If you have done the genealogical research then you will know that my great-great-grandfather was born in Saxony, also called Sachsen, a province of Germany. He was maybe three years old when his family immigrated to America in 1850. His three sons were memorialized as church-going citizens.
- Elmer Barth: Trinity United Methodist Church.
- Jesse Louis Barth: Market Street Presbyterian Church.
- David Allen Barth (my great-grandfather): Christian and Missionary Alliance Church
Of course, we know that our great-grandfather was originally Methodist before turning Pentecostal and later CMA but anyway only one church is mentioned in an obituary. I suppose that for the sake of argumentation, one could jest that if great-grandfather were to join the Anglican church he might pass for Anglo-Saxon, but that would only be a joke of sorts, albeit a rather belabored and awkward, even downright mean joke at that. Perhaps some creative person might even find some unique way to frame this "Anglo-Saxon" joke. Who would that person be? It does make you wonder.
