[Magdalen] "Hand to Hand" - have you one to share?

[Jay Weigel]

My paternal grandmother, when she was a child, attended the same Baptist
church in Salem, IL, in which William Jennings Bryan had grown up. She
remembered hearing stories from the older folks in the congregation about
"little Billy Bryan" and that everyone was immensely proud of him. She
didn't quite understand at the time who he was, but later on when she was
older and her family moved to Chicago it all began to make sense.

Another ancestor of mine (I don't at this moment remember which one, but it
was on my maternal side) gave lodging for a winter to a fairly well-known
missionary to the Native Americans, David Brainerd. This was probably one
of my Mills ancestors, as that family was rife with clergy early on. The
Armstrong/Lapsley side, being mainly Scottish and Scotch-Irish, were more
into business and economics.

One of S/O's ancestors, I discovered while researching his family tree a
few years back, had given lodging to a team of surveyors of northern
Virginia. This team included a young man named George Washington. I don't
recall now if it was the same ancestor or another one who was later on
*extremely* active in the underside of the American
Revolution...publishing, pamphleteering, etc., and possibly a spy. I'd have
to look at my notes.


On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:

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> In a message dated 6/5/2016 1:32:17 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> polycarpa3 at ckt.net writes:
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> on his  way home from town, stopped in to give him the news
> that Lincoln had been  shot.  My g-g-g said, "Good." and went on with
> what he was  doing.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> This was, believe it or not, the reaction of the junior warden of TEC
> parish in Frankfurt /M, Germany when she was told that Martin Luther  King
> had been shot dead.
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> This occurred in the late 1960's, and (at least public) attitudes  were
> different then, but it was still a shock.  The following Sunday,  we were
> given an impassioned sermon by the Rector of the Frankfurt/M  church
> denouncing this statement.  Names were not mentioned, but  everyone
> knew who had made the statement.  The junior warden  resigned.
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> David Strang.
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