Editing Nicolaus Zinzendorf (section)

==Declining years==
By 1741 his daughter, Maria Theresa, had died and he decided to adopt a replacement. He chose an heiress, [[Mary Stonehouse]], whom he renamed Maria Theresa. She had been married for two years to an estranged Anglican vicar. She joined the Moravian church in 1742 and served as a worker as a patron and deaconess within his household. Her husband had a more difficult relationship with the church.<ref name=morb>{{Cite ODNB |last=Podmore |first=C. J. |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-63467 |title=Stonehouse, George (1714–1793), Church of England clergyman |date=2004-09-23 |volume=1 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/63467|isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>

A financial board was established among the Brethren, on a plan furnished by lawyer John Frederick Köber, which worked well. His son [[Christian Renatus von Zinzendorf|Christian Renatus]], whom Zinzendorf had hoped to make his successor, died in 1752 of tuberculosis.