Whenever I obtain an old publication of the Watch Tower
Society I always check through its pages, in case a previous owner has tucked
in a Motto card or newspaper cutting or photograph as a bookmark. I have had
some excellent finds this way.
A set of
pocket edition Studies that ended up in Australasia had two photographs tucked
inside them. Alas, the original owner did not think of posterity by writing a
name for the person on the back of the photographs, but only some personal
comments that would only mean something to immediate family and friends.
We know that the person in the two pictures above
was the grandmother of a previous owner of the books (name unknown) and here is
the relevance to this blog - she worked with Charles Taze Russell in Bible
House.
The black and white photograph has printed on the
back,”Taken at Myrtle’s last summer” and the faded color one has “Week of
November 30, 1957.”
Does anyone recognize who this might be?
Addenda
Bernhard from his store of rare photographs has supplied a picture of "Brother and Sister Wilson." It is believed this is George and Margaret and was taken in 1929. See the comment trail for a little more detail.
4 comments:
some time ago there was some items on ebay which I have copy of. the picture looks very much like the bits I have she part of a group who work at bible house only have part of her name G. Ma Wilson the post mark on the bits I have sept 14 th 1911
please let me know if this help and is it the same lady in which I have two or three picture agape Richard
Thanks for the comment which may kickstart others to fill in some gaps. It would be nice if we could identify her. Bernhard's book on the Bible House lists all the known workers there, but there is no-one named Wilson. However, the list does not claim to be complete. The 1910 census for the Brooklyn Bethel family doesn't have a Wilson either, but that only reflects that year. I hope others can help with both identification and a story.
The first question is: why we can say she worked in the Bible House? What is the proof? And if she had really worked there, so what kind of worker she was? A part-time worker for a short period, maybe only some days or a permanent worker? Then I found in my archive that there was in the Allegheny class (today we will say congregation) a Martha Wilson. But it seems more likely to me that it could well have been Margaret G. Wilson. She was married with George M. Wilson and they lived also in Allegheny. I have a photo of them from 1929 and she looks like the woman on the photo, of course 20 years younger.
Wow, great work.
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