Louis Garrett became a Witness of Jehovah. His testimony was published in French in the journal of this association on 22 January 1982. The English version had been published some time earlier in America. In 1912, Louis Garrett's name was Elias Nicola-Yarred. His sister, also a survivor, was known in 1912 as Jamila Nicola-Yarred: she became Amelia Garrett once in America.