272
Sroufe, Georgia 196
Sroufe, Susan 196
Sroufe-Tiffany, Mrs. Dollie 196
Starkey, Irma 268
Stewart-Jolly, Mrs. May 204
Stewart, Sue 208

Teague, Mrs. Walter E. 272
Thomas, Edward 224
Tregar, Mme. Annie 204

Valentine, Inza 252
Valentine, Stella 252
Van Winkle, Ada 196
Victory, Arthur 236

Whitney, Mae 204
Wood, Dr. J.B. 224
Woodworth, Leslie E. 256
Worden, Nettie 204

Zimmerman, Charlotte 224

CHAPTER ONE

ANTECEDENTS AND CHILDHOOD

As far back as I can remember my life was associated with music.
Father and mother were both highly gifted. In our family were three
boys and seven girls, and each possessed a voice of unusual
excellence. The looked-for pleasure every day was the morning and
evening worship at which the family gathered in the sitting room to
hear the word of God explained by my father, Rev. Henry Kroh, D.D. The
dear old German hymns, Lobe den Herren, O Meine Seele, Christie, du
Lamm Gottes and others, were as familiar to me as the English hymns of
today, such as Nearer my God to Thee and All Hail the Power of Jesus'
Name. We were not blessed with children's songs, as are the children
of today, but sang the same hymns as the older members of the
congregation.

Father was descended from a royal Holland family. One of his ancestors
was the favorite sister of Admiral Theobold Metzger, Baron of Brada,
Major-General of all the Netherlands, who died of paralysis in the
sixty-sixth year of his life, February 23, 1691, in the house of the
Duke of Chamburg. He had gone with other lords and nobles of the land
to Graven Hage to swear allegiance to William III., King of Great
Britain, who had just come over from London as the regent of the
Netherlands. Even the physician in ordinary, who was sent by the King,
was unable to save him. By order of the King his body was placed in a
vault in the church on High Street in Brada, March 19, 1691, with
extra