Silver Jackman
Silver Jackman | |
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| Born | Silver May Hunt May 6, 1883 Norwood, South Australia, Australia |
| Died | February 16, 1968 St. Peters, South Australia, Australia |
| NSA member | Australia & N.Z., 1934 - 1948 |
| Spouse(s) | Leslie Frederick Jackman (1913-1962) |
| Parent(s) | Frederick George Hunt and Sophia Chambers |
Silver May Jackman (May 6, 1883 - Feb 15, 1968) was an early South Australian Baha’i who served on the first National Spiritual Assembly of Australia and New Zealand and as National Treasurer for the Australian Baha’i community.
Biography[edit]
Jackman attended Norwood Baptist Church, and by 1915 she was a piano soloist for the Church.[1][2]
She first heard of the Faith in 1929 when Hyde and Clara Dunn stayed at her boarding house in Blackwood, Adelaide.[3] She soon became a Baha’i and began holding regular firesides in her home.[4] She was elected to the Local Spiritual Assembly of Adelaide in 1932, and was one of three delegates elected to represent Adelaide at the first National Convention for the Baha’is of Australia in 1934. She was elected to the National Spiritual Assembly at the Convention, and was later elected Treasurer, succeeding inaugural Treasurer of the Assembly Percy Almond. As Treasurer she occasionally corresponded with the Guardian on financial matters.
In 1944 Jackman travelled to Sydney to assist Charlotte Moffitt and Olive Routh in purchasing a building to serve as the Haziratu’l-Quds for the Australian Baha’i community. Ruhiyyih Khanum thanked Jackman on the Guardians behalf, writing the following in a letter to her:
"He very deeply appreciates all the trouble you personally have gone to in order to find a suitable building for the National Bahá'í Headquarters and the efforts of other devoted friends."[5]
She personally delivered all files and books associated with the Baha’i treasury to the building so that it could serve as the Centre of the Baha’i community. As she lived in Adelaide she stepped down as Treasurer and was succeeded by a Sydney Baha’i, Noel Walker.[6] She continued to serve on the National Spiritual Assembly until 1948.
In 1949 she helped establish a Local Spiritual Assembly in St. Peters, South Australia and was elected to the body. In 1952 she visited Perth, Western Australia and distributed some Baha’i literature.[7] At some point she moved to Gawler, but she returned to St. Peters in 1963 and lived there until she passed away in 1968.
References[edit]
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5474823
- ↑ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8652522
- ↑ https://bahai-library.com/shoghi-effendi_messages_antipodes&chapter=1#23 June 1944
- ↑ Baha’i Wold Vol. 15 p490
- ↑ Messages to the Antipodes, Shoghi Effendi
- ↑ Baha’i World, Vol. 10, p224
- ↑ Baha’i News, No. 253
External Links[edit]
- Silver Hunt Jackman on WikiTree - family tree
