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The brothers and sisters in Lampasas in 1948 (like most North American Christadelphians at the time), belonged to the Berean fellowship, and the Central fellowship was the smaller of the three. Carl’s brother Sam (Erby’s father) was a member of the ecclesia. 4 Berean Christadelphian, May, 1948 of the Lampasas Ecclesia at the time. Erby Wolfe, who was Carl Wolfe’s nephew, was the Recording Bro. In another connection between editors, Bro. Jesse Hatcher) were members of the Lampasas, Texas Ecclesia. So I was the child of a ‘mixed marriage’!” 3 Texas Memoirs, George Booker, 2004 From Berean to CentralĪt the time George Booker was born to Eldon and Ruth Booker in 1948, George’s mother and his grandmother (Sis. Incidentally, the Booker family were Unamended Christadelphians, and the Johnson/Hatcher family were Amended Christadelphians. Eldon Booker and Ruth Hatcher married in December 1945, and… drum roll!!… on January 21, 1948, in San Saba, Texas, their first son was born… George Thomas Booker. “In 1945 - at the end of the war - Eldon Booker returned from England. Lyndon Johnson grew up amongst many Christadelphians and attended Christadelphian Sunday schools and Bible schools. Johnson, who became President of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

One of Sam and Eliza’s grandchildren was Lyndon B. It was in just such wagons that she and her family would travel to the early fraternal gatherings and Bible schools in rural Texas, camping along the roadside for as much as a week at a time along the way.

She told me once that her earliest memory was of seeing a covered wagon coming over the distant hills, and her running excitedly to tell her parents that it was the angels coming to take them to the judgment. The youngest daughter was Jessie, my grandmother, born in 1887. Shortly thereafter, they were baptized as Christadelphians.

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“In the 1880s a travelling doctor who was also a Christadelphian preacher held a series of debates with a preacher for the Church of Christ - which Sam and Eliza and Eliza’s mother attended. It reads like an American History lesson that includes the Civil War, life on the frontier, cattle drives, World War II, and an American President. Booker may well have the most interesting and colorful family background of any editor. Lloyd had Texas Christadelphian ancestors, but Bro. Don Styles’ funeral, Family historyīoth Bro. Don Styles, editor number three, lived in Pasadena, Texas for five years (1960-1965). In fact, each of the first four editors of The Tidings had a connection to the Lone Star State as Bro. 22 years later (1948) the fourth editor, Bro. Bob Lloyd, the second editor, was a native of Houston, born there in 1926. Carl Wolfe, was born near San Saba, Texas in 1898. George Booker took over as the new editor of The Tidings in 2006, he was the fourth brother to hold that position and the third to be a Texas native. While The Christadelphian Tidings of the Kingdom of God was born in California, the magazine has had very close ties to the state of Texas as well.