Annabel Galt

Galt taught school in Illinois as a young woman.^[1] She and her cousin Margaret Galt became Presbyterian missionary teachers in Siam in 1891.^[2][3] She taught for eight years in Phetchaburi and at Howard Memorial School for Girls.^[4] At Phetchaburi she and Margaret worked with Margaret's eventual husband, Charles Eckels.^[5] An American visitor in 1898 described Galt as riding a bicycle in her work at Phetchaburi.^[6] "Down at Sumray, Miss Galt had surrounded herself with seven small boys who have been specially committed to her charge," reported a 1903 visitor. "They eat at her table, she teaches them manners, morals, watches over their health and studies, protects, in short mothers them."^[7]

Galt became an English instructor at the Bangkok Christian College.^[8] She edited and compiled several textbooks, taught Bible and music classes, served as acting principal^[9] and mentored women's organizations at the school.^[10] Galt wrote about her work for American publications,^[11] and spoke to American church groups about her work overseas during her furloughs in the United States in 1899,^[12] 1907,^[13] and 1927.^[14] She retired from missionary work in 1934.^[1]

Galt lived with her sister Carrie Lindtwed in Pennsylvania in her later years.^[15][16] She died in 1938, at the age of 70, while staying with another sister, Ella, in Orlando, Florida.^[1][17] Two of Galt's Thai students visit Lindtwed in 1940, while they were in the United States for college.^[18] Galt's photo appears among those of other figures in the history of Bangkok Christian College, on the school's website marking its 150th anniversary.^[9]