To Mrs. Mary Ellen Trimble death came the night before Christmas, taking her from the arms of her devoted daughter. While throughout the world the household fairy was yet busy festooning happy homes and trimming cheery Christmas trees to delight the hearts of joyous childhood, as gentle a spirit as ever made the shadowy places of life grow brighter under the illuminating influence of culture, refine and innate amiability, passed tranquilly from earth to heaven.
Mrs. Trimble was a nature the embodiment of that gentleness of soul that gives the term gentle-woman its true interpretation. She had been refined in the crucible of suffering and assayed pure gold. To her death summons came a message of release. All that held her to life was a mother's devotion, jealous for the daughter's present happiness and ambitious for the daughter's success in her chosen field, art, fulfilling nature's endowment. She lingered that a loneliness they two had shared between them should not become a lonesomeness undivided. Long an invalid, for herself she coveted not longer life.
Mrs. Trimble was the widow of the Hon. John Trimble, of Nashville, Tenn., a man prominent in his profession, the law, and a distinguished figure in the politics of his State in the reconstruction period, covering the South's recovery from the ill fortunes of war. Soon after his death, fifteen years ago she took her daughter, then a small child, to Columbia, Tenn., where, as Miss Arnell, a daughter of the family of the old regime in Southern society the most cultured and exclusive, she had reigned a bell. There they two have since made their home, having many friends, but no immediate relatives near them.
At the time of her death Mrs. Trimble was here as a companion of her daughter, who is prosecuting Mr. Walter P. Emerson, in Covington, at her desire and that of Mrs. Emerson, to whom she was related. She was laid gently to rest Tuesday morning with the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which she was a devout member. The communion was administered to her a few days before the end came by Rev. Frank Woods Baker, of St. Paul's. In his absence, on account of illness, the funeral service was read by the Rev. William Frederick Williams, the assistant rector. The interment, which was private, was in Linden Grove, Covington.
Of Mrs. Trimble's family, a brother and sister survive her, Mr. S. M. Arnell, of Johnson City, Tenn., and Mrs. Janie Dorset, of Kansas City, Mo.
Republished in the The Columbia Herald (Columbia, Tenn.), 06 Jan. 1899, from an article originally published in the Cincinnati Tribune.
Mrs. Trimble was a nature the embodiment of that gentleness of soul that gives the term gentle-woman its true interpretation. She had been refined in the crucible of suffering and assayed pure gold. To her death summons came a message of release. All that held her to life was a mother's devotion, jealous for the daughter's present happiness and ambitious for the daughter's success in her chosen field, art, fulfilling nature's endowment. She lingered that a loneliness they two had shared between them should not become a lonesomeness undivided. Long an invalid, for herself she coveted not longer life.
Mrs. Trimble was the widow of the Hon. John Trimble, of Nashville, Tenn., a man prominent in his profession, the law, and a distinguished figure in the politics of his State in the reconstruction period, covering the South's recovery from the ill fortunes of war. Soon after his death, fifteen years ago she took her daughter, then a small child, to Columbia, Tenn., where, as Miss Arnell, a daughter of the family of the old regime in Southern society the most cultured and exclusive, she had reigned a bell. There they two have since made their home, having many friends, but no immediate relatives near them.
At the time of her death Mrs. Trimble was here as a companion of her daughter, who is prosecuting Mr. Walter P. Emerson, in Covington, at her desire and that of Mrs. Emerson, to whom she was related. She was laid gently to rest Tuesday morning with the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which she was a devout member. The communion was administered to her a few days before the end came by Rev. Frank Woods Baker, of St. Paul's. In his absence, on account of illness, the funeral service was read by the Rev. William Frederick Williams, the assistant rector. The interment, which was private, was in Linden Grove, Covington.
Of Mrs. Trimble's family, a brother and sister survive her, Mr. S. M. Arnell, of Johnson City, Tenn., and Mrs. Janie Dorset, of Kansas City, Mo.
Republished in the The Columbia Herald (Columbia, Tenn.), 06 Jan. 1899, from an article originally published in the Cincinnati Tribune.
To Mrs. Mary Ellen Trimble death came the night before Christmas, taking her from the arms of her devoted daughter. While throughout the world the household fairy was yet busy festooning happy homes and trimming cheery Christmas trees to delight the hearts of joyous childhood, as gentle a spirit as ever made the shadowy places of life grow brighter under the illuminating influence of culture, refine and innate amiability, passed tranquilly from earth to heaven.
Mrs. Trimble was a nature the embodiment of that gentleness of soul that gives the term gentle-woman its true interpretation. She had been refined in the crucible of suffering and assayed pure gold. To her death summons came a message of release. All that held her to life was a mother's devotion, jealous for the daughter's present happiness and ambitious for the daughter's success in her chosen field, art, fulfilling nature's endowment. She lingered that a loneliness they two had shared between them should not become a lonesomeness undivided. Long an invalid, for herself she coveted not longer life.
Mrs. Trimble was the widow of the Hon. John Trimble, of Nashville, Tenn., a man prominent in his profession, the law, and a distinguished figure in the politics of his State in the reconstruction period, covering the South's recovery from the ill fortunes of war. Soon after his death, fifteen years ago she took her daughter, then a small child, to Columbia, Tenn., where, as Miss Arnell, a daughter of the family of the old regime in Southern society the most cultured and exclusive, she had reigned a bell. There they two have since made their home, having many friends, but no immediate relatives near them.
At the time of her death Mrs. Trimble was here as a companion of her daughter, who is prosecuting Mr. Walter P. Emerson, in Covington, at her desire and that of Mrs. Emerson, to whom she was related. She was laid gently to rest Tuesday morning with the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which she was a devout member. The communion was administered to her a few days before the end came by Rev. Frank Woods Baker, of St. Paul's. In his absence, on account of illness, the funeral service was read by the Rev. William Frederick Williams, the assistant rector. The interment, which was private, was in Linden Grove, Covington.
Of Mrs. Trimble's family, a brother and sister survive her, Mr. S. M. Arnell, of Johnson City, Tenn., and Mrs. Janie Dorset, of Kansas City, Mo.
Republished in the The Columbia Herald (Columbia, Tenn.), 06 Jan. 1899, from an article originally published in the Cincinnati Tribune.
Mrs. Trimble was a nature the embodiment of that gentleness of soul that gives the term gentle-woman its true interpretation. She had been refined in the crucible of suffering and assayed pure gold. To her death summons came a message of release. All that held her to life was a mother's devotion, jealous for the daughter's present happiness and ambitious for the daughter's success in her chosen field, art, fulfilling nature's endowment. She lingered that a loneliness they two had shared between them should not become a lonesomeness undivided. Long an invalid, for herself she coveted not longer life.
Mrs. Trimble was the widow of the Hon. John Trimble, of Nashville, Tenn., a man prominent in his profession, the law, and a distinguished figure in the politics of his State in the reconstruction period, covering the South's recovery from the ill fortunes of war. Soon after his death, fifteen years ago she took her daughter, then a small child, to Columbia, Tenn., where, as Miss Arnell, a daughter of the family of the old regime in Southern society the most cultured and exclusive, she had reigned a bell. There they two have since made their home, having many friends, but no immediate relatives near them.
At the time of her death Mrs. Trimble was here as a companion of her daughter, who is prosecuting Mr. Walter P. Emerson, in Covington, at her desire and that of Mrs. Emerson, to whom she was related. She was laid gently to rest Tuesday morning with the rites of the Protestant Episcopal Church, of which she was a devout member. The communion was administered to her a few days before the end came by Rev. Frank Woods Baker, of St. Paul's. In his absence, on account of illness, the funeral service was read by the Rev. William Frederick Williams, the assistant rector. The interment, which was private, was in Linden Grove, Covington.
Of Mrs. Trimble's family, a brother and sister survive her, Mr. S. M. Arnell, of Johnson City, Tenn., and Mrs. Janie Dorset, of Kansas City, Mo.
Republished in the The Columbia Herald (Columbia, Tenn.), 06 Jan. 1899, from an article originally published in the Cincinnati Tribune.
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