A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . casions. In 1742 Elder Urner was asked to join in thefamous Zinzendorf S)nods. He sent Brother Martinas delegate from the Coventry church. The sequelof this is portrayed at length in the subsequentchapter on Annual Meeting. Elder Urner was reallythe official father of the Annual Meeting and nodoubt presided over the one in 1742. It is my opinionthat this first Annual Meeting was held in his house. His actions on these two important occasions havebeen universally approved and followed by the Broth-erhood ever since. He is thus int
A history of the German Baptist brethren in Europe and America . casions. In 1742 Elder Urner was asked to join in thefamous Zinzendorf S)nods. He sent Brother Martinas delegate from the Coventry church. The sequelof this is portrayed at length in the subsequentchapter on Annual Meeting. Elder Urner was reallythe official father of the Annual Meeting and nodoubt presided over the one in 1742. It is my opinionthat this first Annual Meeting was held in his house. His actions on these two important occasions havebeen universally approved and followed by the Broth-erhood ever since. He is thus intimatel)- identifiedwith the practice of the church, and next to Mack,the most significant elder in our early history. He was married to Catherine Reist. Their childrenwere Mary, wife of Andrew Wolff; Martin, who mar-ried Elizabeth Edis or Addis;^) Jacob, who marriedBarbara Light; Catherine, who never married, andJohn, who also never married. His wife Catharine died In April, 1752, and he was (i) Elizabeth Edis or Addis was a widow, her maiden name being Gravestone of Martin Urner, Ar. Some Leaders in Colonial Ainerica. 279 subsequently married to Barbara , who survived him, dying May 8, 1796, aged eighty-four years. Tothis union there were no children. Elder Urner died March 29, 1755, and is buried inthe Coventry Brethren Graveyard. For the biographic facts in this sketch of MartinUrner, I am indebted to Isaac L. Urner, LL. D.,whose Genealogy of the Urner Family and Historyof the Cove?iiry Brethren Chiirch^^^ are valuable con-tributions to the literature of the church. Throughhis enterprise the Coventry Brethren Burying Groundhas been made a model of neatness, simple beauty,and permanence. The gateway is reproduced hereto stimulate other congregations to provide propersleeping-places for the precious dead. The Second Martin Urner. Martin Urners successor in the eldership of theCoventry church was his own nephew, Martin Urner,son of Jacob Urner. He was born Sept. 4, 1725
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