A paragraph from current SI 3 chapter. Note Mrs. William Le Claire. Her husband was an enrolled tribal member. I cannot find her in that record. Who, exactly was she?
As I
did in volume three of this work, I’ll focus on a narrow geographical area, in
this case the States of Kansas and Ohio, a choice driven by available records.
There were several Watch Tower evangelists preaching there in the 1880-1886
period and whose ministry produced results. We noted some in volume two – an
Advent Christian Clergyman, J. S. Lawver, an anonymous adherents. New to this
research is Mrs. William Le Claire. We know little about her beyond a letter
sent from her to the editor of the St. Paul, Minnesota, New Era Enterprise. She
was, she wrote, one of the first Millennial Dawn colporteurs,
evangelizing in Missouri, Nebraska, and Kansas. For twelve years –
approximately from 1887 to 1899 – she traveled by covered wagon promoting Watch
Tower publications.[1]
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