Margaret A. Selby, GW #61

Margaret was born in May 1887 to William and Euphemia (Wallace) Selby in England.  The family emigrated to the United States in 1888 and settled in Western Pennsylvania.  Margaret was received into membership at Trinity United Methodist Church in Philipsburg, Centre County, Pa. In 1900 the family was living in Gearhartville, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania where Margaret’s father worked as a coal miner.  Somehow Margaret heard about the Gospel Worker Society.  She applied to the society on 3 October 1905 when they were headquartered in Williamsport, Pa.  In 1910 Margaret was in Pittsburgh with other Gospel Workers.  The 1915 Cleveland City directory lists her as living at 76 Public Square which is where the Gospel Workers were located at that time.  Her whereabouts for the 1920 census remain unknown.  In her mother’s 1929 obituary she is mentioned as being in Youngstown, Ohio; likely she was participating in the Gospel Worker mission there.  On 18 December 1939 Margaret signed release papers, leaving the Gospel Worker Society.  She was given $800 and she released the Society from any liability for any reason. She was living in Youngstown, Ohio at the time she signed the release.  The following year she was counted in the census in Detroit, Michigan where she was living with her niece and her niece’s husband.  Margaret’s death date is unknown, but she was not listed in her brother’s 1955 obituary as a survivor.