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1949 Summer
194-		 Green Acre did not open for summer school this year or the next as an austerity measure so that funds could be directed to the completion of the Wilmette Temple. [SYH236] Green Acre, Eliot, ME; Green Acre, Eliot, ME
1949 5 – 7 Aug
194-		 The second European Teaching Conference was held in Brussels. [BW11:52] - Conferences; - Conferences, International; - Europe; Belgium; Brussels, Belgium; Conferences, Bahá'í; Conferences, Teaching
1949 16 Aug
194-		 The passing of Lilian Vaughan McNeill (b.1 December, 1879). In May, 1931 she and her husband, Brigadier General Angus McNeill had taken a lease on the abandoned property at Mazra'ih where they lived until her passing. They had restored the house and property respecting the fact that Bahá'u'lláh and His family had lived there from June 1877 until September, 1879. In 1981 the staff at the Bahá'í World Centre discovered her simple grave in the Commonwealth Cemetery in Haifa and, with the permission of her family, erected a befitting and dignified memorial. She had been a childhood friend of Marie Alexandra Victoria (Queen Marie of Romania). During her latter years at Mazra'ih she wrote a series of short stories, some of which were published in the local English-language newspaper. [BW19p779-782]
  • Brigadier General Angus McNeill died in Cyprus in June 1950, nearly one year after Lilian's passing, and was buried on 21 June 1950 in Wayne's Keep, the Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery now located in the buffer zone, under the control of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP). Anita Graves, archivist for the Cypriot community, discovered he grave in 1994. [from a message from Anita Graves dated November, 2019] iiiii
    		• - In Memoriam; Akka, Israel; Angus McNeill; Anita Graves; Biography; Cemeteries and graves; Cyprus; House of Bahá'u'lláh (Mazraih); Lilian Barron McNeill; Mazraih, Israel; Queen Marie of Romania
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