This "sister" has proposed to the Executive Commitee of The Watchtower (Rutherford, Van Amburgh and Pierson) on December 6, 1916 the publication of "The Finished Mistery", she has proposed the name of the book and the name of the two redactors (Woodworth and Fischer). (You can find her letter in the transcript of the trial of the seven directors in 1918) I have searched her name, and i have found that she have written several hymns and poems in the Russell's time, and even has compiled a part of the "Heavenly Daily Manna". My question is "was she one of the five trustees who have herited of the shares of Russell at his death?" and after 1916, "where has she ended her life ?" Anybody has information concerning her ?
Who is Gertrud W. Seibert ?
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cabasilas
Siebert was kind of an unofficial poet for the Watch Tower Society during Russell's day.
She is mentioned (though not by name) on pp. 145-146 of Then is Finished the Mystery of God (1969). About 1926, she offered to publish a revised version of Daily Heavenly Manna and the Society refused her offer. The 1969 book implies it was because she was a woman. Instead, the Society started publishing the yearly Yearbooks starting in 1927.
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chasson
It seems she has died in 1928. I Have found the date of her marriage with Robert Seibert, to wit, the September 18, 1890 in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania.
It seems by a file i have downloaded but not noted the url, that in 1921, she was in Australia, at this time the Altoona High School Alumni made his Directory (Blair County, PA) and mentionned her for the 1880 class.
Here is the quote:
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CLASS OF 1880
NAME LOCATION MARRIED TO AND WHEN
Woodcock, Gertrude A. Australia Robert S. Seibert, 9/18/1890"
Bye
Charles
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chasson
In her letter in the Watchtower of June 15, 1913 we can see that her husband was a methodist and not a Bible Student all his life. Evidently she tried to made a testimony at the funeral's of her husband with the aid of Clayton Woodworth.
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