(reprinted)
The
above contact card was for Mrs M A Boder. Mary Ann Dunbar (1860-1948) was from
Scots-Irish background and married William F Boder in Allegheny in 1889. They
had one son, William Dunbar Boder (1891-1980).
Mary is
mentioned once in ZWT in the issue for August 15, 1908. She signed a document giving support to “the
vow” as part of the Avalon class (Avalon, Allegheny, Penn.) The document was also signed by W D Boder.
This was not her husband but her son who would be about 17 years old at the
time.
Mary
remained with the IBSA and her funeral announcement in 1948 mentioned Jehovah’s
Witnesses. From the Pittsburgh-Sun Telegraph, March 7,1948, page 33.
I do not
know her son’s subsequent religious history other than that he claimed exemption
on his WW1 Draft card on the grounds of being a member of the International
Bible Students. From a document dated June 5, 1917.
3 comments:
Thanks, Jerome, for posting this.
I see on the list "Mrs. M. L. Herr". Wasn't she the Jessie Herr who wrote many of the old songs that survived until the most recent songbook?
Andrew Martin
I have not researched this in detail, but I believe you are right. Maurice L Herr married Jessie McPhail - and there's a name that is a bit of a giveaway.
The Herrs, Maurice and Jessie, were in Brooklyn Bethel for many years, and when Jessie died in the 1930s she was buried in the Society's burial ground at Woodrow Road, Staten Island. Although the name McPhail is strongly suggestive, it appears that that Jessie McPhail, daughter of Matthew L McPhail, hymn writer, was a different person.
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