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Caption The final resting place of Robert Turner, the first black person to become a Bahá’í in the West, has been located and identified with a gravestone placed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the U.S.

The burial place is in Colma, California, just south of the San Francisco city limits. Mr. Turner, who was a butler employed by Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, was among the first group of 14 pilgrims from the West to visit ‘Abdu’l-Bahá in ‘Akká in late 1898 and early 1899. Among the other participants in that historic journey, organized by Mrs. Hearst, were Lua Getsinger and May Bolles (Maxwell).

Mr. Turner was born in Virginia on October 15, 1855 or 1856. He learned of the Faith from Edward and Lua Getsinger who had visited Mrs. Hearst in California.
Source Bahá’í News. Issue 604, page 12. View as PDF

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From the Bahá’í Publications, by permission of the copyright owner, National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá’ís of the United States © 1910-2021.

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