Part Three--The "Parent Ministry"
Anme R o s e t t a Stephens was the last New Lebanon Shaker to serve in the
Ministry. The other members lived at Hancock or Canterbury That next
year, 1947, Mount Lebanon was closed, and the last Mount Lebanon Shaker
died in 1951. Therefore it can be said that without New Lebanon as a
place where Shakers lived, and with no New Lebanon Shakers, the name
Ministry of New Lebanon was no longer appropriate. The term "Parent
Ministry" was used with some frequency since Canterbury had come to
dominate the Ministry towards the end of the second decade of the
century. By the 1940's ministerial appointment slips issued at Mount
Lebanon use the name "Parent Ministry."

1946 September,
Emma B King
Frances Hall
Josephine Wilson died September 12, 1946 She was not replaced

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1957
Emma B King and da Crook-
Gertrude Soule'
Frances Hall died March 10, 1957 Ida Crook of Canterbury went in to the M i n i s t r y
to help
Emir,a King; Gertrude Soule ofSabbathday Lake succeeded Frances Hall

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1965
Emma King
Gertrude Soule
Marguerite Frost

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1966
Gertrude Soule
Emma King died July i, 1966. Marguerite Frost

In 1 967 Bertha Lindsay came into the Ministry. In February, 1971, El dress Marguerite
Frost died That next year, Gertrude Soule of Sabbathday Lake moved to Canterbury, where she
lived until her death on June 11, 1988. Bertha Lindsay passed away on O c t o b e r
3, 1990