A friend of this blog has sent Bruce a scan of a postcard sent from the Cedar Point Ohio convention of September 1922. It was written on September 11 (obviously during the convention) and mailed on September 13.
Front of postcard:
Rear of postcard:
Close up of addresser and addressee:
Transcribing the card, it was mailed to Walter Hixon, Grand, Okla. and reads:
Dear Bro and Sis,
It seems almost as if heaven has come down to earth. It's wonderful and glorious to be here among 15 thousand of God's people. I wish you could just peep in a second when meeting is on. Will be home for Sun evening meeting, D.V.
Love
Bro J.B.S.
Note from Jerome
Who was J.B.S? Who was Walter Hixon? Hixon appears in the local newspapers several times in this period. From the Ellis County Capital (Arnett) newspaper for 6 August, 1920:
This ran for a number of weeks in this newspaper. Then in 1921, the Ellis County Capital for 29 April, 1921, carried this notice:
Out of available records on the Ancestry site about the only candidate I could find for Walter Hixon is a Walter H. Hixson. He was a farmer who was born 1874 and died 16 April 1958. He died in Ellis County, Oklahoma. At the time the Cedar Point postcard was written, Grand was the county seat of Ellis County. Hixson's photograph and family details are on Find a Grave, but I have not been able to find anything to connect him with the Bible Student movement. Can other readers supply more?
To add to Jerome's article:
From the St. Paul Enterprise, March 7, 1922
2 comments:
Grand no longer exists, except as a historical site. As far as anyone who might know more, the nearest congregation I could find is in Woodward, 25 miles to the NE.
Great research.
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