FOUND: Lousiville, KY church monthly from 1928
I went to my grandfather’s yesterday to try to find two photos that I knew he had. In the process, I found a small booklet published by the Christ Evangelical Church of Louisville, Kentucky, dated February 1928.
It is called “Our Church and Home Monthly”
It is a 16 page booklet that lists all of the church officers, the upcoming events, notices about who was sick, who had recently died, been baptised, and married. It lists a full treasurers report that spans three pages, bible verses, psalms, and hymns, two historical articles (”Organization of Protestantism” and “The Layman’s Missionary Movement”) and uplifting and motivational articles. It also has a bit of humor sprinkled in:
Lawyer: Why don’t you two settle this out of court?
Cilent: That’s what we’d prefer to do, sir; but the police always stop us.
and
“Polygon” is the latin word for dead parrot.
I also found an odd statement in the historical article regarding the origins of Protestantism:
The word Protestant comes from the word Protestant.
Woah… Deep! LOL. I’m assuming that this was a typo and the woman who wrote the article meant to say “The word Protestant comes from the word Protestor.”
The booklet’s genealogical value to me is the listing of my grandmother’s baptism. I actually had no idea that she was baptized:
On February 5, at the church, Jacqueline Corrine Osborn, child of Thomas Osborn and Thelma, nee Seibert, born September 9, 1927, in Akron, Ohio. Sponsors: Mrs. Elizabeth Dugan and Mr. Rix Beckman.
It also shows that my… oi, now I have to find out how she was related to me… my g-g-great aunt, Willella Seibert-Rondi, was the Treasurer of the Mission Circle and that her husband, Richard Rondi, was the Treasurer of the Church.
Willella’s father, Jacob Seibert (my g-g-g-grandfather) was the treasurer of the church before he died in 1910. I wonder if Richard Rondi took up the job immediately after Jacob’s death, or later.
I was hoping that I could get copies of this monthly booklet for the years prior to Jacob Seibert’s death, unfortunately, the inside cover states that this booklet was started in 1913, 3 years after Jacob’s death. Oh well. It’s still a nice little find on it’s own.
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Thanks to Stephen P. Morse for his wonderful relationship calculator that helped me verify that Willella was indeed my g-g-g-aunt. I’m sure I will find many more reason’s to use it again in my research.