Individual Details
Susanna Farnum
(2 Jan 1784 - 3 Jul 1851)
The Republican Banner and Nashville Whig, 14 July 1851
From the Presbyterian Record
DIED - At St. Louis, on the 3d instant, Mrs. Susan F. Berry, consort of Dr. Daniel Berry, (both of whom have been long and favorably known in this community).
Mrs. Berry was born at Andover, Mass., Jan 2d, 1784, and had well nigh completed, at the time of her departure, the ordinary limit of three score years and ten, beyond which few are permitted to live.
Naturally endowed with a mind of no ordinary vigor, and which, moreover, had been highly cultivated by a liberal education, she was by her extensive acquirements, as well as by her remarkably dignified and pleasing address, fitted to adorn any position, to which her various accomplishments might have assigned her.
So early as 1817, she removed to Tennessee, and in union with her husband, Dr. Berry, was soon known not only as a lady of rich and varied attainments, but as an instructress of high skill and success, as to her manner of teaching. To prove such results, may of her surviving pupils and their daughters, at different points in our great valley, might yet be presented, as examples of all that is solid, as well as useful and ornamental, in what may be justly termed female education. In her social and religious, as well as in her literary character, Mrs. Berry was a lady of high and most decided claims to veneration and esteem. Few mothers, either by precept or example, have ever exercised a more commanding or benign influence, in their social or domestic relations. While to her worthy husband she was most truly respectful and affectionate, she was at the same time, all to her children that a relationship so endearing could be expected to embrace. By all her household, whatever relation in its different departments its members might sustain, she was at once, not only acknowledged, but revered by them all, as the object of their united deference, confidence and regard.
In her religious views and affections, her mind was truly enlightened, as well as her heart spiritually exercised.
The great doctrines of the cross, including the Supreme divinity of the Son of God, together with His vicarious sacrifice for human redemption, were essential articles in her system of scriptural faith. Nor did she forget at the same time, to ascribe all her salvation, all her hopes and joys, to the renewing, saving, and soul-satisfying influences of the Holy Spirit.
Her last long and painful affliction was doubtless intended by its sanctifying effects, not only to confirm her faith, and to purify her affections, but, moreover, to perfect all her graces, previous to her joyful entrance on the holy joys of God’s presence.
We learn that her last days were full of peace - that she even longed "to depart to be with Christ," and that finally, after giving shelved ones around her many precious evidences of her faith and hope, "she slept in Jesus."
May her aged husband, now soon to follow her, be consoled under his sense of loss and desertion, with the happy persuasion that "his loss, is her eternal gain."
And may the children, most of whom have professed "like precious faith" with herself, all be brought to live her life, and to die her death.
And finally, may all the remaining members of the 1st Presbyterian Church of Nashville, to which she has been so long attached, be reminded that by her death, together with the removal of two others of their communion, whose obituaries we also publish in our columns of this week, that they too must soon individually die, and that as the tree falls, there it shall be." "He that hath an ear, let him hear."
From the Presbyterian Record
DIED - At St. Louis, on the 3d instant, Mrs. Susan F. Berry, consort of Dr. Daniel Berry, (both of whom have been long and favorably known in this community).
Mrs. Berry was born at Andover, Mass., Jan 2d, 1784, and had well nigh completed, at the time of her departure, the ordinary limit of three score years and ten, beyond which few are permitted to live.
Naturally endowed with a mind of no ordinary vigor, and which, moreover, had been highly cultivated by a liberal education, she was by her extensive acquirements, as well as by her remarkably dignified and pleasing address, fitted to adorn any position, to which her various accomplishments might have assigned her.
So early as 1817, she removed to Tennessee, and in union with her husband, Dr. Berry, was soon known not only as a lady of rich and varied attainments, but as an instructress of high skill and success, as to her manner of teaching. To prove such results, may of her surviving pupils and their daughters, at different points in our great valley, might yet be presented, as examples of all that is solid, as well as useful and ornamental, in what may be justly termed female education. In her social and religious, as well as in her literary character, Mrs. Berry was a lady of high and most decided claims to veneration and esteem. Few mothers, either by precept or example, have ever exercised a more commanding or benign influence, in their social or domestic relations. While to her worthy husband she was most truly respectful and affectionate, she was at the same time, all to her children that a relationship so endearing could be expected to embrace. By all her household, whatever relation in its different departments its members might sustain, she was at once, not only acknowledged, but revered by them all, as the object of their united deference, confidence and regard.
In her religious views and affections, her mind was truly enlightened, as well as her heart spiritually exercised.
The great doctrines of the cross, including the Supreme divinity of the Son of God, together with His vicarious sacrifice for human redemption, were essential articles in her system of scriptural faith. Nor did she forget at the same time, to ascribe all her salvation, all her hopes and joys, to the renewing, saving, and soul-satisfying influences of the Holy Spirit.
Her last long and painful affliction was doubtless intended by its sanctifying effects, not only to confirm her faith, and to purify her affections, but, moreover, to perfect all her graces, previous to her joyful entrance on the holy joys of God’s presence.
We learn that her last days were full of peace - that she even longed "to depart to be with Christ," and that finally, after giving shelved ones around her many precious evidences of her faith and hope, "she slept in Jesus."
May her aged husband, now soon to follow her, be consoled under his sense of loss and desertion, with the happy persuasion that "his loss, is her eternal gain."
And may the children, most of whom have professed "like precious faith" with herself, all be brought to live her life, and to die her death.
And finally, may all the remaining members of the 1st Presbyterian Church of Nashville, to which she has been so long attached, be reminded that by her death, together with the removal of two others of their communion, whose obituaries we also publish in our columns of this week, that they too must soon individually die, and that as the tree falls, there it shall be." "He that hath an ear, let him hear."
Events
| Birth | 2 Jan 1784 | Andover, Essex, Massachusetts | |||
| Marriage | 8 Aug 1809 | Andover, Essex, Massachusetts - Daniel Berry | |||
| Death | 3 Jul 1851 | St Louis, Missouri |
Families
| Spouse | Daniel Berry (1777 - 1851) |
| Father | Isaac Farnum (1742 - 1823) |
| Mother | Mary Osgood (1753 - 1820) |
| Sibling | Sarah "Sally" Farnum (1771 - 1854) |
| Sibling | Isaac Farnum (1773 - 1839) |
| Sibling | Mary Farnum (1775 - 1836) |
| Sibling | Martha Farnum (1779 - 1869) |
| Sibling | John Osgood Farnum (1781 - 1813) |
| Sibling | Charles Farnum (1787 - 1822) |
| Sibling | Charlotte Farnum (1793 - 1873) |