. Martha Jenkins Nevin took place at two o'clock 
this afternoon from her late residence at Caernarvon Place.  Impressive 
religious services were conducted by Dr. Gerhart, President of the 
Theological Seminary, and Dr. J. S. Stahr.  The pall bearers were S. S. 
Spencer, George M. Franklin, Prof. J. B. Kiefer, C. J. Swarr, W. U. 
Hensel, Esq., and John C. Hager.  The interment was made in Lancaster 
county.

The Lancaster Daily Examiner, Wednesday, January 15, 1890