American Methodist missionary and educator.
Second son of John Russell Lambuth and Nancy (Kilpatrick) Lambuth. He graduated in the first class at the University of Mississippi in 1851 and became a Methodist preacher. He served one year as pastor of the Vernon circuit, now Flora, Mississippi.
James married Miss Mary Isabella McClellan on October 10, 1853. Both volunteered the same year to be missionaries to China and sailed to Shanghai in 1854.
Rev. Lambuth organized the Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church in Hiroshima in 1887. He later formed three Japanese Christian schools, one in Hiroshima.
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].
A family member quotes James' dying words,
"I die at my Post. Send more men."
Second son of John Russell Lambuth and Nancy (Kilpatrick) Lambuth. He graduated in the first class at the University of Mississippi in 1851 and became a Methodist preacher. He served one year as pastor of the Vernon circuit, now Flora, Mississippi.
James married Miss Mary Isabella McClellan on October 10, 1853. Both volunteered the same year to be missionaries to China and sailed to Shanghai in 1854.
Rev. Lambuth organized the Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church in Hiroshima in 1887. He later formed three Japanese Christian schools, one in Hiroshima.
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].
A family member quotes James' dying words,
"I die at my Post. Send more men."
American Methodist missionary and educator.
Second son of John Russell Lambuth and Nancy (Kilpatrick) Lambuth. He graduated in the first class at the University of Mississippi in 1851 and became a Methodist preacher. He served one year as pastor of the Vernon circuit, now Flora, Mississippi.
James married Miss Mary Isabella McClellan on October 10, 1853. Both volunteered the same year to be missionaries to China and sailed to Shanghai in 1854.
Rev. Lambuth organized the Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church in Hiroshima in 1887. He later formed three Japanese Christian schools, one in Hiroshima.
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].
A family member quotes James' dying words,
"I die at my Post. Send more men."
Second son of John Russell Lambuth and Nancy (Kilpatrick) Lambuth. He graduated in the first class at the University of Mississippi in 1851 and became a Methodist preacher. He served one year as pastor of the Vernon circuit, now Flora, Mississippi.
James married Miss Mary Isabella McClellan on October 10, 1853. Both volunteered the same year to be missionaries to China and sailed to Shanghai in 1854.
Rev. Lambuth organized the Hiroshima Nagarekawa Church in Hiroshima in 1887. He later formed three Japanese Christian schools, one in Hiroshima.
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].
A family member quotes James' dying words,
"I die at my Post. Send more men."
Family Members
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