After moving to Mississippi she taught the children of Rev. John R. and Nancy Lambuth. On October 10, 1853, Mary married their son, Rev James William Lambuth. Both volunteered the same year to be missionaries to China and sailed to Shanghai in 1854.
Rev. and Mrs Lambuth served forty years as missionaries in China and Japan. They raised the following children: Rev. Walter Russell Thornton Lambuth, Nettie Lambuth, Nora Kate (Lambuth) Park, Rev. Robert Lambuth, granddaughter Nettie Craig (Lambuth) Lewis [daughter of Robert, and whose mother died when she was 5], and their adopted Chinese daughter MoTaTa [who had been abandoned on top of a fresh grave in Soochow{Suzhou}].
After moving to Mississippi she taught the children of Rev. John R. and Nancy Lambuth. On October 10, 1853, Mary married their son, Rev James William Lambuth. Both volunteered the same year to be missionaries to China and sailed to Shanghai in 1854.
Rev. and Mrs Lambuth served forty years as missionaries in China and Japan. They raised the following children: Rev. Walter Russell Thornton Lambuth, Nettie Lambuth, Nora Kate (Lambuth) Park, Rev. Robert Lambuth, granddaughter Nettie Craig (Lambuth) Lewis [daughter of Robert, and whose mother died when she was 5], and their adopted Chinese daughter MoTaTa [who had been abandoned on top of a fresh grave in Soochow{Suzhou}].
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