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2 results from the Main Catalog

4 results from the Chronology

from the main catalog (2 results; collapse)

  1. Bahá'í Faith in Austin, The: The Early Years, by Catherine Gent (1992). Covers years 1912–1971, and includes appendix "Anna Reinke: First Baha'i in Texas."
  2. Community Histories, Richard Hollinger, ed. (1992). Essay on the diversity of Western Bahá'í communities, followed by six histories of selected local communities in the United States, Britain, and Canada.

from the Chronology (4 results; collapse)

  1. 1953-08-26
      Ella Bailey (b. 16 December, 1864, Houston, Harris County, Texas) passed away in Tripoli, Tarabulus, Libya at the age of 88 years. [BW12:687]
    • She had accompanied Mr and Mrs Robert Gulick in their settlement in Tripoli. [BN No 271 september 1953 p6]
    • She was elevated to the rank of martyr. [MBW170]
    • On her passing the Guardian cabled: "The irresistibly unfolding Crusade has been sanctified by the death of heroic, eighty-eight year old Ella Bailey, elevating her to the rank of the martyrs of the Faith, shedding further luster on the American Bahá'í Community and consecrating the soil of the fast-awakening African continent." [BW12p688]
    • For the story of her life see PSBW131–42.
    • See Bahá'í Chronicles.
    • For her obituary see BW12:685–8.
    • For information on her burial site and a short biography see Find-a-grave.. Upon her passing she was interred at Hamming Cemetery, an Italian cemetery in Trioli where American servicemen and women were buried during the period there was a US military base nearby. After the base was closed and renovations were planned for the cemetery, there were no plans for the remains of the Americans so they were returned to the USA. Her remains were reinterred in the Delaware Veterans Memorial Cemetery in Millsboro,Delaware on the 21st of August, 2007.
    • See Youtube video I Adjure Them - The Ella Bailey Story as told by Hand of the Cause of God William Sears.
    • She had accompanied Mr and Mrs Robert Gulick in their settlement in Tripoli. [BN No 271 september 1953 p6]
    • See The Story of Ella Bailey.
  2. 1971-05-24
      The passing of Anna Reinke (b. 15 August, 1882 Travis County, Texas) in Travis County Texas. She was buried in the Maul Cemetery in Travis County.
    • She is considered the mother of the Bahá'í community in Texas. Anna Reinke was a seamstress who lived in a converted Austin trolley from 1942 until her passing. She had learned of the Faith from her sister in Washington DC. Reinke is credited with the first racially integrated meeting ever held in Texas when she joined Gregory at Anderson High School, which was an all-African American school, where he delivered a message of racial friendship. The program eventually became the forerunner of the Louis Gregory Symposium on Race Unity that began March 27, 2007, and is held annually on Austin's Huston-Tillotson University campus. In the late 1940s, the Texas Regional Teaching Committee began an annual event, the Inter-racial Panel, that included Texan members of the Bahá'í faith, with the first event—a picnic—held at the home of Reinke, an active committee member. [The Statesman 29 October, 2019]
    • Find a grave
  3. 1976-10-05
      The passing of Adelaide Sharp (b. Texas, 1896) in Tehran.
    • In 1929 she accompanied Dr Susan Moody (77) to Tehran and and took up the position of principal of the Tarbiyat School for Girls (opened 1910).
    • In 1931 she invited her mother, Clara Sharp, to come and live with her.
    • After the closing of the Tarbiyat Schools on the 6th of December, 1934, the Guardian asked her to remain in Persia. She organized study classes for both boys and girls to study English writings such as Bahá'í Administration, The Promised Day is Come, The World Order of Bahá'u'lláh and other works from the Guardian. In 1954 the Guardian ruled that women could serve on Bahá'í administrative bodied in Persia. She was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly and served in this role for the next fourteen years. She attended the First and Second International Conventions in 1963 and in 1968. Her five decade legacy of service in Iran included children's education, translating Writings, consolidating administrative institutions, serving as the"external affairs" representative for the National Assembly. Upon her passing memorial services where held in Tehran as well as other centres throughout the country. [BW17p418-420, Bahá'í Heroes & Heroines]
  4. 2004-10-26
      The passing of Dr. Helen Elsie Austin (b. 10 May 1908 in Alabama) in San Antonio, Texas. She was a pioneer and Knight of Bahá'u'lláh in Morocco. She also served on the National Spiritual Assemblies of the United States and North West Africa. By profession, she was an attorney, she received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1930 from the University of Cincinnati, becoming the first black woman to graduate from the law school. In 1937 she served as an assistant attorney general for Ohio. She later opened her own law office in Cincinnati. She was secretary of the Cincinnati branch of the NAACP and chair of the legal committee of Colored Women Federated Clubs. In addition, she was a US Foreign Service Officer. [BWNS338; Bahaipedia]
    • In 1955 Dr. Austin wrote Above All Barriers: The Story of Louis G. Gregory It was reprinted in 1964, 1965,1969, and 1976. [Collins7.82]
    • Find a grave.
 
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