Ernestine Chesser Williams papers, 1928-1986.

Rio Grande Historical Collections

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The Faithist movement was founded by a New York dentist and doctor named John B. Newbrough, who claimed to have written a new Bible, called Oahspe, while under spirit control. Contained in this Bible was "The Book of Shalam," which set forth a plan for gathering the outcast and orphaned children of the world and raising them, according to strict religious principles, to be the spiritual leaders of a new age. Newbrough and some twenty Faithists, as his followers were called, decided to create suc...

Flying H Ranch (N.M.)

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Williams, Ernestine Chesser, 1913-

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Ernestine Chesser Williams, oldest of ten children of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Chesser, grew up on a farm and ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. She then went to Abilene Christian College and married Boyd Williams, Jr. and had two daughters. She spent eight years teaching and living at the Flying H Ranch 10 miles south of Roswell in the 1930s-1940s. Her painting skills in her later years won her many awards, among them a "Women of Achievement" award from the Delta Kappa Gamma Southwest Regional Conference. ...