Mrs. Jennie Davie Greenman, daughter of D. D. T. and Azubah Davie, was born in Verona, N. Y., April 29, 1841, and died at her home in Berlin. N. Y., September 24. 1914, from a stroke of apoplexy, at the age of 73 years, 4 months and 25 days.
When she was about eight years old, her parents moved to Utica, N. Y., where she began taking music lessons. She possessed such wonderful natural ability in both vocal and instrumental music that she was given a good musical education at the musical institute at East Poultney, Vt.
At the age of sixteen, after she had moved with her parents to Saratoga, she began teaching music and continued teaching for fifty-three consecutive years. She taught for fifty years in Berlin and many of the best musicians in the neighborhood received their instruction from her and can testify to her thoroughness, skill and ability as a teacher.
In December, 1859, Mrs. Greenman, her three sisters and one brother were baptized in the Little Hoosick River in Berlin at a time when the people had to cut the ice for baptism, after which they all united with the Seventh Day Baptist church at Berlin. At the age of eighteen she was married to Thomas E. Greenman, who died in 1904. She was a faithful worker in the church and society, constantly enriching the lives of others by her spiritual songs and labors of love, until the death of her husband, when advancing age, sickness and failing sight prevented her from doing active service for her Master. Her last days were full of loneliness and weakness, yet her faith in the loving care of her heavenly Father remained firm to the end. She prayed many times that the Lord would take her, and the answer to that prayer, we believe, opened for her the portals of heaven, ushered her into the presence of her Master and brought to her the treasured privilege of forever blending the spiritual melodies of her soul with the harmonies of the heavenly choir. All the family have gone to the better land except one sister, Mrs. Carr, who ministered to her during her last days.
The funeral services, which were conducted by her pastor, Rev. H. L. Cottrell, were held from her late residence in Berlin, Sabbath afternoon, September 26, 1914. Interment was made in the Berlin Seventh Day Baptist Cemetery.
