it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.
he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.
up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.
Oh, Leolaia,
I know where I recently saw an Archie Boyd in connection w/ Comanche, Texas-- there was an article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution titled "Ghosts of Sweetwater Creek" which contains a photograph of Synthia Stewart Boyd at home in Comanche, Texas, with her son Archie Boyd seated next to her and her grandson Elwood Boyd interviewing her. Maybe this is the same as the Archie you found in Comanche.
--Merry
it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.
he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.
up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.
Yikes! The complexities of genealogical research are beginning to make my brain sizzle. I'm new to all this, so I hope my naive and oversimplified ideas and inability to explain them very well will be forgiven me, but I can't stop now. I'm hooked. And I keep hoping I'll stumble on something genuine and useful one of these days.
Thanks for sharing your info, Leolaia and Athanasius. The date of Bonnie's mother's leaving Beth-Sarim did help me rule out the candidate I mentioned on an earlier post-- Mrs. Nettie Boyd.
I found some fascinating info on the owner of the oil company August Balko Jr. worked for in 1910 but as it is unrelated to the rest of our search at this time, I won't run off on a tangent. I was half hoping (in that fantasy world I visit from time to time) that maybe August's sister Patty married one of the owner's sons, thus making it slightly more relevant, but alas! It was not to be. Just imagine my surprise then in discovering that one's wife was actually named Patti... (maiden name Lummis, however) oh well...
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in your opinion are there any?
i say, 'in your opinion' because we all define morality differently.
Euph--
Your probably right. It's much too flexible to be an absolute. I appreciate your consisideration and clarification of that.
--Merry
comments you will not hear at the 10-17-04 wt study (september 1, 2004 issue)
read this and tell me.. http://www.geocities.com/athens/academy/6040/sect.htm.
jesus said at john 10:27, 28: "my sheep listen to my voice, and i know them, and they follow me.
Thanks for doing this, Blondie!
I appreciate being kept informed as to what spiritual foods my mother is being served every Sunday along with your well-researched truths that can be an antidote to their poisonous ones (at least for those who can/will take it).
--Merry Merry (quite contrary)
i read the post where some kid let go of a helium balloon at a convention, and everyone was watching it.
when i used to attend the conventions, i loved distractions.
i always heard multiple "pssst" sounds from people opening cans of cott cola.
Ahhh, memories.....and nice to know what everyone else was doing/thinking. Yer a naughty bunch, fer sher. No wonder you all ended up here And that's a good thing as far as I can see.
Favorite distractions...
*Playing with Gumby...when I was little my mom was pretty understanding about short attention spans and I got to bring my Gumby with me, notebook & pencil (so pencil sharpening was a favorite activity), blanket & pillow (Bedouin tent), thermos of something to drink, tic tacs.
*People watching as a teen, while massaging my cramped fingers during brief breaks from my frenzied note-taking...this included self-righteously frowning at those my age who got to sit up at the very top of the bleachers w/o parents, whispering and giggling and looking around with their binoculars.
*Sometimes I was helping in the kitchen during parts of the sessions, my hair and face damp with steam. The dining room was a fun place to sit because the atmosphere was rather more relaxed and casual.
*Watching the sign language interpretor.
*Sitting up high and staring down the steps until I got dizzy and felt like I was going to fall, just to get a small rush of adrenaline.
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in your opinion are there any?
i say, 'in your opinion' because we all define morality differently.
hmmm...is "harm none" an absolute? I try to live by this: "In so far as it harms none, do what you will" and I define harm as the deprivation of anyone's rights (1) to live (2) to be well (3) and to be self-determined (free)...
g'day fellow weekend posters!.
how's things for you this weekend?
strange turn of events weatherwise here downunder where last week we were "enjoying" 100 degrees fahrenheit and this weekend is now at a miserable 68!!!
interesting poll..
of, course as an itty bitty j-dub I thought it was/we were "universal"
now, I see it as an American-ized version of some sort of strange Hebrew-Greek myth-meld but I don't think they can really be considered an American religion since they are somewhat anti-American, nor can they be truly called a world religion as they are so anti-world, so I'm not sure what they are...
it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.
he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.
up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.
Oh, bother...I can't believe that in my recap several posts back I actually listed JFR's mother as his wife. I meant to say that he married Mary Fetzer. #!%!*#! Sorry.
Leolaia, interesting find on those Boyds in Texas! A little problematic but the possibilities are definitely intriguing. Wow. A Bonnie and an Archie neatly linked together.In Texas. I have no strong reason to associate Bonnie Boyd with an Archie Boyd other than their sharing a surname. Earnest mentioned on p.12 of this thread that there was a 6/1/85 WT that talked about the Society's having sent Archie & Georgia Boyd, their son Donald, and daughter Susan to assist with the work in San Pedro in 1942/43, and he wondered if there might be a familial link there. Given the lack of info about Bonnie, it seemed worth pursuing.
Do you have a date of death for the Archie Sr you mentioned? I've been wondering if Bonnie Boyd's father died before she and her mom went to Bethel or if her mom left him behind. I guess I've been assuming the former but, as evidenced by some of the other stories here, that is definitely not a given. And does anyone know when Bonnie's mother returned to Texas? And when she died?
Would love to hear more from anyone who cares to share!
--Merry
it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.
he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.
up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.
In the SSDI there is a Bonnie Heath that died in Atlanta, GA in August of 1979 but the birth year doesn't quite match Bonnie Boyd's (1904 as opposed to 1899) and I don't have a subscription to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution's "Stacks" or I would check the archived obits (assuming they go back that far). Sorry, no help here.
it was made by a women who in later years wore crotchless panties and bras which had holes in the nipple areas.
he not only knew the woman in question (she's now deceased), he has met her numerous times.
up until recently this secret of her year's long sexual affair with rutherford was kept by the family.
I wish I had something new on the exasperatingly elusive Bonnie Boyd! I don't know yet if what few old bones I have been able to dig up have any connection to each other and to her or if they will have to be discarded. If somone wants to help me confirm/disconfirm them here they are:
Since we "know" that Bonnie was born in Iowa, 1899, but her mother went home to Texas after leaving Beth-Sarim, I have been trying to discover a Boyd connection between Iowa and Texas (and I have been looking for the Archie Boyd that was mentioned earlier, as well).
*In Shelby County, Iowa, 29 January 1890, Edgar Boyd (son of John Boyd and Elizabeth Jamison) married Nettie Mann (daughter of John Mann and Mary Kennedy) = Mrs. Nettie Boyd.
*In the 1935 Citizens Directory of Malakoff, Texas, Henderson County, there is a listing for Mrs. Nettie Boyd.
*In the 1900 Henderson County, Texas census there is an Archie Luther T. Boyd, born February 1886 and in the 1930 census there is an Archie Luther Boyd (parents' nativity is different than those of the above Archie, so either he didn't know where his parents were born or he is a different Archie Luther) also born in 1886. He is married to Johnnie Miller Harris here but, at another site, is said to have been married to her only briefly as she had an affair with a cousin of her first husband (Enoch Harris).
As I said, I don't know how or even if these Boyds are connected to each other and to Bonnie, but it's all I've got to go on for now. Feel free to check into it further yourselves if you think it has any worthwhile possibility.
Happy hunting! --Merry
