Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-04-07
AFTER. LONG,
EveNTFuL LlEE,THe VENsRABuf
MRS. SARAH @. JENNINGS
Dicd Yesterday at tho AGE Of soyenb.seyen.
A BrieI Sketch Of The Lie Of Liberal
Noble. Mlndod Christian woman


A mother IN Israel has gone to her we'll
Last night at 500 o'clock Mrs. Sarah
g.. Jennings died nt the residence Of
her son. AIR Hyde jennings.
IL Is a loss not only 60 her family, but
20 the city, but incidentally 20 the state.
for Airs Jennings was woman OF
breadth Of view that almost gave her the
mental grasp Of sultcsman, nnd yet
withul was n l0ycabc womanly, gem
tie woman She was always keenly
alive 10 the true interests Of the city. Fort
Worth aud the state of Texas. aud has
evidenced this hy her many liberal gifts
GA aid Of public enterprises This keen
appreciation of what WIS for the city n
good led her 90 encourage the many pro.
iects tint from TIM 60 time have injured
to the benefit of this city, aud one OF
the last acts of her conscious life was
liberal subscription Ia aid of the Rocs
lslcnd guarantee.
she was most cstimahlc md Chris.
tinn woman and has lod in doing deeds
of truest charity, as she has been liberal
az n donor 10 public enterprises,
Vigorous ia body nl Va mind, Mrs. Icn-
nings lived beyond the allotted three
score and ten Of the psalmist, for she
was ~ years old when abe died.
SHE was the daughter Of John Hyde
OF Clarksvillc, lVnn., and was born nt
that place April 3. 1916, and that family
name of Hyde rc-appcars In thg name
of her son. that well-knOwn citizou OF
| Fort Worth, Hyde Jennings
Ia 1875, co-cvlu with the birth OF tho
republic ~ Tcxns Mr. Hyde moved 10
the republic with his family and settled
/ in san Augustine, whore IN 1874 Miss
| Sarah G.. Hyde and r. j. Jennings were
married l'rom this union were horn
Two sons. HYDE and r. r.. the latter
a prominent lawyer " Nucogdochca.
General r. j. jennings was dis
/ turuishcd citizen OF this state, and from
| 1852 60 1876. under Governor Pcnsc, lac
l was attorney general Of TcNuR. lie died
| September 1881, at the age of ~.
! or the HYDE family There were sovcu
/ brothers and nll Of those fought Tor
Texas through the successful Mexican
/ war aud not less earnestly MI through
| tho unsuccessful struggle of The Snull
for the right of solt-guvcrumcnt, uuuI
the dark days of the COntcderncy enuod
Ina the gloom of death M AppomnuoN'
| Through nll those war experiences nuu
| tho har1sbips of frontier HE, Mrs. Jvn
nlnps has lived aud In that tmu she has
aeon the Fort Worth that she loved 2,
| well grow from "a frontier post eslnb
lishcd and maintained TO restrain ~,
fornys of the savage rcd men, 10 bc th'
chiof city of the state, and ~ the en-
courugemcnt of TINT growth Mrs Jeh
niugs has fully done her share
Mrs Jennings was n member or IN,
Presbyterian church. hut her gcnerou,
deeds were not measured hy the rule 81
any dogma nor the narrow confines OF
my creed. None of the earlier churches
of the city. but were more or less ni0hu
mputs to the lihornlity OF Mrs. Jennings
But ii was not for her libernlity thnl
she was loved Bsirht IA intellect, cul
turcd. nm incxhnustahle fund fund of ga
poricnce Argp-honrtOd and ever rcslWn
siye TO appeals for comfort or sympathy
of her, IL may hc well suid none knew
her but TO love her; none knew her bu
10 praise
The funeral win be- conducted 10y
Rev. pr Nall, the time Is $3.50, from
the residence of her son Hyde lenuing
and the iutcrment will DO at ,he new
cemetery.