1 10 15 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/932b5dc9d1b763c1c7aed9e06ea177ab.jpg f6b015757c5523b66bd5030d7d3a3e3e Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Weeping Woman Statue Description An account of the resource WEEPING WOMAN by Stephan Abel Sinding (4 August 1846 – 23 January 1922) This sculpture was designed and sculpted by famous Norwegian artist Stephan Sinding. It was cast in 1912 and is thought to have been commissioned by Anna Charlotte Rice Cooke, founder of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Her relative, Dora Isenberg, had commissioned a similar Sinding sculpture for a site in Lihue, Kauaʻi. We know that Anna Cooke was involved in the Isenberg commission, and it is surmised that she ordered this statue for the Mission Memorial Cemetery after she saw the one on Kauaʻi installed in 1911. Anna’s husband Charles Montague Cooke, Sr died in 1909 and is buried in this cemetery. As the cemetery is also the location of the Cooke family plot, it seems probable that she thought the sculpture a fitting memorial to the members of the Cooke family buried here. Anna Rice Cooke died in 1934 and is buried with her husband and his family. [For Anna Rice Cooke biography, see https://hmha.missionhouses.org/items/show/14043] Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Meredith Gairdner Description An account of the resource Meredith Gairdner In the fall of 1832, Meredith Gairdner, a young Scots doctor, journeyed south from his home in Edinburgh to Kew, home to the Royal Horticultural Society’s collection of plant specimens on the outskirts of London. He had studied under Sir William Jackson Hooker, who at that time had at Kew the largest collection of known plant life, and there Gairdner was introduced to the work of David Douglas, a fellow Scot. Douglas, for whom the Douglas Fir is named, had sailed to America and had sent back to England a collection of plant life exotic to Europe. Gairdner promised to send additional specimens from the new world, as he had signed on to sail to the Pacific Northwest as a ship’s doctor with the Hudson’s Bay Company. He found on arrival at Fort Vancouver, in what is now the state of Washington, that his chances to explore the natural world of Northwest America were few, as his indenture kept him close to the settlement, dealing with the medical crises of the company’s men and Native Americans alike. At Fort Vancouver, Gairdner met David Douglas himself, who encouraged him to travel to Hawaiʻi to study the unique flora in the islands. Gairdner was tied to the company by contract, but when it became clear that he was beginning to fail in his health because of his workload, he sailed to Hawaii. He took a reconnaissance mission around Oʻahu, writing and publishing a geological survey of that island, during a short visit to the islands in 1833, noting that “The Kings country seat, the Mission House & the Billiard Room are the most conspicuous buildings." After two more years in the Northwest, Gairdner returned to Hawaiʻi in hope of a cure with the change of climate. Although unwell, he reported on his colleague Douglas’ death on Hawaiʻi Island in a letter to Hooker at Kew Gardens, which he sent with various boxes of specimens. From 1835 on he was looked after by mission families including both Artemas and Delia Bishop in Ka’awaloa and Asa and Lucy Thurston in Kailua-Kona. The Thurstons, who were impressed with the young man’s scientific knowledge and adventuresome spirit, gave their fifth child, Thomas, the middle name Gairdner in the year before Doctor Gairdner died in Honolulu, of tuberculosis, at the age of 28. Meredith Gairdner Born 1809, London, England Died March 25, 1837, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Sources: British Columbia Historical Quarterly, April, 1945 pp 89-112 also has the full inscription from his grave stone Partners in Change, Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Letter : Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Meredith Gairdner to Sir William Jackson Hooker, 19 November, 1835, Library and Archives; Directors correspondence www.kew.org https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/6bb2d840388b09fc90add55618dc784f.tif 127768f3a1c452170fd96a4496121995 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Tenney Castle Description An account of the resource Mary Tenney Castle (October 26, 1819 - March 13, 1907 Philanthropy, education and religion were the interests that drove Mary Tenney Castle’s life; that she carried out her work in those fields in the Hawaiian Islands was a fate decided by her elder sister, Angeline Tenney Castle. Mary became the second wife of Samuel Northrup Castle, a member of the Hawaiian Islands Mission who arrived in Hawaii with the eighth company of missionaries in April of 1837 aboard the ship Mary Frazier. He was accompanied by Angeline, who lived until 1841. When Samuel Castle returned to the United States in search of a new wife, it was Mary, his wife’s sister, that he chose. Mary’s honest assessment of herself as a Christian, saying that she would continue to question both her own religious view and that held within the spiritual foundation of the mission, made some on the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) question her fitness for the role of Samuel’s wife. The ABCFM gave the marriage a vote of confidence and she arrived in the islands in March 1843. She became the stepmother and aunt to Angeline and Samuels’s daughter Mary, and went on to have ten children more. When the ABCFM ceased the support of the Hawaiian Mission, Samuel joined forces with Amos Cooke, a missionary, and the two formed Castle and Cooke, a mercantile business. Samuel Northrup was not a missionary but a secular agent to the mission, one who had daily contact and correspondence with the mission stations. This situation created space for his wife Mary to pursue her interests, and within a short time her home became a meeting place for those interested in education of all types. Mary’s own education was considered radical at the time. She studied at the Deerfield Academy and was influenced by the popular movements of the time which opposed slavery and alcohol and supported women’s suffrage and prison reform. When Samuel died in 1894, Mary created the Samuel Northrup Castle Benevolent Trust which, under the name Samuel N. And Mary Castle Foundation, continues to serve the people of Hawaiʻi today. Mary Tenney Castle Born October 26, 1819 Plainfield, New York. Died March 13, 1907 Honolulu, Hawaii Sources: Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson,ed., University of Hawaii Press 1984 Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 A Century of Philanthropy:A History of the Samuel N. and Mary Tenney Castle Foundation, Alfred L. Castle, Hawaiian Historical Society, 2001 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/73ea6325adda71d847718a2353551d7c.tif a3b3c91f69e45c35daae140f1d4e8997 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mary Atherton Richards Description An account of the resource Mary Atherton Richards (April 21, 1869 - April 18, 1951) Mary Atherton Richards was the granddaughter of eighth company missionaries Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke, and the daughter of Juliette Montague Atherton and Joseph Ballard Atherton. She was born in the 1821 Mission House which you can see across the street from this cemetery. Mary followed her parents and grandparents into public service. She led the Morning Music Club, begun in 1905, a monthly meeting club for active local musicians and singers. She was a commissioner of the Department of Public Education and made it her mission to improve the quality of teachers. She campaigned for the opening of the first high schools on Kauaʻi and Maui, and helped to establish the Hawaii School for the Deaf and Blind. For many years she led the Women’s Board of Missions, whose causes included temperance, the establishment of Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese and Portuguese school and health departments, and from these, financial assistance was sent out beyond Hawaii to infant health clinics in South Africa, Egypt and China. With her husband, Theodore, Mary Atherton Richards gave property for the establishment of schools, an endowment for the Hawaiian Board of Missions, and gave Fernhurst, their family home, to the YWCA for the establishment of a home for working women.. They established Kokokahi, a camp in the beauty of nature for weary souls to enjoy a respite from their lives. Montague Hall at Punahou School was a gift from the Richards, and a foundation created for Mary Atherton Richards constructed a memorial chapel at the United Church of Christ in Nuʻuanu. Mary and her husband traveled the world to further their evangelical goals. Mary wrote for The Friend, the mission’s newspaper, and two books; The Chiefs Childrens’ School, an account of the work of her grandparents, Amos Starr and Juliette Montague Cooke as instructors and guardians of the chiefly children of Hawaiʻi in the 1800s, and a history of her grandparents, Amos Starr Cooke and Juliette Montague Cooke. Mary Cushing Atherton Richards Born April 21, 1869 Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Died April 18, 1951, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi Sources: Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 https://www.ywcaoahu.org/ywca-oahu-120/2020/4/27/a-moment-in-our-history-kokokahi-a-place-where-all-gather-in-the-shared-spirit-of-one-blood https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/b3f26f7cba71261ea19766044f34ba67.tif bf1269cdf4727c9e9774a4168c9a000c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maria Patton Chamberlain Description An account of the resource Maria Patton Chamberlain (March 19, 1803 - January 19, 1880) Looking across Mission Lane, which divides this cemetery from the Mission Houses grounds, you will see the Chamberlain House, the tall stone-built building on the left. Imagine the yard full of children, and the continually busy storehouse receiving and sending goods. The Chamberlain House was the home of Maria Patton Chamberlain, her husband Levi, and their children during the years 1831 until 1877. Maria was born in Salisbury Township, Pennsylvania in the year 1803. Unusually for a missionary, her deep interest in religion was not shared by her family. She sailed as a missionary in 1827 as one of four single women in the third company of missionaries to the islands, on the ship Parthian. Her first assignment was as a helper to Reverend William Richards and his family in Lahaina, Maui. There she met Levi Chamberlain, the head of secular affairs for the mission, and they married soon after in 1828. Maria’s first home at the Mission Houses compound in Honolulu was a grass house; most of the early missionaries lived in them, to begin with. By 1831, however, the Chamberlain House was built and the couple moved in. The Chamberlains had eight children: one died in infancy, but they raised seven children in the house, although the two eldest were sent back to the United States for schooling, as the earliest missionaries did not feel it safe to raise their children among the Hawaiians. Maria was particularly interested in child welfare and taught classes with a view to lessening the rate of child mortality in the islands. The congregation of Kawaiahaʻo church, which borders this cemetery, met at the mission compound each Sunday and Wednesday. Newly arrived missionaries were welcomed there. The annual meeting of all of the mission stations around the islands took place there. The Chamberlain House was busy with classes and home care of children and orphans. When her husband Levi died in 1847, Maria was forty-six. With a small inheritance from her husband, Maria continued her teaching, sending her children to Punahou School while supplementing her income by taking in boarders. She managed her business by herself, for the rest of her life, a further thirty-one years. Maria returned to the United States once to visit family and friends, in 1859. She is buried alongside her husband and five of their children in this cemetery. Maria Patton Chamberlain Born Salisbury Township, Pequa, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1803 Died Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, January 19, 1880 Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 Sojourners Among Strangers:The first two companies of missionaries to the Hawaiian Islands, Sandra Elaine Wagner, PHD Dissertation, University of Hawaii, 1986 https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/6f2f44711eaabc67ba662682cb803f07.tif b582d52efa65742b674e66bb44833978 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Maria Ogden Description An account of the resource Maria Ogden (February 17, 1792 - April 3, 1874) “By her own estimate, she had under her training in her various schools over a thousand Hawaiian girls.” So ran the article in The Friend, the mission newspaper, of Maria Ogden. Miss Ogden grew up in Philadelphia and New Jersey. She found a calling to missionary life and with glowing references was accepted as part of the Sandwich Island Mission. She sailed to Honolulu in 1828, part of an unusual contingent that included four unmarried women. Maria Ogden began her missionary life at Waimea, Kauaʻi, living with Peter and Fanny Gulick. Soon, however, she began to teach small classes, and in 1829 was reassigned to Lahaina, Maui, where she once more assisted a mission family, this time the William Richards family. She taught day school and Sunday school to a large group of children. She was called to teach, and within the decade had moved on to lead the Wailuku Female Seminary, where she remained for twenty years. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Mission closed that school in 1849. Miss Ogden then opened a smaller school, still in Wailuku. She adopted two orphaned sisters, Ellen and Isabella Holden. One of her students, Naomi Maka, became a missionary to the Marquesas Islands when she married a young Hawaiian pastor, James Kekela. Their first child they named Maria Ogden Kekela, such was their affection for Miss Ogden. When the Kekelas sailed for the Marquesas they were warned not to bring the children because the situation in the Marquesas, as far as safety was concerned, was uncertain. Maria Ogden took in Maria Ogden Kekela and her younger sister Susan to join the Holden sisters and raised them as her own. When she was called to Honolulu to assist the principal of Oahu College (Punahou School) in 1858, the children went with her and helped her in the creation of a school for girls in Makiki. She led this school for another ten years, and then enjoyed a further seven years of peaceful retirement. Maria C. Ogden Born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, February 17, 1792 Died Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, April 3, 1873 Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 https://nupepa-hawaii.com/tag/maria-ogden/ https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/50408f76dd9cda6ab4536028a401c1ad.jpg ab35cc45beb86eedd9ef80c1e2150580 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Levi Parsons Bingham Subject The topic of the resource Levi Parsons Bingham (December 31, 1822 - January 16, 1823) An unobtrusive gravestone commemorates the first burial in the Kawaiaha‘o cemetery missionary plot. A white common stone rectangle about 18 inches tall is marked with an inscription chiseled by a stone worker with the words of pioneer Hawai‘i missionary company leader Hiram Bingham. The graceful lettering reads in part: “LEVI PARSONS, died Jan. 16, 1823, aged 16 days.” The death of newborn Levi Parsons Bingham, the first-born child of the Rev. Hiram Bingham and his wife Sybil Moseley Bingham, resulted in a key turning point for the good in the relationship of the royal Hawaiian Ali‘i and the early missionary families stationed in Honolulu. The Binghams baptized the child, suffering from jaundice, a day before his death. The Sandwich Islands Mission Journal for January 15, 1823 reads: “At a meeting of the family, the king, queen and several chiefs, brother and sister B’s babe, called Levi Parsons was dedicated to Christ, by baptism. It was a truly interesting scene.” Kuhina nui Ka‘ahumanu and her husband King Kaumuali‘i offered condolences to the Binghams when Levi Parsons Bingham died the next day. Hiram’s journal gives us a clue to the story behind his son Levi’s name. “L. Parsons Bingham, at the age of sixteen days, passed away suddenly, as did the dear missionary in Alexandria, whose name he was expected to bear, and by which he had been baptized.” Levi Parsons earned a foreign missions minister-qualifying degree along with Hiram at Andover Theological Seminary in Massachusetts. But their most poignant tie lies in the life of a missions-minded school teacher named Sybil Moseley from Westfield, Massachusetts. Sybil and Hiram’s daughter Lydia Bingham Coan remembered the story of her mother meeting Hiram at Goshen: “The name attracted him at once. A fellow student at Andover designated to the mission in Palestine to which it was not thought wise by the ABCFM to send married men had told him that if he were allowed to take a wife Miss Sybil Moseley would be his choice. As the young man now heard the name, he earnestly scanned her face and mentally queried if it could be possible that the lady so esteemed by his friend, but supposed to be at the far west was here before him! Ah, yes! The Lord had led her there. Providence was wondrously opening another door.” Levi Parsons and his fellow missionary Pliny Fisk were the sole members of the pioneer Palestine Mission of the ABCFM. Levi died of consumption in Alexandria, Egypt on February 5, 1822 at age 29. His body was interred in the church yard of a Greek Orthodox convent in Alexandria alongside the dead of the English expatriate community who dwelt in Alexandria. News of his death reached the Binghams almost a year later in Honolulu through a report in a copy of the Missionary Herald sent aboard a ship carrying mission supplies headed for Hawai‘i. Hiram wrote of his son’s burial, “As strangers and sojourners…we felt the affecting necessity of asking of the rulers a burying-place among them. A spot of ground near the church was, according to our wishes, readily granted us. There, with mournful but not desponding feelings, we broke the ground to deposit the beautiful flower that had fallen, where we expected the mission family would, one after another, be gathered around it, and where we should choose to be buried when our work is done. The funeral services and burial took place on the Sabbath, the 19th of January. The king and his principal chiefs, male and female, several foreign residents and others, assembled at the mission house and walked in procession to the church, where Mr. Thurston preached an appropriate sermon. We then drew around the grave, and with tenderness laid the little sleeper in its lonely, silent bed….” Thus was established the site of today’s Kawaiaha‘o missionary cemetery plot. Levi Parsons Bingham Born Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, December 31, 1822 Died Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, January 16, 1823 The image is of Levi Parsons, the American Missionary to Palestine for which Levi Parsons Bingham is named after. https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/ed6519ba4b952a99b65e297f918038d5.tif 20286aa508665244cffbc5d49fbbf159 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Juliette Montague Cooke Description An account of the resource Juliette Montague Cooke (March 10, 1812 - August 11, 1896) Juliette Montague was a resourceful young woman in Sunderland, Massachusetts when she met Amos Starr Cooke in 1835. She had lost her father ten years earlier and had immediately begun supporting herself as a seamstress, after which she worked at a school in Amherst, Massachusetts, in order to attend classes. She was also allowed to attend lectures at the nearby Amherst College, as well as being associated with Ipswich Seminary, then run by Mary Lyon, who went on to form Mount Holyoke Seminary. She was a teacher and a faithful member of her church, and had thought to become a missionary before meeting Amos Cooke, a young man determined to join the missionaries already settled in Hawaiʻi. Thus they were suited for their journey with the Hawaiian Islands Mission. Juliette and Amos married in 1836 and sailed three weeks later, aboard the ship Mary Frazier, arriving in Honolulu as members of the eighth company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in 1837. The aliʻi, the Hawaiian ruling class, desired that the missionaries create a school for their children who would one day represent and rule over the islands. The ali’i wanted their children to be able to move in the larger world, fluent in the English language and with a knowledge of western culture. After some time teaching general education classes, the Cookes were singled out to take on the schooling of twelve children at what was called the Chiefs’ Children’s School, later known as the Royal School, assisted by John Papa ʻĪʻī and his wife Sarai. With these guardians, the children blossomed. The youngest would become Liliʻuokalani, the last queen of Hawaiʻi. The school closed in 1850 when the last child eligible to rule the islands came of age. Juliette and her husband moved to the frame house which you see across the street from this cemetery. Amos joined forces with Samuel Northrup Castle to form Castle and Cooke, a mercantile company which survives today. Juliette raised her seven children while teaching the royal children, and when the family returned to the Mission Houses, continued to teach by overseeing Kawaiahaʻo Female Seminary and teaching Sunday School. She made three voyages to her native America. Juliette Montague Cooke Born March 10, 1812, Sunderland, Massachusetts Died Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, August 11, 1896 Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Elizabeth Edwards Bishop Subject The topic of the resource Elizabeth Edwards Bishop (June 2, 1798 - February 21, 1828) Elizabeth Edwards Bishop’s death is well documented. We stand here at her headstone, a memorial that will forever name her as “The First Of The Missionary Band To Enter Into Rest.” She was the first adult death in the mission. In life, Mrs. Bishop was a vibrant woman. Those who knew her described her as intelligent, hardworking, and a pleasure to know. Elizabeth Edward’s mother and father both died when she was young, and Elizabeth became self dependent at an early age. She excelled in her schooling at Bradford, a co-educational institution in North-Eastern Massachusetts, and grew into a “cheerful,” “hopefully pious” young lady. There, she became close friends with a young Lucy Thurston, another future member of the missionary band. After some time as an educator, Elizabeth Edwards was introduced to Artemas Bishop. Both had applied for the Sandwich Islands Mission, him as a missionary and her as a missionary assistant. Both were accepted, and they were married less than two weeks before the ship set sail to Hawaiʻi in 1822. In a twist of fate, Elizabeth’s childhood friend, Lucy Thurston, was accepted as well, and they were reunited when the Bishops were stationed in Kailua-Kona in 1824. The pair were fast friends. According to Mrs. Thurston, Mr. Bishop said that the two of them were “so alike in their ideas and plans he thought we were born under the same planet.” For the next few years, Elizabeth was a hardworking missionary assistant in a state of good health. She “exerted herself” thoroughly in educational affairs, such as the day school and Sunday school, and regularly attended the Friday meeting for women. She and Artemas had two children, but the good times were not to last. After the birth of Sereno, her second child and only son, Elizabeth’s health began to decline. A doctor in Honolulu said that her illness was dyspepsia, a stomach ailment. A later exhumation showed that her lower spine was contorted into a prominent curve, one that must have caused her great suffering. Whatever the cause, the local doctor was not able to aid in her suffering. As Lucy told it, Elizabeth died peacefully. Near midnight on her last day, there was a lull in her pain. “‘Let me depart in peace’, she said calmly, and fell to sleep as peacefully as the infant in its mother’s arms.” She was 31 years old, and her son had just turned one. Sometime later, a letter was found tucked away in a secret drawer of Elizabeth’s writing desk. Dated October 10, 1816, the note was written by a Nanny Batchelder from Bradford Academy, six years before she would leave for Hawai’i and eleven before her death and presumably kept with her all that time. The note read: Miss Elizabeth Edwards. May guardian angels all your steps attend, And every blessing crown my dearest Friend, In every state may you most happy be And when far distant, sometimes think of me Elizabeth Edwards Bishop Born June 2, 1798, Marlborough, Massachusetts Died February 21, 1828, Kailua-Kona, Hawaiʻi “Bishop, Artemas - Missionary Letters - 1822 - Bishop, Elizabeth Edwards papers,” Hawaiian Mission Houses Digital Archive, accessed May 19, 2022, https://hmha.missionhouses.org/items/show/270. Forbes, D. W., Kam, R. T., & Woods, T. A. (2018). Elizabeth (Edwards) Bishop. In Partners in change: A biographical encyclopedia of American Protestant missionaries in hawai'i and their Hawaiian and Tahitian colleagues, 1820-1900. essay, Hawaiian Mission Children's Society. Massachusetts. Board of Education. (1837). Bradford Academy, Bradford: Arranged from items furnished by Miss Annie E. Johnson, Principal. In Annual report of the Board of Education (Vol. 1875-76, pp. 262–264). essay, Boston, The Board. https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbo7576mass/page/n1/mode/2up https://hmha.missionhouses.org/files/original/2dd49c5575423721993b0e2caaa816c8.tif afd99960e257fdf0c08f6c6004bb2057 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mission Memorial Cemetery Biographies Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Charlotte Fowler Baldwin Description An account of the resource Charlotte Fowler Baldwin (November 7, 1805 - October 2, 1873) Charlotte Baldwin came to the islands of Hawaiʻi with her husband of six months in the fourth company of missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the ABCFM. She was a well-educated woman who had dedicated herself to religion at the age of sixteen. As a very young woman she supported herself by teaching young New Englanders in her native Connecticut. In 1830, at the time of their sailing for the islands aboard the bark New England, Charlotte was twenty-five, her husband, Dwight Baldwin, a medical doctor who also held a degree from Andover Theological Seminary, thirty-two. They had married within a week of meeting, as Mr. Baldwin had been accepted to go with the fourth company but the ABCFM insisted he be married. Charlotte’s new life took her from Honolulu to Waimea on Hawaiʻi island, to Lahaina on Maui, where she spent thirty-five years. She held classes in each of those mission stations, teaching sewing, singing, knitting and bible studies, for classes of women. She raised a family of six children and schooled them at home. This filled her days while her husband was doctor to the mission and Native Hawaiians, a task that often required him to be gone for days and weeks at a time. The Baldwins brought to the islands a library of 125 books, including medical, history and science texts, which aided them in their work and in the children’s education. Apart from one return trip with her family to New England, Charlotte spent the rest of her life in Hawaiʻi. In time, the Baldwins moved to Honolulu to live with their daughter Abigail and her husband William Alexander. There, Charlotte continued her missionary work until her death in 1873. Charlotte is still remembered for her open hospitality toward friends and colleagues traveling between the outer islands and Honolulu. The Baldwin family home which consists of two stories, built of plastered coral blocks two-foot thick, is now a museum which can be visited in Lahaina, Maui. Her descendants continue to contribute to Hawaiian society. Charlotte Fowler Baldwin born November 7, 1805, White Hollow, Connecticut Died October 2, 1873, Punahou, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi. Sources: Partners in Change, David Forbes, Ralph Kam, Thomas Woods, editors; Hawaiian Mission Children’s Society, 2018 Notable Women of Hawaii, Barbara Bennett Peterson, editor, University of Hawaii Press 1984 https://lahainarestoration.org/baldwin-home-museum/