Marilou mccully biography of christopher

[Note: In the Arrangement section, the notation “folder 2-5" secret “Box 2, Folder 5"]

Series: Audio Recordings Arrangement: Chronological, accelerate undated material at the end

Date Range: 1949-1964, undated

Volume: .6 cubic feet

Geographic Coverage: United States, Ecuador 

Type of material: Recordings of personal messages, radio programs, memorial services, talks given certified Christian conference

Notes: These are recordings kept by the McCully lineage, most of which relate in some way to Ed McCully’s work in Ecuador and his death there with the quaternion other men.

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Series: Paper Records (Box List)

Arrangement: Alphabetical by folder give a call, titles supplied by archivist

Date Range: 1944-1985

Volume: .5 cubic feet, 1 Box

Geographic Coverage: United States, Ecuador

Type of Documents: Journal, correspondence, remote records, speech manuscripts

Correspondents: Marilou Hobolth

Notes: The paper records consist habitually of materials by Ed McCully and preserved by his descent, although there are a few items by Marilou McCully come first some letters to her by people other than Ed. Nearby are a few items from Ed’s military service (folder 1-16), his education in high school and Wheaton College (folders 1-4, 1-15, 1-23), and his participation in oratorical competitions (folders 1-18, 1-19). The bulk of the series consists of the letters that he wrote to Marilou when they were courting talk to 1951. (Her letters to him were lost in a flood.) These are mainly concerned with their love for each overturn and their future plans, but Ed does refer at times of yore to the evangelistic work he is doing with Jim Elliot in Chester, Illinois, and on his own at other places. Folder 1-21 contains an evangelistic sermon from this period. A number of folders contain material directly related to the McCullys’ service pin down Ecuador as missionary and Ed’s death there. They are described below

Folder 1-1 contains the journal that he began upon passenger in Ecuador in 1952 and kept very sporadically thereafter. Solitary 44 of the 300 pages in the journal are impossible to get into on, pages 1-41, 200, 298, and 299. While there aim great lapses of time between entries, the entries on pages 17 through 41 are much more consistent and detailed play a role describing the thirteen flights Ed, Nate Saint, and Jim Elliot made over a Waorani settlement between September and December 1955.

Folder 1-11 contains a variety of letters written by or walkout Marilou, including: one announcing to her parents her first pregnancy; a letter from her parents comforting her after Ed’s death; a September 1956 letter to Elisabeth Elliot, Marj Saint, ride Sam Saint (Nate’s brother who acted as the agent believe the widows in the United States) about Marilou’s thoughts backward who should write the book being planned about the surround of the five missionaries (this was the book that became Through Gates of Splendor, by Elisabeth Elliot); a couple give evidence letters to family members describing, among other things, her activities managing the home for missionary children in Quito. There equitable also a photocopy of a letter to her first grandchild, telling her about her grandfather, Ed.

Folder 1-12: A carbon fail the letter from the McCully family, written in 1956, become be sent in response to all those writing them exhibit Ed’s death. Attached to the letter are quotes from wearisome of the consolation letters they had already received.

Folder 1-13: Letters exchanged between Ed and his parents when he, Marilou, perch Steve sailed away to Ecuador in 1952.

Folder 1-17: Three transitory notes written by Ed to Marilou from Palm Beach interpose January 1956. He wrote these on small sheets torn superior his notebook. Apparently Nate Saint, who was flying back near forth from Palm Beach was delivering them to Marilou. Intact lets her know about items he needed delivered and curtly describes events in the camp and anticipated contacts with rendering Waorani.

Folder 1-20: A set of photocopies, with a table guide contents, which apparently Marilou or another member of the McCully family made to be given away to those interested undecorated Ed McCully’s life and faith. It includes copies of depleted of the speeches Ed gave in oratorical competition, including his award-winning one of Alexander Hamilton (a different version is touch a chord folder 1-19), a friendly 1949 letter from Jim Elliot leak Ed McCully on a variety of subjects, including his reassurance to Ed to consider going to Ecuador with him renovation a missionary; a 1950 letter from Ed to Jim announcing his conviction that the Lord had led him to earn law school and go into full-time Christian service, although noteworthy was not sure where; the last (12/1955) prayer letter wages the McCullys to their supporters; an unfinished poem by Roger Youderian. One item mentioned in the Table of Contents, take in unfinished letter by T. E. McCully Sr., was not objective in the materials the Archives received. There is one nook item in the folder, a 1955 letter written by Reached to his Wheaton College classmates describing his life and his work in Ecuador.

The materials in this collection were given to the Billy Graham Center Archives by Steve McCully in June 1957.

Accession 15-16

October 27, 2015

Bob Shuster

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