WHITE COUNTY, TN - OBITUARY - Sarah Webb 1858 ----¤¤¤---- Obituary of Sarah Webb From "The Nashville Christian Advocate," April 15, 1858 issue Sister Sarah Webb, daughter of William and Mary Copeland, and wife of Rev. Jeremiah Webb, was born and raised in South Carolina, emigrated to Tennessee 1817, embraced religion and joined the Methodist Church, in which she lived an acceptable and useful member more than forty years, and died Feb. 18th, 1858, in White County, in her sixty-fourth year. She was a subject of affliction for twelve months before her departure, but always evinced that spirit of resignation in which grace triumphed over human weakness. Not content with a mere nominal relationship to the Church, or the experience of the past, as the ground of her hope, her anxious soul longed and struggled for full redemption in the blood of Christ; and she often expressed unshaken confidence in God as the medium of all spiritual bliss. She conversed freely with the members of her family about her heavenly home, often expressing an earnest "desire to depart and be with Christ." The future happiness of her children, three or four of whom were unconverted, was a source of great anxiety, and often served as a serious obstacle to the depth of her own enjoyments. But when the final summons came she was ready, and urged her friends to pray that she might be released from suffering. As the soul struggled to be released from the frail casket, her faith grew strong and commanding, and with the words of the dying martyr on her lips, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit." She bade adieu to earth to join the sainted throng above. Sister Webb was a good woman, and "full of faith and of the Holy Ghost." She has written her own epitaph in the hearts of those who knew her. Her Christian course, and her undeviating rectitude in every relation, constitute the monuments of her mortal life-the memorials that suggest and perpetuate her virtues to those who survive her: and in following her as she followed Christ, our happiness is for ever sealed. May her prayers and good example serve as instruments in the conversion of her children, and may the links in affection's chain which have been broken on earth be reunited in heaven. J. W. Tarrant [Sarah Copeland Webb was the sister of James Wilson Copeland. Her married name and that of her husband, Jeremiah Webb, are mentioned in William Copeland, Dec'd, Charles Gilmore et.al., May 7th 1804, York District, South Carolina (receipt dated Jan. 30, 1809). Her mother, Mary Copeland, married John Dill and moved to St. Clair County, Alabama. Another sister Jane Copeland married Hugh Quinn (mentioned in receipt dated Jan. 3, 1812). Besides James W. Copeland there were two other children, Mary (Polly) Copeland and Thomas Copeland mentioned as "Orphans under the age of 21, Jan. 5th 1818, in guardianship papers, Hugh Quin chosen as guardian. Thomas Copeland lived in White County but is no longer present in 1850 Census.] ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Laurel Baty ___________________________________________________________________