Barbara Retires For 26 Years.
Barbara lost the gift of Inspiration when she was 28. She did not receive it again until she was 54. During the 26 years between gifts, she lived in relative obscurity. Since she was no longer a Werkzeug, Scribes longer recorded what she said and did..
At the time that Barbara dictated her Short Narration to Scheuner, she seems to have had misgivings about her marriage, since she refers to it as the result of falling "ever deeper into temptation." The marriage was probably childless; neither Nordhoff (1875) nor Shambaugh (1908) mentions any progeny. We do not know how George made a living. Before the marriage, he was a schoolmaster; but Shambaugh (1908) says that the Inspirationists often expelled a schoolmaster from his post if he married.
Barbara and George stayed together for the rest of their lives. Though Inspirationists deplored marriage, they regarded the step, once taken, as irrevocable. Bach (1971) says that Barbara and George journeyed together to the Ebenezer Colonies in New York and then to the Amana Colonies in Iowa, where they remained until their deaths in their 80s.
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