1998

  • August 1. Nancy Granert began as organist.
  • Building Chair David Carlson wrote a grant proposal to the Mass. Historical Commission, which awarded us a $100K matching grant for restoration of the Lindsey Chapel.
  • Scenes of The Proposition with Kenneth Branagh as priest were filmed at Emmanuel.
  • Mary Eliot (Pat) Jackson served as junior warden with John Hsia as senior warden.  She edited Emmanuel News from 2000-01.

Mary Eliot (Pat) Jackson with her poodle Zephira in 2025

1922

25 Nov.  William Lindsey, Jr. died before completion of his last and greatest creation, our Leslie Lindsey Memorial Chapel.  He had been born to Maria and William Lindsey on 12 August 1858 in Fall River MA. He is buried in the Lindsey plot (6462) on Cherry Ave. in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. For his Horatio Alger story, see FindaGrave. His funeral was held here on 29 November. He was survived by his wife Anne Hawthorne Sheen (whom he had married in Fall River in 1884), their son Kenneth L. Lindsey and daughter Dorothy Lindsey, his sisters Ann & Eliza Lindsey, and his brother Dr. John H. Lindsey.

1915

  • April 21. Parishioner Leslie Lindsey and Stuart Mason married at Emmanuel.  She is pictured below with her father, William Lindsey.

    William & Leslie Hawthorne Lindsey on her wedding day at Emmanuel

    William & Leslie Hawthorne Lindsey on her wedding day at Emmanuel

  • May 7. The Lusitania, upon which the newly weds left for the groom’s home in England, was sunk by a German U-boat.  For more detail, please see our Lusitania Centennial.