Transcription and interpretation of the Bertha (Hoover) Culler and Edward Culler diaries. Hoover and Culler family history written by their foster son, Jacob C. Wine, Jr. (Jacob Wine).

Materials include but are not limited to:

Roots of the Culler family and John Bowman Culler family.

John Culler and Anna Heestand.

Edward Monroe Culler, son of David Culler and Belinda Powell Culler.

Biographies of Edward Culler.

Edward's death.

Lineage of Edward Culler.

Easley Church of the Brethren, Alabama.

Homesteading in Saskatchewan, Canada.

The Saskatchewan diary.

The Bethany Bible School diary.

Lecture notes at Bethany

Certificate of recognition.

A new home for Jacob Wine, Jr. and foster parents.

The Easley community and the Church of the Brethren.

Baptisms at Easley.

Easley membership list.

Funerals at Easley.

Easley Church of the Brethren History recorded by Bertha Culler.

Biographical materials of Bertha Arena Culler and diary notes.

Manchester College notes.

Bertha's call to the ministry in the Church of the Brethren.

Bertha's ancestral line.

Family of Miriam Culler and Herbert Phillips.

The Hoover family by generations.

In memory of Miriam Gladys Phillips.

Funeral service for Herbert Phillips.

Memorial for Lowell Phillips.

Obituaries.

Reference: "The Huber-Hoover Family History," by Harry M. Hoover, Lancaster, PA.

Copy of "Weaverland, Settlement - Settlers - Graveyard, and its Four Plantations, Now (1933) Divided into Forty-five Farms," by M. G. Weaver, New Holland, Pennsylvania.

Bertha (Hoover) Culler attended Manchester College for 2 semesters in 1900, concentrating in the area of Music. She appears in the alumni directory as Bertha Hoover. Later, she was called to the ministry by the Church of the Brethren while at Bethany Bible Seminary in Chicago, but gave up this position when she and her husband, Edward Culler, moved to Alabama.

Bertha writes in her diary: Nearly forty years ago after having been at Bethany Bible Seminary in Chicago several years. I left there as a minister.  This was granted without my request.  At matriculation I arranged for a course almost as my husband did. Homiletic and Religious pedagogy in preparation to be as a helpmate in the ministry. Not a preacher.  It was suggested Unknown to me that I should do public speaking (sentences unclear)...Frequently I spoke after leaving.. For several years I spoke (unclear sentence)...On arriving in the South-land I immediately discovered that a woman in the pulpit was not desirable.  So I did not continue in that line of church work.  Too, there were so many children and young people that I had more than I could do in undertaking to direct them.