Helen E. Sealy
Helen E. Sealy (b. Wood) (1837-1925) was born in Troy, Pennsylvania, and
died in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She married Robert P. Sealy, a house painter and colonel
with the Union Army during the American Civil War, in Winnebago, Illinois, in 1860. They
moved to Council Bluffs in 1868. Sealy studied Christian Science with Jennie B. Fenn, a
student of Mary Baker Eddy, in August 1886. She also studied with Mary D. Porterfield,
who was another student of Eddy. Although Sealy expressed an interest in studying with
Eddy herself, there is no record of her doing so. Sealy joined The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 4, 1896 and was well-known in
Christian Science circles in Council Bluffs upon her death.
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Helen E. Sealy
Helen E. Sealy (b. Wood) (1837-1925) was born in Troy, Pennsylvania, and
died in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She married Robert P. Sealy, a house painter and colonel
with the Union Army during the American Civil War, in Winnebago, Illinois, in 1860. They
moved to Council Bluffs in 1868. Sealy studied Christian Science with Jennie B. Fenn, a
student of Mary Baker Eddy, in August 1886. She also studied with Mary D. Porterfield,
who was another student of Eddy. Although Sealy expressed an interest in studying with
Eddy herself, there is no record of her doing so. Sealy joined The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 4, 1896 and was well-known in
Christian Science circles in Council Bluffs upon her death.
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