Living Family Archive

Gerri Beckman Payne

Biography

Supplied details of Adah Sophrona's life and her mother Edith's abuse.

Stories mentioning Gerri

Sophrona's Children and the Love That Helped Edith HealAdah Sophrona Guild Beckman died of tuberculosis at 38, leaving eight surviving children after Samuel's fatal poisoning at two. Her widower Frank married Clara, who severely abused little Edith and was imprisoned after Frank discovered the abuse. The family concealed the imprisonment with a brain-tumor story. Frank later married Mary, whose love helped Edith recover. Edith became a tender mother, and her daughter Gerri supplied details. The account also recalls Adah's lost inheritance and Frank's later Wabedo Lake resort.

Referenced in

History of the Guild Family — THE SAW MILL

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