OBITUARY
Salome Martzolff Nader, daughter of George Frederick Martzolffand his wife, Margaret Wolfe Martzolff, was born in Mondaycreek township, Perry county, Ohio, January 17, 1840. Her parents, hardy Alsatian peasants, had but recently come to America to escape the conditions in their home-land. Securing original woodland directly from the government, the pioneer home was built in the woods, where a family of industrious, frugal, God-fearing men and women were reared. The parents were zealous for their religion and soon the itinerant Lutheran missionary found his way to this pioneer home where he broke to the spiritually hungry family the bread of eternal life.
It was on one of these visits that he found the new-born girlbaby in the home and according to good Lutheran custom and usage, he received the child into the covenant with God, by the holy rite of baptism. The name of this Lutheran pastor-missionary was the Rev. Braunstetter. As a child she learned the richness of the goodness of God from the lips of pious parents and from the rude pulpit in the log church of old St. Johns. At the proper age she renewed her baptismal vows through confirmation at the hands of the Rev. Jacob Weimer. On October 26, 1862, she was united in marriage to Frederick Nader by Rev. Saunthaus and at once became a mother to five motherless children, three of whom yet live and can testify that she was indeed a very mother to them. To her and her husband were born seven children, six of whom are yet living. She was a kind, indulgent mother, a faithful wife, a good neighbor, a zealous member of her church and carries to her grave the respect of all who knew her.
In addition to the children and step-children, already mentioned,there remain in the immediate family to mourn her departure 17 grand children, one great grand-child, step-grand children, and her aged brother Jacob Martzolff of Logan, Ohio and her sister, Mrs. Magdalena Cotterman, now in her 89th year of Hocking county.
Her death, while not unexpected, still came as a great shock toher family and friends, and in the morning hours of October 18, 1917, at the age of 77 years, nine months and one day, she quietly yielded her spirit to the Master who gave it. So passed away a good woman , one who will long live in the memory and hearts of those who knew her. These beautiful flowers emblems of the respect held for her are but typical of the purity of life and generous impulses which were hers.
Her family have the assurance that because of her life and herthorough trust in the promises of the Savior that when the pale horseman came to summon her, to journey through the valley of the death, there was no chill from the fog, nor darkness from the shadow, for God's finger had touched her and she only slept.
DEATH OF MRS. SALOMA NADER
Mrs. Saloma Nader, aged 77 years, died at the home of herdaughter, Mrs. Ella Wilson of South Main street, Friday morning at 8 o'clock after a lingering illness from heart trouble. Funeral services were held from Holy Trinity Lutheran church Monday morning, conducted by Dr. J. H. Dobbyn and interment was made in the city cemetery.
Mrs. Nader is survived by nine children. They are: Mrs. EllaWilson, Mrs. Amelia Wilson, Charles, Lewis and George Nader and Mrs. William Dennis, New Lexington; Mrs. William Fitzpatrick, McLuney; Mrs. Mary McGilfrey of Manistee, Michigan, and David Nader of Sutte, Montana.
The deceased has been a resident of New Lexington for the past 13years coming here from Mondaycreek township. She was a splendid Christian woman, highly respected by all who knew her.
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