FOLKS WE KNEW WHILE IN THE K.U. by Marie McCready: Madam Diss De Barr; "A character who was briefly at Beth Oprah. She wore a black robe with white and scarves around her neck and claimed to have contact with the unseen world."

THE KORESHAN UNITY MEMBERSHIP LIST by Claude J. Rahn: Frank D. Jackson married Ann O'Delia Diss Debar.

MEMORIES, MEMORIES--DAYS OF LONG AGO chronicled by Marie McCready with participation by Lovelle McCready: "The Unity attracted all kinds of people, some for reasons other than the belief, and Madam Diss de Barr was one of these. She was a very large woman with straw colored hair (though perhaps not naturally so) drawn straight back, and a florid complexion, who wore a full black dress, gathered into the neck, and two continuous silk scarves around her neck, reaching practically to the waist, one white and the other orchid in color. She came with the announced intention of putting a considerable amount of money into the coffers, always welcome information to Doctor who had many needs for funds. She was also an interesting and, apparently, interested talker, so was given the red carpet treatment when she first came, one of her special friends being Mrs. Boomer. We all called her just "Madam" and she went out of her way to be nice to us children, even to plopping her great bulk down on the ground where we were playing to take part in whatever we were doing, so she was always included in the kissing when she went down town and came home with Doctor. She would get the older girls into her room in groups to tell them tales of her travels in India, etc., and weird stories of supernatural experiences which, when Catharine repeated them to Pappa and Mamma made them warn her to be very careful with the Madam and, sure enough, it was not long until she began to try to talk two or three of the girls, including Myran Lane and Catharine, to leave with her. When this became known, her popularity immediately plummeted, though she still stayed on a little longer.

Then one day while Lovelle, Ada and I were playing in the yard to the back and west of the kitchen, we were attracted by a commotion, and there came Madam, tumbling down the kitchen stairs, with Mrs. Boomer running down after her, evidently having tried to stop her before it could happen. Madam was drunk, an unheard of happening in the Unity, so the next morning she was hustled away, not to return."--Pages 47 and 48

CONFLICT INSIDE THE EARTH: THE KORESHAN UNITY IN LEE COUNTY by R. Lyn Rainard; Department of History; University of South Florida; Tampa, Florida 33620; Spring/Summer 1981, Volume 3, Number 1; KSHS-BK-074--Page 9: "Editha Lolita": Lolita was a most unbelievable character. She claimed to be the Countess Landsfeldt, and Baroness Rosenthal, daughter of Ludwig I of Bavaria and Lola Montez, god child of Pius IX, divorced wife of General Diss Debar, widow of two other men, bride of James Dutton Jackson, and the self-proclaimed successor to the priestess of occultism, Madame Blavatsky. She planned to establish a utopian community in Lee County, where her husband claimed to own several thousand acres of land. Her followers in the "order of the Crystal Sea" would be model citizens and they would win salvation and immortality by living, most appropriately, on a diet to fruit and nuts.

Lolita claimed to be horror struck on learning of Teed's presence in Lee County, and she immediately launched a campaign to drive the Koreshans out. Day after day she reported to the Fort Myers Press stories of Teed's allegedly sordid past. Her newspaper blitz failed to excite the county, just as Damkohler's efforts had failed, because people did not feel threatened by Teed's strange ideas. Besides, both Lolita and Damkohler overlooked the good-will Teed had assiduously cultivated during his few short years in the county.--Fort Myers Press, 24 November 1898, p.1, 1 Dec 1898, p.1, 15 December 1898, supplement, p.1, 19 Jan 1899, p.1.