Mary Rebecca Adams
1881 - 1974 (93 years)
Generation: 1
1. Mary Rebecca Adams was born on 1 Sep 1881 in Bostwick, Nuckolls County, Nebraska; died on 13 Dec 1974 in Kansas; was buried in Sterling Cemetery, Sterling, Rice County, Kansas. Other Events:
- Occupation: missionary
Notes:
Mary R. Adams was a missionary to China for the Reformed Presbyterian Church of North America. She left the US on 27 Octo 1812 and arrived in Tak Hing China on 5 Dec 1912. On her passport application of 1919 she states that she resided in South China from 4 December 1912 to 20 June 1919. Her travels included China for Missionary work, Japan for Pleasure, recreation, and Hong Kong for recreation. She has been on furlough and will be returning to Tak Hing, West River, South China to continue her missionary work. She intends to leave the US from the port of Vancouver sailing on board the S.S. Monteagle on 28 October 1919.
Miss Mary Adams, who has been laboring in China since the fall of 1912, leaving home Oct. 28, of that year and Rev. Richard C. Adams and Belle Edgar Adams, his wife, who sailed from the home land Aug. 30, 1917, to take up the work in China.
The Sterling Kansas Bulletin, Sterling, Kansas. Thursday, 29 November 1917.
IN MEMORIAM MARY ADAMS
The Sterling Women' s Missionary Society recalls with gratitude the long, faithful, and devoted ministry of Miss Mary Adams for Christ and His church. Her public ministry began in youth at the Indian Mission. In 1912 she was appointed as an evangelistic missionary to China and her love and care for Chinese people continued to the day of her death, December 13, 1974. When detained from China during World War II, she served in our Kentucky Mission, but later returned to China. When missionaries were forced out of China by the advance of the Communists, she went to Japan with our missionaries who opened up work there. When she reached retirement age she moved to Wichita, Kansas and went almost daily into Chinese homes there to teach the Bible. Blindness, increasing deafness, and declining physical strength did not lessen her zeal or diminish her faithfulness. Her selfless, untiring devotion will continue to be a challenge to the whole church. Truly she was faithful unto death and now has received the crown of life that does not fade away. "This is not death, but triumph and reward: To walk by faith through all life's little day And then, at eventide, to meet the Lord And hand in hand with Him to go away. "This is not death — this is abundant life, Eternal life, the freeing of the soul For bliss beyond earth's time of toil and strife This is not death, but the immortal goal."
Per: Betty Calderwood (47172308) 7/20/2021
Buried:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/104784889/mary-rebecca-adams
Plot: 903 H