Historical Highway Markers

First American Woman Missionary to China

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Here was born, October 28, 1817, Henrietta Hall, (daughter of Colonel Addison Hall) first American woman missionary to China. She married Rev. J. Lewis Shuck, and was sent with him to China by the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions, arriving there in September, 1836. She died at Hong Kong, November 27, 1844.

Conservation & Development Commission, 1935

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