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lecturer preacher

Rachel Davies was a Welsh-born lecturer and evangelist preacher who emigrated to the United States of America.

Career

She was the first woman minister ordained in the state of Wisconsin. Rahel o Fôn is the Welsh Bardic name for “Rachel of Anglesey”. She was later invited on a preaching tour of the United States and when living in Ixonia she joined the Calvinistic Methodists.

She returned to Wales for a period and lived at her sister"s home Cefn Derwen, Anglesey across from Caernarfon Castle.

At one time she gave some assistance to David Lloyd George in his electoral campaign. She died 29 November 1915 in Washington, District of Columbia at her son"s home and was buried in Oak Hill Cemetery, Watertown, Wisconsin.

A theatrical play about her life, Rahel o Fôn. was written by Emily Sprague Wurl. Her son, Joseph Edward Davies, was the second Ambassador to represent the United States in the Soviet Union as well as the United States Ambassador to Belgium before World World War World War II

Achievements

  • Although quite banal, it is informative, and won First Prize in the Wisconsin Centennial Playwriting Contest, 1948.