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Submitted: 2/4/11 • Approved: 2/5/11 • Last Updated: 8/17/12 • R459767-G459766-S3
July 5,1835-Aug 28,1893
Sister Martha Sanders, who was born in Baldwin County, Ga., July 5, 1835, and died August 28, 1893, was the daughter of Leroy W. and Salina C. Moore. She married to J. H. Sanders November 9, 1852, and was baptized with her husband into the fellowship of Ephesus Church, in Chambers County, Ala., of the Primitive Baptist faith, by Elder H. M. Higginbothem, in April 1851. She was the mother of nine children, all living except the oldest. She leaves a kind and good husband, eight children and several grandchildren, to mourn their loss. Sister Sanders was taken very suddenly – was not sick a great while, but her sufferings were great, but she bore them with Christian fortitude. Her mind was not right at times, but when it was, and not suffering, she seemed cheerful and pleasant. She would often, while suffering, beg God to have mercy on her. Her husband and children were so attentive, and all that good physicians, kind husband and affectionate children could do could not stay death's cold, icy hands; God had called her to come up higher. Her seat in church was never vacant if she could avoid it, her door was always open to her brothers and sisters, and she was ready to meet them with a kind and gentle smile to make them glad. She was a kind and loving wife, tender and affectionate mother, a good neighbor, ever ready to do and care for the sick; a pure, Christian-hearted lady. Her eyes in sleep are closed, never to awaken on earth's scenes again. Dead! Yes, wife and mamma is dead, her busy hands folded, her loving voice hushed forever, and how hard it is to say, "Thy will be done, not ours." But oh, blessed thought, with all my heart I can truly say, "the Lord is too wise to err, too good to be unkind." Dear children, I too, have had the same grief. Let us try to live as our mothers lived, so as to meet them in that sweet rest beyond the grave, where we will part no more. May God in his goodness stand by the beloved brother and the grief stricken children.
– Fidie Pollard, Clarksville, Ark.
"The Gospel Messenger", Volume 16, No. 4 – April 1894
Curtesy of Don Clark - Lafayette, Ala.
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